Hi friends,
This week: Birdie confirms avian supremacy with $30m series B, interestingly named pod does excellent job, and what are the post COPI copi-ng mechanisms?
PLUS you can listen to us discussing and analysing this weekโs news stories on episode 2 of the Healthtech Pigeon podcast ๐๐ผ Give it a whirl ahead of Monday and sound well smart at the 9am all-hands ๐๐พ
News Bites ๐ฅช
๐ค Social care SaaS maker Birdie tops up with $30M - U.K.-based caretech software-as-a-service maker closes a $30 million Series B. Rumours that co-founder Rajiv Tanna is on this weekโs Healthtech Pigeon podcast are both accurate and true.
๐บ Fertility and Period Apps Can Be Weaponized in a Post-Roe World - Search history and other data has already been used as evidence to criminalise those seeking an abortion in US states with stringent local laws.
๐ฝ What does the end of COPI mean for digital health innovation? - How will the industry copi with the change? Is it a model we could copi for the future? Copi-ous amounts of data will no longer be sharable. Aaaaand Iโm spent.
๐๏ธโโ๏ธ Who are the most active PE investors in healthcare? - All the usual suspects, plus 1 or 2 you might not expect.
๐ As Sajid Javid outlines a digital NHS, tech needs to learn the health serviceโs values - Is it time to remember why weโre in healthtech? Some of the UKโs best known healthtech firms are going through something of a wobble - profits or patients first?
๐ Credentialing platform Medallion raises $35M and more digital health fundings - Their Series C takes them to a total raise of $85 million in their quest to license, credential and monitor provider networks
What to Listen to ๐
๐ฆ The Healthtech Pigeon Podcast - Ok ok, this week itโs in twice, but James, Jess, & Henry are joined by Birdie Careโs Rajiv Tanna in a podcast described by one listener as โsizzlingโ & โa feast for the senses. Mainly the ear sensesโ*
๐ Biotech Bros: How to Navigate Biotech with Maxim Jacobs - Yes that is the podcastโs name. Annoyingly itโs really good. Maxim has years of experience in biotech investing and discusses the recent biotech market fluctuations and sell-off. TLDL - Weโll be fine.
Opportunities ๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ
๐ก Senior Software Engineer, Kheiron Whenever Pigeon sees Kheironโs name in the wild, it finds itself hoping theyโre named after the wisest of the Centaurs, Chiron, and not an estate agent from Colchester called Keiran. We may never know.
๐ง Senior Director of Product Management, Proximie - Carved out a chunky $80m series C last month. Want to help an excellent UK startup share the best clinical practice?
*Yeah, alright, fine. It was me who said these things. Still a listener though arenโt I? Sue me.