Pick your metaphor….” For health tech, it was the best H1 since H1 2022, with $7.2 billion versus $9.1 billion in investment, a tidy increase versus 2025 H1’s $6.7 billion. The major difference is ...

Cityblock simultaneously announced a Series E of $116 million led by General Catalyst for a total of close to $1 billion. General Catalyst is an investor in both companies. (Is this a return to the ...

Giant Universal Health Services (UHS) $835 million acquisition of Talkspace closed right on time–Q3. The buy, announced in March, is now complete with Talkspace becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary ...

The cost of Oracle’s extended EHRM contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs disclosed. The ten-year contract for the ...

It reads to investors, especially now, as lack of priorities and not strategic. Mr. Eeles recommends focus, focus, focus. Choose a strategy and stick with it. It doesn’t mean that a founder cannot ...

Enjoy the August Doldrums, because this fall might be awfully…eventful. Our Must Reads are rather Doomful, between exposés on General Catalyst and Commure’s business practices, plus OpenAI’s ...

A bad wake up this morning for too many people. To absolutely no one’s surprise to close out this month, including Mr. Market (right), Oracle Corporation laid off an estimated 20-30,000 staff globally ...

Hims & Hers expands to Ireland, France, and Germany, and adds to UK. Announced yesterday, the ambitious strategic acquisition of Zava, a similar online direct to consumer provider of telemedicine ...

An interesting follow up on last month’s rampant speculation of an Oracle Health sale. Bloomberg News’ Brody Ford broke the news coursing through Reddit’s Oracle threads last week about the departure ...

The number of hospitals impacted by EHR purchase decisions dropped 40% compared to 2024 and nearly 50% compared to 2023. Acute care EHR purchase energy declined significantly in 2025, driven by ...

While SpaceX has debuted to well over a $2.3 trillion (that’s with a T) market cap, it seems that even giant companies are still facing expensive headwinds. To Reuters and to Business Insider, an ...

The speculation is now “official”, since it is by a London investment banking firm, but it confirms this Editor’s earlier view: Oracle, to become an “AI Infrastructure Landlord” (in their apt term), ...