| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.08.2024 | The state of digital health investment, part 4: Atropos Health | Photo courtesy of Atropos Health
The perspective on seeking investment varies company by company. Still, a common theme exists that it is necessary to ensure knowledge of the market and the actual value of one's technology and that the comp... |
| 17.07.2023 | Big Health Acquires Limbix | Big Health, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of non-drug digital treatments for mental health, has acquired Limbix, creators of an evidence-based digital therapeutic for teens and young adults with symptoms of depression.
The amount of th... |
| 12.04.2023 | Startups taking new approaches to mental-health care are raising millions. Here are the 10 frontrunners to know. | Thanakorn Suppamethasawat/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Startups want to change how mental-health care is provided. Companies like Lyra and Spring Health ha... |
| 09.01.2023 | 7 Consumer Loyalty Trends That Will Shape Retail In 2023 | Customers shop during the opening of Savage X Fenty pop up at the Fashion Show Mall in Las Vegas, ... [+] Nevada. (Photo by Denise Truscello/Getty Images for Savage X Fenty )Getty Images for Savage X Fenty |
| 14.03.2022 | Vira Health gets $12M to dial up personalized menopause support | Vira Health, a U.K. startup that offers personalized digital therapeutics for women going through menopause, has closed a second round of funding — taking $12 million from lead investor Octopus Ventures, along with participation from U.S.-b... |
| 14.02.2022 | Endemic or not – Changing attitudes are taking us into a new age for healthtech | The coronavirus pandemic has laid-bare the shortcomings of healthcare systems around the world. While 83% of the UK’s population over the age of 12 has received two doses of the vaccine, with over 36 million also receiving an additional boo... |
| 26.01.2022 | A former FDA official on making the jump to health tech startups | Since stepping down from his post at the Food and Drug Administration last year, Anand Shah has gone from toiling on the country’s Covid-19 response to updating his LinkedIn with a flurry of new advisory roles at promising startups.
On Wedn... |
| 19.01.2022 | Big Health Raises $75M in Series C Funding | Big Health, a San Francisco, CA- and London, UK-based digital therapeutics company dedicated to mental health, raised $75m in Series C funding.
The round was led by new investor SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from ArrowMark Part... |
| 19.01.2022 | Wheel raises $150M, Big Health scores $75M and more digital health fundings | Photo: Getty Images/filadendron |
| 19.01.2022 | Big Health Raises $75 Million in Series C Funding Led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 | Big Health, a digital therapeutics company dedicated to helping millions back to good mental health, today announced that it has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round, led by new investor SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation ... |
| 12.11.2021 | Why workplaces could unlock huge growth for fertility startups in Europe | The fertility market is changing rapidly. Driven by a crop of exciting new startups, pioneering researchers, and forward-thinking clinics and employers, there’s been a dramatic rise in the number of services available for the millions who n... |
| 14.10.2021 | Contributed: Why B2C2B will be the future go-to-market strategy for virtual care | Photo: Courtney Hale/Getty Images |
| 16.09.2021 | Takeda therapy gets speedy FDA nod for lung cancers with rare genetic signature | Takeda Pharmaceutical’s cancer drug portfolio has added another FDA approved product, a targeted therapy that addresses tumors carrying a rare genetic signature.
The FDA approved the Takeda drug, mobocertinib, for adults whose non-small cel... |
| 16.09.2021 | Racism, sexism and now fraud: Lawsuits pile up at New Jersey ‘AI’ firm | Last year, a midsized New Jersey company made a bold claim: that it could diagnose Covid-19 patients in emergency rooms using AI. An investigation by MedCity News found that executives from ElectrifAi were inflating the tool’s capabilities.... |
| 15.09.2021 | Dice’s IPO roll comes up with $204M for R&D of oral drugs to rival biologics | Biologic drugs offer quite the punch, treating a wide swath of immunological disorders for patients while bringing in blockbuster sales for drug companies. But these large molecules come as injections or infusions. Dice Therapeutics believe... |
| 15.09.2021 | Flywheel raises $22M, buys competitor | In a large clinical trial, a pharmaceutical company might collect information from hundreds of patients. But there are several steps in between collecting that data and making it usable for research.
