SolveBio has raised $2 million to develop its business of collecting and cleaning up genomic data to be used as a reference set for providers and developers.
Google Ventures is leading a$130 million investment into Flatiron Health, an oncology data company, which will use the funding in part to acquire Altos Solutions, a provider of oncology EMRs.
Working with the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, LifeMap Sciences, a subsidiary of BioTime, a regenerative medicine company, has committed $5 million to a new venture called LifeMap Solutions, which will help patients collect and integrate genetic and other data into their health records.
EOS Health, which is at the dawn of its trajectory, has raised $8.2 million to expand its (now say it all together) mobile software platform to help people manage their health and health care better, initially in the diabetes space.
Voluntis has raised $29 million for its "therapeutic companion software" (a digital sex doll?). I know I am being flip today, but if I can't read a press release and understand what the company really does, or if it is nothing but the latest buzz words, the communication wasn't too good.
RedBrick Health has raised $7.5 million, part of an intended larger financing, but oddly one of the purposes of the investment is said to be to pay executives and other employees. Weird.
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