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☆ Medical startup Sword Health announces AI that patients can talk to
  + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Ashley Capoot | In | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Pain management startup Sword Health on Tuesday announced a new artificial intelligence solution named Phoenix that patients can speak with for guidance through virtual physical therapy sessions. Sword patients join sessions using a tablet from the company that can track their movement. Phoenix will propose changes for the patient's next session, as well as a follow-up message about the session they completed. Patients can sign up for Sword if it is supported by their employer or their health plan. Sword has been testing Phoenix with some patients using its "Thrive" digital physical therapy product.
Persons: Virgílio Bento, Bento, Sword, Catalyst Organizations: Pain, CNBC, Phoenix, Venture, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund Locations: Phoenix
☆ VCs are getting pickier about their weight-loss bets as startups rush to prescribe Ozempic
  + stars: | 2023-12-11 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Read previewWith the Ozempic craze in full swing, investors are getting picky about the weight-loss startups they want to back. Kaganoff predicted that in the new year some startups prescribing GLP-1s would invest more money in studies using real-world evidence to show their programs work. And despite the Ozempic frenzy, weight-loss startups captured a tiny fraction of the money invested this year. Investors had put about $211 million toward weight-loss startups through mid-November, representing about 3% of digital-health funding over that period, according to PitchBook. Alfie HealthSome unlikely sectors of the healthcare industry stand to benefit from the growth of the weight-loss market.
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☆ Billion-dollar physical-therapy startup Sword Health shares the strategies it's using to drive growth ahead of a potential IPO
  + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Sword Health wants to be profitable before an IPO, and it's aiming to hit that milestone in 2024. Virgilio Bento founded Sword Health in 2015 to give patients around the world access to virtual physical therapy. Bento isn't interested in taking Sword public before the company is profitable, he said, a milestone he expects to reach next year. "And I don't want to be a public company that's not profitable because that puts us in a very tricky situation." Sword Health uses wearables to monitor user movement and provide physical therapy virtually.
Persons: Virgilio Bento, Sword, Bento isn't, Bento, hadn't, he's, hasn't Organizations: Health, Sword Health, Smart
☆ Sword Health wants to do some M&A as business picks up. Here's what the physical-therapy startup is looking for.
  + stars: | 2022-09-14 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
After a year of growth, Sword Health is looking to expand through mergers and acquisitions. CEO Virgílio Bento said he's looking for startups with solid healthcare partnerships and teams. As merger-and-acquisition activity in healthcare heats up, Sword Health has some of its own irons in the fire. Since October, the startup has grown its employer base from 150 to more than 1,400, Insider has learned exclusively. Instead, Bento said Sword wanted to accelerate how it grows, including by exploring more M&A opportunities.
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