Flywheel, a company helping automate the... |
| 15.09.2021 | Theravance’s lead drug fails in Phase 3, triggers a restructuring cutting 75% of staff | For the second time in less than a month, a Theravance Biopharma drug has fallen short in clinical trials, a failure that is sparking a corporate shakeup that will slash costs and reduce headcount by 75%. Going forward, this company that de... |
| 15.09.2021 | With $100M in new funding, Tia CEO says the ‘tide has turned’ for investing in women’s health | Tia co-founders Felicity Yost (left) and Carolyn Witte (right). Photo credit: Tia
Tia, a startup opening concierge clinics for women, recently raised $100 million in funding led by Lone Pine Capital. It’s one of several big, recent investme... |
| 14.09.2021 | Neuro startup Vanqua Bio emerges with $85M and a first focus on Parkinson’s | Vanqua Bio, a biotech startup developing new treatments for neurodegenerative disorders, has launched with $85 million in funding as it plots a course to bring its lead program into human testing.
Parkinson’s disease is the initial focus of... |
| 14.09.2021 | Astellas Pharma reports fourth patient death in gene therapy clinical trial | A patient who developed liver problems after receiving an experimental Astellas Pharma gene therapy for a rare neuromuscular disorder has died. The death is the fourth in the clinical trial and the first since the study was cleared to resum... |
| 14.09.2021 | Startup testing video-based treatment for ‘lazy eye’ touts Phase 3 results | Luminopia recently published the results of a Phase 3 trial showing its video-based treatment improved vision in kids with amblyopia. Photo credit: Luminopia
With the results of a Phase 3 study, digital health startup Luminopia hopes to get... |
| 14.09.2021 | IncludeHealth strikes partnership with Google, Ohio-based health system for virtual PT | After working closely with Google to refine its virtual physical therapy platform, IncludeHealth struck a partnership with ProMedica Health System
The platform, called MSK-OS, uses machine learning to track if patients are doing their exerc... |
| 14.09.2021 | Patient care is displaced for good. Can our tech keep up? | Covid-19 has broken down the traditional walls of healthcare and turned our idea of what it means to visit a doctor’s office or hospital upside down. It accelerated a nascent trend in displacing care delivery from traditional outpatient and... |
| 13.09.2021 | Evidence lacking for AI-based breast cancer screening | As companies make big claims that their AI systems can detect cancer better than radiologists, researchers are warning that these algorithms might not be ready for prime time.
A review of 12 studies about algorithms used to detect breast ca... |
| 13.09.2021 | Startup Walking Fish nabs $50M to run with B cell therapies for cancer & more | Engineered T cells paved the way for the first cell therapies in cancer. Walking Fish Therapeutics sees a different type of immune cell, the B cell, as way to improve upon the approach and expand cell therapy’s reach to more diseases. The S... |
| 13.09.2021 | New HHS proposed rule requires payers to disclose broker rates, share air ambulance data | Newly proposed federal rules require certain insurers to disclose what they pay agents and brokers who help people select health insurance and share data on air ambulance services.
The first part of the proposed rules focuses on the compens... |
| 13.09.2021 | Babyscripts raises $12M, plans to expand to all 50 states | Babyscripts, the provider of a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, has raised $12 million in Series B funding.
Led by the MemorialCare Innovation Fund — MemorialCare Health System’s innovation arm — the latest financing round inc... |
| 12.09.2021 | FDA sets expectations for pediatric Covid-19 vaccines; decision could come mid-fall | Covid-19’s spread in schools has many anxious parents clamoring for a pediatric vaccine, leading the FDA to call for caution, urging parents not to ask clinicians to vaccinate their kids with shots authorized or approved for older age group... |
| 12.09.2021 | DotCom Therapy snags $13M to expand pediatric teletherapy services | Pediatric teletherapy provider DotCom Therapy has raised $13 million in Series A funding.
New Capital Partners led the financing round, with participation from LRVHealth and OSF Ventures.
DotCom Therapy provides mental health, behavioral, s... |
| 09.09.2021 | Genetic meds pioneer James Wilson has a new startup, this time in gene editing | The next frontier in genetic medicines could be one-time therapies that do their editing work in vivo, inside the patient. But one challenge is that some genetic diseases have hundreds of mutations. To address all of them, you’d need to pro... |
| 09.09.2021 | Cycle-tracking app Flo raises $50M | Period-tracking startup Flo recently raised $50 million in funding. Photo credit: Flo
Period-tracking app Flo is now valued at $800 million, after closing a recent funding round. The startup recently raised a $50 million series B round, led... |
| 09.09.2021 | Neuroglee looks to Mayo partnership, digital therapeutics to tackle mild cognitive impairment | Neuroglee raised $10 million for its remote care management platform for patients with mild cognitive impairment. Photo credit: Neuroglee
At Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Aniket Singh Rajput had been working on algorithms t... |
| 08.09.2021 | How Covid-19 has changed the role of hospitals | Covid-19 changed healthcare in too many ways to count. It drastically accelerated the adoption of remote health by over a decade, and along similar lines, is allowing us to rethink what aspects of healthcare we want to keep, shake up, or in... |
| 25.05.2021 | Big Health : and EHIR Introduce Mental Health Maturity Index, Measuring Employer Progress Toward Better Mental Health | Big Health, a digital therapeutics company dedicated to helping millions back to good mental health, along with the Employer Health Innovation Roundtable (EHIR), today introduced the results from the first-of-its-kind Mental Health Maturity... |
| 03.03.2021 | Big Health CEO and Co-Founder of Peter Hames on VatorNews podcast | Sleepio and Daylight are designed to teach skills to beat insomnia and anxiety
Vator · Interview with Peter Hames, CEO, CoFounder of Big Health
Bambi Francisco Roizen interviews Peter Hames, co-founder, and CEO of Big Health.
