Apple's health team is losing a key top exec
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- A top Apple Health exec is leaving to join Carbon Health;
- Humana's pouring millions into startups to shape the future of healthcare;
- The 3 things a biotech VC looks for in a startup's presentation.
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Jeff Williams, Apple's chief operating officer, speaks about the then-new Apple Watch Series 4 at a product launch event in Cupertino, California, in 2018.
Reuters/Stephen Lam
A top Apple Health executive is leaving for a startup that's trying to upend primary care for the masses
Reuters/Stephen Lam
- Apple's head of strategic bets in healthcare, Myoung Cha, is leaving the company.
- He joined Apple in 2015 to help carve out its health strategy and partnerships.
- Cha is joining Carbon Health, a primary care startup, as president of home-based care and chief strategy officer.
Blake Dodge has the scoop here>>
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How health-insurance giant Humana is shaping the future of healthcare by pumping billions into home health and medical clinic companies
- Health insurer Humana is using its cash to shape the future of healthcare outside of hospitals.
- Humana has invested in home-healthcare companies such as DispatchHealth, Heal, and Kindred at Home.
- It's also helping clinic upstarts such as Iora Health, ChenMed, and Oak Street Health expand.
Perceptive just raised $515 million to place bets on biotech startups. The fund's manager told us the 3 things he looks for in a startup's pitch.
- Perceptive Advisors just raised a $515 million fund to bet on biotech startups.
- In a crowded biotech investment field, Perceptive wants to stand out by being "entrepreneur friendly."
- One of Perceptive's portfolio managers revealed the myths and facts about what investors look for in a pitch.
Find out what they're looking for>>
More stories we're reading:
- The Biden administration is working with Uber and Lyft to provide free rides to vaccine sites through July 4 (The Wall Street Journal)
- Anti-vaxxers aren't the problem. Why our plan to get the rest of America vaccinated is wrong - and what we should be doing instead. (Insider)
- Ginkgo is officially going public via SPAC in a deal that values the synthetic biology company at $17.5 billion (Bloomberg)
- A 23-year-old Italian woman received 6 times the recommended amount of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine (Insider)
- Lydia
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