Subject: Dr. J. Craig Venter: Cracking the Longevity Code
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** Cracking the Longevity Code
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When it comes to achieving the Longevity Moonshot, Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI) (https://www.humanlongevity.com/?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID]) , is as close as it currently gets to adding 50+ healthy years to every human life. In a recent interview, Jane Metcalfe, CEO of Neo.Life (http://neo.life/?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID]) , dug into the world of genomics with Dr. Venter (https://healthtransformer.co/cracking-the-longevity-code-7ac3a41c6e93?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID]) and explored how HLI’s Health Nucleus is detecting diseases and cancers in the early stages to ultimately save people’s lives.

** Trend Watch: Stories Shaping Digital Health
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We saw $258M in digital health funding this week, led by Iora Health ($100.0M), which seeks to reduce the number of emergency room admissions and hospital readmissions for Medicare patients. Other big raises this week included Honor ($50M) and Heal ($20M).
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Indiana 211 Partnership With OpenBeds Helps 100 in First Month (http://www.tribstar.com/news/local_news/indiana-partnership-helps-in-first-month/article_0bea102c-cbf2-558c-9ff5-00a02417e3e8.html?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID])

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Innovative health companies raised over $258M in the last week (http://www.startuphealth.com/insights?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID]) . Some of the most recent deals:
Startup                                                                                                                            Amount   Investors
Iora Health (https://medcitynews.com/2018/05/iora-health-raises-100m-with-plans-to-double-number-of-medicare-patients-it-serves/?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID]) $100.0M   .406 Ventures, Devonshire Investors, F-Prime Capital, Flare Capital Partners, GE Ventures, Humana, Khosla Ventures, Polaris Partners, Temasek
Honor (https://pitchbook.com/newsletter/home-care-startup-nabs-50m-series-c?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID])                                                       $50.0M   Naspers, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital
Heal (https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/22/heal-raises-20-million-to-let-doctors-make-house-calls/?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID])                                  $20.0M   Bascom Ventures, Inflection Capital, IRA Capital, RLJ Equity Partners, Trans-Pacific Technology Fund, Lionel Richie
Simple Contacts (http://fortune.com/2018/05/18/term-sheet-friday-may-18/?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID])                                                          $16.0M   Waypoint Capital Partners, Goodwater Capital, Steven Cohen
Nanit (http://virtual-strategy.com/2018/05/21/nanit-the-first-baby-monitor-that-uses-computer-vision-to-measure/?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID])                  $14.0M   Jerusalem Venture Partners, Upfront, RRE, Vulcan Capital, Vaal Investment Partners
PriorAuthNow (https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/05/15/fast-growing-health-it-startup-priorauthnow-raises.html?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID])        $10.6M   BIP Capital, NCT Ventures, Detroit Venture Partners
Quip (https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/16/electric-toothbrush-startup-quip-raises-10-million-acquires-a-dental-insurance-startup/?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID])   $10.0M   Silicon Valley Bank
Canary Medical (https://biv.com/article/2018/05/bc-medtech-startup-canary-lands-funding-tune-us10m?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID])                                $10.0M   Quark Venture, GF Securities, Relentless Pursuit Partners, BioScience Managers
UCARE.AI (http://www.ucare.ai/news/?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID])                                                                                                $8.2M   Walden International, Great Eastern, Peter Lim, WPGrowth Ventures
Luma Health (https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/22/luma-health-raises-6-3-million-for-automated-patient-messaging-service/?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID])            $6.3M   U.S. Venture Partners, Stanford StartX Fund
BrainQ (https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/15/brainq-raises-5-3m-to-treat-neurological-disorders-with-the-help-of-ai/?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID])                  $5.3M   Qure Ventures, OurCrowd, Norma Investments, IT-Farm, Amir Gross
Mfine (https://techstory.in/mfine-raises-funding-2018/?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID])                                                                             $4.2M   Prime Venture Partners, Stellaris Venture Partners, Mayur Abhaya Srisrimal
Ably Medical (https://www.dn.no/grunder/2018/05/03/2117/Morgendagens-naeringsliv/-vi-digger-at-folk-satser-stort?mc_cid=574307153d&mc_eid=[UNIQID])                   $4.0M   Pir Invest
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