Subscribe to o... |
| 15.01.2021 | Mental health companies that raised funding in 2020 | Headspace, Lyra, Koa Health, Ginger, and Spring Health were among those that saw new investments
2020 was a tough year, to state the obvious. With all the death from the pandemic, COVID-caused isolation, civil unrest, and all the election s... |
| 11.08.2020 | От медитаций до лекарств от депрессии: в 2020 году стартапы для ментального здоровья стали чаще привлекать инвестиции Статьи редакции... | Только во втором квартале 2020 года, во время пандемии и ограничительных мер, инвесторы поддержали 57 проектов.
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| 29.07.2020 | CVS adds another Big Health product to its point solutions management program | CVS Caremark launched its point solutions management program with a sleep service from Big Health nearly a year ago, and now it’s adding another of the digital mental healthcare startup’s products to its suite of managed point solutions.
Th... |
| 22.06.2020 | Digital Therapeutics Company Big Health Closes $39 Million In Funding | Big Health, a global leader in digital therapeutics focused on helping millions back to good mental health, announced it raised $39 million
Big Health — a global leader in digital therapeutics focused on helping millions back to good mental... |
| 21.06.2020 | Big Health raises $39 million | Big Health, “the global leader in digital therapeutics dedicated to helping millions back to good mental health,” has raised $39 million in a Series B round. Gilde Healthcare led the new round of funding joined by co-lead Morningside Ventur... |
| 18.06.2020 | Big Health Hones Digital Mental Health Therapy With $39M Series B | 32 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Startup Big Health believes individuals can improve their mental health through its technology that focuses on cognitive behavioral therapy versus medication or the help of human therapists.
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| 18.06.2020 | Big Health Hones Digital Mental Health Therapy With $39M Series B | 30 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Startup Big Health believes individuals can improve their mental health through its technology that focuses on cognitive behavioral therapy versus medication or the help of human therapists.
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| 18.06.2020 | Gilde Healthcare leads $39 million in Series B financing in Big Health | SAN FRANCISCO, CA (US), UTRECHT (THE NETHERLANDS) – Big Health, the global leader in digital therapeutics dedicated to helping millions back to good mental health, today announced it has raised $39 million in a Series B financing, led by Gi... |
| 18.06.2020 | Sleep, stress app maker Big Health locks in $39M Series B raise | |
| 18.06.2020 | Big Health Raises $39M in Series B Financing | Big Health, a San Francisco, CA-based digital therapeutics company dedicated to mental health, raised $39m in Series B financing.
The round was led by Gilde Healthcare joined by co-lead Morningside Ventures; existing investors Kaiser Perman... |
| 18.06.2020 | Big Health Scoops Up $39M Series B Funding |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Big Health today announced it has raised $39 million in a Series B financing.
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| 14.05.2020 | Brands are pivoting to offering at-home office perks | Mental health solutions in the time of the coronavirus
B-to-B digital therapy provider Big Health is also seeing increased interest from employers, especially those with large remote workforces. Starting March 12, the company announced a fr... |
| 14.05.2020 | Brands are pivoting to offering at-home office perks | People aren’t going to offices anymore, and the businesses that provided work perks are pivoting to offer employees benefits at home.
For some of these companies, it’s a means of survival. With offices closed and many clients’ businesses cu... |
| 22.04.2020 | How the Covid-19 pandemic has put the UK healthtech sector centre stage | The UK’s healthtech sector has rallied its world-class talent and skills to help in the fight against Covid-19. Startups and scaleups have found themselves working side by side with large-scale, global tech companies towards the common goal... |
| 24.02.2020 | New Research Shows Global Mental Health Investment Topped $750 Million In 2019 | Mental health remains one of the most challenging areas for biomedical research and presents massive ... [+] potential for innovators and disruptorsGetty |
| 06.02.2019 | San Francisco mental health startup Big Health expands into anxiety | San Francisco, California-based mental health startup Big Health is trying to tackle that issue with a new digital therapeutic called Daylight meant to deliver personalized CBT techniques to help relieve anxiety-related issues.
