At a recent StartUp Health Fireside Chat, Kimmi Grewal, Vice President of AI Ecosystem Partnerships at Microsoft, joined Unity Stoakes to talk about what's actually separating winners from the rest in health AI right now. Her take: it's not the model. With open models closing the performance and cost gap fast, Grewal argues the real differentiator is proprietary data and owned workflow – and she makes a case that healthcare is adopting AI faster than most expected, not slower.
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This week, a late-stage biotech looking to cure a rare form of blindness pulled in a $118 million Series B – the kind of number that reminds you how much capital is still flowing into hard science. But the real story this week is breadth: an Australian robotics company teaching ultrasound machines to scan themselves, a Dubai longevity lab, and a Noida-based AI platform that's already caught over $120M in healthcare fraud. Cancer surveillance, dental lab automation, skin-cancer screening, and lung-nodule AI all made appearances too. Read the full round-up to see who's building what, and where the money's landing this week
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