Starfish Ventures is a venture capital firm. That specializes in seed, start-up, expansion, emerging growth, early venture, mid venture, late venture, growth capital, middle market, and buyouts investments. The company prefers to invests in life sciences, clean technology, materials science, and information technology. Within life sciences, it focuses on biotechnology, medical devices, therapeutics, and drug development. Within clean technology, the firm invests in energy, water, and other environmental technologies. Within information technology, it considers investments in software, mobile, Internet and cloud based enterprise systems, semiconductor, instrumentation, hardware, and telecommunications.  It seeks to exit its investments through mergers and acquisitions, trade sale, or an initial public offer within two to five years. Starfish Ventures was founded by John Dyson and Michael Panaccio in 2001, and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Starfish Ventures

Capita3  is building a global financing institution for investing in exceptional women leading game-changing companies. In addition to financial investment. They focus on developing startup CEOs to maximize their growth and the company's exit potential.

Capita3

SEMN Capital invests in high-growth companies with the potential for high returns. The firm seeks to invest in the healthcare sector and founders. It was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Rochester, Minnesota.

Southeast Minnesota Capital Fund

SWL Healthcare Ventures focuses on seed and commercialization stage healthcare companies. The firm concentrates on health arenas of high need, high growth. The firm has diverse industry experience including SaaS, devices, health services, wellness and nutrition.

SWL Healthcare Ventures

Tbilisi Free Zone (TFZ) is a tenancy destination for international and local companies uniquely combining the benefits of the capital city location and a tax-free environment. It is the only free industrial zone of East Georgia, situated in the capital city Tbilisi.

Tbilisi Free Zone

OneAlphaNorth Capital is a venture capital that invest in sectors like stress & disruption due to regulation, technology.

OneAlphaNorth Capital

TFX Capital is a B2B early-stage technology venture capital firm investing in service-driven, high-performing and commercially tested Military and National Security Veterans who have a passion for solving real-world issues by using technology to build ideas that are net new to our society.

TFX Capital

Marani

Marani Health is developing a prenatal care platform which includes a wearable, textile-based product to measure key vital statistics of women and their developing fetus, for use during pregnancy, labor & delivery. The products utilize Artificial Intelligence to better assess health & wellness during pregnancy, labor & delivery.  Marani is collaborating with key partners including The Mayo Clinic.

<div>Marani Health, (formerly known as Odonata Health) is a remote patient monitoring platform that specializes in maternal care. The company&rsquo;s flagship product is a wearable and washable garment that combines artificial intelligence (AI) and electrocardiogram technology to monitor an expectant mother throughout her pregnancy. Marani Health&rsquo;s platform captures maternal and fetal biometric data including fetal heart rhythms to generate personalized insights using AI-powered technology that can be shared with both patients and clinicians. The device is yet to receive US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.</div>

More important now than ever, telehealth will long outlast the pandemic that drove its growth.

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Marani Health

Marani Health Secures $7.6 Million Seed Round

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 Marani Health, (formerly known as Odonata Health) is a remote patient monitoring platform that specializes in maternal care. The company&rsquo;s flagship product is a wearable and washable garment that combines artificial intelligence (AI) and electrocardiogram technology to monitor an expectant mother throughout her pregnancy. Marani Health&rsquo;s platform captures maternal and fetal biometric data including fetal heart rhythms to generate personalized insights using AI-powered technology that can be shared with both patients and clinicians. The device is yet to receive US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
 
 
 The company was co-founded by Mayo Ventures, Mayo Clinic&rsquo;s venture capital arm in 2018. In November 2021, Minneapolis-based Marani Health concluded an oversubscribed seed funding round of USD 7.6 million which will be used to accelerate the development and launch of its digital prenatal and postpartum care platform.
 
 
 
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 Nice Healthcare is a US based telehealth company with a focus on primary care services to business-to-business (B2B) clients. Once the employer signs its employees with Nice (at a cost of USD 30 to USD 36 per employee per month), employees do not have to incur out of pocket expenses for Nice services and can schedule virtual or home visits within the time frames specified by the company. It connects patients with practitioners through a mobile app over video calls or text messages. Members can also request home visits which will be completed within a few hours, as claimed by the company. As of March 2022, Nice was operating in twelve states, and had over 400 small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
 
 
 In March 2022, the company raised USD 30 million in Series A financing led by DNA Capital which has been earmarked to expand its platform&rsquo;s reach among small and medium businesses. Additionally, the company is hiring three members for its management team to support the continuing growth of the organization.
 
