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 year, we thought it would be interesting to see how those predictions fared against the investment results from the
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Top Takeaways from Fenwick’s Fifth Annual Digital Health Investor Summit
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Fenwick’s fifth annual Digital Health Investor Summit brought together investors who are active in the digital health space to discuss the evolving digital health sector and their investment outlook for the year ahead.
Here are my three key takeaways from this year’s Summit:
Playing in the Regulated Space
The consensus is it’s time to stop…
Infrastructure Deals Dominate Digital Health Investment in 2015
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Among its list of defining quotes of 2015, Rock Health included one from a physician who was frustrated with the fact that, as she put it, “In my hospital there are 19 software systems across departments – few of which communicate with each other.” The lack of standardization for health care software goes a long…
Infrastructure Investments Rule in Q3
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Our analysis of digital health investment in the third quarter of 2015 revealed that just under $3 billion was invested in the sector and more than half of that went to infrastructure providers.
Infrastructure
A total of $1.48 billion was invested in health infrastructure technology in Q3. The two largest infrastructure investments of the quarter…
Investments in Digital Health Infrastructure Dominate in August
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At our Digital Health Summit earlier this year, Malay Gandhi, Managing Director at Rock Health, noted that once digital health venture investing accounts for 10% of all venture investment, we should start breaking out investment by industry subsectors.
That made us think it might be interesting to look at our monthly download of digital health…
Key Digital Health Investment Trends to Watch
By Michael T. Esquivel on
Our fourth annual Digital Health Summit brought together a select group of investors active in the digital health, life sciences, medical device, and healthcare industries for a one-day meeting to discuss the future of digital health. Here are my top takeaways from this year’s summit:
- The “triple witching hour” has arrived for digital health. David
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Jawbone and Oscar Lead Record Breaking Month for Digital Health Financings
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Two blockbuster deals drove digital health financings to record levels in April. The month saw a total of nearly $790 million in deal flow, with the ten largest financing transactions of the month matching the first quarter total.
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Digital Health Investment Maintains Momentum in 2015
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Digital health investment is off to a healthy start in 2015 with our friends at Rock Health reporting more than $630 million invested in the first quarter. Fenwick clients Augmedix and Centrillion Technology Holdings received investments that were among the 15 largest of the quarter. Clients Evidation Health and Eligible also raised money.
The…
Digital Health Enjoys Tremendous Growth in 2014
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What a difference a year makes. Last year, we noted that 2013 was a blockbuster year for digital health investments with almost $2 billion of private capital going into the sector. We highlighted the 10 largest deals of 2013, which ranged from $35 million on the low end to $85 million on the high end.…
Digital Health Investors Catch Their Breath in November
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Digital health investors seem to have taken a step back to catch their breath in November after 10 months of record-breaking activity. There were only 6 investments in November of $10 million or more and only one for more than $50 million.
The largest investment of the month was a $100 million Series A round…