| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.07.2024 | Unpriced VC rounds in digital health mask valuations | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Less than 20% of digital health startups reported a priced round in the last 18 months, according to a new PitchBook report.
Why it matters: That opacity makes it dif... |
| 26.02.2024 | How a new recipe can help food win in an Ozempic world | The following op-ed is written by Scott Bowman, a managing director at Clareo and the co-founder of the NOURISH Movement and Wiles Kase, a senior consultant at Clareo.
The stunning rise of anti-obesity (GLP-1 agonist) medications has caught... |
| 29.09.2023 | The rise, fall, and rise of digital therapeutics | Pear Therapeutics closed down this year as digital therapeutics companies struggle to gain adoption
It wasn't very long ago that Dr. Carolyn Bradner Jasik, Chief Medical Officer at Omada Health, a company that seeks to help prevent chronic ... |
| 28.09.2023 | Lark Health Expands Weight Management Offerings to Support GLP-1 Needs | What You Should Know:
– Lark Health, a conversational-AI health coaching platform for managing chronic conditions expands its weight management program to include the clinical management of GLP-1s – and taking a different approach.
– These ... |
| 14.07.2023 | Lark Health’s AI Coaching Drives Weight Loss Results in HPSAs | Lark Health, the leading AI-powered digital health coaching company for the prevention and management of chronic conditions announced a collection of new studies centered on digital coaching and remote diabetes prevention. These studies con... |
| 16.02.2023 | Lark Health and Smart Meter Collaborate on Digital Diabetes Management Program for Health Systems | Leading providers in digital care and remote patient monitoring better equip health systems to support thousands of patients living with Type 2 Diabetes
Lark Health, a leading digital care company for the prevention and management of chroni... |
| 15.02.2023 | Lark Health and Smart Meter combine forces for diabetes management | The partnership will combine Smart Meter's iGlucose meter and Lark's diabetes management program
It's no secret that diabetes is a huge problem in the United States: 37.3 million Americans, or about 1 in 10, have the disease and about 1 in ... |
| 02.09.2022 | Hello Heart launches cholesterol management feature to improve heart health | Digital therapeutic company Hello Heart announced Tuesday that it has released a new feature on its app that allows users to follow and understand their cholesterol levels.
Hello Heart’s app, available on Google Play and the Apple App Store... |
| 19.11.2021 | Julia Hu, co-founder and CEO of Lark Health, on VatorNews podcast | Lark Health, which provides a chatbot for patients with chronic conditions, recently raised $100M
Vator · Interview with Julia Hu, co-founder and CEO of Lark Health
Steven Loeb and Bambi Francisco Roizen speak with Julia Hu, co-founder and ... |
| 14.10.2021 | Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar throws down a gauntlet to social media companies—and to herself | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Social media is a double-edged sword full of unintended consequences, as recent election cycles a... |
| 14.10.2021 | Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar throws down a gauntlet to social media companies—and to herself | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Social media is a double-edged sword full of unintended consequences, as recent election cycles a... |
| 13.10.2021 | Lark Health Raises $100M for Digital Care Management & Prevention Platform | What You Should Know:
– Lark Health, a healthcare technology company aimed at delivering infinitely scalable, virtual chronic and preventative healthcare through conversational AI announced it has raised $100M in Series D funding led by Dee... |
| 13.10.2021 | Lark Health nabs $100M to pour into AI health coaching platform | Lark Health, a provider of chronic disease prevention and management programs, raised $100 million in a Series D funding round.
The round was led by Deerfield Management Company, and it included participation from crossover fund PFM Health ... |
| 13.10.2021 | Lark Health Raises $100M Series D Funding |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Lark Health has closed a $100 million Series D funding round led by Deerfield Management Company.
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| 23.06.2021 | Lark Health Expands Leadership Team to Accelerate Growth Strategy | |
| 22.06.2021 | Chronic health management startup Spiras Health raises $14M | The company home-based care, telemedicine, and remote patient monitoring to reduce ER visits
If you've ever been unlucky enough to have a loved one suffer from a chronic disease, you know the reality of what their day to day life is, and it... |
| 02.11.2020 | Lark Health raises $70M | So far, Lark Health has served nearly 2 million patients through its programs. The company has existing partnerships with several large Blue health plans, and regional health plans, such as Bloomington, Minnesota-based HealthPartners, Lark ... |
| 12.10.2020 | Lark Health Raises $70M in Series C and Debt Funding | Lark Health, a Mountain View, CA-based chronic disease prevention and management company, raised $70m in Series C and debt funding.
