#10 🍩 What the Health - It's Raining Raises, Fund Launch Fever & Free Conference Tickets

Your fortnightly healthtech TL;DR roundup

Jun 28, 2021

Oh, Sydney…

We’re sorry 💔 Thoughts are with you this week as you ride out the joyous lockdown.

Sadly this means another delay for our little launch event… but there’s some saying about things being better when you have to wait for them? We’ll get there eventually, and it will be great.

Melbourne - to tide things over till our next affair let’s have a little mid-week coffee catch up to get through those mid-week blues. Details here and see you there

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Not on the list yet but want to stay up to date?

Noteworthy 🗞️

📱Mindset Health, evidence-based hypnotherapy app raises $6.7m from US & Aus

⏰ InstantScripts, AI-enabled telehealth venture providing quick access to prescriptions snags $11m

🏋️Vitruvian Form, a smart strength training machine bags $US6m to scale

🎉Nutromics is selected as one of 25 for MedTech Innovator’s Global Accelerator, the worlds largest accelerator for med devices. They also recently bagged an iAward

🧬Currus Biologics bags $10m from Brandon Capital & Uniseed for developing new tumour treatments using CAR-T cell therapies

🚀New fund, Flying Fox Ventures launches led by 2 startup ecosystem legends and using the increasingly popular rolling fund model

💰Aussie entrepreneurs band together to launch “The Fund” focused on seed and pre-seed, is sector agnostic and on the lookout for “world-positive startups”

🌱The Alberts family have a $16m early-stage impact fund in the works

🤑Chemist Warehouse strikes deal with fintech, Slyp to move receipts digital

💽 Practice management SaaS Genie is set to hit the ASX with IPO later this year

💊ANDHealth announces partnership with Roche

🥇Congrats MedCorp Technologies & Navi Medical Technologies for getting into the MedTech Innovator 2021 APAC Accelerator just 20 startups selected from all of APAC

💪Strong Room goes strength to strength with Direct Chemist Outlet endorsement deal to bring its AI’s pharmacy platform to members

🏗️ 3DMorphic (3D printed implants) & VitalTrace (foetal biosensor) get a piece of $3.2m grant pie for innovators

🧫 Biotech Mass Dynamics raised $1.5m to scale its software for mass spectrometry and proteomics helping accelerate research and drug development

🏆Allison Nikula, CEO of CareApp, linking aged care providers with families snags the disrupter award at the 40 Under 40 awards

💸Ex-NAB CEO is raising a $250m impact investment fund to tackle aged care, disability housing and mental health

FROM THE STATES

💵The latest from Google, JP Morgan, Microsoft & Apple

🚲Peloton readies wearable heart rate monitor as it quietly expands

🐣Amazon launches first digital health startups accelerator with public focus

💹Pear Therapeutics to go public in $1.6B SPAC to treat diseases with software

🍄Psychedelic Startup, Atai Life Sciences, backed by Peter Thiel, boomed in public debut as the 3rd psychedelic biotech to hit Wall Street

Startup Stuff 🚀

☀️Horizon’s Angel Network Is Still on the Lookout for Startups

Want to pitch? Fill out this form

🇮🇳 Female Founded Company Looking to Scale to India?

WE@inQ supports Aussie women-led startups to launch and scale their businesses into India through a 3-month program - More here

💵 Got a Startup Based in Qld That’s MVP or Beyond?

Ignite Ideas Fund supports SMEs with high-growth potential to undertake commercialisation projects with up to $200k in grant funding - More here

🤝Early Stage Founder? Aus’s Top Tech Investors Want to Meet You

The Giant Warm Intro aim’s level the playing field in tech investment. Aus’s VCs are opening sessions to ask for advice, test your pitch, connect, or learn more about fundraising through 1:1s — More info here

🏆Think You’re a Badass Innovative Company? Prove It!

Enter the new InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence which highlights and rewards the creators & companies building the future of Aussie tech - More here

👩‍💻Want to Develop an App Interfacing Users With an Output Device?

Learn best practice approach through Cicada’s Embedded Programming Workshop (Sydney), a part of their rapid prototyping series - More here

🤖 Want to Be on the List of Top 100 Global AI Companies?

The International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence is searching for the Top 100 projects solving UN SDGs related problems with AI. Top 10 will also receive support with training, advisory, networking and mentoring -More here

🔬Early Stage BioPharma Looking to Nail the Basics?

