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WHAT THE STATE OF TELEHEALTH COVERS
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Summary Of Findings
Overall telehealth trends
Global telehealth investment rose for the fourth consecutive Telehealth exits reached a record high in Q2’21, driven
quarter, growing 17% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and 169% largely by M&A activity. While all telehealth segments saw
year-over-year (YoY) to reach a record high of $5B across 163 acquisitions during the quarter, the 2 biggest hot spots were
deals (+6% QoQ and -4% YoY). The top 5 deals alone were virtual/digital care enablement and telemedicine providers,
worth $1.6B (representing 30% of Q2’21 funding). platforms, & marketplaces.
European investment nearly quintupled QoQ to reach a record General Catalyst, Optum Ventures, Oak HC/FT Partners,
high of $915M. This was driven by 3 mega-rounds that Khosla Ventures, and Founders Fund are the 5 most active VC
accounted for $562M (or 61% share) in aggregate. Meanwhile, investors in the space, based on number of telehealth
Asian and North American investments declined and investments made between Q3’18 – Q2’21.
increased, respectively, for the second quarter in a row.
During Q2’21, 6 telehealth companies joined the unicorn club:
The nascent telehealth space is beginning to show signs of Noom, KRY, Cerebral, LetsGetChecked, Thirty Madison, and
maturity. So far in 2021, early-stage deal share is tracking at a Capsule. Globally, there are now 27 telehealth unicorns valued
historical low — and late-stage share is at a high. in aggregate at $55B.
Note: This report focuses on equity rounds to private telehealth companies only. All data is sourced from CB Insights. 8
Summary Of Findings
Telehealth segment trends
Telemedicine providers, platforms, & marketplaces: In Q2’21, high — so far in 2021. M&A exits also reached a new high in
the segment saw its first quarterly funding decline in 6 Q2’21, with 12 completed transactions in the quarter. “Digital
quarters, with funding down 43% (and deals down 27%) from front door” companies focused on digitizing the patient
Q1’21. Meanwhile, M&A exits reached a record high. Late- journey were notable acquisition targets.
stage deal share is also tracking at a historical high of 18% so
Remote monitoring & diagnostics: Companies here raised
far in 2021— the highest across all telehealth segments.
$841M across 33 deals in Q2’21. While early-stage deal share
Teletherapy, coaching, & care management: Investment into is tracking at a historical low so far in 2021, at 56%, the space
the space is accelerating rapidly, with deals and dollars up is still in early innings. Notable areas of business development
55% and 75% QoQ, respectively. While early-stage deal share is activity in the quarter included both wearable and contactless
tracking at a historical low so far in 2021, at 64%, the space is vital sign monitors, as well as decentralized lab tests.
still relatively nascent. Mental health and chronic diseases
Telepharmacy: Despite a 43% decline in deals QoQ, funding
were notable hot spots for both investment and exits in Q2’21.
held strong at $530M thanks to 2 mega-rounds that
Virtual/digital care enablement: Funding hit a high of $714M collectively accounted for $440M (or 83% of Q2’21 funding).
as deals bounced back after dipping in Q1’21. Early-stage deal Direct-to-consumer telepharmacy brands are expanding into
share is tracking at a historical low — and late-stage share at a new markets, with respect to both their target treatment areas
and their target customer segments.
Note: This report focuses on equity rounds to private telehealth companies only. All data is sourced from CB Insights. 9
Q2’21
Telehealth
Market
Drivers
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TELEHEALTH MARKET DRIVERS
100%
Planning to deploy
20% Currently deploying
80% 30%
35% 31%
61%
37%
60%
64%
57% 51%
40% 78%
66% 17%
59% 60%
46%
20% 38%
0%
AI/ML Cloud Data IoT ERP RPA Blockchain 5G VR/AR 3D printing
computing analytics software
75%
2019 responses
56%
50%
42% 43%
0.2%
— Wyatt Decker, CEO, OptumHealth
News articles mentioning “health equity” or ”health inequity,” Earnings call mentions of “health equity” or ”health inequity,”
July 2016 – June 2021 Q3’16 – Q2’21
320
240
160
80
0
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Source: US Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) Reports database; excludes registrations, terminations, and termination amendments. 15
*Clients cited in 10+ LDA reports between Q1’20 – Q1’21.
