The Digest for Health Transformers & Changemakers
General Catalyst has backed Anthropic, Stripe, and Airbnb. It's also bought a hospital system. Holly Maloney, Managing Director at General Catalyst, joined Unity Stoakes for a members-only Fireside Chat on why GC is betting on deep partnership – and outright ownership – as the path to transforming healthcare, from 27 health system partnerships to the acquisition of Summa Health through HATCo. She also shared where AI is finally reaching the point of care, and what she needs to hear from founders in the first five minutes.
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Neko Health's $700M round tops a global health innovation funding week that spans full-body diagnostics, agentic care platforms, and AI-driven drug discovery, with founders building everything from pharmacy logistics to infant monitoring to medical claims review. Capital flowed from Stockholm to San Francisco, Bengaluru to Antwerp, Tel Aviv to Orlando, underscoring how broadly AI is reshaping the delivery, diagnosis, and discovery layers of healthcare.
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