Hi friends,
This week: 2023 AI predictions, the first Backstreet Boys cover in healthtech history, and is ‘smart toilet’ the worst combination of words ever?
News bites 🥪
🌍 Global collaboration is the answer to Medtech and Biotech’s biggest challenges - Big claim, but a well thought out (if sponsored) article.
👾 Withings unveils urine analysis device that sits in your toilet bowl - Withings are taking the p*ss. And analysing it.
🤖 French AI startup Volta Medical bags €36M - ‘AI’ as a term took a bit of a battering last year from VCs. Will 2023 be kinder?
🏡 At Home Doc raises $1.9 million pre-Series A round - Forget Qatari football, how about Qatari reducing footfall. Eh! See what we did there? Remote consultation provider raises Seed feels very 2014, doesn’t it?
🎩 8 VC funding tips for digital health and wellness startups - Some common sense, some less obvious, always worth a refresh.
🔮 6 healthcare AI predictions for 2023 - You know how we said AI took a battering last year? Here’s 6 predictions for why it won’t this year.
🩺 We need to stop junior doctors leaving the NHS - This isn’t tech, but it’s vitally important. If you’re building tech for doctors, it helps if they still exist. Can tech play a role in preventing the brain drain?
What to listen to 🔊
🐦 New year, same ol' Pigeon - Join Jess and James and special guest Dr Joel Brown for this week’s Healthtech Pigeon Podcast
🔊 #285 Unleashing the potential of medical data with Chris Tackaberry, co-founder of Clinithink - Chris Tackaberry, co-founder of Clinithink, joins James to discuss how his company is harnessing the power of unstructured data in medical records to drive efficiency, improve health outcomes, and gain valuable insights.
Events 🎈
📬 Acorn Compliance - Free DTAC Consultancy - Our friends and yours, Acorn Compliance, are throwing open the doors to their compliance brains and letting anyone with DTAC questions pop along to a free session. Sign up now!
🥇 Raising 1st Round for a FemTech startup - A FemTech Lab panel discussion with Angel Investors, VCs and alumni.
Opportunities 🕵️♀️
☄️Full Stack Engineer, Ash - Two options here. Either 90s indie rockers Ash are looking for a Full Stack Engineer. Or Wellness platform Ash are looking for a Full Stack Engineer. I’ve no idea, I’ve not clicked the link.
🖱 SEO Manager, The Lowdown - Want the lowdown on this job? Click the link. Want better jokes? Find a different newsletter.
🧾 Partnership Manager, tellmi - To the tune of the Backstreet Boys I Want It That Way: Tellmi why? Ain’t nothing but a job spec. Tellmi why? If you’re interested give it a click. Tellmi why? I never want to hear you say, bad things about job specs that outline the pay.