The $55m Series C round was led by King River Capital, with participation from new investors Franklin Temple... |
| 08.10.2020 | Adding to chronic care funding, Lark Health scores $55M in Series C | |
| 08.10.2020 | Lark Health Raises $55 Million Series C to Bring A.I.-Driven Chronic Conditions Care to More People | |
| 08.10.2020 | Lark Health Nabs $55M Series C Round |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Lark Health today announced it has closed a $55 million Series C funding round.
>> Click here for more funding data on Lark Health
>> To export Lark Health funding data to PDF and Excel, click here
The ... |
| 15.06.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: How We Manage Our Portfolio: Why It Remains Strong During Market Corrections (And Apparently Pandemics) | When COVID-19 hit, it hit hard. Who would have imagined the Federal Reserves slashing interest rates down to zero to salve a dead stopped economy? Or imagined a worldwide lockdown? The modern world has, literally, never seen anything like t... |
| 07.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Lark’s AI Chronic Conditions Coach Can Help People Stay Healthy and at Home | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredible portfolio companies have many materials and products to assist in this time of need, and we will be promoting them in this series. We’ll g... |
| 28.07.2019 | When It Comes To Digital Therapeutics, It’s Time To Think Bigger | Author Julia Hu is the CEO of Lark Health, a company in our sister fund Joyance Partners’ portfolio.
We’re living in a time of unprecedented investment and innovation in health care. Every day it seems like a new company that offers better... |
| 02.05.2019 | Press Release: Joyance Partners Announces European Expansion | London, UK - May 02, 2019 -- Joyance Partners, a venture capital partnership that invests in early-stage companies that deliver delightful moments, announced today its expansion into Europe and the addition of three new team members.
"... |
| 17.04.2019 | Lark Health shows impact of its diabetes prevention program on older patients | The Mountain View-based company released initial results from a retrospective study on the ability of its Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) to effectively engage older adults.
Among the 360 participants over the age of 50 in the study, the ... |
| 30.04.2015 | Why The Apple Watch Is A Big Nothingburger For Fitness | This post first appeared on the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service; it has been edited. For inquires, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein.
Over the past three years, fitness wearables have made extraordinary progres... |
| 25.02.2015 | Why women are undervalued in Silicon Valley | There’s a vast amount of value waiting to be unlocked in Silicon Valley, and it’s not hiding under the Tahoe hills in veins of silver like the Comstock lode. Today’s new billions are no longer dug out of the ground, they’re realized by view... |
| 14.05.2014 | Older Tech Giants Have Arrived For The ‘Internet Of Things’ Arms Race | This chopping board is the marriage of chopping carrots and embedded network systems that we’ve been waiting for all these years. (via The Orange Chef Co.)
When people hear “Internet of Things,” their first inclination is to think of Google... |
| 11.04.2014 | With Its New Samsung App, Health Startup Lark Moves Away From Hardware | Among the freebies included in Samsung’s just-released Galaxy S5 was a new app from Lark, a health startup that’s been pretty quiet for the past year or so.
In fact, co-founder and CEO Julia Hu told me that Lark has been “pretty much in ste... |
| 08.04.2014 | Spike in Bluetooth® Technology Penetration in Hub Devices Leads to Increased Bluetooth Smart Adoption | Mobile phones, PCs, Tablets rely on Bluetooth for wireless connectivity, set the stage for in-home automation hubs
San Jose, California – April 8, 2014 – From Bluetooth World 2014, the flagship connectivity conference from the Bluetooth SIG... |
| 28.03.2014 | Mimo baby monitor faces Lark sleep coach in this wearables matchup | Its device uses wrist actigraphy and an accelerometer to measure activity. A study by Ohio researchers concluded that wrist actigraphy wasn’t a reliable way to track sleep because it overestimates sleep.
