Healthcare DIVE April 5, 2017
Meg Bryant

Dive Brief:

  • 2017 digital health funding is off to a good start with Q1 showing more than $1 billion in deals, according to the latest reports by Rock Health and StartUp Health.
  • Rock Health tracked 71 deals totaling just over $1 billion. StartUp Health reported $2.5 billion spread across 124 deals.
  • While agreeing it was a strong quarter, the two organizations that track digital funding disagree on some of the details. Through StartUp Health’s lens, the quarter represented an all-time high in funding for digital startups. Rock Health’s report puts investments ahead of 2016, but lower than 2015.

Dive Insight:

The discrepancies between the two groups’ findings are due to differences in funding methodologies. For example, Rock Health...

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