The Digest for Health Transformers & Changemakers
Sathya Elumalai, CEO & Co-founder of Aidar Health, has spent nearly a decade building past the wearable trend. His bet: breath and saliva carry more diagnostic signal than anything worn on the wrist. MouthLab, a handheld device, collects around 10 vital health parameters in under a minute and turns them into a predictive health index, already deployed inside skilled nursing facilities to catch chronic kidney disease and COPD earlier. With CMS's new outcomes-based ACCESS program now in play, Aidar Health is positioned to bill Medicare directly for the first time. Sathya's been a StartUp Health community member since 2016. Join the community to collaborate with him or share your own story.
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This week's health innovation funding roundup is topped by Alan, the Paris-based AI insurer that closed a €480M round at a €5.5B valuation, one of the largest health tech raises out of Europe this year. Also making headlines: Forus (formerly Tandem) landed $150M at a $3B valuation, Thyme Care raised $125M to expand value-based cancer care, and Ultrahuman pulled in $70M for its wearable health tech. Read on for the full list of this week's deals across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
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