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Digital health start-ups posted record investments in the first half of 2021, according to Rock Health, with a total of $14.7 billion invested in 372 deals. The sector also saw record-breaking M&A activity and 11 public exits in just six months’ time, with more expected to follow before year’s end.
Digital health investment is now at an all-time high, according to Rock Health’s most recent report on H1 2021 funding trends. Investors pumped $14.7 billion into digital health start-ups in the first half of the year, a number that surpassed the funding total for all of 2020, and 2021 is on pace to more than double the previous year in terms of number of deals and companies funded, the report notes.
