| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Feb 15, 2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, February 15 | SO LONG, SAN FRANCISCO
Good morning, Term Sheet readers.
Paid Content Securing the enterprise without boundaries From ExtraHop
Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from man... |
| Feb 13, 2018 | Fitbit pushes into employee health care and coaching with Twine Health acquisition | Global wearables juggernaut Fitbit has announced plans to acquire Twine Health, a health coaching platform aimed at helping employers manage chronic disease in the workforce. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Founded out of Cambridge, M... |
| Feb 13, 2018 | Fitbit pushes into employee health care and coaching with Twine Health acquisition | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Global wearables juggernaut Fitbit has announced plans to acquire Twine Health, a health coaching platform aimed at helping employers m... |
| Feb 13, 2018 | Fitbit buys Twine Health in bid to become a more serious health care tool | Fitbit’s been on a bit of an acquisition spree over the last couple of years, as the company’s looked to grow its business inside the stagnating wearables category. This morning, the hardware maker announced plans to pick up Twine Health, a... |
| Feb 13, 2018 | Fitbit acquires health coaching platform Twine Health | Twine Health will become part of Fitbit's Health Solutions group
While Fitbit is probably best known for its consumer line of electronic heath trackers and smartwatches, the company actually does more than just sell wearables. The company a... |
| Nov 5, 2017 | Twine Health Raises $1.5 Million Series A1 | Twine Health, a four-year-old spinoff of the MIT Media Lab, announced a Series A1 investment of $1.5 million led by Qiming Venture Partners USA. The financing will be used to fuel the company’s further development of its unique AI-powered h... |
| Nov 3, 2017 | Twine Health Secures $1.5M in Series A1 Financing | Twine Health, a Cambridge, MA-based health coaching platform startup and a spinoff of the MIT Media Lab, raised $1.5m in Series A1 funding.
The round was led by Qiming Venture Partners USA. In conjunction with the funding, Qiming Venture Pa... |
| Nov 3, 2017 | Twine Health Lands $1.5M to Expand AI-Powered Health Coaching Platform | Today, Twine Health, a four-year-old spinoff of the MIT Media Lab has raised $1.5 million in Series A1 funding led by Qiming Venture Partners USA. The company plans to used the latest round of funding to accelerate the development of its AI... |
| Nov 3, 2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, November 3 | FINALLY FRIDAY
Happy Friday, Term Sheet readers.
Paid Content Securing the enterprise without boundaries From ExtraHop
THE TAX BILL: House Republicans released a bill on Thursday that would make significant changes to the tax code. It’s a b... |
| May 4, 2017 | Twine Health raising $1.5M and CEO shares lessons learned as it ends work with ACOs for now | But work-based health providers are really taking off, Moore noted. He contends that employers are “starting to get antsy about premiums,” so they are collaborating more and more with workplace health providers.
“We did suffer from having t... |
| May 23, 2016 | Startup Showcase companies: Where are they now? | “It’s definitely an important platform to earn credibility…We had one-on-one meetings with a pharmaceutical company, a hospital, a payer,” Malik said. “That intersection is very helpful because people are looking at where the opportunities ... |
| Apr 19, 2016 | PillDrill takes aesthetic route to medication adherence challenge. Will it work? | He emphasized that it had to fit into people’s daily lives and not force them to change existing habits.
When it’s time for users to take their medication, the drug name flashes on the screen. It asks users to use the device’s RFID scanner ... |
| Mar 22, 2016 | Direct primary care startup R-Health grows with practice acquisition | R-Health, a direct primary care practice using longer physician visits supplemented by patient engagement tools to improve outcomes, has acquired the Advanced Comprehensive Care Organization, according to a company statement. ACCO has serve... |
| Dec 12, 2015 | Google’s (Alphabet’s) rising focus on health: 5 must-read stories from MedCity News this week | Watch the archived video above, and also check out five important stories we covered this week – the first of which being the center of our MedHeads discussion:
1. Google Ventures CEO: Our focus on the life sciences will grow
Nearly a third... |
| Dec 7, 2015 | Khosla Ventures backs Twine Health as part of $6.8M round for chronic condition health coaching | Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Twine Health has raised $6.75 million from Khosla Ventures, Provenance Venture Forum, and Tower Capital Partners for its chronic condition health coaching offering. Notably, Vinod Khosla led Khosla Ventures' i... |
| Dec 7, 2015 | Twine Health Closes $6.75m Series A Funding | Twine Health, a Boston, MA-based provider of a health coaching platform, closed a $6.75m Series A funding.
Backers included Khosla Ventures, Provenance Venture Forum, and Tower Capital Partners and industry veterans Andy Palmer, James Pallo... |
| Dec 7, 2015 | Twine Health closes $6.7M Series A round to expand patient coaching for chronic conditions | Among its target customers are primary care practices, Accountable Care Organizations and on-site employer clinics.
Patients using its platform work with assigned coaches on goals that matter to them. They use connected devices to track the... |
| Dec 7, 2015 | New Money: Bounce Imaging Wins $1M From Verizon; Jibo Raises $16M; Acme Packet Founders Raise $20M | Get a daily dose of Boston startup funding news in The Beat. Sign up here. New Money is BostInno's report on all the tech funding deals this week. Check back for updates with more new money.
