Optum Ventures and Echo Health Ventures helped the healthcare chatbot provider take its overall funding to more than $41m.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Vision Medicals secured follow-on funding from Cash Capital in a round that brought the precision diagnostic tool developer's total to $42.8m.

University of Utah's biotech incubator has admitted its first three residents taking aim at cancer, liver fibrosis and eosinophil-related diseases.

Wouter Meuleman, part of the founding team at Illumina's corporate venture capital unit, has moved up a notch from principal.

The Humana-backed primary care provider has closed its initial public offering after its share price more than doubled post-IPO.

Tencent and Meituan Dianping-backed healthcare crowdfunding platform Waterdrop has reportedly added $200m to its coffers and pushed its valuation to $2bn.

The startup has emerged from stealth with $77.6m from backers including Boehringer Ingelheim to advance four potential cancer treatments into the clinic.

Tencent returned to help the AI drug discovery platform hike its overall funding to $174m with a round that will support hiring and technology development.

T-Knife has emerged from stealth with $77.6m in series A funding to advance four potential cancer treatments into the clinic and open a US office.