Research technology company uMed has raised £3.7M in venture capital from AlbionVC, Delin Ventures and Playfair Capital, along with Silicon Valley’s 11.2 Capital. The latest round of funding will see uMed give healthcare providers in the UK and US, including GPs and hospitals, the tools to run patient research more efficiently while safeguarding patient data and ensuring regulatory compliance.
01.12.2020
Building a startup is a marathon, not a sprint. I remind myself of this every day. Every founder that I’ve met on my journey has big plans and a great vision for their company, but startups are unfinished products and works in progress, which take time, trial and error and input from others to succeed.
25.11.2020
Maddyness speaks to Mirjana Prokic about leaving a high-powered but impossibly stressful marketing job to become a healthtech entrepreneur, the Alexander Technique, and helping healthcare professionals suffering from pain and burnout.
23.11.2020
Senior management and medical officers can harness the knowledge and ideas of frontline staff. Biotech business expert Lara Mott cofounded ImproveWell with Consultant Radiologist Na’eem Ahmed to facilitate knowledge sharing between the two groups.
30.10.2020
Launched at the end of last year, Phlo is on a mission to become the UK’s leading on-demand digital pharmacy. Maddyness spoke to Adam Hunter, Chief Commercial Officer, about health innovation in the time of COVID-19.
29.10.2020
London startup, Jelly Drops, officially launched in the UK to help boost the water intake of the elderly and the 850,000 Britons living with dementia that have been amongst the hardest hit by the pandemic.
15.10.2020
The health sector is home to plenty of key innovators. Maddyness has selected a few of the best London-based health tech startups, all of which are crafting creative and effective ways for us to look after our bodies and minds.
08.10.2020
Ryalto helps healthcare staff manage their working lives, a vital tool even before the pandemic arrived. Maddyness spoke with Jon Bennett, CEO to understand how the business has coped, evolved and is planning for the future.
07.10.2020
Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing, a broker firm, has recently joined forces with Equipsme, offering health insurance plans for £7 to both employers and employees.
05.10.2020
Founded in 2012 in London, uMotif's robust and scalable cloud-based platform is trusted by the world’s leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies to capture clinical research data.
08.09.2020
Visionable is the first video collaboration platform designed for healthcare team’s adept at handling the differing advanced clinical needs of the healthcare profession. Visionable was founded by Alan Lowe and Lord Victor Adebowale, CBE in 2015.
07.09.2020
As witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous health and medical experts came up with efficient and innovative methods to support frontline workers in their work taking care of vulnerable patients. Talent can indeed shine amid a crisis and Maddyness has selected some incredible startups helping to advance healthcare and improve people's lives in the UK.
01.09.2020
Headspace is a worldwide pioneer in mental health, wellbeing and mindfulness and has 65M subscribers across 190 countries. Maddyness spoke with Renate Nyborg, General Manager of Headspace Europe to dig into the future of healthtech and to know more about the company's approach.
05.08.2020
“In tough times, telehealth is just what the doctor ordered”. Thus read a headline The Times ran with in 2012, in reference to growing waiting times in the NHS, and the demand for digitalisation to alleviate some of the strain.
23.07.2020