London-headquartered virtual care platform Suvera has closed a £5 million seed extension financing round led by Morningside Ventures, a Boston-based private equity and venture capital firm.

Lottie, a comparison website for residential care and independent living, has raised £6.125 million from US venture capital firm General Catalyst.

CVC Capital Partners VIII has invested in Gloucester-based medical device company Spectrum Medical Group, valuing the company at up to £1billion.

Following an in-depth review of over 200 applications, investor at Spex Capital Filippo Falaschi, shares the team’s key learning’s on today’s health-tech start-up market along with predictions on what’s to come.

London-based tinnitus-focused digital health company Oto has raised $3.3 million in seed investment after completing of the Y Combinator accelerator programme.

Centauri Therapeutics, an immunotherapy company in Sandwich, Kent founded by Animatrix Founders and focused on the treatment of infectious diseases, has appointed Dr Jennifer Schneider as chief executive.

NHS England has announced its latest Adoption Fund for 2022-2023 to support the introduction or scaling up of digital innovations to support people in their own homes.

Private equity firm Inflexion Private Equity Partners has led the buyout of SteriPack, a contract manufacturer serving the medical device, pharmaceutical and diagnostic markets.

Certific has raised a total of €7.4 million to advance remote medical diagnostics. HealthInvestor speaks to Dr Jack Kreindler, co-founder and chief scientific officer to find out more.

Holly Health, a digital health coach for sustainable behaviour change, has raised £1.4 million from investors.

Sheffield-based Arquella, which provides advanced nurse call systems for adult social care services and care homes has secured £850,000 from Traditum Private Equity and NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance.

The government has published its policy paper for digital health and social care in England.

Home care software provider Birdie has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by investment firm Sofina, with participation from Omers Ventures and existing investor Index Ventures.

Speaking at a webinar, Alan Hughes, founder and chief executive of LIT Healthcare, analyses how different types of digital care can help reduce waiting lists.

HealthInvestor caught up with Emil Peters, chief executive of digital health provider Tunstall, at the Health Plus Care show 2022.

Medical equipment service provider Althea UK & Ireland has appointed Mark Graves as operations director to oversee the delivery of Althea’s services.

Private equity firm Astorg has acquired a majority stake in Avania, a Netherlands-based global clinical contract research organisation dedicated to medical technology, from primary buyout firm Kester Capital.

University of Cambridge healthtech spin-off Psyomics has closed a £2.4 million funding round led by university spin-out investor Parkwalk.

Health services firm Optum UK is acquiring Leeds-based healthtech company EMIS Group for about £1.24 billion in cash.

Florence, the London-based tech startup that connects vacant care home shifts to local nurses and carers, is expanding in France, Germany and Canada this year, HealthInvestor can reveal.

Health and social care secretary Sajid Javid spoke at London Tech Week’s HealthTech Summit to launch the new data in health strategy ‘Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data’.

Lowestoft-based are management system company PredicAire has appointed Linda Copley as business development executive.

Safety and compliance technology provider Radar Healthcare has closed a £9 million funding round led by existing investor 24Haymarket.

What began as a loose prototype using an office swivel chair has evolved into a revolutionary approach to delivering radiotherapy to cancer patients. 

Keele, Staffordshire-based medical devices company Biocomposites has appointed Simon Greenhalgh as group chief financial officer and Pete Webster as UK general manager.

Proximie, the healthtech platform digitally connecting operating rooms has raised $80 million in a Series C equity financing led by Advent Life Science.

London-based healthcare private equity investor Apposite Capital has made a further investment in Mirada Medical, an Oxford-headquartered precision imaging software and image guided tools for cancer care.

Florence, a UK-based technology provider for social care, has raised £28.5 million through a Series B funding round led by Axa Venture Partners with participation from Roo Capital and existing backers SEEK Investments.

The huge pressure on national health systems to improve health outcomes and bring down costs is driving high levels of innovation within digital health, Romain Ellul, managing director of healthcare at Bryan Garnier & Co, explains.

Through this acquisition, Apricity aims at four key areas of acceleration including improved lead generation, geographical expansion beyond France and the UK, increased user engagement, and AI optimisation.

HCA Healthcare UK has invested £1.9 million in a new magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI) scanner available at HCA UK The Wellington Hospital, in St John's Wood, London.  The group plans more investment in pioneering technology, a spokesperson tells HealthInvestor UK.

NHS England recently said that it wanted clinical decision support technology to “become the norm” across the country. HealthInvestor UK speaks to Gregory Samios, president and chief executive of the clinical effectiveness business at Wolters Kluwer Health to find more. He talks healthtech as a CDS driver, market trends, challenges and opportunities.

