Hi.Q which periodically provides updates, emerging from a quiet period has put an exclamation point on recent work, ending questions, and parenthetically raising some new funds in the amount of $5.5 million. Period.
Orion Health, a large health care software vendor based in Auckland, New Zealand, has completed an IPO which provides additional capital for expansion in the U.S.
Assurex Health reassured investors and got $30 million in exchange to continue to build its pharmacogenomics business focused on pain and behavioral health.
Investors of the world, I beg you, I beg you, beg you, beg you; please stop this madness, I can't take it anymore! Feverish investors have put a hot $9.6 million into a smartphone-connected thermometer offered by Kinsa, but they may be cool to the returns.
American Well, the telehealth company, has raised an additional $80 million in capital. You have to wonder how, in an industry with no barriers to entry and no real differentiators, anything thinks they are going to get a return on this investment.
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