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
Artificial intelligence and healthcare are hardly strangers, as machine learning programs have been aiding in the diagnosis of disease, drug discovery, the streamlining of clinical workflows and the analysis of medical data...more
7/13/2023
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Bias ,
Digital Health ,
Google ,
Healthcare ,
Innovative Technology ,
Life Sciences ,
Machine Learning ,
Microsoft ,
Startups
For digital health startups, the first two months of this year were a welcome departure from 2022, when high inflation and other economic challenges caused investors to press on the brakes and proceed with caution....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
As the financial markets continue to struggle, digital health companies are conserving resources, slowing hiring and minding their burn rate given the uncertainty around the current economic slowdown and whether the economy...more
7/13/2022
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Big Tech ,
Digital Health ,
Google ,
Healthcare ,
Innovative Technology ,
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Life Sciences ,
Microsoft ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Popular ,
Startups
Investors are understandably cautious this year as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary policies and financial markets erased the gains from the last 12 months. Public company investors in sectors with enticing upside—like...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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Digital Health ,
Emerging Technology Companies ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Investment ,
Investment Opportunities ,
Life Sciences ,
Medical Devices ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Startups ,
Telehealth ,
Venture Capital
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 ,
Financing ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Healthcare ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Investment ,
Life Sciences ,
Medical Devices ,
Mental Health ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Startups ,
Telemedicine
In the technology sector, entrepreneurs are often told to “move fast and break things.” But breaking things is something that won’t work in healthcare, so, as an alternative, innovators may consider “moving fast and keeping...more
At the end of Q1 2021, our friends at Rock Health noted the record-breaking $6.7 billion raised by digital health startups and declared the sector “all grown up.” The additional $8 billion raised in the second quarter of this...more
Last year the digital health sector smashed all previous records for both fundraising and consumer adoption of novel technologies. So far, 2021 is already on track to outshine last year’s impressive numbers. Digital health...more
In prior years, it was almost a foregone conclusion that promising digital health startups would be acquired by other companies before having the opportunity to debut on the public markets. However, that changed in 2019,...more
2/17/2021
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Innovative Technology ,
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Life Sciences ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) ,
Startups ,
Stock Prices ,
Venture Capital
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 spread of COVID-19 has created a defining moment for the digital health sector, as many products and services once considered “nice-to-haves” have transformed into necessities....more
Despite the changes and uncertainty rippling across the entire venture-backed startup ecosystem, the digital health sector saw its best first quarter since analysts began tracking its performance more than a decade ago,...more
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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Emerging Technology Companies ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Investment ,
Investment Opportunities ,
Life Sciences ,
Medical Devices ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Startups ,
Telehealth ,
Venture Capital
In our 2018 year-end review of life sciences and tech IPOs, we noted that life sciences offerings totaled 67 raising an average of $133 million while there were 45 technology deals raising an average of more than $380...more
The business of animal health has traditionally been dominated by the animal health divisions of big pharma companies. But with Pfizer’s 2013 spin-off of its animal health business, now known as Zoetis, the sector has been...more
5/17/2019
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Animal Health ,
Biotechnology ,
Divestiture ,
Industry Consolidation ,
Investment Opportunities ,
Life Sciences ,
Pets ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Popular ,
Startups
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 ,
Digital Health ,
Emerging Growth Companies ,
Information Technology ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Investment ,
Life Sciences ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
R&D ,
Startups
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
A few months ago, following our fifth annual Digital Health Summit, the attendees made some predictions about product development and investment in the rapidly growing sector. Now that we are more than halfway through the...more
9/2/2016
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Digital Health ,
Fitbit ,
Fitness ,
Healthcare ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
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Life Sciences ,
Mergers ,
mHealth ,
Popular ,
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Tracking Systems
Digital Health investment in May totaled $691 million, down from the impressive $924 million netted in April. The nearly $700 million in new capital, however, compares favorably to the $421 million taken in in March and shows...more
The multi-faceted answer to our question: over the years working with entrepreneurs and inventors, what have you seen as an essential attribute to startup success?...more