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 ...

Mr. Market woke up out of his summertime nap with some surprising end-of-July activity. What will August bring?

As we near Labor Day, we enter the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone, a/k/a The Doldrums. Given the calendar, monsoons, and the fifth UK/European heat wave plus forest fires, perhaps the ...

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, ...

Languishing Teladoc faces activist shareholder as Q1 reporting nears. Pineal Capital Management, a Dublin, Ireland-based investment firm, issued on Tuesday an open letter to Teladoc’s board, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Chutes department, it’s an insurer breach and an AI model that broke dramatically out of its sandbox.

The doldrums of M&A and fundings lightened a bit this week. Patients are using portals for messaging and other tasks, but using them along with increased physical visits. A five-year study by NYU ...

Grab a cuppa and sit down with these articles. (You may also want to subscribe to their authors.) From Substack, UK author Martyn Eeles current Health VC newsletter, “The Strategic Clarity Problem”, ...