The start of a new year is a good time to take stock of where the digital health industry stands. From just-budding startups to newly minted unicorns to publicly traded players, it s seeming like 2021 will be a critical year for the sector as the pandemic (hopefully) starts to ebb.
On the early-stage side, Megan spoke with Lynne Chou O Keefe, the founder of Define Ventures, about the firm s latest $200 million fund.
One type of startup to keep an eye out for in 2021: companies that sound a lot like Livongo.
Startups, billionaire investor Vinod Khosla said at a Startup Health chat on Tuesday, should be wary of working with entrenched players. While talking about the work that BioNTech did with Pfizer to speed up the development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, Khosla said that collaboration is generally BS–with some exceptions.
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Startups, billionaire investor Vinod Khosla said at a Startup Health chat on Tuesday, should be wary of working with entrenched players. While talking about the work that BioNTech did with Pfizer to speed up the development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, Khosla said that collaboration is generally BS-with some exceptions.
Read his full explanation as to why here
As some digital health startups get bigger, it s been interesting to see how their strategies evolve.
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Megan spoke with $1.5 billion digital-health startup Ro about its goal to to be your online doctor.
Also on the bigger end of digital health, Hugh Langley and Blake rounded up all the departures from Alphabet s life sciences arm Verily in the last year.
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Verily has seen 24 departures by top talent in the past year.
2020 brought hiccups like repurposing Verily for the pandemic, which employees said was exhausting.
Now the upstart has restructured its leadership team as it plots a major expansion.
Verily, an Alphabet life sciences company, has had a string of exits among top brass in recent months.
Thomas Stanis, one of Verily s cofounders, and Ashraf Hanna, the chief operations officer, left in February 2020 and November 2020, respectively. Hanna joined testing company Genalyte as CEO, and Stanis founded a startup with a Verily colleague, Nikhil Roy, that s focused on fixing disconnected speciality care.
2020 is almost over (finally).
But before we close the book on this difficult and eventful year, it s worth reviewing some of the big developments in tech that defined 2020 and will shape the months and years to come.
Readers of the Insider Tech newsletter have followed all the industry s twists and turns in this weekly report (subscribe here to get Insider Tech in your inbox every Wednesday). Highlighted below, in this special edition of this newsletter, are some of the top stories reported by Business Insider s crew of intrepid journalists this past year.
Note: Insider Tech will be back to its regular schedule on Wednesday, January 6. Happy New Year!
The 10 stories that defined tech in 2020 - and reveal what to expect in 2021 and beyond
The 10 stories that defined tech in 2020 - and reveal what to expect in 2021 and beyond
Alexei OreskovicJan 1, 2021, 02:47 IST
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2020 is almost over (finally).
But before we close the book on this difficult and eventful year, it s worth reviewing some of the big developments in tech that defined 2020 and will shape the months and years to come.
Readers of the Insider Tech newsletter have followed all the industry s twists and turns in this weekly report (subscribe here to get Insider Tech in your inbox every Wednesday). Highlighted below, in this special edition of this newsletter, are some of the top stories reported by Business Insider s crew of intrepid journalists this past year.