HealthMatch, a five-year-old medtech that’s like Tinder for clinical trials, matching researchers with patients, has been forced to halve its team, shedding 18 jobs, as the local tech sector braces for a long startup winter. The cuts come 18 months after Paul Bassat’s Square Peg Capital led an $18 million round in the Sydney-based startup, which… Read more »
Canberra medical imaging startup Aurabox has raised $500,000 in Angel investment to transform how doctors and patients collaborate and share medical imaging. Founded in 2021, Aurabox is a software-as-a-service platform that enables the seamless sharing of medical imaging between doctors and patients. The medtech startup plans to use the funds to complete technical development and run… Read more »
Melbourne-based epilepsy monitoring startup Epi-Minder has raised $16 million bridge financing round. The raise was backed by existing shareholders including Cochlear, the Bionics Institute, the University of Melbourne and Seer Medical, as well as private investors. The venture plans to use the cash to expand clinical trials for epilepsy monitoring device, Minder, as well as… Read more »
Is gaming good or bad for us? That generally depends on your view on gaming overall. But can it make you more productive at work? Well one startup is testing the theory, with medical virtual reality company Vantari VR is encouraging its staff to game during work hours. It seems counter-intuitive, but co-founders and co-CEOs,… Read more »
A New Zealand medtech startup that’s developed the world’s first automated 3D planner for joint replacement surgeries has raised US$5 million. The round coincides with Formus Labs launching its orthopedic surgery planning solution which provides surgeons with unprecedented insight into the pre-operation planning process. The investment was led by New Zealand VC firm GD1 (Global… Read more »
For many men and women, becoming a parent isn’t an easy journey. And while the focus on reproductive health is mostly on women, up to half (40–50%) of all infertility cases actually relate to men When Ashwin Ramachandran’s uncle spent more than $80,000 to have his first child, he saw there was a huge gap… Read more »
NSW is making a play to be at the cutting edge of drug and vaccine development with a new university-based lab and pre-clinical trial space to create early-stage mRNA and RNA-based drugs. mRNA is the new science behind the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines. While Australia has played a key role in research and development… Read more »
Medical technology startup Seer has raised $34 million in a series A as it looks to expand internationally. Medtech giant Cochlear, multi-family office EWM Group, SG Hiscock and impact investor Giant Leap backed the round. Seer’s technology is focused on clinical monitoring at home, developing devices checking key physiological signals, such as brain, heart and… Read more »
A Melbourne medtech building hypnosis-based therapeutic apps to help people self-manage a range of illnesses has raised a US$5 million (A$6.5m) seed round. San Francisco angel investor and startup founder James Beshara led the round for Y Combinator-backed Mindset Health joined by Giant Leap, Banana Capital, Fifty Years, and several angel investors. Mindset Health partners with health… Read more »
Ground-breaking research by computer scientists at RMIT University has developed an artificial intelligence model that can hear the effects of Covid-19 in the sound of a forced cough, even when people are asymptomatic. While the idea is not new, scientists at Cambridge University and MIT have been investigating the concept, the work at RMIT’s School… Read more »
Virtual reality startup Vantari VR, which has developed the medical version of a flight simulator for doctors, has scored a US$100,000 (A$131k) grant from US video games giant Epic Games, the company behind smash hit video game Fortnite. The Epic MegaGrants are designed to assist game developers and others use Unreal Engine, the commercial game engine… Read more »
A number of technologies and tools got a chance to prove themselves for the first time in the context of COVID-19. Three researchers working in gene-based vaccines, wearable diagnostics and drug discovery explain how their work rose to the challenge of the pandemic, and their hopes that each technology is now poised to continue making… Read more »
Allow us to introduce Edna — Australia’s first “genomics chatbot”. The opening dialogue of Edna the chatbot. Edna (short for “electronic-DNA”) helps patients make informed decisions about seeking “additional findings” testing. Additional findings testing looks for variants in patients’ genes that aren’t relevant to their current health, but may be later on. For example, it… Read more »
Square Peg Capital has led an $18 million round into a three-year-old medtech startup that’s like Tinder for clinical trials, matching researchers with patients. Paul Bassat’s fund led a $6 million series A into HealthMatch, founded by a UNSW med student, in late 2019 following a five-day crash course into the startup, and then joined… Read more »
Melbourne-based ESN Cleer is set to deliver a major medical breakthrough in the next 12 months as it releases the world’s first early risk detection screening for heart disease. The medtech startup has developed a simple saliva test that can be used by GPs to detect early risk for developing heart failure, which kills 10… Read more »
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