TELEHEALTH MARKET DRIVERS
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Q2’21
Telehealth
Investment
Trends
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TELEHEALTH INVESTMENT TRENDS
$1,500 50
$2,315 $1,169 $2,262 $1,748 $1,509 $1,519 $2,138 $1,874 $3,520 $3,554 $4,306 $5,038
$0 0
Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19 Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21
CB Insights clients can access the underlying data in our Telehealth Expert Collection here. 18
TELEHEALTH INVESTMENT TRENDS
$226 Other
Europe
$915 Asia
Asia
$486
Europe
North America
$539
North America
$311
$331 $3,887
$3,586
$3,246
$481
$2,740
$581
$1,880 $1,721 $1,531 $1,508
$1,139 $1,081 $1,272
$829
Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19 Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21
100% Late-stage
13% 11% Other
15% 14% 13% 15%
19%
7% Mid-stage
10% 8% 8% Late-stage
80% 12%
12%
12% 21% Early-stage
14% 16% Mid-stage
22%
18%
60%
Early-stage
40%
70%
64% 65% 62% 61% 57% 55%
20%
0%
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 YTD
Note: “Early-stage” includes convertible note, angel, seed, and Series A rounds. “Mid-stage” includes Series B and Series C rounds. “Late-stage” 20
includes Series D, Series E+, growth equity, and private equity rounds. “Other” includes unattributed and corporate minority rounds.
TELEHEALTH INVESTMENT TRENDS
$540M Series F $628M Silver Lake, Sequoia Capital, RRE Noom’s digital behavioral change programs combine remote,
(5/24/21) Ventures, Novo Holdings, Temasek, human coaches with personalized content to help people
Samsung Ventures, Oak HC/FT achieve health goals. Initially targeted at weight loss, Noom is
expanding into stress/anxiety, diabetes, hypertension, and sleep.
$312M Series D $571M Fidelity Investments, CPP KRY is a CE-certified, app-based telemedicine service connecting
(4/27/21) Investments, Accel, Index Ventures, patients and doctors over video visits in Sweden, Norway, and
Creandum Germany; its sister brand Livi is certified in France and the UK.
$300M Series D $570M Durable Capital Partners, T. Rowe Capsule is a digital pharmacy that makes free, same-day
(4/28/21) Price, Baillie Gifford & Co., Whale prescription deliveries, coordinates refills with doctors and
Rock Capital Management copays with insurers, and provides patients with 24/7 access to
pharmacists via chat.
$235M Series D $896M MSD Capital, Perceptive Advisors, Cue Health’s portable diagnostic testing instrument can be used
(5/13/21) Johnson & Johnson Innovation, alongside its telehealth platform to test for respiratory,
Decheng Capital cardiovascular, and sexual health conditions in a variety of
decentralized care settings.
$200M Series F $671M Coatue Management, Sands Capital Lyra Health offers a mental health platform for employees and
(6/14/21) their dependents, which includes online therapy, coaching, and
medication support.
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TELEHEALTH INVESTMENT TRENDS
100% 5% Other
6% 6% 7% 6% 5% 5%
7% 6% 9%
17% 15% 20% Telepharmacy
20% 19% 17% 11% 18%
19% 18% 21% 24%
80%
Virtual/digital care
enablement
22% 16% 22% 20% 19%
19% 21% 28%
19% 31% Telemedicine
60% 25% 23% providers, platforms,
& marketplaces
25% 22%
25% 26% 30% Teletherapy,
40% 26% 22%
26% 37% coaching, & care
22%
29% 25% management
Remote monitoring
20% 35% & diagnostics
31% 34% 30%
27% 29% 27% 26%
24% 21% 20%
19%
0%
Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19 Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21
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TELEHEALTH INVESTMENT TRENDS
SPAC
Late-stage
7
IPO (excluding
Mid-stage
SPACs)
Early-stage
M&A
3
2
3 2
35
2
24
20 21
15 3 15
14
11
8 6 8 7
Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19 Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21
Note: “Early-stage”
Note: Completed transactions only.
includes convertible note, angel, seed, and Series A rounds. “Mid-stage” includes Series B and Series C rounds. “Late-stage” 23
includes Series D, Series E+, growth equity, and private equity rounds. “Other” includes unattributed and corporate minority rounds.
