Aug 10,2016

CareSkore gets $4.3M to bring machine learning to preventive care

CareSkore is combining clinical, socio-economic, demographic, and behavioral data to paint a holistic picture of patients that doctors and insurance companies can use to provide better preventative care. Storm ventures, Cota Capital, Rising Tide Fund and Liquid 2 Ventures are rallying behind the Y Combinator graduate with today’s $4.5 million seed round. Patients receive personalized text messages or phone calls gently nudging them to take action if a new risk factor emerges. CareSkore offers disease specific templates for conditions like COPD and diabetes that can make care recommendations.

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Aug 30,2016

Taiwan-based Health2Sync gets $3M for diabetes management platform

Health2Sync, a Taiwanese diabetes management startup, has raised $3 million in a round led by WI Harper Group; with participation from Cherubic Ventures, iSeed Ventures, and SparkLabs Global Ventures. The investors are mostly firms with a presence in both Silicon Valley and in Asia. Funds will be used to expand the program outside of Taiwan and into surrounding markets, especially Japan.

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Sep 12,2016

Sanofi, Verily invest $500M in diabetes management joint venture Onduo

Verily Life Sciences , a division of Google parent company Alphabet, has teamed up with French healthcare company Sanofi to launch Onduo, a diabetes-focused collaboration that leverages Sanofi’s pharmaceutical expertise and Verily’s command of miniaturized electronics, analytics and consumer software development. The two companies together invested about $500 million in Onduo. The joint venture is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and will combine a mix of devices, software, medicine and professional care to help people with diabetes manage their condition.

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Sep 12,2016

Glooko and Diasend Merger Raise $8M

Two diabetes management companies, Mountain View, California-based Glooko and Gothenburg, Sweden-based Diasend, will merge into a unified company, leveraging the global capabilities of Diasend and the user-friendly platform of Glooko. The joint solution, which will operate under the Glooko name, will now serve 4,000 diabetes clinics in 23 countries across 15 languages.

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Oct 19,2016

Bigfoot Biomedical gets $35.5M for connected, automated insulin delivery system

Milpitas, California-based diabetes management company Bigfoot Biomedical has raised $35.5 million in Series A funding in a round with participation from Cormorant Asset Management, Senvest Capital and Visionnaire Ventures. The funding will be used to further develop the company’s connected, automated insulin delivery service.

FUNDING SERIES A
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Oct 24,2016

NovioSense, a Dutch company developing a smartphone-connected tear-based glucose sensor that sits in the lower eyelid, secured an undisclosed amount of new funding

First off, NovioSense, a Dutch company developing a smartphone-connected tear-based glucose sensor that sits in the lower eyelid, secured an undisclosed amount of new funding. The round included existing investors Health Innovations, Topfonds Gelderland, Fraunhofer Ventures and NovioTech along with two new US based investors.

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Nov 10,2016

Intuity Medical raises $40M to bring blood glucose monitoring system Pogo to US market

Sunnyvale, California-based Intuity Medical, which makes diabetes management devices, has raised $40 million in a round led by PTV Healthcare Capital. New investors also included affiliates of Luther King Capital Management and existing investors Accuitive Medical Ventures, Investor Growth Capital, US Venture Partners, Venrock and Versant Ventures.

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Dec 08,2016

Vida Health, the app that pairs patients with health coaches, nabs $18 million more from investors

Vida Health, a two-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based subscription-based app that pairs patients with health coaches, has raised $18 million in Series B funding led by Canvas Ventures, with participation from Nokia Growth and earlier backers Aspect Ventures and Khosla Ventures.

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Mar 11,2015

Roche Ventures, iSeed Fund invest $4.8M in diabetes app company mySugr

Austria-based diabetes app company mySugr has raised $4.8 million from Roche Ventures and iSeed Ventures. Existing investor XLHealth also contributed to the round, which will help mySugr scale up its user base in the US and other other countries.

FUNDING SERIES A
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Mar 17,2015

Glooko gets $16.5 million from Canaan Partners, Medtronic

Diabetes management platform Glooko has raised $16.5 million in a round led by Canaan Partners. The round also included a strategic investment from Medtronic as well as funding from additional investors The Social+Capital Partnership and Samsung.

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