<p>VC funding into AI tools for healthcare was projected to hit $11 billion last year &#8212; a headline figure that speaks to the widespread conviction that artificial intelligence will prove transformative in a critical sector. Many startups applying AI in healthcare are seeking to drive efficiencies by automating some of the administration that orbits and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hinge Health, a 10-year-old company that offers a digital solution to treat chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, filed to go public. Although Hinge has not yet announced how many shares, nor priced them, the IPO specialists at Renaissance Capital estimate the company hopes to raise up to $500 million in its offering. Hinge’s revenue in 2024 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tracking an aspect of your health is one of the most popular applications for wearables these days. In the U.S. alone, 44% of Americans own devices specifically for this purpose, according to one recent report. A startup called Junction believes that more can be done with that data: It can be shared with researchers and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Medical imaging is a broad term that encompasses several distinct technologies. After working on AI-powered tools to enhance X-rays and mammographies, French startup Gleamer now aims to tackle magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Instead of starting from scratch, Gleamer acquired a startup that has already been working on AI-powered MRI analysis, Caerus Medical, and is merging [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The CEO of Colossal, a startup that aims to use genetic editing techniques to bring back extinct species, including the wooly mammoth, assured audiences at SXSW that the company has no plans to create a real-life Jurassic Park — lest there was any doubt. &#8220;Modern conservation isn&#8217;t working [&#8230;] and we&#8217;re gonna need a &#8216;de-extinction&#8217; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ataraxis AI has raised a $20.4 million Series A to make cancer treatment more personalized.</p>

<p>A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan&#8217;s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2019 in London, Epoch Biodesign is now a 30+ strong multidisciplinary team of chemists, biologists, and software engineers. The startup will use the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani’s appeal to overturn their fraud convictions and reduce their prison sentences was denied Monday by the Northern District Court of California, which also refused to soften their $452 million joint restitution order. Holmes, the founder of Theranos, and Balwani, its former COO, were convicted in separate trials in 2022 [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>For decades, couples going through in vitro fertilization have had to spend tens of thousands of dollars on the procedures with no guarantee of success. It’s not only an emotionally draining process, but a financially exhausting one as well. San Francisco-based startup Future Family wants to help ease some of that burden for couples with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Level Zero Health, a female-founded medical device startup that&#8217;s aiming to break new ground by developing a device for continuous hormone monitoring, has closed an oversubscribed $6.9 million pre-seed funding round despite being only a little over a year old. The startup wants to do away with the need for invasive blood draws and support [&hellip;]</p>

<p>People magazine has landed the first interview with Elizabeth Holmes since she reported to prison in 2023, and the convicted Theranos founder says she is still working on &#8220;research and inventions&#8221; in the healthcare space. &#8220;I remain completely committed to my dream of making affordable healthcare solutions available to everyone,&#8221; she told the magazine. Holmes, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With over 1,000 insurance companies in the U.S., figuring out how to get paid by each company is a complex challenge for doctors and hospitals. Each insurance may require slightly different information on medical claims, even for the same procedure. Incorrectly filed claims can lead to denied coverage, requiring manual resubmission and delayed payments. According [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Medical imaging is crucial for the timely identification of serious diseases like cancer. However, manual interpretation of scans is a time-intensive process. Healthcare professionals increasingly use AI-powered tools for diagnostic purposes, as such technologies can be very effective in detecting and categorizing diseases. A Sydney, Australia-headquartered startup, Harrison.ai, has built AI-enabled medical diagnostic software and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The race is on to build a new generation of healthcare software to replace legacy hospital systems that in some cases may not have been updated in decades. A startup out of Munich, Germany, called Avelios has ambitions to build a new kind of end-to-end operating system, leaning into more modern tooling using AI and [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Growing up with an OB-GYN father, Rachel Blank assumed that most women received excellent gynecological care. She regularly witnessed her dad’s patients thanking him for delivering their child when they would bump into him around town. But Blank realized that not all women’s health issues are treated equally when, at the age of 21, she was [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A four-year-old London startup backed by Peter Thiel has raised a $55 million Series B round as it sets about &#8220;fixing the broken clinical trial industry.&#8221; The announcement comes as artificial intelligence is shaping up to revolutionize drug discovery and development, in turn spurring demand for a streamlined clinical trial process to help get new [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The process of getting screened for cervical cancer is quite intimidating. It’s the once-a-year, sometimes life-changing treatment that involves the bright lights of a doctor’s office and an uncomfortable insertion that always seems to last too long.   It’s no wonder Kara Egan and Dr. Avnesh Thakor saw the potential to make this process more comfortable [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Healthcare is proving to be one of the more lucrative industries for building AI solutions to speed up clinical, research, and administrative operations. Now, we have one of the latest examples of how that is playing out in terms of venture funding. Qventus, a startup that builds AI-based tools to automate work across a range [&hellip;]</p>