Healthcode, online products and services provider for the private healthcare sector, has appointed Richard Aris as head of business development to help the company achieve its ambitious growth strategy.

London-based online dermatology start-up ZappedSkin has raised £220,000 from Jenson Funding Partners.

Health and dental plan provider Simplyhealth has invested in Ampersand, a provider of digital therapies for inflammatory conditions.

Health and care technology company Tunstall Healthcare has acquired alarm monitoring services provider Oy Verifi in Finland.

London-based digital doctor service Babylon Holdings has announced a first-quarter 2022 loss of $91.4 million, compared to a net loss of $10.8 reported for Q1 2021.

London-based Motilent, which specialises in the assessment of digestive diseases using artificial intelligence medical image analysis, has received £1.2 million in National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funding to develop and roll out its technology into more than 10 UK hospitals.

Digital care management system provider Person Centred Software has acquired Atlas eMAR, a medication management system that digitally links care homes to GP prescribing systems and the supplying pharmacy.

By Anja Bickelmaier, co-head of healthcare at European investment firm Triton Partners

Digital health coaching company Liva Healthcare has appointed Sarah Beeby as managing director, UK, responsible for representing the UK market at board level and joining of the executive management team.

Private equity firm Permira had sold medical equipment service provider Althea to a consortium including Italian infrastructure fund F2i and infrastructure investment manager DWS Infrastructure.

Bangalore-based Ultrahuman, a metabolic fitness platform, has raised an undisclosed amount in funding in addition to its recent $17 million Series A funding round.

Reducing staffing pressures is the top investment criterion in healthtech innovations, speakers of ‘The fight for healthtech investment opportunities post pandemic’ panel at LSX World Congress 2022, stated.

Health technology provider Agilio Software has acquired flexible working platform My Locum Manager (MLM), adding it to its primary care division.

London-based digital health company Physitrack has acquired Sheffield-headquartered Champion Health, a workplace health platform.

Preventx is set to expand its STI testing services into Spain, with further plan in place to enter the markets in Belgium and Germany, HealthInvestor UK can reveal.

Chicago-based RLDatix,has acquired West London-headquartered Quality Compliance Systems, which provides software-as-a-service compliance software for the social care and primary care sectors.

Blue Zinc, a Belfast-based provider of software to the well-being and rehabilitation industry, is entering the mental health therapists sector with a new software system, part of a £2.2 million development programme, a spokesperson tells HealthInvestor UK.

London-based Proximie, a platform that allows surgeons to advise on operations remotely around the globe, has partnered with the Association of Program Directors in Surgery in the US to advance surgical education and digitize the operation rooms for the betterment of patient care.

Venture-backed healthtech startup Ultrahuman has acquired wearables company LazyCo for an undisclosed sum.

SBRI Healthcare recently awarded £4 million to nine medical technology and digital innovations to support the NHS in recovery from Covid-19.

Health and care technology company, Tunstall Healthcare, has announced the appointment of Emil Peters as group chief executive with effect from 16 May.

GripAble, a London-based digital healthcare start-up delivering rehabilitation programmes to people with neurological and musculoskeletal conditions, has closed an $11 million Series A round led by IP Group, with equal investment from Parkwalk Advisors.

Rapid Response Revival, the creator of CellAED, a personal defibrillator is to raise $37.5million.

With Integrated Care Systems (ICS) on their way to becoming statutory bodies, are hospitals and trusts fully equipped to meet the new challenges?

Biomedical start-up Adapttech has raised £2.25 million from investors including Mercia Asset Management, ACF Investors, Wren Capital and Wealth Club.

Merlin Piscitelli, chief revenue officer, EMEA, at Datasite discusses healthcare M&A trends and the future of due diligence

The pandemic hastened the adoption of telehealth dentistry and offers opportunities for investment, says David Cran, SmileDirectClub

The healthcare sector must encourage its workforces to adopt new technology, according to Jolanda Clement, a content strategist at software company Siilo

Professor George Crooks explains the important role for citizens in molding the digital tools which could help boost recovery of health and care services

HealthHero, with the support of MARCOL Health, is transforming the healthcare delivery continuum

Seattle-headquartered global health technology consultancy Tegria has invested in digital health consultancy Cloud21, based in Kings Hill in Kent.

Beamtree Holdings, a Sydney-based health artificial intelligence and data analytics provider, has formed four relationships with separate NHS entities.

Leeds-based Caterpillar, a digital rewards app for health promotion, education and behavioural change, has secured £450,000 in funding from investors including venture capital firm Jenson Funding Partners.

