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LENOX â A local resident has filed a report with Lenox Police and informed U.S. Postal Service officials after receiving an anonymous hate mail letter at her home near downtown Lenox. Jackie Ling Wong told The Eagle that the material was postmarked in Hartford, Conn., where most western New England mail, including within Berkshire County, is sorted. Quote âIt did feel very threatening. I was struck by how cowardly this is. Iâve got to believe someone drove by our house, and I suspect itâs from a local person.â â Paul Marshall, Lenox The envelope, addressed to âResident,â was written on in red, blue, green and purple ink, Wong said. She speculated that her front-yard display supporting the Black Lives Matter movement might have motivated the sender. The display, including a sign and a rainbow flag, has been up since last summer. ....
Wheel, an Austin-based telehealth startup, raised $50 million in series B funding. The company builds networks of clinicians behind several well-known digital health brands. ....
Behind The Screen: Meet The Startup Powering Telehealth That Just Raised $50 Million Share to Facebook WHEEL Wheel is healthcare’s answer to the gig economy. Its online platform matches doctors with patients and also enables any company to stand up a virtual care practice. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the healthcare industry found itself turning to telemedicine to meet patient needs. Every digital health company, hospital and insurer faced the same two obstacles: a need for more doctors and better technological infrastructure. Even the major virtual care players like Teladoc Health and Amwell had long waiting times as patient demand vastly outpaced physician supply in those first weeks and months. ....
/PRNewswire/ Wheel, the health tech company making virtual care work for everyone, announced a $50 million Series B investment led by Lightspeed Ventures. ....
Photo: IronHeart/Getty Images Wheel, an Austin, Texas-based telehealth staffing and services vendor, today shared that it raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Lightspeed Ventures. Existing investors CRV, Silverton Partners, Tusk Venture Partners and J.P. Morgan took part in the round, along with new investor Future Shape. As the lead investor, Lightspeed Senior Advisor Dr. Ling Wong will join Wheel’s board of directors. Today’s Series B raise brings Wheel’s total funding to $66 million after it launched with $13.9 million last year. WHAT IT DOES Wheel provides two main services: telehealth staffing opportunities for clinicians and a scalable virtual care platform for companies. ....