Stanford University is a teaching and research university that focuses on graduate programs in law, medicine, education, and business. Few colleges can match the breadth, excellence, and prestige of Stanford’s academics, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.   The university is organized into seven schools: Business, Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Sciences, Law, and Medicine Student life at Stanford is quite active, due in part to the 11,000+ students living on campus. Art is a strong presence at Stanford, fostered by Stanford Lively Arts, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, and numerous student clubs and organizations. Stanford also features extensive athletic programs, including more than 35 varsity sports and about 20 clubs sports. In order to maintain its high standards, Stanford University has extremely selective admissions. The university admits undergraduates based on a combination of academic achievement, intellectual curiosity, and personal experience. Graduate admissions criteria and application procedures vary based on the program of study. Undergraduates at Stanford have access to a variety of financial aid opportunities, including institutional scholarships, grants from the government, and student employment. Graduate students can receive financial aid through fellowships and grants, but funding is typically not available for master’s students.

Stanford University

Launchpad Digital Health partners with the best digital health entrepreneurs at an early stage to build companies that improve care, lower costs, and increase patient convenience.  We provide significant capital to our digital health companies. Investments from LDH are up to $1M in the seed round and $2-3M in the A&B rounds. LDH is looking for digital health companies ready to scale businesses focusing on healthy living, wellness, patient compliance, remote diagnostics and monitoring, electronic health and wellness records, data analytical tools and big data, and independent living support. The founders of Launchpad Digital Health have funded and operated a myriad of companies throughout the healthcare and technology sectors, including digital health companies, for the past two decades.

Launchpad Digital Health

HealthX Ventures is a digital healthcare-focused seed fund. They invest in innovative companies making healthcare safer, efficient, and affordable by delivering easy-to-use, cost-effective, and scalable solutions to the market.

HealthX Ventures

We're an early stage venture capital firm focused on equity investments in companies with dramatic growth potential, primarily in technology and highly-scalable services businesses. Our focus investment areas are digital health, fintech, consumer software, and enterprise software.

OCA Ventures

Harlem Capital is an early-stage venture firm that invests in post-revenue tech-enabled startups, focused on minority and women founders. The firm invests in founders from all backgrounds and is committed to preserving capital for investments in minority and women founders. Their skill sets in finance, media, and entrepreneurship, along with their expansive network, allow them to provide the most value-add per invested dollar for early-stage companies.

Harlem Capital Partners

Blueprint Health is an NYC based accelerator program that supports entrepreneurs who are building innovative companies at the intersection of health and technology. Their program provides access to capital, clients, and most critically, the largest and most engaged healthcare-specific mentor community of any accelerator in the world.

Blueprint Health

MedTech Innovator is the industry’s nonprofit global competition and accelerator for medical device, digital health and diagnostic companies. Our mission is to improve the lives of patients by accelerating the growth of companies that are transforming the healthcare system. MedTech Innovator annually features 100 companies that address one or more of the transformative themes identified in an annual survey of leading manufacturers and providers.

MedTech Innovator

Aphelion Capital is a venture capital firm focused on supporting the growth of innovative medical technology with an emphasis on fast to market, low capital intense products that reduce the cost of delivering quality healthcare.   They leverage their considerable knowledge and deep networks to accelerate commercial success of a company. Their team has extensive experience investing in healthcare companies across both the private and public equity markets.

Aphelion Capital

A collaborative venture capital fund designed to spur healthcare innovation in heart disease and stroke care.

