Neko Health Raises $260M

Reid Hoffman Raises $24.6 Million for AI Cancer-Research, a16z x Eli Lilly Launch a $500m Biotech Fund, 2025 Predictions from Bessemer, Wooly Mammoth ETA 2026, YC Partners Enter the Arena

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January 30th, 2025

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Neko, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, snaps up $260M at a $1.8B valuation

Stockholm startup Neko Health has made a big bet on consumers wanting to learn about their state of health and how to prevent things going wrong. Now

This YC Partner Just Raised $30 Million For An AI Startup Automating Paperwork For Biotech

Y Combinator's Surbhi Sarna has raised $30 million for Collate, a startup aiming to automate the tedious parts of running a life sciences business using AI.

Andreessen Horowitz Partners with Lilly to Launch First-of-Its-Kind Biotech Ecosystem Fund

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health today announced a newly formed, first-of-its-kind venture capital fund to fuel broader innovation in human health, in partnership with Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”). The Biotech Ecosystem Venture Fund (“Fund”) seeks to drive transformative progress in healthcare by investing in therapeutic platforms and cutting-edge technology companies that can bring new medicines and disease treatments to improve patients’ lives.

Reid Hoffman Raises $24.6 Million for AI Cancer-Research Startup

LinkedIn co-founder starting Manas AI with ‘The Emperor of All Maladies’ author Siddhartha Mukherjee

Colossal Raises $200 Million From Dodger Co-Owner, Hollywood Mega Producer

Colossal, which is trying to revive the dodo and woolly mammoth, has $10.2 billion valuation after Dodger owner and Legendary founder back company's de-extinction work

New AI tool for fighting health insurance denials could save hospitals billions, and help patients

Waystar announced a new generative AI feature that aims to help hospitals quickly fight insurance denials.

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It’s Time to Build: Healthtech Infrastructure | Andreessen Horowitz

In the “Maslow's hierarchy” of the healthcare industry’s needs, the infrastructure layer is the foundational workhorse of the system. Healthtech infrastructure refers to the utilities and systems-of-record that underpin all of the core operational transactions, financial transactions, data exchange, and interoperability actions that occur across the healthcare system everyday.

Bessemer: 2025 Healthcare and Life Sciences Predictions

Read our healthcare team's ten predictions and trends shaking up medical research, care delivery, and administration in 2025 and beyond.

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