dRx Capital

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dRx Capital backs exceptional entrepreneurs transforming healthcare through data and digital technology. The fund, backed by Novartis, invests in technology platforms improving access to healthcare and reimagining the practice of medicine, with a focus on AI & ML, big data, R&D optimization, patient care, and pharma supply chain and commercialization.

dRx Capital currently has 20 portfolio companies, including: Aktana, Animantis, Aspen RxHealth, Cala Health, Cota Health, Flywheel, Freenome, H1, Koneksa, Mekonos, NuvoAir, Omada, Pear Therapeutics, Peptone, RxVantage, SchoolCare, Science 37, SomaLogic, Vineti, Xealth.

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Switzerland, Jura, Ederswiler

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11-50

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2015

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Sep 16, 2021	Flywheel Acquires Radiologics, Raises $22M for Biomedical Research Platform	What You Should Know: – Flywheel, a biomedical research data management platform, announced the acquisition of St. Louis-based Radiologics. The two organizations’ combined capabilities in imaging research data management and analytics provi...
Jan 8, 2021	StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups	Carrum Health announced $40 million in Series A funding led by Tiger Global Management LLC, with participation from GreatPoint Ventures and Cross Creek and return investors Wildcat Venture Partners and SpringRock Ventures. The funding will ...
Oct 18, 2016	Science 37 Raises $31M to Expand Virtual Clinical Trail Model	Science 37, Inc., a LosAngeles-based mobile technology and clinical trial startup that focuses on the development of networked patient-centric models for clinical research has raised $31 million in Series B funding led by Redmile Group. The...
Jul 29, 2016	Former Lumiata COO leads pharma-backed investment firm targeting digital health startups	Would you liken your firm to SR One but focused on digital health? Unlike SR One, we are not a corporate arm of a pharma company but an independent financing company that has been funded by pharma and MPM Capital. Moreover, we will not be a...
Apr 6, 2016	Lighthouse - Vator Splash Health 2016 Winner	Check out Dave Vockell's winning presentation on stage and the judges' feedback Vator Splash Health 2016 cohort Lighthouse, took home the gold. Here's the video of Dave Vockell, Lighthouse Founder and CEO, giving the winning presentation. L...
Apr 5, 2016	DocDelta - Vator Splash Health Class of 2016	Check out John Dymond's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback Vator Splash Health 2016 cohort DocDelta, a talent engine for healthcare. They help hospitals make millions of dollars in additional revenue by helping them to hire the ...
Apr 1, 2016	Lab Sensor Solutions - Vator Splash Health Class of 2016	Check out Jarie Bolander's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback Vator Splash Health 2016 cohort Lab Sensor Solutions specializes in IoT Sensors for the Healthcare industry. They increases patient safety while helping customers mee...
Jan 16, 2016	4 investors share insights on health tech from J.P. Morgan that will shape 2016	Adam Goulburn, a partner at Lux Capital, met the physician who would be his wife at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference a few years back. Wonder how often that happens? An Australian, Goulburn was a Postdoctoral Fellow in neuroscience at ...
Dec 26, 2015	These digital health deals in 2015 illustrate how the patient experience is evolving	ZocDoc raised one of the largest funding rounds this year at $130 million. The move is to support an expansion beyond its flagship appointment booking services and will focus on improving the patient experience. Making appointment booking e...
Dec 1, 2015	These pharma and digital health collaborations are poised to transform clinical trials	This post has been updated from an earlier version Propeller Health added a second big pharma partner with its GlaxoSmithKline research and development deal to produce sensors for the company’s Ellipta dry powder inhaler, according to a com...
Oct 20, 2015	Clinical trial platform uses telemedicine, mobile tech to improve access, cut costs	“It’s a totally new type of operating model,” Craft said in a phone interview. “We use a nice, easy interface that allows patients access from home and they can reach the principal investigator. From the patient perspective, the technology ...
Oct 20, 2015	Science 37 Completes $6.5M Series A Financing	Science 37, a Los Angeles based technology-enabled clinical research company, completed a $6.5m Series A financing. The round was co-led by Lux Ventures IV, L.P., a $350m fund targeting early-stage science and technology ventures, and the n...
Sep 16, 2015	Omada Health raises $48M with plans to extend program to Medicaid patients	It more than doubled its staff numbers in the past year from 75 to 185, according to the blog entry. Its prevention program is an intervention program for people deemed to be at risk for developing chronic conditions tied to obesity. It com...
