Rock Health
According to the new Rock Health funding report in Q1 digital health companies raised $3.1 billion in new investments. However, with the coronavirus hurting the economy, the rest of the year may not follow suit.
Rock Health's annual funding report revealed that the average size of digital health deals decreased in 2019, as did the total funding for the year.
A Rock Health report found that the percentage of female partners at digital health VC firms only rose from 12.2% to 12.6%, while deals closed by women-led startups rose 13.4% to 14%.
This year, 42% of survey-takers reported using at least one digital health tracking tool.
Rock Health's thoughts on digital health validation, exit strategies, future of digital therapeutics
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The report noted that IPOs are on the rise, and that funding for women's health and behavioral health companies is growing.
The startup aims to sell women's fertility products that are backed up by science.
$4.2 billion has already been invested into startups this year, according to Rock Health.
Ten women-led, early-stage healthtech startups will be selected to pitch in Paris in October to win a $50,000 equity-free grant.
Dr. Joseph J. Corkery, director, Product Management, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Google Cloud, discussed Google's moves into healthcare during the Enterprise Insights Series Event (in partnership with Google Cloud and Rock Health) earlier this week.