Bounce Imaging (Cambridge)
Amount: $1 million.
In... |
| Nov 22, 2014 | Which healthcare startups did Harvard shortlist for finals in acceleration contest? (video) | Here is a summary of each of the finalists:
Bloodbuy has developed a framework for hospital based blood banks and blood centers to improve the bidding process for blood supplies. The idea behind the Dallas based company is to improve the ge... |
| Nov 21, 2014 | Harvard Health Acceleration Challenge Finalists Unveiled | Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School has announce four finalists of the Health Acceleration Challenge. The selected finalists will share the $150k Cox Prize that includes an HBS case study written about their innovation and ha... |
| Oct 28, 2014 | Don't manage populations. Empower them to get healthier, Iora CEO says | SAN FRANCISCO — Some health startup founders don’t believe in tackling problems across huge populations. Instead, they prefer to give individuals tools to help them take better care of themselves.
“Value creation … is not in filling beds,” ... |
| Oct 21, 2014 | Twine Health's connection with hypertension patients yields impressive results | Skeptics of patient empowerment would be advised to tune into the real-time dashboard of Twine Health, which will be demonstrated for the first time publicly at HealthBeat, October 27-28.
The cloud-based platform is designed to put some of ... |
| Oct 13, 2014 | Connecting EHR data to achieve ‘One Patient, One Record’ | Ten years ago, investing in Big (health) Data to manage population health didn’t make sense. There just wasn’t much digital data. Then in 2004, President George W. Bush kicked off a project designed to provide most Americans with an electro... |
| Oct 13, 2014 | Digital health and traditional med-tech companies have a lot to learn from each other | In the last few years, the medical technology industry (aka “med tech”), which makes clinical-grade monitoring devices and the like, has been feeling a significant impact from digital health innovations, the kind that comes from companies a... |
| Oct 9, 2014 | HealthBeat 2014 investor challenge: Back startups that help the sickest (and costliest) patients | The quantified-self movement has seen massive investment and product development over the past few years. It gives the impression there’s a lot of commitment to health tech. But where do sick people fit into that?
At HealthBeat, Rajiv Mehta... |
| Oct 9, 2014 | Healthcare’s most innovative cloud solutions revealed at HealthBeat 2014 | Health care and interoperability haven’t been good friends. The horror stories about exchanging vital patient information between physicians, hospitals, insurers and other providers are legion. And the load of big data is increasing steadil... |
| Oct 8, 2014 | HealthBeat 2014 looks inside today’s black bag | The beat-up leather black bag has long been a charming symbol of the caring family physician, but it also has a lot of equipment that’s of little use to today’s doctors. Metal stethoscopes and reusable equipment have been replaced by techno... |
| Oct 8, 2014 | HealthBeat 2014: A powerhouse lineup explores the revolution in patient-engaged health care | Patient engagement, patient empowerment, patient centered. The buzzwords have been around for a while, but with technology now catching up to the concept, the notion of patients as full participants may help revolutionize health care.
It’s ... |
| Sep 26, 2014 | Call for submissions to the HealthBeat 2014 ‘Innovation Showcase’: Deadline is Friday, October 10 | This year, HealthBeat will host the first ever “Innovation Showcase” to spotlight some of the most innovative and up-and-coming companies in the health technology space.
Are you part of a disruptive or innovative startup in health tech? Do ... |
| Twine Health closes $6.7M Series A round to expand patient coaching for chronic conditions | MIT Media Lab spin-out Twine Health has raised $6.75 million to support the expansion of a software platform using apps to help patients manage their chronic diseases and collaborate with physicians.
Since the company scored a clinical coll... |
| Google’s (Alphabet’s) rising focus on health: 5 must-read stories from MedCity News this week | Security issues in healthcare are racing to the forefront of importance these days. Case in point: Just a few days ago, Hospital Corporation of America had a major EHR outage just a few days ago, reportedly caused by a hardware storage glit... |
| Startup Showcase companies: Where are they now? | This post is sponsored by MedCity CONVERGE
In the run up to the MedCity CONVERGE conference, we’re highlighting some of the companies that have taken part in the Startup Showcase.
A couple, such as RightCare Solutions and 1DocWay, which too... |
| Direct primary care startup R-Health grows with practice acquisition | R-Health, a direct primary care practice using longer physician visits supplemented by patient engagement tools to improve outcomes, has acquired the Advanced Comprehensive Care Organization, according to a company statement. ACCO has serve... |
| Twine Health raising $1.5M and CEO shares lessons learned as it ends work with ACOs for now | The business model for accountable care organizations just isn’t mature enough to make them sustainable business partners. At least that’s the conclusion of MIT Media Lab spinout Twine Health, which has tweaked its business to focus primari... |
| Which healthcare startups did Harvard shortlist for finals in acceleration contest? (video) | A Harvard Healthcare Acceleration Challenge launched a competition in October to speed up availability of healthcare technologies earlier this year. About one month later, it has selected four healthcare startups spanning how hospital blood... |
| PillDrill takes aesthetic route to medication adherence challenge. Will it work? | The push to solve the challenge of medication adherence has led to a crowded market of entrepreneurs with overlapping solutions. It has also led some investors to be fairly bearish about this particular subsector of digital health, especial... |