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CancerIQ Raises $14M Series B Funding to Improve Access to Innovations in Cancer Early Detection and Prevention
CancerIQ, a platform powering early cancer detection and prevention across broad patient populations, has closed a $14 million Series B financing round co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI) and Amgen Ventures. Other investors participating in the round were McKesson Ventures; OSF HealthCare; a...
IVX Health to Open Three New Infusion Centers in Southwest Florida to Care for Patients Living with Complex Chronic Conditions
IVX Health recently announced the opening of three new centers in Florida’s Southwest in the spring. The centers will be located in the communities of Fort Myers, Naples, and Estero. The company is known as a nationwide provider of injection and infusion therapy focused on treating patients with complex chronic...
Koneksa Raises $45M Series C Financing to Accelerate Expansion of Digital Biomarker Platform
Digital biomarker design and validation company Koneksa recently announced that it had completed a Series C funding round in which it raised $45 million. The funding round was led by AyurMaya, with Velosity Capital and Takeda Ventures participating as well. Existing investors McKesson Ventures, Waterline Ventures,...
Reimagine Care Secures $25 Million in Series A Funding to Drive Commercialization of Home-Centered, Value-Based Cancer Care
Technology-enabled service provider Reimagine Care is a leader in promoting support for oncologists by delivering valuable, home-centered cancer care. It recently announced that a $25 million capital raise has been completed. Led by LRVHealth, Santé Ventures, and Martin Ventures, the funding will be utilized to...
Best Places to Work 2022
Glassdoor, a provider of insights about companies and jobs, recently announced its list of the best small to medium businesses in the United States to work in the coming year. Taking the 45th spot on this list is primary care support company Aledade. Aledade has a Glassdoor rating of 4.5/5 stars, according to 141...
Hims & Hers and Walmart Collaborate To Expand Availability Of Hair Care Offerings To 1,400+ Stores Nationwide and Online
Personal telehealth company Hims & Hers recently announced an expansion to its multi-specialty platform: it has partnered with Walmart to make its products available in certain stores across the country and on the Walmart website. Hims & Hers Chief Operating Officer Melissa Baird shared enthusiasm about the...
Announcing our latest investment led by Spectrum Equity and McKesson Ventures
RxVantage recently shared news of its latest investment directed by McKesson Ventures and Spectrum Equity. These two investors will be joining RxVantage’s existing investors, which include Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Slater Technology Fund, Javelin Venture Partners, and dRx Capital. RxVantage’s goal is to...
M2GEN Expands Leadership Team, Appointing Daniel Elgorth, Ph.D. as Chief Data and Analytics Officer and May Yoon as Chief People Officer
Bioinformatics company M2GEN is known for its constant push to further oncology research discoveries through analytics and data. It recently announced an expansion of its executive team, appointing two new members: May Yoon has joined as chief people officer and Daniel Elgort, Ph.D., has been appointed chief data and...
MM+M Podcast 1.18.22: Digital health’s funding frenzy (and what it means)
Rock Health Head of Consulting Sari Kaganoff appeared on the MM+M (Medical, Marketing + Media) podcast to unpack the numbers and interpret the directional signs behind last year’s frenzied funding environment for digital health. She said 2021 was a big year for digital health, noting that $29.1 billion was raised by...
MVP Health Care and Galileo Launch First Virtual Primary and Specialty Care Solution for Medicaid Members in New York
Galileo and MVP Health Care recently announced a partnership with a goal of giving MVP Medicaid members in New York primary and specialty care that is virtual and all-inclusive. This partnership is unlike any previous health care offering because of the two companies’ ability to provide digital healthcare access to...
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C-Path and Replica Analytics Collaboration Aims to Accelerate Rare Disease Research
Critical Path Institute (C-Path) and Replica Analytics, an Aetion company, have announced a partnership that uses synthetic data to help researchers more easily develop drugs to treat rare diseases. Replica Analytics will help generate synthetic datasets across rare...
Merck Announces the Launch of the Merck Digital Sciences Studio to Help Healthcare Startups Quickly Bring their Innovations to Market
Merck, known as MSD outside the U.S. and Canada, has announced the launch of the Merck Digital Sciences Studio (MDSS) to enable the generation of innovative technologies for drug discovery and development. MDSS will support early-stage biomedical startups with direct...
McKesson Ventures Takes the ParityPledge to Commit to Increasing Representation for Women and People of Color
McKesson Ventures has signed the Parity.org ParityPledge® in Support of People of Color and in Support of Women. The ParityPledge simply asks that companies commit to interview and consider at least one qualified woman and person of color for every open role, VP and...
OncoHealth Secures Strategic Investments from Arsenal Capital Partners & McKesson Corporation
OncoHealth announced today that Arsenal Capital Partners and McKesson Corporation have strategically invested in the company. The funding, which gives Arsenal a majority ownership stake in OncoHealth, will help the company continue developing its oncology-focused...
Reimagine Care and University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Collaborate to Provide Home-Centered Care to Bone Marrow Transplant Patients
Reimagine Care, a provider of technology-enabled services that support oncologists in delivering high-quality, home-centered, value-based cancer care, has collaborated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz) to deliver care to bone marrow...