Digital health startups in the U.S. serving women and other people with female biology raised $1.3 billion through August 2021, nearly doubling 2020’s full-year total of $774 million, according to a new report by Rock Health.
Rock Health is calling this market segment women+ health, describing tools that relate to cisgender women’s health needs as well as the needs of transgender and nonbinary...
After last quarter’s record-breaking amount of funding, Rock Health called digital health "all grown up." Yet if the first half of 2021’s investments indicate anything, it’s that the market is still very much accelerating.
Halfway through the year, digital health has received $14.7 billion in funding – already more than 2020’s full-year amount of $14.6 billion – across 372 U.S. investment rounds...
A new market segment is emerging in digital health with the aim of making healthcare more inclusive and accessible for a traditionally overlooked population: the LGBTQ+ community.
Prior to 2020, there weren’t any digital health companies in the U.S. exclusively focused on serving LGBTQ+ individuals that were backed by investors, according to Rock Health. That year, LGBTQ+ health startups came out...
Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, have taken the digital health market by storm over the past year and a half. Already in 2021 there have been more completed or announced public exits by digital health companies than for the entirety of 2020. What’s more, over 80% of them have been through SPAC mergers, according to a new Rock Health report.
For those not already on the SPAC...
The digital health sector just wrapped up its largest funding quarter to date, bringing in $6.7 billion during the first three months of 2021, according to Rock Health’s quarterly report.
While the past year’s unprecedented acceleration of digital health is expected to continue throughout the remainder of the year, analysts will be keeping an eye out for signs of an industry slow-down.
“This...
Live video telemedicine is up during 2020, but utilization remains highest among high earners with high levels of education, according to a new Rock Health consumer adoption report.
The research and venture firm surveyed a total of 7,980 from September 4, 2020 to Oct. 2, 2020 in its annual survey. Researchers noted that 2020 was an unusual year for healthcare because of the pandemic.
“Therefore,...
Digital health investment firm Rock Health is the latest market spectator to tally up and break down what's widely being considered an exceptional year in activity and fundraising.
Per the firm's 2020 Market Insights Report, released yesterday, the space claimed $14.1 billion of investments spread across 440 deals. By their reckoning, this represents a respective 72% and 15% increase over 2018,...
New research out of Rock Health found that Black startups are reporting greater barriers to accessing capital and connecting with investors than their white, Asian and Hispanic counterparts. The new report, called the Diversity in Digital Health report, zeroed in on how health tech funding is getting distributed across races and backgrounds.
For example, the survey found that 10% of white male...
A new maternal health company called Oula has picked up $3.2 million in seed funding, propelling the launch of its multimodal care platform and brick-and-mortar services.
This batch of seed funding was led by Collaborative Fund with participation from Female Founders Fund, 8VC, Metrodora, Kapor Capital, Rock Health, January Ventures, Great Oaks and private investors.
WHAT IT DOES
Oula’s model...
Just nine months into the year, 2020 has already hit a digital health fundraising high note as investors up their ante in coronavirus-affected health tech markets such as on-demand healthcare services or fitness and wellness platforms, per Rock Health's latest quarterly report.
The digital health-focused venture capital firm reported $4 billion in U.S.-based digital health startup investments...
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