Emergency response platform RapidSOS raises $75M and extra digital well being fundings

Knowledge-driven emergency response platform RapidSOS introduced closing a $75 million funding spherical, bringing its complete capital raised to greater than $250 million. 

The New York-based firm supplies emergency responders with real-time well being and placement information earlier than they arrive on the scene, collected from smartphones and different related gadgets starting from wearables to motor autos and close by surveillance techniques. 

NightDragon led the most recent spherical of funding, with further investments from Honeywell, BAM Elevate, Axon, Perception Companions, the Citi Influence Fund, M12, Highland Capital Companions, Playground International, Forte Ventures, Avanta Ventures and C5 Capital. 

In 2021, RapidSOS introduced the shut of an $85 million Collection C funding spherical led by Perception Companions, noting its platform was in use amongst greater than 4,800 emergency communications facilities throughout the U.S.

At present, the corporate stories a presence in additional than 15,000 first responder companies on 4 continents. 

“For a decade, we have had the privilege to be taught from our nation’s first responders to construct know-how that helps their life-saving work,” Michael Martin, founder and CEO of RapidSOS, stated in an announcement. “A whole lot of thousands and thousands of lives are impacted annually by the heroism of those people, and we’re honored to have companions on this journey that share in a imaginative and prescient to remodel security, safety and emergency response.” 

Chicago-based HealthJoy, a digital worker advantages platform, raised $60 million in Collection D funding that it’ll use to speed up progress. 

The present spherical was led by Valspring Capital, with participation from new buyers Endeavour Imaginative and prescient and CIBC Innovation Banking, bringing the entire raised to greater than $108 million. 

Current buyers GoHealth co-founders Brandon Cruz and Clint Jones, US Enterprise Companions, Nueterra Capital, Well being Velocity Capital and Epic additionally participated within the spherical.

HealthJoy, based in 2014, expanded its enterprise from the person medical insurance market to worker engagement and price containment in 2016. 

The corporate provides Pleasure, a digital assistant that helps customers perceive their advantages packages and navigate their care choices via an AI-guided dialog. Together with displaying a person’s protection, the platform consists of 24/7 reside care supplier assist and a log of historic claims data and previous conversations.

HealthJoy’s current funding comes after its $30 million Collection C funding spherical in 2020 and $12.5 million Collection B funding spherical in 2019.

Faculty-based pediatric telehealth supplier Hazel Well being introduced the closure of a $51.5 million Collection C1 funding spherical with participation from Owl Ventures, Tao Capital Companions, Memorial Hermann, Firework Ventures and Carrie Walton Penner via Fiore Ventures. 

Hazel Well being companions with faculty districts to supply digital care clinics inside the varsity nurse’s workplace. Hazel additionally supplies tools to colleges, akin to thermometers and over-the-counter medicine, and trains faculty nurses and workers on launching a go to and taking college students’ vitals. 

The brand new spherical of funding will assist the corporate’s enlargement and permit for continued product innovation.

Hazel introduced a $33.5 million Collection C elevate headed by Owl Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures in 2020. 

Navina, an Israeli startup creating an AI-based platform for major care suppliers, introduced a $22 million Collection B funding spherical led by ALIVE Israel HealthTech Fund, with participation from present buyers Grove Ventures, Schusterman Household Investments and Vertex Ventures Israel.

The corporate’s instrument builds “affected person portraits” that reorganize disparate affected person information for accessible clinician overview and highlights data that might be clinically related to every case. 

The most recent spherical, which doubles the entire funding up to now to $44 million, shall be used to speed up the corporate’s progress and adoption amongst U.S. doctor teams and the enterprise healthcare market. 

Navina may even additional spend money on its AI know-how and scientific algorithms and broaden its integration of rising information sources. 

Galen Robotics, which touts a service mannequin for its surgical robotic platform, introduced the primary shut for an oversubscribed $15 million Collection A funding spherical led by Ambix Healthcare Companions.

Galen used the Collection A funding to finish its last robotic prototype and submit the brand new collaborative delicate tissue surgical robotic for FDA consideration. It would additionally use the funds to develop scientific care groups, broaden engineering, develop surgeon coaching applications and enhance product improvement. 

The corporate opened a second shut for the Collection A funding spherical for a further $5 million, which it expects to wrap up quickly.

California-based Midi Well being, a digital care clinic for menopause, obtained a $14 million seed funding co-led by Felicis and SemperVirens.

Different individuals within the elevate embrace Emerson Collective, Operator Collective, Icon Ventures, Muse Capital, Metal Sky Ventures, and Anne and Susan Wojcicki. 

Midi Well being supplies digital care guided by physicians and researchers who oversee a community of nurse practitioners and supplies interventions from way of life teaching to prescription medicine. 

The corporate at present supplies insurance-covered care in California and can use the brand new capital to broaden operations nationwide and launch partnerships with hospital techniques and U.S. employers. 

Lumata Well being, a follow administration platform for ophthalmology, raised $4 million in a Collection A spherical.

The spherical, led by Cortago Ventures with participation from Wolfpack Investor Community and 30 practising ophthalmologists, will assist the clever eye care administration platform scale its presence throughout the U.S. and improve its platform, creating predictive analytics and incorporating automated affected person communication pathways. 

The startup beforehand obtained greater than $2 million in analysis funding from the Nationwide Eye Institute.