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There's a new version of the Hospify mobile app out
This new version is not just a normal upgrade; it is a completely new app with lots of cool new features. More info on their website.
Read moreFrench Healthcare Company Alan Raises €185M At €1.4 Billion Valuation
French healthcare platform Alan, cofounded by Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve and Charles Gorintin, announced today that it has raised a €185M Series D which puts the company in the unicorn club, at a €1.4 billion valuation. The funding round was led by Coatue, along with Dragoneer, Exor, and existing investors Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital and Temasek. Alan is a fully licensed health insurance company, which allows members to access various types of health-related content. The platform sends notifications appointments to its users, helps them find doctors through their map, books them, and offers interactions like chatting with doctors and other patients. “For more than 50 years they have tried to industrialize our healthcare system, and as a result they it a bit inhuman, non-personal, where you have to fit with the system, while it should be the contrary — the system should fit to you,” Samuelian-Werve, who serves as the company’s CEO, says. “We want to be the place where you get your information in a personal way, offering you an integrated experience from A to Z where healthcare is no longer pain you have to go through, but it can even be joyful in some way because it’s preventative and cheaper.” Roughly 85% of Alan’s customers are companies (when they sign on a company they cover 100% of their employees) so its a B2B2C model, while the remaining 15% are self-employed. At the moment Alan counts 9,000 companies that use it with 160,000 members. The company originally started in France, and as of six months ago expanded to Spain and Belgium. While not profitable yet, the company recently surpassed €100m in annual revenue. Prior to cofounding Alan, Samuelian-Werve started another successful company called Expliseat, a manufacturer of the light aircraft seats. However, after his grandfather passed away, Samuelian-Werve (who as a kid built websites for Japanese anime, local shops, and a French movie) sold his shares in it and decided that he wanted to focus on healthcare. He teamed up with college classmate Charles Gorintin, who had previously worked for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram (and is now Alan’s CTO), and the two worked on the idea for one summer in Gorintin’s San Francisco apartment prior to moving back to their native France.
Read moreLondon insurance company HealthyHealth rebrands to Qumata, picks up £7M funding
HealthyHealth, based in London, is a startup focused on transforming the life and health insurance underwriting journey through digital data. In a recent development, the company has just announced that it picked up $10 million (nearly £7 million) in a Series A funding round. Also, along with the latest investment, the firm has been rebranded Qumata.
Read moreGait Up - Born in research, Made in Switzerland, Used in clinics
Gait up's products revolutionize sensor-based analysis with meaningful metrics and accuracy of the highest standards. As a spin-off of the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV) and the Swiss Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), Gait Up benefits from world-leading scientific…
Read moreHave you seen 19 Episode | Season 3 of GIANT's Healthy Innovators Live TV Show on our Youtube channel?
Be one of the first to watch this new Episode 19 | Season 3 of Healthy Innovators Live TV Show on our Youtube channel: Host: Barry Shrier, Founder and CEO, GIANT Health A big thank you to our valuable guest:…
Read moreBetter has announced the release of Better EHR Studio 3.0
The latest version of this integral part of the Better Platform suite focuses on streamlining the creation & usage of digital clinical forms and queries. Read more on their blog.
Read moreAre you an expert in Healthtech?
AI Time Journal is interviewing top minds in AI and healthcare to share their stories, their mission, and how the next generation of technology can help people live healthier and longer lives. Learn more and Register to be interviewed here.
Read moreProfits that don't cost the earth: How to build a sustainable business launched by Startups Magazine
Join Startups Magazine, virtually on 8th June at 2pm. What does the word 'sustainability' mean to you and your business? About this event Wondering how to build a more sustainable business? Should you apply for B-corp certification and what would…
Read moreThe Cereal Entrepreneur - Empowering Women to grow and protect their wealth by Startups Magazine
Check out the latest podcast episode from Startups Magazine. In this episode, they speak to Tamara Gillan, Founder & CEO at Cherry London and Founder of The WealthiHer Network all about Funding and Female Wealth. Link for the episode here.
Read moreI Had Dull, Lifeless Hair—Until This Shampoo Transformed My Strands
I’ve never liked my hair. Historically it’s been thin and wavy in a limp, frizz-prone way. Rain, summer, and humid climates were all disastrous, leaving my hair matted flat to my skull up top before descending into undefined chaos. My solution to all of this was equally disastrous: to force my hair’s texture into submission with heat tools, which of course lead to breakage, dry ends, and a comically thin ponytail. But I figured we can’t have it all in life—my ancestors blessed me with good skin, so I assumed that good hair just wasn’t in the cards. This was until I was introduced to New Wash in January 2017. New Wash is a shampoo alternative belonging to a somewhat new class of products called a co-wash or cleansing conditioner. This category of hair cleanser is marked by its absence of detergents, which give conventional shampoo its sudsy quality. Turns out detergents also strip your scalp of its protective oil barrier, leading your body to produce more oil. That means greasy hair and increased washing, thus continuing the cycle of detergent violence on our poor scalps.
Read moreScience and Technology Facilities Council STFC Today is Launching a Podcast
Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC is proud to co-sponsor the ‘The Great British Lift Off’ - a hugely exciting podcast about the growing space sector in the UK. Listen to the trailer here.
Read moreMOBIKLINIC
MOBIKLINIC PROFILE: Mobiklinic is an organization that uses a fusion of digital and physical interventions to increase access to health care for all , especially last mile health delivery in Uganda. Mobiklinic leverages on deploying trained community members as Community Health Providers (CHPs) who offer affordable home based health care in last mile villages and in case of need for consultation, these community health workers use the mobiklinic digital platform/ app to interface with senior medics thus creating a digital safety net that ensures quality of services. It also offers an integrated referral system. The app also enables scalable knowledge transfer to community health workers. This makes access to healthcare decentralized and kdemocratized. This solution is saving thousands of lives and has potential to improve health access for millions of people in Uganda and sub Saharan Africa. Mobiklinic was selected as the best health care access idea globally in March 2019 by Norvatis international /Sandoz Hack, beating over 600 entries across the globe and thereafter it rolled out. It was selected as innovation of the year 2020 by CEO summit of Uganda. Mobiklinic has since collaborated with the Belgian Get involved volunteer agency, Clarke university uganda in community outreach and most recently George Mason University of Virginia under emergent ventures. It has previously been supported by the US Embassy Uganda & D Prize. - currently working on a biometrics partnership with UK based Simprints to improve patient identification and data records in last mile health delivery. Mobiklinic exists to revolutionize/ ease access to health-care in Uganda and globally with a primary focus on last mile areas in developing countries
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