TELEHEALTH INVESTMENT TRENDS
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TELEHEALTH INVESTMENT TRENDS
1 28
2 24
3 23
3 23
5 21
Note: Deal count refers to the number of telehealth investments made between Q3’18 – Q2’21. 25
TELEHEALTH INVESTMENT TRENDS
Latest round: Series D (6/7/21) Latest round: Series B (5/10/21) Latest round: Series C (4/28/21) Latest round: Series B (6/16/21)
About: At-home testing startup About: Heartbeat operates a About: Kaia Health develops About: Brightline partners with
LetsGetChecked is using virtual-first, value-based individualized, virtual employers and health
its latest financing to cardiology service that therapeutic programs plans to expand access
expand its remote care combines telemedicine, that allow patients to to family-oriented, virtual
services with new tests remote diagnostics, self-manage chronic behavioral health
and online chat & video medication conditions such as back services for children and
visit capabilities. management, and pain, COPD, and adolescents.
personalized lifestyle osteoarthritis from the
coaching. comfort of their own
homes.
Note: During Q2’21, Optum Ventures also invested in Medallion, a startup offering telemedicine licensing & credentialing solutions. 26
Globally there are
27 TELEHEALTH UNICORNS
Valued in aggregate at
$55B
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Q2’21
Telehealth
Segment
Highlights
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WHAT THE STATE OF TELEHEALTH COVERS
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WHAT THE STATE OF TELEHEALTH COVERS
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TELEMEDICINE PROVIDERS, PLATFORMS, & MARKETPLACES
$1,167 $473 $430 $686 $719 $185 $732 $820 $1,179 $1,456 $1,833 $1,040
$0 0
Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19 Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21
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TELEMEDICINE PROVIDERS, PLATFORMS, & MARKETPLACES
100% Other
7% 5%
14% 11% 14% 14%
17% 9%
11% Late-stage
5% 14%
80% 6% 14%
11% 18% Mid-stage
21% 30%
19%
21% Early-stage
60% 28%
23%
40%
71%
61% 59%
54% 55%
45% 45%
20%
0%
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 YTD
Note: “Early-stage” includes convertible note, angel, seed, and Series A rounds. “Mid-stage” includes Series B and Series C rounds. “Late-stage” 32
includes Series D, Series E+, growth equity, and private equity rounds. “Other” includes unattributed and corporate minority rounds.
TELEMEDICINE PROVIDERS, PLATFORMS, & MARKETPLACES
$312M Series D $571M Fidelity Investments, CPP Sweden-based KRY provides an app-based telemedicine service
(4/27/21) Investments, Accel, Index Ventures, connecting patients and doctors over video visits in Sweden,
Creandum Norway, and Germany; its sister brand Livi is certified in France
and the UK.
$80M Series C $158M Astra Financial, Novo Holdings, Indonesia-based Halodoc allows patients to search for doctors,
(4/21/21) Temasek, UOB Venture Management, book appointments, and initiate online consultations (using
SingTel Innov8 video, voice, or chat) with doctors across the country.
$75M Unattributed $484M Tata Group India-based Cure.fit, which began as a virtual fitness platform,
(6/7/21) offers telemedicine services through its Care.fit line of business.
On the platform, patients can connect with doctors across
several specialties via video visits and online messaging.
$61M Series D $158M Norron Asset Management, Sweden-based Doktor.se is a direct-to-consumer platform that
(5/31/21) Consensus Asset Management, connects patients with doctors, midwives, nurses, and
Skabholmen Invest psychologists throughout via 24/7 video, voice, and chat.
$58M Series B $98M General Catalyst, 7wire Ventures, US-based Transcarent offers 24/7 virtual-first care concierge
(6/10/21) Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, services to employees of self-insured employers — without
Threshold Ventures premiums, copays, or bills to the patient.
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TELEMEDICINE PROVIDERS, PLATFORMS, & MARKETPLACES
Latest round: $58M Series B (6/10/21) Latest round: $40M Series B (4/7/21)
Round investors: General Catalyst, 7wire Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Round investors: Andreessen Horowitz, F-Prime Capital, Oak HC/FT
& Byers, Threshold Ventures, and 5 others Partners
About: Transcarent offers virtual-first care concierge services to About: Firefly Health is a virtual-first primary care provider. With
employees of self-insured employers and their families. its latest funding, Firefly plans to launch a full health plan
Instead of charging employers upfront, Transcarent benefit offering for employers to better incentivize
enters into risk-based contracts in which it takes a pre- members and sponsors with direct savings. Currently
negotiated percentage of the enterprise’s cost savings. available in the US in MA, ME, NY, and NJ, Firefly plans to
expand into several new markets this year.
