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Casana Raises $14 Million in Series A Funding Led by General Catalyst for In-home Heart Health Monitoring Device
Company funded to develop visionary integrated IoT heart health device, in a toilet seat. Seasoned technology executive Austin McChord takes the helm as CEO
The Heart Seat by Casana
The Heart Seat enables effortless, integrated and consistent patient monitoring at home.
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
Casana, previously known as Heart Health Intelligence, Inc., a healthcare technology firm that is re-inventing in-home health monitoring, today announced that it has secured $14 million in Series A funding, bringing the total capital raised to $16.6 Million. The financing round was led by General Catalyst and the Outsiders Fund with participation from
Casana Raises $14M to Expand IoT Heart Health Toilet Seat
What You Should Know:
– Casana raises $14M in Series A funding to pursue FDA clearance for its an IoT heart health toilet seat that captures clinically relevant measurements, including heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, and cardiac output.
Casana, previously known as Heart Health Intelligence, Inc., a healthcare technology firm that is re-inventing in-home health monitoring, today announced that it has raised $14M in Series A funding, bringing the total capital raised to $16.6M. The Series A round was led by General Catalyst and the Outsiders Fund with participation from Bemis Manufacturing Company, the largest manufacturer of toilet seats in the world and the lead investor for Casana’s seed funding round. Casana will use their new financing to bring to market the firm’s first product to market called The Heart Seat.
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Cardiac health-monitoring smart toilet seat maker Casana (formerly Heart Health Intelligence) has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round led by General Catalyst and the Outsiders Fund. Also participating was Bemis Manufacturing Company, a toilet seat manufacturer that led the startup s $2.2 million round last April.
In addition to the fundraise, Casana announced that Austin McChord, the founder and former CEO of cybersecurity technology company Datto, will be stepping in as the startup s new CEO.
WHAT IT DOES
Rochester, New York-based Casana s lead product is the Heart Seat, a device developed by founder Nicholoas Conn during his time at the Rochester Institute of Technology. It contains ECG, ballistocardiogram (BCG) and photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensors to collect a range of heart health metrics and transmits its readings to a cloud network via built-in WiFi and LTE. The company says that the Heart Seat s battery will last several years without recharging, a
Perigee, a Boston, MA-based cybersecurity company, raised $1.5M in its first funding.
The round was led by Outsiders Fund’s Austin McChord and Teddy Seem, with participation from Westport, Contour Venture Partners, BBG Ventures, Innospark Ventures, Ray Rothrock, and Corey Thomas.
The company intends to use the funds to hire new talent, further develop the product, and grow the enterprise within environmental controls and beyond.
Founded by CEO Mollie Breen, a former NSA mathematician, Perigee combines network exploitation and machine learning expertise to stop malicious threats, improve behavior, and extend the life of connected devices in real-time.
The company is focusing initially on devices within HVAC and environmental controls in industries like healthcare.
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BOSTON, Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Perigee, founded by a former NSA mathematician, combines network exploitation and machine learning expertise to stop malicious threats, improve behavior, and extend the life of connected devices in real-time. Today, Perigee announced the closing of their first institutional capital round of $1.5M.
The round was led by Outsiders Fund s Austin McChord and Teddy Seem, with additional investment from Westport, Contour Venture Partners, BBG Ventures, Innospark Ventures, Ray Rothrock, and Corey Thomas. The newly invested capital will be used to hire new talent, further develop the product, and grow the enterprise within environmental controls and beyond.