Fruit Street (really, that is the name you seriously want for your business?), has gone bananas and its fundraising efforts have borne fruit, garnering $4 million to support its telehealth software for providers products. Hopefully the investors aren't a bunch of fruitcakes.
Like to walk around wearing an airbag? ActiveProtective has garnered $2.6 million for a belt for seniors that has a sensor that deploys an airbag if the person falls.
Seniorlink attracts $7.5 million in fresh funding for its platform that links family and informal caregivers with health care professionals and provides support for those caregivers.
Science 37 has raised $6.5 million to put random numbers in company names; no, its for a mobile platform to facilitate conducting clinical trials in a patient's home.
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