Aug 31, 2015	Pick up your healthcare innovation compass here (CONVERGE starts today)	We’ve also arranged for those who aren’t here to still experience key parts of the conference. MedCity CONVERGE has always been a place where you get the most accurate picture of where healthcare innovation is going because we gather the do...
Mar 27, 2015	New digital health investment fund rises	In a phone interview with MedCity News, Kendall said the average size of investments it will make will range from $250,000 to $1.5 million. “As a rule of thumb we will stick with companies that are really young. It’s a rule of thumb so it’s...
Feb 5, 2015	Under Armour buys health apps My Fitness Pal, Endomondo. Now what will it do with them?	But he also added, “…We are developing a digital ecosystem that provides us with unparalleled data and insight into making every athlete better…Understanding the evolving needs of our athletes — how they interact, how they consume, and ulti...
	These digital health deals in 2015 illustrate how the patient experience is evolving	It was a banner year for digital health startups for the patient experience. An end-of-year roundup report from StartUp Health counted 111 deals in this digital health subsector. They collectively raised $1.3 billion and had an average size...
	Clinical trial platform uses telemedicine, mobile tech to improve access, cut costs	Science37, so named because 37C is the normal temperature of the human body, has raised a $6.5 million Series A round from dRx Capital –a joint venture between Qualcomm and Novartis, and Lux Capital‘s $350 million venture fund Lux Ventures ...
	Omada Health raises $48M with plans to extend program to Medicaid patients	Omada Health, which developed an intervention program for obesity-related chronic conditions for employers and health plans, has raised a $48 million Series C round, according to a blog entry on its website. The funding will focus on more v...
	StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups	Carrum Health announced $40 million in Series A funding led by Tiger Global Management LLC, with participation from GreatPoint Ventures and Cross Creek and return investors Wildcat Venture Partners and SpringRock Ventures. The funding will ...
	Under Armour buys health apps My Fitness Pal, Endomondo. Now what will it do with them?	When Under Armour took the wraps off UA Record to aggregate data from several different fitness apps and wearables at CES last month, little did we know that it was building an ecosystem to cultivate the largest digital health community to ...
	Pick up your healthcare innovation compass here (CONVERGE starts today)	MedCity CONVERGE gets underway Tuesday in Philadelphia and attendees will walk away from the two-day conference with a better understanding of the biggest opportunities in healthcare: from a status-check on Apple’s value to the industry to ...
	New digital health investment fund rises	In what feels like a counterweight to the ongoing discussion of the relatively few women partners in venture capital, a new digital health investment firm has raised a $10.7 million fund. It’s led by angel investor Enmi Sung Kendall and Any...
	These pharma and digital health collaborations are poised to transform clinical trials	This post has been updated from an earlier version Propeller Health added a second big pharma partner with its GlaxoSmithKline research and development deal to produce sensors for the company’s Ellipta dry powder inhaler, according to a com...
	Former Lumiata COO leads pharma-backed investment firm targeting digital health startups	The convergence between digital health and pharmaceutical companies has been an interesting trend to witness in the past few years. Increasingly, pharma companies want to move from being customers of digital health companies to having a rol...
	London startup Peptone gets $40-million booster to focus on drugs for disordered proteins	Around half the proteins in the human body, including many that are crucial in health and disease, have some regions that do not fold neatly into fixed structures and thus cannot be accurately predicted from the underlying genetic sequences...
	4 investors share insights on health tech from J.P. Morgan that will shape 2016	It’s been a frenetic couple of weeks between Consumer Electronics Show and J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference so now it’s time to take a broader look at what investors took away from them. The latter conference has certainly evolved since it...

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When was dRx Capital founded?

dRx Capital was founded in 2015.

What has the press written about dRx Capital?

Parsers VC has collected 28 articles mentioning dRx Capital, among them “Flywheel Acquires Radiologics, Raises $22M for Biomedical Research Platform” (Sep 16, 2021) and “StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups” (Jan 8, 2021).

Is dRx Capital still active?

Yes, dRx Capital is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 16, 2021.