Cardeation Capital

Seae Ventures is a venture fund designed to maximize financial returns by investing in entrepreneurs who deliver superior value. It is dedicated to building and investing in early-stage healthcare technology and services companies

Seae Ventures

Through our $500 million Impact Fund, they are using their own capital to make equity investments in ''double bottom line'' U.S.-based private sector companies that are applying innovative solutions to help address some of society's pressing challenges. They typically co-invest alongside other investors in the venture capital ecosystem, making equity capital commitments ranging from $250,000 to $10 million across the seed to pre-IPO stages. Investments are primarily made in companies that have demonstrated proof of concept, secured prior rounds of funding, and exhibited the potential for scale. They invest in four verticals: the future of work, climate resilience, financial inclusion, and social infrastructure. They are actively seeking opportunities to invest in businesses that are led or owned by women and minority entrepreneurs to help combat the gender and race gaps that exist in the VC-funded startup world. As part of this commitment, early-stage seed investments are primarily allocated to businesses that are led or owned by women and minorities. Additionally, as part of Citi and the Citi Foundation’s $1 billion+ Action for Racial Equity initiative, the Citi Impact Fund’s Black Entrepreneurs Investment Initiative—a $50 million capital commitment from Citi to help reduce the racial wealth gap by creating equitable access to venture capital funding for black founders—has made equity investments in tech-enabled ventures led by black founders.

Citi Impact Fund

HeartX is a cardiovascular-focused healthcare accelerator that facilitates guaranteed hospital pilot projects and clinical trials for accomplished, early-stage companies bringing new cardiovascular innovations to market.

HeartX

Wellington Management focuses on investment management. The company applies its full resources to meet the needs of the institutional clients they serve. Their investment approaches span equity, fixed income, currency, commodity, and alternative markets. They also offer asset allocation, multi-manager, and speciality approaches.

Wellington Management

Philips Venture Capital Fund is a venture capital fund that invests in technology startups worldwide. Philips Venture Capital Fund is the venture capital investment arm of the multinational electronics corporation Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV.

Philips Venture Capital Fund

Nueterra Capital invests exclusively in early and growth-stage healthcare companies. It was founded to empower entrepreneurs to equip innovative minds with the capital, resources, and expertise to help drive change in the healthcare industry. By aligning its current companies with investment capital, it helps their business expand and create new growth opportunities.

Nueterra Capital

Citi Ventures harnesses the power of Citi to help people, businesses, and communities thrive in a world of technological change. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, London, Palo Alto, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Citi Ventures accelerates discovery of new sources of value by exploring, incubating, and investing in new ideas, in partnership with Citi colleagues, clients, and the innovation ecosystem.

Citi Ventures

Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC. It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with expertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Alumni Ventures

SteelSky Ventures is an early stage fund investing in the future of Women’s Health. The fund is focused on investing in high growth companies that significantly improve access, care and outcomes in women’s health.

SteelSky Ventures

Moving Analytics

Moving Analytics is a telehealth service provider that specializes in cardiovascular prevention programs. Its first product Movn is an end-to-end, integrated program to deliver remote and virtual cardiac rehab. The platform reduces readmissions and empowers the effective and efficient delivery of quality care to patients based on 30+ years of research in remote disease management from Stanford University.

<div>California-based virtual cardiac recovery platform Moving Analytics provides at-home intervention, virtual consultations, and monitoring for high-risk cardiac patients. The company offers a 12-week recovery program for users to follow and provides health coaches, educational material, and remote monitoring devices such as scales, blood pressure cuffs and fitness tracker.</div>

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

Telehealth

Moving Analytics Raises $20M in Series A Funding

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 California-based virtual cardiac recovery platform Moving Analytics provides at-home intervention, virtual consultations, and monitoring for high-risk cardiac patients. The company offers a 12-week recovery program for users to follow and provides health coaches, educational material, and remote monitoring devices such as scales, blood pressure cuffs and fitness tracker.
 
 
 The company operates a B2B2C business model offering its services through insurance partners and as of July 2022 operates in 14 states serving around 4,000 patients.
 
 
 Funding and Financials
 
 
 The company received its most recent investment in July 2022 when it raised USD 20 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Wellington Access Ventures and Seae Ventures along with participation from Philips Ventures. The funds were allocated to expand the company&rsquo;s geographical footprint across all 50 states, hire additional staff, and incorporate additional language options for marginalized communities. 
 
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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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 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

Moving Analytics

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