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TELEMEDICINE PROVIDERS, PLATFORMS, & MARKETPLACES
11
5 5
3 3
2
1 1 0 0 1
Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19 Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21
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WHAT THE STATE OF TELEHEALTH COVERS
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TELETHERAPY, COACHING, & CARE MANAGEMENT
59
60
$1,500 50
44
40 45
38
$1,000 33
31 31
26 28
30
21 22
$500
15
$94
$301 $163 $219 $394 $150 $616 $438 $423 $439 $1,070 $1,870
$0 0
Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19 Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21
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TELETHERAPY, COACHING, & CARE MANAGEMENT
100% Other
6% 10% 10% 10%
12% 11%
6% 16%
5% 6% Late-stage
10% 7% 10%
80% 8%
14% 16%
12% 19% Mid-stage
14%
Early-stage
60%
20%
0%
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 YTD
Note: “Early-stage” includes convertible note, angel, seed, and Series A rounds. “Mid-stage” includes Series B and Series C rounds. “Late-stage” 39
includes Series D, Series E+, growth equity, and private equity rounds. “Other” includes unattributed and corporate minority rounds.
TELETHERAPY, COACHING, & CARE MANAGEMENT
$540M Series F $628M Silver Lake, Sequoia Capital, RRE Noom’s digital behavioral change programs combine remote,
(5/24/21) Ventures, Novo Holdings, Temasek, human coaches with personalized content to help people
Samsung Ventures, Oak HC/FT achieve health goals. Initially targeted at weight loss, Noom is
expanding into stress/anxiety, diabetes, hypertension, and sleep.
$200M Series F $671M Coatue Management, Sands Capital Lyra Health offers a mental health platform for employees and
(6/14/21) their dependents, which includes online therapy, coaching, and
medication support.
$165M Unattributed $640M Marathon Asset Management Healogics partners with hospitals to provide standard and
(5/14/21) advanced wound care for patients with chronic, non-healing
wounds. In April 2020, it launched a telehealth program to
remotely support wound care patients.
$160M Series B $180M TPG Capital, Norwest Venture Monogram Health’s Kidney Care Clinic improves access to renal
(6/8/21) Partners, Humana Ventures, Frist specialists through in-home and virtual visits, leading to more
Cressey Ventures preventive medicine and more effective urgent care for those
with kidney disease.
$133M Series E $377M Tiger Global Management Virta Health combines continuous, remote medical care with
(4/19/21) individualized nutrition therapy with the aim of reversing type 2
diabetes and other chronic metabolic diseases without the use
of medications or surgery.
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TELETHERAPY, COACHING, & CARE MANAGEMENT
Latest round: $160M Series B (6/8/21) Latest round: $14M Series B (6/22/21) Latest round: $12M Series A (6/17/21) Latest round: $2.5M seed (6/16/2021)
Select TPG Capital, Norwest Select NEA, FCA Venture Select M13, NextView Select Global Founders Capital,
investors: Venture Partners, investors: Partners, Altitude investors: Ventures, SignalFire investors: Great Oaks, Humbition
Humana Ventures Ventures
About: Monogram Health’s About: Spiras Health provides About: Form Health offers About: Founded by a former Ro
Kidney Clinic improves multimodal care 100% virtual medical executive, Allara Health
access to renal specialists management to patients weight loss programs emerged from stealth in
through in-home and with complex, chronic for individuals with early June. Allara claims
virtual visits, leading to illnesses that are obesity. Its programs to be the first and only
more preventive medicine complicated by social combine personalized virtual care platform
and more effective urgent determinants of health nutrition, exercise, and focused on women with
care for those with kidney or other barriers to care. medication counseling. PCOS.
disease.
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TELETHERAPY, COACHING, & CARE MANAGEMENT
Other
SPAC
1 1
IPO (excluding
Europe
SPACs)
2 Asia
M&A
North America
5
4
1 3 1
2 2
1 1 1 1 1
Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19 Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21
Completed
Note: “Other” transactions
includes only. America, and Australia.
Africa, South 43
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VIRTUAL/DIGITAL CARE ENABLEMENT
40
$600
33
31
29
30
25
$400 23 23
18 19 18
16 20
15
$200
10
$93 $161 $198 $105 $122 $266 $274 $194 $446 $466 $275 $714
$0 0
Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19 Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21
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100% Other
12% 14%
18% 17% 19% 18%
30% Late-stage
7%
80% 10% 6% 5%
13% 13% Mid-stage
14%
24%
9% 26% Early-stage
60% 12%
24%
40% 75%
60% 63%
55% 55%
51%
44%
20%
0%
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 YTD
Note: “Early-stage” includes convertible note, angel, seed, and Series A rounds. “Mid-stage” includes Series B and Series C rounds. “Late-stage” 47
includes Series D, Series E+, growth equity, and private equity rounds. “Other” includes unattributed and corporate minority rounds.
