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Telemedicine led this week, with several telehealth companies bringing in new rounds. Digital healthcare marketplace Zocdoc will use funding to expand into virtual care and vaccine scheduling. We saw over $469M in health innovation funding reported this week, led by Zocdoc, a New York, NY-based digital healthcare marketplace for in-person or virtual care. The $150M in growth financing came from Francisco Partners.

When two computer science graduates learned about the antiquated way that doctors follow up with patients, they designed a better system. Now they’re solving more upstream tech challenges for primary care and telehealth practices. L to R: David Martin and Chase Dudas of ZeroIn Challenge Thanks to COVID-19 lockdowns, 2020 was a landmark year for virtual health adoption. Just about every medical practice had to make the transition to some kind of telemedicine-based care.

In addition to StartUp Health portfolio companies Valera Health (tele-behavioral health service) and Neolth (neuroscience-based mental health support), this week we saw funding announced for other mental and behavioral healthcare companies, a cancer startup, several fitness platforms, multiple Asian digital health solutions, and much more. Dr. Thomas Tsang, CEO & Co-founder of Valera Health, is on a mission to take care of the 25 million Americans with untreated behavioral healthcare needs.