Winner: Mimo baby monitor
Why? Mimo ... |
| 19.03.2014 | Healthcare startups got 40% of the $1B invested in Internet of Things ideas last year | Orthosensor is a medical device that transmits information to orpthopedic surgeons in real time to let them know whether knee replacements are implanted the right way to reduce the need for additional surgery. It also is intended to extend ... |
| 12.12.2013 | The ultimate wearables gift guide | Nerds and non-nerds alike are overwhelming Santa this year with requests for wearable technologies, those mini electronic devices that are worn with (or on top of) clothing.
We can’t get enough of wearables, including smartwatches, fitness ... |
| 08.10.2013 | Quantified self startup Lark is quietly raising $3.6 million | Earlier this year, Lark added a more general self-tracker to its offerings called LarkLife, which monitors sleep, activity and productivity. The devices are sold in Apple’s retail stores.
After hearing about the end of Zeo, which made a sle... |
| 07.10.2013 | Sleep, fitness tracker company Lark raises $3.1M | Sleep-turned-fitness tracker Lark Technologies has raised $3.1 million from undisclosed investors, according to an SEC filing first spotted by TechCrunch. The filing lists Anis Uzzaman, general partner at Fenox Venture Capital, and Weili Da... |
| 04.10.2013 | Filing Says Sleep- And Health-Tracking Startup Lark Is Raising Another $3.6M | Lark, which launched a wearable silent alarm onstage at TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference back in 2010, has raised $3.1 million of an intended $3.6 million round of funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
I... |
| 08.09.2013 | Searching for the next Zuckerberg: A day in the life of a Lightspeed Fellow | Building a company for first-time founders is like jumping into the deep end of the pool without really knowing how to swim. The Lightspeed Summer Fellowship helps aspiring entrepreneurs get their feet wet and buoys them as they take their ... |
| 08.09.2013 | Searching for the next Zuckerberg: A day in the life of a Lightspeed Fellow | 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!
Building a company for first-time founders is lik... |
| 28.06.2013 | Making hardware is hard — just ask Apple or Samsung | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If Keller Rinaudo is right, a lot of ambitious hardware hackers are about to get a cold, hard smack in the face from reality.
Rinaudo i... |
| 02.06.2013 | Why VCs should love hardware startups | Skip Fleshman is a partner at Asset Management Ventures.
Venture capitalists hate investing in hardware startups for a myriad of reasons. Design and iteration are more difficult. Margins are low. Manufacturing issues are unpredictable. Inve... |
| 02.06.2013 | Why VCs should love hardware startups | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Skip Fleshman is a partner at Asset Management Ventures.
Venture capitalists hate investing in hardware startups for a myriad of reason... |
| 28.05.2013 | The “Quantified Self” Is Only the First Step to Better Health | This post is part of Tech Cocktail’s “Healthy Entrepreneur” series, bringing you insights on food, exercise, and sleep throughout May. The series is presented by Coromega (more info and a giveaway below).
Editor’s Note: This article appears... |
| 04.02.2013 | Wearable Devices’ Next Design Challenge: The Human Brain | Wearable devices like the Nike+ FuelBand, Jawbone UP, larklife, and future products like the Misfit Shine and Google Glass have been the subject of much discussion, for good reason: They give us access to information about our physical bodi... |
| 17.01.2013 | Sensors, Sensors, Everywhere: Will They Keep Us From Seeing For Ourselves? | Guest author Sarah Rotman Epps is a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research.
Computing is permeating domains that were previously not connected. That theme was readily observable at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, w... |
| 02.01.2013 | The Ultimate Guide To The 50+ Hottest Health And Fitness Apps, Gadgets And Startups Of The Year | The holidays wreak havoc on our bodies, with their mandatory over-indulgence in food as well as family and reminiscences. As we reflect on the year past — its victories and losses — we also begin looking ahead to the next, and in big ways o... |
| 16.12.2012 | 9 wearable gadgets that’ll help you get in shape | One of my Twitter buddies recently joked that the ideal fitness device will be a neck collar that monitors the food going down your throat and then chokes you when you hit your calorie limit.
