Crunchbase December 9, 2019
We all want to get healthier. However, most of us would prefer if it didn’t have to involve things like vigorous exercise, sugar-free diets, less beer, and more medical exams.
Far better to just download an app, click a few times, and get some quick advice. If we could avoid the expense and hassle of dealing with a live person, that’d be extra great.
Fortuitously, that is just the direction the AI-driven healthcare chatbot startup sphere wants to take us. And if funding velocity is any indication, founders are getting lots of cash to do it.
Over the past several quarters, venture investors have ploughed hundreds of millions into an assortment of companies developing health chatbots. Branded with catchy names...