Maternity-focused digital health company Diana Health secured $34 million in Series B funding led by Norwest Ventures Partners, bringing its total raise to $46 million.
Existing investors LRVHealth and .406 Ventures participated in the round, as did AlleyCorp.
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The New York-based company partners with hospitals and health systems to offer tech-enabled OB-GYN and women's health...
MedArrive, a care management platform merging telehealth and in-person care, is partnering with Ouma Health, a maternity telehealth platform, to expand its mother and fetal in-home care offerings to women on Medicaid.
Ouma offers maternal health care services, including prenatal and postpartum visits, perinatal risk stratification and mitigation counseling, behavioral health screenings and...
Memora Health, a virtual care delivery and management platform, announced its partnership with perinatal and prenatal health AI company, PeriGen, to provide coordinated women's healthcare from childbirth to postpartum.
Founded in 2000, PeriGen makes software products focused on childbirth. Its Early Warning System and Clinical Decision Support tool use AI to monitor patients in labor and find...
Tech-enabled maternity clinic Millie raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by TMV Ventures and BBG Ventures.
Others participating in the financing round include Venn Growth Partners; Looking Glass Capital; Learn Capital; Hustle Fund; Banana Capital's Turner Novak; Michelle Kennedy of fertility and motherhood-focused social media platform Peanut; and Tristan Walker, founder and CEO of...
Compared with other wealthy countries, the U.S. lags when it comes to maternal health outcomes. Maternal mortality rates have generally worsened since 1987, reaching 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020. The mortality rate for Black women was nearly three times higher than the rate for white women.
Melissa Hanna, CEO and cofounder of maternal health startup Mahmee, sat down with...
Maternal health startup Cayaba Care scooped up $12 million in a Series A round led by Seae Ventures and Kapor Capital.
Other participants in the round include Wellington Partners, Citi Impact Fund and Rhia Ventures. Founded in 2020, Cayaba Care launched in August with $3.2 million in seed funding.
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The startup works with local providers and obstetricians to offer home-based or...
New research out of NEJM found that an artificial intelligence algorithm was able to estimate the gestational age of a fetus on par with a trained sonographer performing a fetal biometry.
The study, which was conducted in North Carolina and Zambia, collected ultrasound sweeps from 4,695 pregnant volunteers. Researchers collected blind sweep videos on both a commercial ultrasound machine and on a...
Virtual behavioral health company Brave Health is partnering with the Doula Network, a service that pairs pregnant Medicaid patients with doulas, to offer maternal mental healthcare.
As part of the partnership, TDN will refer its patients to Brave for services like individual, group, family and couples therapy, as well as psychiatry and medication management. TDN currently works with Medicaid...
Virtual obstetric care platform Babyscripts announced Monday it has raised $12 million in Series B funding.
The round was led by MemorialCare Innovation Fund with participation from Philips and the CU Healthcare Innovation Fund.
“The pandemic exacerbated existing disparities in maternal health, while showcasing the effectiveness of digital tools for managing pregnancy and equalizing care,” Caleb...
Maternal and child health are critical for digital solutions that positively impact pregnancy outcomes. As early as 2016, this category of app saw approximately 200 million downloads as the broader consumer marketplace looked to smartphone trackers for fertility and maternity education.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has added an additional reason to have care online that avoids an in-person...