These devices don’t do that. But they may get yo... |
| 16.12.2012 | 9 wearable gadgets that’ll help you get in shape | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
One of my Twitter buddies recently joked that the ideal fitness device will be a neck collar that monitors the food going down your thr... |
| 11.10.2012 | Relationships helped Lark move from prototype to shelves in one year with less than $1 million | From a business perspective, Lark is capitalizing on a business trend that founder and CEO Julia Hu said is emerging. “You’ve seen a lot of startups starting to tackle hardware, and I’d like to think part of the reason is because hardware m... |
| 08.10.2012 | Your next diet, fitness, & sleep coach will probably be a wearable gadget like this one | Lark, the startup that makes those nifty sleep-tracking, insomnia-curing wristbands, has just taken its product a step further. Today, the company launched a new wristband that brings diet and exercise into the biometic fold.
Called Larklif... |
| 08.10.2012 | Lark Goes Beyond Sleep Monitoring With Larklife, A $149.99 Device And App For Exercise, Diet, And More | After years of talk about wearable fitness devices, I’ve been seeing more and more of them in the past few months, especially Nike’s FuelBand. However, Julia Hu, CEO of startup Lark, says devices like the FuelBand aren’t really designed to ... |
| 25.09.2012 | 10 startups that could help employers cut healthcare costs related to sleep, diet, smoking | At an ePatient conference in Philadelphia this week, Comcast Ventures Senior Associate Gavin Teo said it’s looking for companies with ways to improve sleep as this represents one of the largest market opportunities and biggest needs. Althou... |
| 21.07.2012 | From MIT to Stanford, college classes where a startup is the final exam | College campuses are becoming incubators for startups, offering encouragement in the form of classes to nurture young dreamers. This explains the influx of 21-year-olds making millions of dollars in investment before they can legally pop a ... |
| 05.06.2012 | Dismissive VCs Drive Hardware Startups Straight to Kickstarter | Ms. Hu (lark.com)
Imagine that you invented this really cool wristband alarm clock, and you think it could be a real ‘disruptive’ technology. You spend months mocking up a presentation to give to investors at TechCrunch Disrupt, but on the ... |
| 05.02.2012 | In The Future, The Business Founder Will Not Be Ignored | Editor’s note: Adam Rodnitzky is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Favo.rs. He programmed his first startup using ColdFusion in 1999. Rodnitzky is based in San Francisco, and you can follow him on Twitter @rodtwitzky.
The entrepreneur... |
| 05.01.2012 | Eight technologies for a healthier 2012 | Welcome to 2012 and a new list of New Year’s resolutions — a list that likely includes some variation on adopting a healthier lifestyle. Thanks to the acceleration of technology, fulfilling your resolutions this time around may be easier th... |
| 06.12.2011 | Why women have to work harder to do startups | Startups are not too hard for women. Women just have to work way harder to create a startup.
In the midst of my life as a fundraising CEO, I am going to posit one thing: That the ramen-eating, asocial women entrepreneurs have it harder in s... |
| 06.12.2011 | Why women have to work harder to do startups | 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!
Startups are not too hard for women. Women just h... |
| 04.11.2011 | Why your startup team needs diversity — in race, financial background & gender | 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!
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| 15.06.2011 | This Lark Has Flown 30,000 Miles (So Far) To Find Its Owner | No, it’s not an actual bird. The Lark is a sleeping aid device meant for couples that launched last year at Disrupt and made some more announcements just last month, and reader Graham decided to pick one up after hearing about it. And while... |
| 04.06.2011 | A TechCrunch Disrupt Proposal | Ah, true love.
Everyone was surprised — even Michael Arrington was left speechless and said he was “discombobulated” — after Julia Hu was proposed to onstage during her special product announcement at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City.
Hu... |
| 24.05.2011 | Lark debuts "un-alarm" and sleep tracker | The device tracks your sleep patterns and wakes you up with a silent vibration
If your alarm (or your partner’s alarm) has ever sent you leaping out of bed with a jolt of adrenaline that leaves your heart pounding and your pupils dilated, y... |
| 24.05.2011 | Lark aims to improve your sleep — and your partner’s | If a mismatched sleep schedule has been causing tension with your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, or wife, a new startup called Lark has built a product that may be able to help — a silent, vibrating alarm.
