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News 5/9/25
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Persivia, a provider of data aggregation and AI-driven analytics, raises $107 million in funding.
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Listening: Foo Fighters, of which I’m far from a fan, but I’m obsessed with videos of Dave Grohl (also not a fan) bringing audience members up to play. Kiss Guy and Richard the Drummer will give rock star wannabes goose bumps. I’m also not a fan of sports, but I’m intrigued by YouTube videos and livestreams of the sports-adjacent antics of the Savannah Bananas.
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Virtual physical therapy vendor Hinge Health updates its IPO prospectus with Q1 results, showing revenue up 50% to $124 million and a $17.1 million net profit. The company announced IPO plans in March but hasn’t set a price range.
AI-powered clinical data abstraction vendor Carta Healthcare raises $18.25 million in Series B1 funding. Industry veterans who are on the executive team include Brent Dover (Medicity, Health Catalyst, and Commure) and Greg Miller (Healthlink, Medicity, and Health Catalyst).
WeightWatchers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to eliminate $1.15 billion in debt. The company’s transformation plan includes creating a better digital experience for members and expanding its weight loss medication telehealth business.
Cedars-Sinai and Redesign Health launch an innovation center that pairs health system experts with startups to develop digital health solutions, with Cedars-Sinai serving as the first customer. The focus will be specialty care access, personalized medicine, workflow intelligence, and provider-payer-patient coordination.
Israel’s Sheba Medical Center will open a US office for its startup accelerator in Massachusetts, aiming for a Boston-area location. The accelerator has backed 100 startups, including three unicorns.
Health and fitness wearable company Whoop releases new models that offer 14-day battery life, a heart screener with ECG whose data can be shared with doctors, daily blood pressure insights, and women’s hormonal insights. Membership costs $199 to $359 per year and includes the device and charger.
People
Health Data Movers names David White (Nordic) business development executive.
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NIH will analyze Medicare and Medicaid claims data to study chronic disease, starting with autism.
President Trump’s replacement nominee for surgeon general has a health tech connection: Casey Means, MD — who dropped out of her residency and never practiced traditional medicine — is a co-founder of Levels, which offers AI-powered tracking of food intake, habits, and data from continuous glucose monitors for health optimization, weight management, and improving athletic performance. Subscription to the app is $199 per year, while adding the CGM and supplies adds $199 per month.
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Masino discloses in an SEC filing that a cyberattack on April 27 is hampering its ability to ship orders.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signs an executive order that bans state agencies from collecting autism-related personal data unless it is required for care, compliance, or eligibility.
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An appeals court rejects the attempt by former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to have her 2022 fraud conviction overturned, leaving the Supreme Court as her last chance to reverse the 11-year sentence.
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- Capital Rx releases a new episode of “The Astonishing Healthcare Podcast” titled “Empowering Plan Sponsors: Data Access & Analysis, with Bridget Mulvenna.”
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Also a lukewarm-at-best fan of Foo Fighters, but for a real tear jerker, watch the video or Taylor Hawkins’ (RIP) kid playing “My Hero” on drums at the tribute concert.
Thanks, that was good. Shane Hawkins thrashes the drums hard like his dad did, except instead of smiling, he looks like he is painfully focused on hitting hard as a teen who is developing his own style.
Dave Grohl is a rock god in my book, but I get how fathering a child outside your immediate family and, well … their music might not be to everyone’s taste. I would, however, recommend the video of the Rockin 1000 (residents of Cesena, Italy trying to lure the Foos there to do a show) covering Learn to Fly. Tons of heart.
Thanks for mentioning the Rockin’ 1000. It’s a good YouTube video and so was another where Grohl gets choked up watching it during an interview, basically telling the interviewer that it amazes him that a song he/they scribbled on a napkin or something could resonate around the world. It’s good to be (Rock) King.