While still at
the early stage, the increasing infatuation for online and on-demand health
services and health tech Companies is exciting and it promises lot of positive innovations
and impacts for our health.
Yesterday, three health
tech Companies listed below have captured our attention:
$8.2M / Series
A for
PushDoctor , an on-demand service in the U.K. that enables you to
have a video consultation with a doctor. Launched in 2013, the company has
raised $9.4M in venture funding to date.
Founders:
[Eren Ozagir, Matt Elcock]
Investors: [Oxford Capital Partners, Draper Esprit, Partech
Ventures].
$100M / Series
D for
Guardant Health, a Redwood Shores-based health tech company that's
created a non-invasive genomic sequencing test for cancer, which requires only
two vials of blood.
Founders:[ Helmy
Eltoukhy, AmirAli
Talasaz]
Investors:
[OrbiMed Advisors (Lead), Khosla Ventures, Formation 8, Pejman Mar
Ventures]
and more.
$73M / Series
A for
C4 Therapeutics that is developing a new class of targeted protein
degradation (TPD) therapeutics for the treatment of a broad range of diseases.
The company is a spinout of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, launching with
$73M in funding.
Founders:
[Ken Anderson]
Investors:
[Cobro Ventures (Lead), Cormorant Asset Management, The Kraft Group, Roche] and more.