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 ...

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

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 ...

The hottest doctor reference source withdrew its medical evidence and decision support app from the UK and European markets. The news, reported in HIStalk on 28 April, is shocking–but not surprising.

Teladoc formally responds to the Blue Orca Capital research report [TTA 25 Feb]. Their letter (PDF) via its legal counsel (King & Spalding) yesterday refutes Blue Orca’s allegations in a report on ...

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), ...

OpenAI sued for ChatGPT “practicing medicine without a license” after “inaccurate medical guidance”–and may be the first of its type. The lawsuit filed in Superior Court of California, San Francisco, ...

Bankrupt 23andMe finally settles with 2023 data breach victims. The settlement of $46.75 million was approved by the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. It will be paid first to ...