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☆ Many digital health startups are quietly raising down rounds and closing up shop. Here's why.
  + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Now, VCs say many digital health startups are cutting their valuations to live another day. As of mid-November, PitchBook data shows 327 digital health startups that grabbed funding in 2021 but haven't raised since. Not even the AI boom, which has brought back-to-back fundraises for hot healthcare startups like Abridge, can make up for the discrepancy. "There are more digital health companies that are selling assets, selling people, or whatever they can," said Greg Yap, a partner at Menlo Ventures. AdvertisementVCs told BI they're pushing the next generation of healthcare startups for better discipline in balancing growth with profits.
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☆ The pharmacy that quietly powered top startups in the hottest part of healthcare is trying to reinvent itself after losing customers and closing facilities
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | Blake Dodge | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
"We were shocked," a former employee in Truepill's business development division said of the layoffs. Insider spoke with five former and two current Truepill employees about the challenges the company is confronting after a tumultuous year. Truepill was hiring employees rapidly, accumulating about 1,800 employees by the spring of 2022, according to one former employee in Truepill's business division. Since then, there's been a companywide push to inch closer to profitability, one of the current employees told Insider. It's also downsizing its Miami pharmacy, the current employee said.
☆ Pharmacy startups are losing their battle with giants like CVS and Walgreens
  + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
Pharmacy startups like Capsule and Truepill are crumbling in the fight against pharmacy giants. But in the past year, the pharmacy startups have begun to crumble. Plus, each chain has thousands of stores across the country, providing the convenience that the pharmacy startups seek to replicate with tech. The digital-pharmacy shakeoutAnalysts suggested that healthcare startups with pharmacy components, rather than pure-play pharmacy startups, are best positioned to succeed. Truepill CEO Sid Viswanathan TruepillBut the pharmacy startups that have attempted to offer additional services have largely shelved those efforts in recent months.
☆ Inside digital health's reckoning, where once-hot startups are suddenly scrambling for cash
  + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Blake Dodge | Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
Analysts and CEOs told Insider more than half of healthcare startups will shut down by 2024. Healthcare startups looking to stay afloat have been laying off employees left and right. The online pharmacy Truepill burned through its cash as it struggled to fill prescriptions efficiently, two former employees told Insider. A spokesperson for Truepill told Insider in an email that the company's burn rate was in line with its projections. Courtesy NOCDWhile the broader economic pressures will hurt many startups that can't raise, it may help others, experts told Insider.
☆ Billionaire Mark Cuban invested in digital-health's go-to pharmacy even though it struggled to keep up with orders from his drug-pricing company
  + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Blake Dodge | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Mark Cuban has invested in the online pharmacy Truepill, he confirmed to Insider. It works with Cuban's other healthcare bet Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co.Mark Cuban's interest in breaking into the healthcare industry is heating up. In November, he backed the online pharmacy Truepill through its funding round, Cuban confirmed to Insider in an email. He's played an active role in his drug-pricing startup, which launched as the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. in 2021. When asked about the delays, Cuban said Cost Plus Drugs' volume exceeded both companies' expectations.
☆ Billionaire Mark Cuban has invested in yet another healthcare company: online pharmacy Truepill
  + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Blake Dodge | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Mark Cuban has invested in the online pharmacy Truepill, he confirmed to Insider. Truepill works with healthcare startups to send medications through the mail. It works with Cuban's other healthcare bet Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co.Mark Cuban's interest in breaking into the healthcare industry is heating up. In November, he backed the online pharmacy Truepill through its funding round, Cuban confirmed to Insider in an email. He's played an active role in his drug-pricing startup, which launched as the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. in 2021.
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