Editor’s Be aware: This roundup is supposed to spotlight a few of the most notable funding rounds of the month and isn’t meant to be complete.
Well being tech corporations made a number of main funding bulletins in August. Here’s a checklist of a few of the largest funding rounds.
EliseAI Raises $250M in Sequence E funding
New York Metropolis-based EliseAI is concentrated on automating techniques in healthcare and housing. For healthcare, it affords a platform that automates conversations with sufferers over voice, e mail, textual content and chat. It additionally helps schedule appointments with docs, and sends alerts about billing and fee.
Its Sequence E spherical was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and included participation from Bessemer Enterprise Companions, Sapphire Ventures and Navitas Capital. With the financing, EliseAI will “broaden its workforce to speed up product innovation and influence, enhancing affected person experiences, streamlining operations, and advancing AI-driven options for patrons,” based on the announcement. It’s hiring throughout all departments, together with engineering, buyer expertise and advertising and marketing.
Eight Sleep secures $100 million in funding
Eight Sleep, based mostly in New York, is a sleep-fitness firm. Its flagship product known as the Pod and features a mattress cowl that gives cooling and heating, in addition to sleep and well being monitoring. As well as, it affords a blanket that connects to the duvet and likewise gives cooling and heating. It additionally has a base that matches to the mattress body and might elevate to scale back again strain and loud night breathing.
The $100 million spherical included participation from HSG, Valor Fairness Companions, Atreides, Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Charles Leclerc (Ferrari F1 Driver) and Zak Brown (CEO of McLaren F1). The funding will likely be used to assist develop a Sleep Agent, which is able to have the ability to “simulate, check, and personalize” customers’ restoration, based on Matteo Franceschetti, co-founder and CEO of Eight Sleep. The corporate may even develop options for menopause and sleep apnea.
Chai Discovery rakes in $70 million in Sequence A funding
Chai Discovery, based mostly in San Francisco, builds AI to foretell and reprogram interactions between biochemical molecules. Its workforce comes from AI corporations like OpenAI, Stripe and Google X.
The funding was led by Menlo Ventures and included participation from Yosemite, DST International Companions, SV Angel, Avenir, DCVC, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Dimension, Neo, Lachy Groom and Fred Ehrsam. It is going to be used to “additional develop the Chai platform, making use of it towards beforehand inaccessible targets, and onboarding choose companions,” the announcement said.
Twin Well being secures $53 million in funding
Twin Well being, based mostly in Mountain View, California, creates a mannequin (twin) of every individual’s metabolism leveraging information from good units, lab outcomes and meal logs. It may possibly then present steerage on vitamin, exercise and sleep based mostly on this info.
Its $53 million in funding was led by Maj Make investments of Denmark. It’s going to assist the corporate broaden its partnerships with well being plans and Fortune 500 corporations in retail, healthcare, monetary companies, know-how and manufacturing, based on the announcement.
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