Mercom, a communications research company, recently released its 2016 Q1 medical investment report, which has reached $1.4 billion in medical IT venture capital. Compared with the $1.1 billion in the fourth quarter of last year, it increased by 27% year-on-year and 74% quarter-on-quarter.
The biggest winner: wearables, data analysis and telemedicine
According to mobihealthnews, Mercom co-founder and CEO Raj Prabhu said that wearables, data analytics and telemedicine companies have performed well, especially in the latter two categories, which have so far received more than $1 billion in financing. At the same time, however, the performance of medical listed companies is still relatively unsatisfactory.
Moreover, consumer-oriented companies also performed better than enterprise-oriented companies, with the former trading at 97 and receiving $796 million in financing; the latter with only 49, reaching $569 million in transactions.
In medical IT risk financing, wearables still dominated, with a $260 million financing alone, followed by data analysis companies and telemedicine companies, with $197 million and $171 million, respectively. Mobile medical and consumer-oriented medical information education companies also received $120 million and $100 million in financing, respectively.
Who are the six star companies?
So, which companies have gained the most favor this quarter?
Cancer Big Data Company Flatiron: Google Venture leads, $175 million
Flatiron Health is a medical data analysis company for oncology patients, founded in 2012. By collecting clinical and treatment data, the company allows doctors to call Flatiron's data for analysis and also to establish a patient electronic medical database.
Wearables company Jawbone: Kuwait Investment Authority led by $165 million
As of now, Jawbone has accumulated more than $1 billion in financing, but there are rumors that the valuation of this round of financing in January 2016 was only the same as in 2011, at $1.5 billion.
Jawbone has had a lot of difficulties in the past year, not only being disclosed as a 4% layoff due to poor performance, but also falling into a patent litigation battle with Fitbit.
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