Imaginative and prescient advantages firm XP Well being raises $17.1M and extra digital well being fundings

XP Well being, an organization growing a digital-first imaginative and prescient advantages platform, raised $17.1 million in a Collection A funding spherical led by HC9 Ventures, Valor Capital Group and ManchesterStory. 

Extra buyers embody Core Innovation Capital, GSR Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Plug and Play, CameronVC, Ken Goulet, Kevin Hill, Jeff Epstein and Brett Rochkind. This latest funding spherical adopted a $5.5 million elevate in 2021.

“This spherical of funding permits us to strengthen the platform’s performance and supply a stellar client expertise in probably the most inexpensive option to employers, insurance coverage carriers and staff,” Antonio Moraes, cofounder and CEO of XP Well being, stated in a press release.

“We’ve a game-changing providing for a way folks entry and expertise worker advantages – with an final objective to positively influence tons of of tens of millions of lives by high-quality, accessible and inexpensive well being advantages.”

Lung-health firm Optellum introduced closing a $14 million Collection A funding spherical led by U.Ok. enterprise capital agency Mercia with participation from U.S. companies Intuitive Ventures and Black Opal.

Its Digital Nodule Clinic software program is used to trace, assess and characterize nodules within the lungs. The corporate attained FDA clearance within the U.S., CE-MDR within the European Union, and UKCA in the UK for the platform. A CE mark certificates (CE-MDR) is required to commercialize medical units within the EU. The U.Ok. Conformity Assessed marking signifies a product conforms with relevant necessities to be bought in Nice Britain.

“[Virtual Nodule Clinic] might help physicians determine and observe at-risk sufferers, and optimally diagnose the indicators of lung most cancers early — so remedy might be began sooner for sufferers with tumors, and to reduce invasive procedures akin to biopsies on benign lesions,” the corporate stated in a press launch. 

The corporate behind the Cionic Neural Sleeve acquired $12.5 million in a Collection A funding led by BlueRun Ventures, with participation from EPIC Ventures, LDV Capital, Caffeinated Capital and JobsOhio Progress Capital Fund. 

This spherical of funding follows Cionic Neural Sleeve’s FDA clearance in early 2022. The leg-worn machine offers electrical stimulation so folks with foot drop and muscle weak spot can stroll extra simply. Cionic has thus far acquired $23 million to construct its platform centered on human mobility. 

The brand new spherical of funds will assist the corporate broaden manufacturing and supply of its mobility expertise, and speed up analysis trials and commercialization of its merchandise for brand new indications. 

“Ahead-looking buyers notice that we have to take motion as we speak, and we’re proud to be backed by a gaggle of buyers who acknowledge the necessity for higher options and have joined us in our mission to redefine human mobility,” Cionic founder and CEO Jeremiah Robison stated in a press release. 

Kaleidoscope, a cloud-based analysis platform that maps knowledge utilization by R&D groups, solidified a $6 million seed financing spherical.

It was co-led by Hummingbird Ventures and Dimension, with participation from SV Angel, Hawktail, Caffeinated Capital and particular person buyers.

The funding will assist the corporate additional develop the platform’s product and broaden the corporate’s staff, particularly with software program engineers. 

“The best way folks work in analysis is altering. Kaleidoscope bridges the hole between groups on a platform that integrates with different software program instruments. The funding will allow us to ship one of the best product and consumer expertise to make analysis extra collaborative, reproducible and scalable,” Bogdan Knezevic, CEO and cofounder of Kaleidoscope, stated in a press release.

Arcascope, a well being expertise firm specializing in circadian rhythm disruption, introduced it closed a $2.85 million seed spherical.

The spherical was led by Supermoon Capital, with participation from New Dominion Angels, Inflect Well being, Inception Well being, the Speed up Blue Fund, the Monroe Brown Seed Fund, AIoT Well being, HealthX Ventures and different angel buyers. 

The corporate is launching a circadian rhythm administration platform, at present accessible by way of the smartphone app, Shift, to deal with the sleep wants of shift staff. 

Surge, an organization growing machine studying expertise to decode a affected person’s blood pattern to forecast the danger of postoperative issues, declares a $2.6 million spherical co-led by HCVC and Boutique Enterprise Companions, with participation by Nicolas Godin. 

The corporate additionally obtained the unique license to the patented postoperative complication prediction expertise from Stanford College, which incorporates 10+ years of analysis on surgical threat prediction. Surge additionally signed a analysis settlement with Stanford aspiring to develop biotech improvements. 

This new spherical of funding will assist the corporate in growing its staff additional and conducting scientific research with extra hospitals.