VIRTUAL/DIGITAL CARE ENABLEMENT
$183M Series D $287M Generation Investment Management, AlayaCare develops outcome-focused software solutions for the
(6/22/21) Inovia Capital, Caisse de depot et home care industry. Its virtual care solution enables purpose-
placement du Quebec built video conferencing and remote monitoring features.
$100M Series C $178M PFM Health Sciences, Intel Capital, Caresyntax’s digital surgery platform allows surgeons to interact
(4/28/21) Vesalius BioCapital, IPF Partners, in real time with outside experts like medical school instructors or
Optum Ventures medical device representatives, who can help oversee and guide
surgical procedures from remote locations.
$90M Series B $137M Leaps by Bayer, Vitruvian Partners, Ada’s AI-based symptom assessment and triaging solutions
(5/27/21) Mutschler Ventures, Samsung allow healthcare organizations to begin patients’ care journeys
Catalyst, Inteligo Bank, F4 digitally.
$78M Series D $230M Sapphire Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Medable’s clinical trial platform offers modular features like
(4/15/21) GSR Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, digital screening, teleconsent, teleCOA (clinical outcome
PPD assessments), virtual visits, and remote monitoring to help
clinical trial sponsors/researchers perform trials virtually.
$50M Unattributed – $119M Sixth Street Growth DrFirst’s enterprise telehealth solution allows providers to
III (5/12/21) implement their own virtual care services via HIPAA-compliant
text chat, high-definition video/audio, image and file sharing, and
more.
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VIRTUAL/DIGITAL CARE ENABLEMENT
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VIRTUAL/DIGITAL CARE ENABLEMENT
Helping clinicians perform to the best of their abilities, by enabling remote clinicians, proctors, medical device personnel
or other experts to virtually reach into the clinical theatre and share skills, from 1,000s of miles apart.
About: Through its enterprise digital surgery platform, Caresyntax About: UK-based Proximie markets a telepresence platform to
allows surgeons to interact in real time with outside help bring clinical expertise to rural, underserved areas.
experts like medical school instructors or medical device Proximie’s primary use case is supporting surgical
representatives, who can help oversee and guide surgical telepresence. The company is live in 35 countries and will
procedures from remote locations. use its new funds to expand its presence in the US and
EU.
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VIRTUAL/DIGITAL CARE ENABLEMENT
12
10
8
7
5
4
3 3 3
2 2 2
Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19 Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21
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REMOTE MONITORING & DIAGNOSTICS
$350
10
$82
$580 $1,235 $427 $250 $318 $220 $409 $537 $1,127 $442 $841
$0 0
Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19 Q3'19 Q4'19 Q1'20 Q2'20 Q3'20 Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21
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Late-stage
100% Other
11%
18% 18% 21% 18% 18% 20% Mid-stage
7% Late-stage
80% 7% 5% 6% 6%
18% 11% Early-stage
11% 9% 11% Mid-stage
12% 19%
13%
60%
Early-stage
40%
63% 66% 67% 65% 64%
57% 56%
20%
0%
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 YTD
Note: “Early-stage” includes convertible note, angel, seed, and Series A rounds. “Mid-stage” includes Series B and Series C rounds. “Late-stage” 55
includes Series D, Series E+, growth equity, and private equity rounds. “Other” includes unattributed and corporate minority rounds.
REMOTE MONITORING & DIAGNOSTICS
$235M Series D $896M MSD Capital, Perceptive Advisors, Cue Health’s portable diagnostic testing instrument can be used
(5/13/21) Johnson & Johnson Innovation, alongside its telehealth platform to test for respiratory,
Decheng Capital cardiovascular, and sexual health conditions in a variety of
decentralized care settings.
$150M Series D $263M Casdin Capital, HLM Venture At-home testing startup LetsGetChecked is using its latest
(6/7/21) Partners, Qiming Venture Partners, financing to expand its remote care services with new tests and
Illumina Ventures online chat and video visit capabilities.
$100M Series C $184M Leaps by Bayer, Hitachi Ventures, Huma (fka Medopad) markets a device-agnostic remote
(5/12/21) Unilever Ventures, Nikesh Arora, Sony monitoring and hospital-at-home platform.