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based compa... |
| 24.05.2011 | PCH International Launches Business Accelerator Program; Lark Named First Startup | PCH International is one of those quirky, successful mid-size companies you’ve probably never heard of. For starters, PCH is a Chinese manufacturing company named after a California highway that has headquarters located in Ireland. If you h... |
| - | COVID-19 Edition: How We Manage Our Portfolio: Why It Remains Strong During Market Corrections (And Apparently Pandemics) | Photo by Micheile Henderson on Unsplash
When COVID-19 hit, it hit hard. Who would have imagined the Federal Reserves slashing interest rates down to zero to salve a dead stopped economy? Or imagined a worldwide lockdown? The modern world h... |
| - | Lark Health nabs $100M to pour into AI health coaching platform | Lark Health, a provider of chronic disease prevention and management programs, raised $100 million in a Series D funding round.
The round was led by Deerfield Management Company, and it included participation from crossover fund PFM Health ... |
| - | When It Comes To Digital Therapeutics, It’s Time To Think Bigger | Photo: Who_I_am, Getty Images
Author Julia Hu is the CEO of our portfolio company Lark Health.
We’re living in a time of unprecedented investment and innovation in health care. Every day it seems like a new company that offers better heal... |
| - | 10 startups that could help employers cut healthcare costs related to sleep, diet, smoking | A recent report on employer healthcare costs drew attention to a 40 percent increase in the past six years for employee healthcare spending. The report identified eight human behaviors that contribute to 15 chronic conditions and are respon... |
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| - | Mimo baby monitor faces Lark sleep coach in this wearables matchup | Infants and sleep fit well together as subjects of wearable tracking technology. There’s the desire for another level of safety for parents. But for adults, studies that point to sleep as a key indicator of health, the increase in sleep apn... |
| - | Quantified self startup Lark is quietly raising $3.6 million | Sleep-tracking turned wellness-tracking company Lark Technologies has something up its sleeve. A Form D filing reveals that the mobile health startup has raised $3.1 million from six investors and could continue raising another $450,000.
La... |
| - | Healthcare startups got 40% of the $1B invested in Internet of Things ideas last year | The Internet of Things was a hot area for investment last year. Of the 153 deals raising $1 billion from venture capitalists, a big fat slice — 61 — were healthcare IT companies and health and wellness businesses, according to CB Insights.
... |
| - | Press Release: Joyance Partners Announces European Expansion | London, UK - May 02, 2019 -- Joyance Partners, a venture capital partnership that invests in early-stage companies that deliver delightful moments, announced today its expansion into Europe and the addition of three new team members.
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| - | Making it Personal: A New Approach to Diabetes Prevention | Author Julia Hu is the CEO of our portfolio company Lark Health.
In January, I shared the exciting news that Lark and 23andMe have teamed up to do chronic disease prevention in an entirely new way: For the first time, 23andMe customers are... |
| - | COVID-19 Edition: Lark’s AI Chronic Conditions Coach Can Help People Stay Healthy and at Home | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredible portfolio companies have many materials and products to assist in this time of need, and we will be promoting them in this series. We’ll g... |
| - | Lark Health raises $70M | Lark Health, a provider of chronic disease prevention and management programs, closed a $55 million Series C funding round as well as a $15 million venture debt credit facility. It will use the new funds to advance partnerships with telehea... |
| - | Healthcare hires of note | These job announcements are intended to highlight some of the hiring news over the past month and are not intended to be comprehensive. If you’d like to share job listings or announcements on our website, please contact Winnie Liu at this e... |
| - | Growing and Evolving: An Update on Our Funds | Photo by Suzanne D. Williams on Unsplash
Our funds have experienced dramatic growth over the past year. So, I wanted to provide an overview of where things stand.
Ataraxia. In mid-2020, we set up our first formal fund management company, ... |
| - | Relationships helped Lark move from prototype to shelves in one year with less than $1 million | With two product launches under its belt, two-year-old digital health startup Lark Technologies is an example of what can happen when you really take the time to get to know the right people.
Lark’s flagship product, a sleep tracker and coa... |
| - | Lark Health shows impact of its diabetes prevention program on older patients | Older patients are often considered a hard market to reach when it comes to adopting new technology to manage their health, but they are arguably one of the most important demographics to address when it comes to controlling healthcare cost... |
