Digital health is showing signs of life despite financial markets that seem determined to bring some of 2023’s volatility into the new year. Stocks are up and down, and bond yields are climbing. Inflation is proving stubborn,...more
1/25/2024
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Digital Health ,
Health Information Technologies ,
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Life Sciences ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Private Equity ,
Venture Capital
From its inception, digital health has been focused on developing technologies and solutions that offer a higher quality of healthcare to more people at a lower cost. Amidst fluctuations in stock prices, valuations and...more
Investing is cyclical. It’s a lesson that has repeated itself over the past two years for entrepreneurs and investors in emerging digital health technologies.
The pandemic brought more urgency to digital health...more
There are more investors in digital health today than there have ever been, but the questions they are posing to company founders before writing a check are tougher than they were just a year ago....more
Digital health has been a powerhouse investment sector since it emerged more than a decade ago. Year-after-year, startups consistently demonstrate their innovations bring real-world benefits and our healthcare system...more
The digital health sector emerged as a juggernaut during the COVID-19 pandemic, with almost $15 billion invested in privately-held digital health companies in 2020 and nearly $30 billion invested last year, according to our...more
2/14/2022
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At the end of Q3, aggregate funding raised by digital health startups in 2021 surpassed $20 billion. Although 2021 continues to be a record-breaking year for digital health startups, investors gently tapped the breaks in Q3....more
11/24/2021
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Clinical Trials ,
Digital Health ,
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Health Information Technologies ,
Healthcare ,
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Investment ,
Life Sciences ,
Medical Devices ,
Mental Health ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Startups ,
Telemedicine
Digital health companies and investors had a remarkable 2020, as fundraising totals broke records and deal volume significantly outpaced previous years. Moreover, the increase in investment activity has triggered more exit...more
When investors survey the digital health sector today, they see nearly every number trending upward.
There is more deal volume than VCs have seen in past years, with the third quarter of 2020 outpacing anything they’ve...more
Venture investors are pleased to see digital health companies continue to transform the healthcare system despite unprecedented challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic....more
The annual gathering of life sciences executives and investors in San Francisco that many now call “JPM Week” recently concluded, marking the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference’s 38th year....more
1/24/2020
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Biotechnology ,
Bristol-Myers Squibb ,
China ,
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Genetic Materials ,
Genetic Testing ,
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JPMorgan Chase ,
Life Sciences ,
Medical Devices ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
UK Brexit ,
US Trade Policies ,
Venture Capital
Fenwick’s eighth annual Digital Health Investor Summit took place against the backdrop of strong and increasingly diverse investment markets, a focus on clinical validation of digital health tools, and a healthcare system...more
11/21/2019
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Life Sciences ,
Medical Devices ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Startups ,
Telehealth ,
Venture Capital
Rock Health reported that $4.2 billion was invested in digital health companies during the first half of 2019. This places the sector on pace to exceed 2018’s record total annual investment of $8.2 billion....more
No matter who is doing the counting, 2018 was an off-the-charts year for venture investment in digital health. Here’s a sampling of the tallies...more
Just over a year ago, we reported about the rise of the mega-round in digital health investments. At that time, we tallied nine investment rounds valued at more than $100 million in the first half of 2017. ...more
Fenwick’s Sixth Annual Digital Health Investor Summit started on an upbeat note with Rock Health’s Megan Zweig sharing the venture fund’s mid-year funding report. After the uncertainty brought by the 2016 presidential...more
10/12/2017
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B2B Organizations ,
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R&D ,
Startups
The digital health sector is beginning to mature and investors are pouring more money into more deals, reports Rock Health in its survey of digital health investment in the first half of 2017. And, we might add, into bigger...more
Last September, we noted that payers and providers were expected to become increasingly active digital health strategic investors given their challenges to improve margins and outcomes....more
Our analysis of digital health investment in the third quarter of 2015 revealed that just under $3 billion was invested in the sector and more than half of that went to infrastructure providers....more
At our Digital Health Summit earlier this year, Malay Gandhi, Managing Director at Rock Health, noted that once digital health venture investing accounts for 10% of all venture investment, we should start breaking out...more