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Talkiatry lands $20M Series A to go all in on in-network psychiatric care
Talkiatry raised a $20 million Series A to scale a strategy simple in theory yet potentially challenging in execution: bring psychiatry services in-network with insurance providers.
Pickle app puts on users, as millennials/Gen Z latch onto location apps to fight COVID lockdowns
As the coming of winter, combined with the coronavirus, continues to put new restrictions on peoples’ movements, location-based apps are on the rise again. People are looking to find out who is clos
Rolling up the latest in startup health insurance offerings, Sana Benefits raises $20.8 million
Sana Benefits, a manager of self-funded insurance plans for small businesses, said it has raised $20.8 million in a recent round of funding as it looks to roll up all of the latest startup health bene
Mattermost CEO Ian Tien on building a successful remote team
Mattermost is pretty open about what it is: an open-source, self-hosted alternative to Slack. The team didn’t originally set out to build a messaging tool at all; they wanted to build video ga
Oscar Health now has 400,000 members and expects to bring in $2 billion by the end of 2020
Oscar Health, the upstart healthcare insurance company and technology developer, expects to have roughly 400,000 members insured under its healthcare plans, who collectively will bring in roughly $2 b
Amazon Alexa launches its first HIPAA-compliant medical skills
Alexa is moving into healthcare. Following a trial of Amazon’s smart speakers in patients’ rooms at Cedars-Sinai, the company this morning announced an invite-only program allowing select
Corporate venture investment climbs higher throughout 2018
Many corporations are pinning their futures on their venture investment portfolios. If you can’t beat startups at the innovation game, go into business with them as financial partners.
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As market pressures loom, healthcare giant Cigna launches a $250 million venture fund
If you don’t think the healthcare market is prepping for the radical transformations that remote care, persistent diagnostics, as well as and monitoring and improving targeted treatments are goi
CVS, other health stocks down upon Amazon, JPMorgan, Berkshire healthcare co news
Investors panicked this morning upon the news Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway were teaming up to launch a health insurance company for their U.S. employees. Healthcare is one of the bigg
Data-Driven Health Insurance Provider Clover Health Raises Another $35M
When Sequoia Capitals Michael Dixon met Clover Health CEO Vivek Garipalli, he said he knew he wanted to invest. The catch: it took 18 months to convince him. But that finally happened, with the comp