 
 
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Nice Healthcare

Amicomed is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform which provides blood pressure monitoring services. It collects blood pressure data of patients from at-home devices, applies algorithms, and assesses the fluctuations in the blood pressure. Physicians can be connected and provided with blood pressure data of their patients in order to facilitate their workload, enabling more personalized management of patients regarding medication and lifestyle indications.Amicomed can also recommend actionable and personalized lifestyle interventions such as daily diet and exercises via virtual coaching.

Amicomed

Winston is a men’s health telemedicine platform that treats common issues impacting men such as sexual problems, hair loss, acne, and cold sores. Winston allows patients to consult doctors, place orders for prescription drugs, and offers free delivery to the homes of patients.The Toronto-based company aims to avoid men deferring doctor visits or withholding sensitive information. The consultation fee is covered by the provincial health plan, but the prescriptions are billed to the customer.

Winston

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 Dialogue partners with employers and health insurers to offer telehealth services to their employees and members. The users have 24/7 access to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals via audio, video, and chat options for wide arrays of physical and mental health needs, artificial intelligence-enabled (AI-enabled) triage, referrals, and prescription renewals. 
 
 
 The company launched its trademarked Integrated Health Platform in January 2021 to consolidate its virtual care, wellness programs, mental healthcare services, and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) onto a single platform. The company claims to be the only integrated health and wellness B2B platform in Canada. 
 
 
 Key Customers and partnerships
 
 
 Dialogue had direct relationships with over 2,000 customers across Canada and Germany as of December 2020 and served around 50,000 organizations through these partnerships. In addition, the number of members with access to the virtual platform topped 1 million in January 2021. 
 
 
 Fundings and financials
 
 
 As of March 2021, Dialogue was planning to raise CAD 100 million (USD 80 million) from an initial public offering that will be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol &ldquo;CARE.&rdquo; 
 
 
 In Q2 2023, net losses reduced significantly YoY to CAD 5.8 million (USD 4.3 million) from CAD 8.4 million (USD 6.3 million) in Q2 2022. Top-line revenue met internal expectations, growing 17.2% YoY to CAD 25.5 million (USD 19.0 million), driven by &nbsp;an increase in new members (by 18.6% YoY), 
 an expansion of the attach rate as existing customers added more services, and full-quarter contributions from Tictrac.
 
 Dialogue Health has not provided any forward-looking guidance as the company has entered into an agreement to be 
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 acquired by financial services company Sun Life Financial
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 for a consideration of CAD 365 million (USD 270 million) or CAD 5.15 (USD 3.82) per share. The transaction is expected to close in Q4 2023. Post acquisition, Dialogue will delist from the Toronto Stock Exchange but will continue to operate as a standalone entity under the &ldquo;Sun Life Canada&rdquo; brand from its head office in Qu&eacute;bec. 
 
 
 
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Dialogue

Grin offers telemedicine and remote monitoring services for orthodontic needs such as braces and teeth straightening. Patients can conduct self-scans (using a Grin device made available to patients in collaboration with 3M) which can be connected to their smartphones and share the feed with orthodontists to access dental solutions. The company plans to go to a subscription-based model after the pandemic. The app also encourages patients to have a 40-second check monthly and share the scan with a dentist in order to allow patients to regularly maintain their dental hygiene.Grin is the only Telehealth disruptor covered on the hub that provides virtual orthopaedic consultations.Funding and financialsIn April 2021, the New York-based teledental platform concluded a seed funding of USD 14 million, and the funds will be allocated to develop additional functionalities by building out its technology. The proceeds will also be used to scale up its team, expand its geographic footprint, and add doctors to the company’s orthodontic partner network.

Grin

Real-time collection of patients’ health-related data using any remote patient monitoring device combined with general telemedicine services to reduce readmission rates. 


A platform that facilitates the transmission of patient data to different locations for further evaluation and interpretation by medical specialists. 


A digital platform that offers specialty care services to address the specific needs of a patient or demographic, including consultations where patients are generally reluctant to meet practitioners face-to-face.

Primary care through virtual consultations for general health-related concerns using a digital platform or mobile app. 

Companies developing B2B software solutions for patient engagement, care navigation, practice management, and electronic health records integration to facilitate telehealth services for healthcare providers. 

IoT is used by most telehealth providers to operate virtual services

All telehealth players are involved in digital health via virtual offerings

Industry players offer varying degrees of personalization for each target audience

Some players offer technology and platforms to healthcare providers, converting physical-only services into virtual services

Specific telehealth offerings focus on diversity and inclusion, providing care to LGBTQ+ or BIPOC populations

Generative AI is used to streamline administrative tasks such as clinical note-taking

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