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Don’t Make These 5 BIG Mistakes When Answering VC/Customer Questions
Ready to answer VC questions like a pro? In this Dose, Mike Ravenscroft, Startup Success Manager at Dreamit Ventures, gives you 5 common mistakes to avoid in order to tighten up your answers to VC and customer questions. Get the art of answering investor and customer questions in a short 6-minute Dreamit Dose!
How To Answer What's Your Valuation?
The "What’s your valuation?" question is a common component of investor Q/A. You need to be aware of and ready for this tough question from investors. In this Dreamit Dose, Managing Director Adam Dakin reveals the right approach on how to answer the valuation question when pitching VCs.
The State of Startup Collaboration at Large Health Systems | 2020 Survey
Dreamit Ventures and MedCityNews teamed up to get a pulse on the current appetite for innovation at large health systems across the United States. The survey data tapped senior innovation leaders, 85% of whom came from health systems with over 1,000 beds.
Why Investors Say No - Three Startup Pitch Mistakes That Are Easy to Fix
Speaking to investors can require a language of its own. Word choice is important and even the smallest detail can make or break your startup pitch. Adam Dakin, Managing Director of Dreamit Healthtech, sees founders make the same common pitch mistakes over and over. Luckily, he’s a pro when it comes to pitching investors and distills the advice so it’s easy to avoid. In this Dreamit Dose, Adam dives into the language of the pitch and flags three common mistakes you’ll want to avoid.
Infermedica Raises $10 million Series A for R&D and International Expansion
Today, Infermedica (HT ‘18) announced a $10M Series A financing round for their AI-driven platform that helps insurance, telemedicine companies, and health systems increase efficiency through fast, digital symptom-checks. The platform has nearly 60 B2B partners across 30 countries, including Microsoft, Allianz, Global Excel, Sana Kliniken, and Médis, and has performed more than 6 million health checks globally. Read here.
TrekIT Health Raises $1M Seed Extension, Hires New Executive Chairman
TrekIT Health (HT- ‘18) announced closing $1M in additional seed financing. TrekIt’s technology is a HIPAA compliant and secure, real-time workspace for synthesizing information across EHRs and care teams. Clinicians love TrekIT because of its intuitive and predictive interface which serves as a cure for disjointed information systems and a replacement for paper task lists. Read more.
Ruvna Releases "Ruvna Health" to Prepare Schools for COVID-19 Reopening
Ruvna, a safety and communication platform for school systems, is releasing a new product this fall providing COVID-19 screening, tracking, and compliance for schools and districts called Ruvna Health. Learn more about the solution here.
EnsoData Raises $9M Series A Financing to Empower Clinicians with Waveform AI
Last week, EnsoData (Healthtech - Spring 2019) announced a $9 million Series A financing round led by Venture Investors and Zetta Venture Partners, with participation from Dreamit Ventures. Their platform transforms billions of waveform data points collected from sensors in medical devices and wearables into an easy-to-read report, so clinicians can make faster, more accurate diagnoses.
How to CRUSH Your Demo When Pitching
Good founders know the importance of nailing their product demo. While many demo, few excel at it. In this #DreamitDose, Managing Partner Steve Barsh gives founders a simple framework to crush your demo. Along the way, Steve reveals pro tips like how to layer in traction and provides an example of a truly compelling use case.
Wellth Raises $10M in Series A Funding
Wellth, a platform designed to improve treatment adherence using behavioral economics, announced the closing of their $10M Series A round, co-led by yabeo and Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF). Wellth graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2016.
Net Health Acquires Tissue Analytics
Net Health has acquired Tissue Analytics, a pioneering developer of automated mobile wound and skin imaging and predictive analytics solutions. The Baltimore-based startup graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2014.
How COVID-19 is Changing Digital Health
Will the pandemic change healthcare? Earlier this month, Adam Dakin, Managing Director of Dreamit Healthtech, joined Phase2 Health to share his insight on the topic. Read to explore shifts in venture investment, healthtech trends, and what the world will look like after Covid-19.
Dreamit Startups on the Front Lines of COVID-19
More than 15 Dreamit Healthtech companies have products that are helping to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. These companies are actively deploying COVID-19 solutions in hospitals and healthcare systems. Read on to explore solutions by use case.
Healthtech Newsletter | 3/3/2020
Telehealth is having a moment right now. With global psyche engrossed in COVID-19 press, this could be telehealth's 'put-me-in-coach' moment. Read on to dive deeper.
The Art of Integrating Your Product Into a Health System or Hospital
Watch this webinar to learn about the typical requirements for selling into and integrating with health systems, how different approaches to EHR integration will affect your company’s resources, the benefits of working with an EHR interoperability platform, tips for selling into health systems, and more.
HealthTech News Roundup
Read the most important news in healthcare and health tech innovation and learn about upcoming events that might be relevant to your startup.
The Startups and Investors Bringing Voice Tech to Healthcare
Learn how startups like Sopris Health, Infermedica, Voiceitt, and Orbita are leveraging voice tech to improve every aspect of the healthcare industry.
AMOpportunities (Dreamit HealthTech S2019) Announces $2.2 Million Series A Round
AMOpportunities (Dreamit HealthTech S2019) recently closed a Series A round that it will use to expand its medical education platform to new U.S. hospitals and foreign medical schools.
Announcing the 17 New Startups in Dreamit Ventures’ SecureTech, HealthTech, and UrbanTech Programs
We are thrilled to announce the newest Dreamit cohort, selected from a field of nearly 2,000 pre-Series A startups.
MedStack (Dreamit HealthTech 2016) Closes $2.4 Million Seed Round
Dreamit HealthTech alum MedStack recently closed a $2.4 million seed round. The company, whose product helps healthcare technology vendors meet the security and privacy requirements of enterprise customers, plans to use the new funding to expand its team and continue growing its product.