Dublin-based LetsGetChecked is acquiring Veritas Intercontinental from mid-market private equity company Charme Capital Partners and venture capital firm Amadeus Capital Partners.

Lantum, which offers a workforce management platform for the NHS, has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Finch Capital,

AWS Healthcare Accelerator has selected 12 participants for the first programme in the UK.

Consult, a digital triage system for NHS GPs, A&E and outpatient clinicians, has appointed Jane Hurst as chief financial officer.

Up to 20 new players have entered the insourcing sector only in the last two years, a clear indicator of the attractiveness of the market. Notwithstanding the competition, HBSUK's revenue is expected to grow by up to five-fold by 2023.

Business-to-business communications provider Southern Communications Group (SCG) has acquired X-on, which provides the Surgery Connect telephony product.

London-based women’s health company Vira Health, which offers the menopause app Stella, has raised $12 million in new funding led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from Optum Ventures and existing investors.

Jonny Voon, head of the sustainable innovation fund at Innovate UK, examines the top five start-ups in healthcare.

Health and care technology company Tunstall Healthcare has acquired BeWo Unternehmensgruppe for an undisclosed fee.

Healthcode has appointed Romana Abdin as its chair of the board,

London-based start-up Automata, which aims to automate drug discovery and life sciences processes, has raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Octopus Ventures.

London-based investment company AlbionVC has appointed Dr Molly Gilmartin as a healthtech investor in its investment team.

Centauri Therapeutics, an immunotherapy company in Sandwich, Kent founded by Animatrix Founders and focused on the treatment of infectious diseases, today closed a £24 million Series A investment round.

A Q&A with Simon McGuire, GE’s regional general manager for the UK and Northern Europe

OxDX, a University of Oxford spin out building instant pathogen tests using super-resolution microscopy and machine learning, has raised £2.6 million in pre-seed funding.

London-based ExSeed Health, a male fertility start-up, has closed a £2.5 million seed extension round, led by Ascension, with participation from Trifork, Hambro Perks, and R42 Group.

We are combining EEG with artificial intelligence to allow people to seamlessly interact with virtual environments using their thoughts alone, Cogitat's co-founder and chief technology officer Dimitrios Adamos tells HealthInvestor UK.

Amsterdam-based LSP, a life sciences venture capital firm LSP today announced it has raised more than €1 billion for its flagship fund LSP 7.

Medical-diagnostics operator Omega Diagnostics today announced it has raised £5 million, with up to £2 million possible via an open offer to enable it to focus on the growth opportunities within its two core businesses: health and nutrition, and global health.

Proximie has appointed Dave Herrmann as chief growth officer and Charlie H Wilhelm as general manager for the Americas.

Private equity firm Limerston Capital has acquired Gosport-based laboratory Wickham Micro and appointed industry veteran Mark Hammond as its chief executive.

Healthcare technology firm Agilio Software has announced rebranded its primary care solutions provider, Clarity Informatics, as Agilio Primary Care.

Laboratory IT systems provider CliniSys has appointed Mark Spencer as senior vice-president of global strategy.

Numan, a London-based digital platform for men’s health in Europe, has raised $20 million from growth debt investor Kreos Capital.

UK's private healthcare giant has invested £7 million in four new da Vinci Xi robots cementing its position as the largest private provider of robotic surgery in the country.

Combining an on-site physical digital infrastructure with data analytics and AI technology in the Cloud, Yorbl will provide care home and other community living providers with a set of tools to power, inform and support every aspect of their operation

Cambridge-based Lucida Medical, which provides magnetic resonance imaging of cancer, has appointed Dr David Tuch as non-executive chair.

Software company Medical Realities is acquiring Orion Immersive, a AR/VR design and consultancy company specialising in immersive healthcare education.

Global health technology company Huma has acquired the UK-based patient engagement software provider, and developer of myGP app, iPLATO Healthcare for an undisclosed sum.

Who will get a slice of the healthtech pie in 2022? asks Michael Jewell, healthcare partner at finnCap Group

London-based Proximie, a platform that allows surgeons to advise on operations remotely around the globe, has partnered with telecommunications company Vodafone Business to accelerate the roll-out of its platform as it looks to grow more rapidly in 2022.

HealthInvestor UK catches up with John Howard, chief executive of London-based digital healthcare advisor Channel 3 Consulting to talk about digital transformation in health and care, trends, and market potential.

Giant software provider Oracle has acquired Cerner, an electronic health record software provider to the US healthcare market and a leading supplier to the NHS, for $28.3 billion.