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Cortical Labs Unveils World's First "Biological Computer"

Virtual Physical Therapists Hinge Health Files for IPO, Epic Building Out Agentic AI, Robot Masseuses Coming to Luxury Hotels, Peptide That Rivals Ozempic

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March 12th, 2025

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Cortical Labs Unveils World's First "Biological Computer" That Fuses Human Brain Cells with Silicon Hardware

The technology lets you interact with real neurons, grown across a silicon chip. Priced at $35,000. The next step will be to build a biological neural network server stack.

Freed Raises $30M to Free Clinicians

Freed raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Scale Venture Partners, Daniel Gross, Gokul Rajaram.

Virtual Physical Therapists Hinge Health Files for IPO, Estimated to Raise $500M

Hinge was last valued at $6.2 billion in October 2021. Hinge’s revenue in 2024 was $390 million, a 33% increase from the prior year, while net losses narrowed to $11.9 million from $108 million in 2023

Aescape Secures $83MM in Strategic Funding, Announces U.S. Expansion with Equinox

Led by Valor Equity Partners, the new round brings Aescape’s total funding to $128MM as it accelerates national expansion and fuels operational growth.

Epic Building Out Agentic AI, Broadens Focus Beyond EHRs

Electronic health record giant Epic is putting major investments into rapidly building out its AI capabilities to benefit doctors, clinicians and patients, including AI agents.

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Naturally Occurring Molecule Rivals Ozempic in Weight Loss, Sidesteps Side Effects

A Stanford Medicine study taps artificial intelligence to find a naturally occurring molecule called a peptide that suppressed appetite and led to weight loss in mice and pigs.

Why the Hinge Health IPO is so important for digital health

Hinge Health has filings for an initial public offering, and the whole industry is talking about it. There hasn’t been an IPO in the category for a while, not since Waystar, the practice management software company that went public in the summer of 2024.

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