Wellness and fitness coaching app, actio has extended its seed round to €10 million with a new investment from fellow Berlin-based venture capital firm Heal Capital.
The startup secured a seed funding of €8.5 million from HV Capital and Cavalry Ventures in December 2020.
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According to the World Health Organisation, depression is the leading cause of global disability, affecting over...
Award-winning manufacturer of eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) drones dedicated to humanitarian initaitives, Wingcopter, has secured $22 million (€18M) in Series A funding.
The financing round was led by Silicon Valley-based Xplorer Capital, a key investor in autonomous technologies, and Futury Regio Growth Fund, a Germany-based growth capital fund focusing on investments in...
Padua-based digital health startup, PatchAi has closed a €1.7 million round led by UV Cap and SFEM Italia, joined by a follow-on investment from Healthware Ventures.
This is the third round closed by the startup accelerated in Silicon Valley by Plug and Play, for a total of €2.56 million raised in two years since the founding date.
The funds raised will allow PatchAi to expand its business to...
UK startup Babylon Health has scored $100 million (£74.5m) in a convertible loan led by Swedish listed fund VNV Global.
The new investment is part of the financial round of 2019, which saw the firm raise $550 million (£410m) in Series C funding.
VNV Global invested the full $100 million round in Babylon through Global Health Equity, a newly established company within the VNV Global group. $35...
UK-based research technology company uMed has raised £3.7 million to help healthcare providers in the UK and US, including GPs, hospitals and health specialists, run patient research more efficiently while safeguarding patient data and ensuring regulatory compliance.
VC investors AlbionVC, Delin Ventures and Playfair Capital are backing uMed’s latest round of funding, along with Silicon Valley’s...
London-based digital platform and app, MediShout has closed a £1 million seed round, led by Episode 1 Ventures.
Founded by NHS surgeon, Ash Kalraiya, the app was inspired by his experience of procedure delays caused by faulty equipment or not having the right stock.
The MediShout app is being used in six NHS hospitals to connect staff, equipment suppliers and service maintenance teams.
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UK healthcare scale-up Navenio, has announced a $1.1 million (€845K) investment from Future Planet Capital to help accelerate healthcare efficiency.
Navenio aims to use the funds for its intelligent workforce solution, which helps to mitigate infection and cross-contamination in hospitals.
Dubbed 'Uber-for-indoors' for its infrastructure-free indoor location solutions, the platform is the...
UK teleradiology company, Medica has announced the acquisition of Global Diagnostics Ireland (GDI), the market leader for teleradiology services in Ireland, for an initial cash consideration of €16 million (£14.5 million) from private Irish healthcare group, Centric Health.
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This acquisition is in line with Medica’s revised strategy announced in March this year to diversify revenue...
Eagle Genomics, a medtech company pioneering the application of network science to microbiome biology, has closed a round of $9 million (€7.6m) scale-up funding. The funding was led by the Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) and a consortium of investors headed by Granpool Innovative Investments and including Albert-László Barabási, bpd partners and Anatom Holding.
The funding will allow the...
Sidekick Health has completed a $20 million (£15.3m) oversubscribed Series A financing round led by Wellington Partners and Asabys Partners, through its fund SAHII, with participation by existing investors Novator and Frumtak Ventures.
The Nordic firm’s fundraising efforts were supported by the EIT Digital Accelerator, a European digital innovation initiative which supports startup and scale-up...