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MATTER startups collectively raised $175 million in early 2019, bringing all-time funding to over $1 billion.
Several startups — including Pear Therapeutics, HealthVerity and Redox — closed financing rounds exceeding $25 million. Here’s the month-by-month breakdown of the raises that were publicly announced so far in 2019:
January 2019
Pear Therapeutics — $64M
Pear Therapeutics develops cl…
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Starting a company is never easy. Starting a healthcare company adds even more complexity. But starting a healthcare company and launching it in a country with a completely different healthcare system?
The possibility of failure far outweighs the possibility of success.
For the past four years, MATTER has worked in collaboration with the Consulate General of Canada to help reduce the risk of …
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Four years ago this week, we opened MATTER’s doors with 30 startup companies, a few programs and a thesis: collaboration is the best way to improve healthcare.
Since then, we’ve continued to break down the barriers to healthcare innovation by bringing the right people together in meaningful ways. Today, our startups range from those that are barely more than ideas, to companies with millions o…
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This week at MATTER, five startups with innovative ideas to improve diabetes management worked with Novo Nordisk and MATTER mentors to further develop and test their solutions. The startups — Adelie Health, xBird, SimpleC, MedoPad and HumanCapitalWorks — were chosen from a competitive pool of teams who presented their concepts at the Novo Nordisk Innovation Challenge Demo Day in December 2018. …
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MATTER’s 2018 Year in Review highlights accomplishments as the innovation hub enters its fifth year
January 29, Chicago, IL — MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, today released a report highlighting the MATTER community’s successes in 2018.
Read the report.
Collectively, MATTER startup members raised $260 million in funding and earned more than $102 million in revenu…
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