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#040: (A)I spy with my little eye
Hey friends,
Huma raises Series C to power ‘hospitals at home’, overnight contact lenses that can reshape eyes, and can AI really detect the emotions behind our facial expressions?
News Bites 🥪
💪 $225 million for Exscienia to propel AI-designed patient-based drugs
🔬 Remote monitoring platform, Huma, raises $130 million
👶 Bose moves from headphones into hearing aids
📈 Reshaping contact lenses, by Johnson and Johnson, to change the future of children with myopia
And finally…
🎮 The truth lies behind the smile
What to Listen to 🔊
The Healthtech Podcast: #196 The Story of PS, one of the UK's leading robotic surgeons 🤖
This week, James is joined by one of the UK's leading robotic surgeons, Mr Prasanna Sooriakumaran (or PS for short). Previously crowned London's most influential doctor, he’s the UK's most followed urologist on Twitter (@PSUrol) and LinkedIn…
Introducing the Smartphone Epipen, by Detroit-Based Startup Alerje
For millions of people around the world – particularly children – severe allergies are a major health concern. Javier Evelyn, as a software developer, used his personal experience suffering from severe allergies to create an app and a device that administers adrenaline…
… fancy a throwback (to last week)? ⏮
Huma on The HealthTech Podcast
James chats to Dan Vahdat, the CEO and Founder of Huma which, not-for-profit, is helping double Covid-19 clinical capacity for hospitals…
Opportunities 💰
1️⃣ Age-tech startup, PCL Health, are looking for an experienced Head of Sales
3️⃣ Amazon Web Services are looking for a Healthcare Public Policy Analyst