Hey friends,
This week in healthtech, Whisper raises $35M, Venus Williams talks healthtech startups and angel investment drops in the UK.
News Bites 🥪
👂 AI-powered hearing aid company, Whisper raises $35M
🎾 Tennis icon Venus Williams talks healthtech startups
⬇️ Angel investment drops dramatically in the UK due to pandemic
💊 Digital pharmacy startup Medino raises £5.6M
🤖 BMJ paper: ‘AI vs Clinicians’ awarded paper of the year
What to Listen to 🔊
The Health-tech Podcast — #143: The Story of Ampersand Health with Nader Alaghband
Nader Alaghband is the founder and CEO of Ampersand Health, which creates clinically-validated, behavioural science-based digital therapeutics for complex long term conditions, including IMIDs and rare diseases…
Medicine and the Machine — Everyone gets Lonely with Vivek Murthy
Vivek Murthy served as the 19th Surgeon General of the US (funnily enough, he was born in Huddersfield 🇬🇧). He discusses the importance of social connections in medicine and life, and how to maintain them during the pandemic…
Psssttt… some funding 👂
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That’s it, until next time 👋
James
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