BioMelbourne’s Advancing Global Business Strategy for BioPharma custom program supports early-stage BiopPharmas through workshops including “Creating a Value Story for Your Product” & “The Art of Capital Raising” - More here

For more check out the last roundup here

Events💥

Wed 30th Jun: Galileo Ventures Founder Showcase -Melb & virtual

Sat 3rd Jul: Digital health Conference: what works and what doesn't - lessons learnt from COVID-19'

Mon 12th Jul: Low Code Workshop - Melb

Tues 13th Jul: #RA21 Demo Day (Remarkable Accelerator)

Tues 13th Jul: RMIT Open Labs Transforming Health: is value-based healthcare the future of healthcare?

Mon Jul 26th: Let's fund femtech: Breaking barriers to innovation for female health

Wed 28th Jul: Aged Care Innovation

10th -11th Aug: Innovate Health 2021 - Melb & Virtual

Consumable Content 💎

🔈Not Boring: The Secret 3-Step Master Plan to Cure Healthcare

Building infrastructure and APIs, Nexhealth has a plan and an $31M Series B from backers like 20VC’s Harry Stebbings to create the future foundations for healthtech

📚Check out the Digital Medicine Society’s (DiMe’s) Crowdsourced Library of Digital Health Resources

🎥 Digital Health CRC has a vid for those looking to learn to take Idea to Action: How to think like a health-tech entrepreneur and turn your big idea into reality

📖 Interesting dive in Crunchbase on the trending addiction startups & where the money is going

💰Vic has $6.4B grants up for grabs and >$80.3B nationally! How do you capitalise on this? Check out this vid on grants by Startup Vic

❄️Miss the Talking Healthtech (THT) Winter Summit? Catch up here - paywall

Want to Join Me at Innovate Health 2021? 🚨 Fun Freebie

10th - 11th August | Rydges Melbourne & Virtual

Innovate Health is an IRL conference (also virtual) bringing the best across Aus to discuss accelerating the growth, uptake and commercialisation of digital health innovations. This year’s focus is remote monitoring and digital innovations enabling the home as the centre of care. Of course, there’s even a Startup Pitchfest - Find the program & speakers here

They’re kind enough to give one of you wonderful people a 🎫 free ticket (worth $1695)

Want to join? Just hit reply and tell me why!
Winner announced Friday

Juicy Jobs 🔥

Startups

HealthMatch - Product Designer, Software Engineer & Account Manager
Eucalyptus - Investment Analyst, Content Designer & everything else
Arli - Head of Operations
Medirecords - DevOps Engineer | AWS | Kubernetes
Umps - Marketing Manager & Hardware Engineer
HotDoc - Support Team Leader & Copy Writer/Content Writer

For the Health Professionals

Early Stage Preventative Health Venture - GP (Medical Advisor)
Annalise.ai - Clinical Project Manager
HealthMatch - Medical Operations Associate
Umbo - Speech-Language Pathologist (virtual)
Royal Melbourne Hospital - 4x General Managers
Townsville - Director Clinical Information Management
Syneos Health - Clin Ops Lead

Ecosystem/Industry

Airtree Ventures - Investment Associate, Portfolio & Investment Ops Analysts
Flying Fox Ventures - Investment Associate/Manager
Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre - Program Manager
Royal Melbourne Hospital - Biomedical Class 3 Engineer

Other Opps ✨

Want to Share Your “Creative” Career in Medicine & Health at a Conference?

Creative Careers in Medicine is on the hunt for fab presenters for their upcoming conference “CCIM 2021: Adventuring into the unknown” taking place in Sydney - EOIs here

Know a Brilliant Women in Digital Health? Nominate Her for an Award!

Telstra Health presents it’s first awards to recognise and celebrate 25 wonderful women in digital health and support the purpose of the network overall – to connect, share, inspire and celebrate - More on nominations here

How Can We Improve Funding for Projects in Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease?

MTPConnect and the TTRA’s Research Centre are looking to identify current unmet needs to better allocate funding - Help out by taking the 10-15 min survey

Want to Help Redefine the Future of Digital Health & Virtual Care?

Fill out this survey on how you use and envision digital health for Curtin University’s study with with Deloitte and the Digital Health CRC project

Want a Fellowship to Fund Working on Priority Medical Research Projects?

REDI Fellowship Program provides upto $250k for industry Fellowships giving companies financial support to bring Aussie academics, clinicians and professionals in-house for up to 12 months - More here

Is it just me, or was there a ridiculous amount of emojis in this one?

Until next time

👋 Emily

Retraction - M3 Health Job - sorry I got slack and didn’t properly vet. Do not apply. Sounds scammy

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