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It is the largest fund of the kind closed by the firm until now.
Oxford Medical Simulation brings VR training system to Oxford University students in new partnership
Their platform is now being used by medical students at the OxSTaR centre (Oxford Simulation, Teaching and Research).
Hot on the heels on being granted a US patent for pain assessment invention last month, Australia-based PainChek, developer of the world’s first smart phone-based pain assessment and monitoring app, has received regulatory approval from Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority (HSA) for the use of the PainChek app in the market.
The chatbot maker has also recently secured funding from Tencent, Samsung and Telus, alongside a $100 million deal with Prudential Asia.
Hong-Kong headquartered life insurance company Prudential announced that it will partner with telemedicine provider MyDoc to offer consumers access to value-added health services on their mobile phones, including doctor consultations, electronic prescriptions and electronic medical certificates.
Most of us are similar with ‘viruses’ and malware relating to our computers or smartphones, but Yoshihiro Minagawa, a researcher from the University of Tokyo has taken it on literally – he has invented a portable, low-cost, battery-powered device that pairs with a smartphone, which was tested with viruses but could also detect other biological markers.
The company, which is growing 100% year over year, has now brought in a total of $8.2 million in funding.
The study was published today in Nature.
BabySparks' platform has been downloaded more than 3.5 million times by users living in 180 countries, according to the startup.
Indonesia-based healthtech platform Halodoc announced that it has secured additional funding from strategic investors including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Allianz X and Prudential.