Innovation Fund
$60M Series D $89M Soleus Capital Management, Ganot Notal Vision is an ophthalmic home monitoring product
(6/7/21) Capital developer and services provider focused on early disease
detection and treatment monitoring.
$47M Series A $47M Allen & Company, Invenfin, Analog LifeQ develops wearable health monitoring technology. In
(5/26/21) Devices, 4Di Capital, Errol Damelin, addition to the consumer device monitoring business LifeQ
Acequia Capital already has, its latest funding will be used to help hospitals and
physicians develop remote patient monitoring capabilities.
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REMOTE MONITORING & DIAGNOSTICS
Truepill becomes a ‘triple threat’ with Rapid diagnostic service Cue Health
diagnostics lands $235M in new funding
May 25, 2021 | May 14, 2021 |
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REMOTE MONITORING & DIAGNOSTICS
Latest round: Series B (4/22/21) Latest round: Series A (5/4/21) Latest round: Seed VC (6/16/21)
About: Current’s integrated remote patient About: Belgium-based Pulsify Medical is About: Singapore-based Aevice Health
monitoring (RPM) platform features developing a non-invasive, creates non-invasive, AI-powered
a proprietary wearable capable of ultrasound-based patch for wearable stethoscopes that can be
performing continuous, passive continuous cardiac monitoring. used for continuous, remote
monitoring of vital signs (such as Though it’s initially targeting ICU monitoring of patients with chronic
respiration rate, oxygen saturation, applications, Pulsify is also respiratory diseases.
pulse rate, and body temperature) working on a wireless version that
with ICU-level accuracy. could be used for remote use.
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REMOTE MONITORING & DIAGNOSTICS
About Clair Labs’ AI-powered bedside biosensor enables About: Earlier this year, Oxehealth received FDA De Novo
contactless remote monitoring of patients’ physiological clearance for its contactless, continuous, remote vital
markers (e.g., heart rate, respiration rate, body sign monitoring solution. The optical sensor-based
temperature, oxygen saturation) by tracking light particles system works by detecting “micro-blushes” or subtle color
reflected off their skin. It also monitors behavioral changes in the skin that are undetectable by the human
markers like sleep patterns or signs of distress to help eye. The system is primarily used in nursing homes and
assess a patient’s well-being. long-term care facilities.
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REMOTE MONITORING & DIAGNOSTICS
About: Nuvo’s INVU device is used for remote monitoring About: PeriGen develops AI-powered perinatal telemonitoring and
applications in obstetrics. In June, a new FDA clearance clinical decision support software for obstetric care
expanded the clinical utility of the device to include teams. It was acquired by UK-based health tech company
monitoring of fetal heart rates, maternal heart rates, and Halma in April for $58M. According to the announcement,
uterine activity, allowing nonstress tests to be performed the deal will provide PeriGen with "additional recourses" to
remotely. The company raised $25M shortly thereafter. expand its presence in the US and beyond.
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WHAT THE STATE OF TELEHEALTH COVERS
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TELEPHARMACY
$600
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$450
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$300
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$174 $89 $179 $130 $268 $18 $289 $10 $435 $21 $666 $530
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TELEPHARMACY
Latest round: $300M Series D (4/28/21) Latest round: $140M Series C (6/2/21)
Round investors: Durable Capital Partners, T. Rowe Price, Baillie Gifford & Round investors: HealthQuest Capital, Northzone Ventures, Greycroft,
Co., Whale Rock Capital Management Mousse Partners, Polaris Partners, J&J Innovation,
Bracket Capital
About: Capsule makes free, same-day prescription deliveries, About: Through Thirty Madison’s brands, consumers can access
coordinates refills with doctors and copays with insurers, specialists who can prescribe and help manage
and gives patients 24/7 access to pharmacists via chat. treatments for hair loss (Keeps brand), migraines (Cove),
Long-term, Capsule aims to build a "one-stop shop" for acid reflux (Evens), and allergies (Picnic). With its latest
digital healthcare by adding a curated set of products and round of funding, Thirty Madison plans to expand beyond
services — such as telemedicine and mental health the direct-to-consumer model and seek partnerships with
support — to its digital pharmacy offering. employers and health plans.
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TELEPHARMACY
Thirty Madison jumps to unicorn status Hims & Hers dives deeper into acne care
as it eyes expansion, payer partnerships with Apostrophe acquisition
June 2, 2021 | June 24, 2021 |
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Methodology
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