• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Tracking Health and Wellness Applications of Brain Science

Spanish
sb-logo-with-brain
  • Resources
    • Monthly eNewsletter
    • Solving the Brain Fitness Puzzle
    • The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness
    • How to evaluate brain training claims
    • Resources at a Glance
  • Brain Teasers
    • Top 25 Brain Teasers & Games for Teens and Adults
    • Brain Teasers for each Cognitive Ability
    • More Mind Teasers & Games for Adults of any Age
  • Virtual Summits
    • 2019 SharpBrains Virtual Summit
    • Speaker Roster
    • Brainnovations Pitch Contest
    • 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit
    • 2016 SharpBrains Virtual Summit
    • 2015 SharpBrains Virtual Summit
    • 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit
  • Report: Pervasive Neurotechnology
  • Report: Digital Brain Health
  • About
    • Mission & Team
    • Endorsements
    • Public Speaking
    • In the News
    • Contact Us

Digital health start-ups raised a record $3.1 billion in Q1; focus will likely evolve from providers to consumers and employers

April 20, 2020 by SharpBrains

__

Dig­i­tal health firms raised record sums before Covid-19 hit (Med­C­i­ty News):

“Dig­i­tal Health star­tups raised a record-break­ing $3.1 bil­lion in the first quar­ter of 2020, accord­ing to a report released Mon­day by Rock Health. But now faced with a glob­al pan­dem­ic, the trend is unlike­ly to con­tin­ue…

Investors tend­ed to pre­fer high­er-val­ue, late-stage invest­ments, accord­ing to the report. The aver­age deal sized jumped from $19.5 mil­lion last year to $29 mil­lion, and near­ly a third of the deals were series C or lat­er … Inter­est­ing­ly, the major­i­ty of star­tups that raised fund­ing focused on health­care providers as their buy­er or end user. Fac­ing sub­stan­tial finan­cial hits from the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, health sys­tems may become more dif­fi­cult to sell to in the future.

Of the deals that Rock Health tracked, 68 focused on the providers as the buy­er, while 41 were mar­ket­ed to con­sumers and 18 to employers.”

About Rock Health:

Rock Health is a ven­ture fund that invests exclu­sive­ly in dig­i­tal health. Port­fo­lio invest­ments include Oma­da Health, Col­lec­tive Health, Vir­ta, Doc­tor on Demand, Bench­ling, and oth­er soft­ware-dri­ven health­care solu­tions that low­er cost and improve out­comes to make health­care mas­sive­ly bet­ter for every human being.

News in Context:

  • Info­graph­ic on the Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020
  • Jeff Bezos invests in dig­i­tal men­tal health pio­neer Mind­strong Health
  • Med­i­ta­tion app Head­space rais­es $93 mil­lion in equi­ty and debt to accel­er­ate clin­i­cal val­i­da­tion and geo­graph­ic expansion
  • Five rea­sons the future of brain enhance­ment is dig­i­tal, per­va­sive and (hope­ful­ly) bright
  • The FDA cre­ates new Dig­i­tal Health unit to reimag­ine reg­u­la­to­ry paths in the age of scal­able, AI-enhanced innovation
  • Ten neu­rotech­nolo­gies about to trans­form brain enhance­ment & health

Rethink­ing and Retool­ing Brain Health and Men­tal Health from Sharp­Brains

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Email
  • Print
  • Red­dit
  • More
  • Share on Tumblr
  • Pock­et

Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Consumers, COVID-19, digital brain health, digital health, digital mental health, employers, healthcare-providers, Rock Health, startups

Primary Sidebar

Top Articles on Brain Health and Neuroplasticity

  1. Can you grow your hippocampus? Yes. Here’s how, and why it matters
  2. How learning changes your brain
  3. To harness neuroplasticity, start with enthusiasm
  4. Three ways to protect your mental health during –and after– COVID-19
  5. Why you turn down the radio when you're lost
  6. Solving the Brain Fitness Puzzle Is the Key to Self-Empowered Aging
  7. Ten neu­rotech­nolo­gies about to trans­form brain enhance­ment & health
  8. Five reasons the future of brain enhancement is digital, pervasive and (hopefully) bright
  9. What Educators and Parents Should Know About Neuroplasticity and Dance
  10. The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Brains
  11. Six tips to build resilience and prevent brain-damaging stress
  12. Can brain training work? Yes, if it meets these 5 conditions
  13. What are cognitive abilities and how to boost them?
  14. Eight Tips To Remember What You Read
  15. Twenty Must-Know Facts to Harness Neuroplasticity and Improve Brain Health

Top 10 Brain Teasers and Illusions

  1. You think you know the colors? Try the Stroop Test
  2. Check out this brief attention experiment
  3. Test your stress level
  4. Guess: Are there more brain connections or leaves in the Amazon?
  5. Quick brain teasers to flex two key men­tal mus­cles
  6. Count the Fs in this sentence
  7. Can you iden­tify Apple’s logo?
  8. Ten classic optical illu­sions to trick your mind
  9. What do you see?
  10. Fun Mental Rotation challenge
  • Check our Top 25 Brain Teasers, Games and Illusions

Join 12,437 readers exploring, at no cost, the latest in neuroplasticity and brain health.

By subscribing you agree to receive our free, monthly eNewsletter. We don't rent or sell emails collected, and you may unsubscribe at any time.

IMPORTANT: Please check your inbox or spam folder in a couple minutes and confirm your subscription.

Get In Touch!

Contact Us

660 4th Street, Suite 205,
San Francisco, CA 94107 USA

About Us

SharpBrains is an independent market research firm tracking health and performance applications of brain science. We prepare general and tailored market reports, publish consumer guides, produce an annual global and virtual conference, and provide strategic advisory services.

© 2023 SharpBrains. All Rights Reserved - Privacy Policy