The startup ... |
| 13.11.2018 | A healthy lifestyle is the best prescription for healing | Google's new hire: Feinberg; Why sleep is important; Esther Dyson's Wellville
On December 13, HP and Vator are hosting our next quarterly salon at HP headquarters in Palo Alto. This time, we're focused on vitality, which is defined as "... |
| 13.06.2017 | Video: Peter Hames, CEO Big Health, on Digital Medicine and Sleepio | Reena Jadhav interviews Peter on emergence of evidence based non drug therapy at scale
Reena Jadhav interviews Peter Hames, CEO of Big Health about emergence of "Digital Medicine" and Big Heallth's first product Sleepio, which add... |
| 09.02.2017 | Kelvin Kwong leaves Jawbone for product VP role at Big Health | As Jawbone continues to work towards a pivot, the Up device maker also continues to talent that may not be core to its future. In the latest departure, Kelvin Kwong, who had been the Jawbone’s director of product management, has joined Big ... |
| 29.08.2016 | Here’s how payers are betting on digital health | Startups Health Catalyst (Series E), Livongo Health (Series C), Omada Health (Series C), Proteus Digital Health (Series D), and ZeOmega (Growth Equity), have been the biggest beneficiaries, according to venture capital database CB Insights,... |
| 29.08.2016 | Overview: Health tech startups innovating the behavioral health space | About the authors: @DanGebremedhin is a Principal at Flare Capital Partners, an early stage Health Technology and Services focused VC Firm. He is a practicing physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and previously served as an Asso... |
| 27.07.2016 | Sleepio creator Big Health raises $12M to help millions with digital medicine | Digital health company Big Health today announced a new funding round of $12 million led by Octopus Ventures with Kaiser Permanente Ventures, returning investor Index Ventures, as well as Sean Duffy (CEO, Omada Health) and JamJar Investment... |
| 27.07.2016 | Big Health raises $12 million for sleep-focused employee wellness app, Sleepio | Big Health, the UK digital health startup behind sleep health app Sleepio, has raised $12 million (9.5 million pounds) in a round led by Octopus Ventures. Kaiser Permanente Ventures also contributed to the round, as did Omada Health CEO Sea... |
| 27.07.2016 | Big Health Raises $12M to Bring Evidence-Based Digital Medicine to Millions | Digital health company Big Health today announces a new round of $12 million led by Octopus Ventures with Kaiser Permanente Ventures, returning investor Index Ventures, as well as Sean Duffy (CEO, Omada Health) and JamJar Investments, the U... |
| 27.07.2016 | Digital Medicine Company Big Health Raises $12M | Big Health, a London, UK- and San Francisco, CA-based digital healthcare company, raised £9.15M ($12M) in new funding.
The round was led by Octopus Ventures with participation from Kaiser Permanente Ventures, returning investor Index Ventur... |
| 27.07.2016 | Big Health, the startup behind Sleepio, raises $12M to scale delivery of non-drug mental health solutions | London and San Francisco-based Big Health pitches itself as a provider of “evidence-based, non-drug” solutions to tackle various mental health disorders, including via the digital delivery of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
The startup’... |
| 02.06.2015 | 20 UK Digital Health Startups to Watch
by Komal Garewal | It began as the epicenter of innovation in health technology, but now the United States and its model of incubation and open investment is catalyzing the emergence of tech hubs globally, some of the largest are now in the European Union.
Th... |
| 21.02.2015 | Guest Post: Lloyd Price of Zesty Discusses the UK’s Healthtech Revolution | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Is Healthtech poised to break through in London in 2015 like Fintech in 2013? We hear the opinion of Lloyd Price, Co-founder of Zesty
Yes, 2015 is set to be the most exciting... |
| 29.10.2014 | 10 startups show off their tech at HealthBeat's Innovation Showcase | SAN FRANCISCO — Ten of the most innovative startups in digital health demonstrated their products live on stage at VentureBeat’s HealthBeat conference yesterday.
