June Highlights
UnitedHealth Group's Optum arm is buying Amedisys, Inc., provider of home health, hospice and higher-acuity care services, in an all cash transaction totaling $3.3B (Senior Housing News)
Digital kidney health company Strive Health scored a massive $166M in Series C funding to continue its work in combating chronic kidney disease (Fierce Healthcare)
Author Health launched with $115M for its new platform offering care and treatment for Medicare Advantage members with serious mental illness and substance use disorders (Fierce Healthcare)
Axuall, a clinical workforce intelligence company, raised $20M in Series B funding which will be used to grow several teams and develop its data partnerships across its network (FinSMEs)
Yuvo Health, which provides Community Health Centers with resources and support, picked up $20M in Series A funding to make the business case for value-based care at federally qualified health centers (Fierce Healthcare)
Laudio, a startup providing software that automates administrative tasks for frontline nurse managers, raised $13M in Series B funds (MedCityNews)
DUOS, a digital health company focused on empowering older adults to live independently, announced an additional $10M in funding (PR Newswire)
The Wound Company debuts virtual-first, value-based care for wounds with $4.25M in Seed funding (AXIOS)
Karoo Health, a value-based heart care company, raised $3.4M in Seed funding to continue its expansion across the United States (AXIOS)
Rosarium Health, an integrated service network that connects people with service providers to deliver home modifications for accessibility purposes, raised $1.7M in Pre-Seed funding which will be used to deliver home modifications for accessibility purposes (FinSMEs)
Grapefruit Health, which trains clinical students from medical assistants up to pre-med, raised a $1.3M Pre-Seed round (Chicago Biz Journals)
TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announced a recent Seed Funds investment of $250,000 into Aidar Health, a health technology and digital medicine company (TEDCO)
New tech startup Syntax Health launched with a platform designed to smooth out the value-based care contracting process using analytics, infrastructure and a collaborative virtual workspace (Fierce Healthcare)
Around the World
Mexico-based Clivi, a diabetes management startup, announced $10M in Seed funding to help reach its goal of serving 1 million people through its digital clinic and remote monitoring service (TechCrunch)
BrainTale, a Strasbourg, France-based medtech company focused on improving brain care, raised €4.5M in funding to accelerate its expansion in Europe and the United States (FinSMEs)