Grilling the startups after their demos were venture capitalists Casper de Cle... |
| 29.10.2014 | 10 startups show off their tech at HealthBeat's Innovation Showcase | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
SAN FRANCISCO — Ten of the most innovative startu... |
| 29.10.2014 | Here’s a few of the health startups that stood out at HealthBeat | Promoted
This Patient Experience Checklist Is Your Key To Success in 2021
As healthcare systems strive to recover from losses due to the pandemic, patient acquisition and retention have never been more urgent, and patient experience has nev... |
| 27.10.2014 | Only a handful of predictive analytics tools are designed specifically for consumers. Here’s a list | GenePeeks analyzes the genetic profiles of women with potential sperm donors to determine whether the child would be at risk for any particular recessive conditions. As is often the case with healthcare startups, the company was developed b... |
| 23.10.2014 | Disrupt this: Announcing HealthBeat's 10 Innovation Showcase finalists | Spurred on by renewed investment in digital health and government health reform, hundreds of startups are now working to address friction points and broken systems within health care.
But only a select number of those startups will find the... |
| 21.07.2014 | Meet The UK Startup That’s Taking On Big Pharma — With Digital Medicine | Five years ago Peter Hames had chronic insomnia. Today he’s the co-founder of Big Health, a multi-million dollar VC-backed startup that’s setting out to create a new category of healthcare — under the self-defined banner of ‘digital medicin... |
| 30.04.2014 | Big Health raises $3.3M for US expansion, digital sleep program | London-based digital health tool maker Big Health raised $3.3 million from Index Ventures and Forward Partners to expand into the United States. The company plans to open an office on the west coast.
The company's first tool, Sleepio, aims ... |
| 29.04.2014 | Big Health gets $3.3M to bring its digital sleep coach across the pond | Oxford University sleep researcher Colin Espie and entrepreneur Peter Hames joined forces to make an easily accessible digital program based on the principles of CBT. They just closed a $3.3 million Series A round led by Index Ventures and ... |
| 28.04.2014 | Big Health Closes $3.3M Series A Funding | Big Health, a London, UK-based provider of sleep improvement solutions, closed a $3.3m Series A funding.
Backers included Index Ventures and Forward Partners.
Founded by Peter Hames and Professor Colin Espie, University of Oxford, Big Healt... |
| 28.04.2014 | London-based medtech startup Big Health raises $3.3m | Big Health, a London-based medtech startup, has secured 3.3 million in a Series A funding round led by Forward Partners and Index Ventures. The young company plans to use the fresh capital to support its upcoming US expansion.
The first pro... |
| - | Cala hopes real-world data on essential tremor device will win over payers | Cala Health received FDA clearance for its Trio device to treat the symptoms of essential tremor in 2018. Photo credit: Cala Health
After getting de novo clearance for its device from the Food and Drug Administration in 2018, Cala Health to... |
| - | Repligen sees $150M Avitide acquisition as key to reaching gene therapy goals | Avitide, a company that spun out of an Ivy League lab with a way to quickly and efficiently purify biologic drugs, is being acquired for $150 million by global bioprocessing vendor Repligen, which aims to use the technology to bolster its o... |
| - | Here’s a few of the health startups that stood out at HealthBeat | As HealthBeat drew to a close, ten digital health startups took to the stage in an attempt to convince healthcare techies (healthies? hechies?) that they were all the next big thing disrupting the toughest problems with in an industry fraug... |
| - | Big Health gets $3.3M to bring its digital sleep coach across the pond | Another digital health sleep product will land in the U.S. later this year via a London-based company that’s just gotten its first venture round to expand.
Big Health delivers personalized cognitive behavioral therapy programs through web a... |
| - | Here’s how payers are betting on digital health | In the past five years, health insurers have sunk a total of $900 million into digital health startups. That includes 2016, which isn’t even over yet.
BlueCross BlueShield takes home the prize for being the most active investor (including m... |
| - | Brain data startup Rune Labs reveals $23M, plans to rev up neuro drug R&D | You don’t have to look far to see how data analysis is changing drug discovery and development. Cancer research now routinely employs computational techniques to learn what’s happening with a tumor, information that helps guide the drug sea... |
| - | San Francisco mental health startup Big Health expands into anxiety | Anxiety is the most common mental health issue in the United States, with around 40 million adults experience anxiety-related disorders every year.
This population is much more likely to require healthcare services like hospitalization or e... |
| - | Only a handful of predictive analytics tools are designed specifically for consumers. Here’s a list | Predictably, the amount of investment in predictive analytics devoted to clinical applications eclipses patient-focused companies. It’d understandable since most of them are tied to helping payers and providers make decisions about patient ... |
| - | A big moment for public health as Harvard’s school takes in $350M gift | A billionaire just gave Harvard University the biggest donation it’s ever received, and all $350 million of it will go to the School of Public Health.
It’s one of the university’s lesser-funded schools, according to the Boston Globe, which ... |
