Healthtech

Surgical robots break out

Reeling It In: Flexible Needle Pick Up via Thread Manipulation for Autonomous Suturing

Data Insight: Rich countries have ten times as many doctors per person as poor ones

20VC: $5BN in Revenue, 7 to 7,000 Employees in 9 Months, 206,000 Tests in a Single Day: The Craziest Story in Startups: Curative with Fred Turner

Data Insight: Nearly half of young children in Guatemala suffer from stunting

The OWID Brief: Urbanization, electric cars in Latin America, a 1,200-year climate record, and more

Axios Pro Rata: Details matter

Series A activity: Week of July 5, 2026

Series C activity: Q2 2026

Weekly TOP Startup / VC news of July 2, 2026

Data Insight: Obesity rates in Pakistan have tripled in the last 20 years

The Whoop-ification of the World Cup

Axios Pro Rata: SPAC shift

Data Insight: A woman’s risk of dying in pregnancy or childbirth varies hugely by country

Data Insight: Tobacco use in India has halved this century

Weekly TOP Startup / VC news of June 18, 2026

Biggest VC-backed M&A ever

Series A activity: Week of June 7, 2026

AI, Growth, and the Future of Healthcare | Anish Acharya & Sachin Jain

The OWID Brief: Child deaths, LGBT+ rights, electric vehicle sales, and more

Series A activity: Week of May 24, 2026

Data Insight: Lung cancer deaths trace the rise and fall of smoking

Posts from VC News Daily for 05/29/2026

The OWID Brief: New population projections tool, childhood stunting, China’s electricity growth, and more

Can Oura jolt healthtech exits?

Axios Pro Rata: Frozen

Commure Hits $7B Backed by GC, Sequoia, Morgan Stanley

BREAKING: Commure Hits $7B Backed by GC, Sequoia, Morgan Stanley

20VC: Lessons from Jensen Huang on "Founder Mode" | How to Know if OpenAI or Anthropic Will Kill your Company | How USV Liking Music Made Them $1BN on an Investment | The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao @ Abridge

Crossovers bet big before the bell

Voice AI Investment Surges as Enterprise Applications Gain Traction

OpenAI and Microsoft Make Nice

Data Insight: Indoor air pollution causes almost three million premature deaths every year

Apple CEO Tim Cook Passes the Torch to Hardware Exec John Ternus

Data Insight: Death rates for cervical cancer in the United Kingdom have fallen by 80% since 1950

Steph Smith: “This opportunity is totally overlooked”

Don't ask the group chat for permission

This Startup Wants To Catch Cancer Before It Spreads

The liquidity puzzle in interval funds

20VC: Hims & Hers: $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue: The Comeback | Why Being Public is 10x Better | The Death of the "Strategy" Hire | Why Performance Marketing is Worse than Brand Marketing with Andrew Dudum

Silicon Valley craze nears FDA nod

Weak science behind AI health hype

Rumors of Anthropic's New Model Sink Cybersecurity Stocks

The OWID Brief: Unsafe abortions, deadliest animals, plastic pollution, and more

Are Psychedelics the Key to Living Forever? (ft. Bryan Johnson)

Axios Pro Rata: GLP-1 unicorn

Oura’s Tom Hale: What People Don’t Tell You About Being CEO

🩻 AI's accuracy gap

Essentials: Build a Healthy Gut Microbiome | Dr. Justin Sonnenburg

141: The Former Head of DJI LiDAR Developed an "Electric Wheelchair"? Talking Entrepreneurship with Strutt's Hong Xiaoping After Two and a Half Years: Not Doing Humanoid Robots Can Still Lead to Embodied Intelligence

Dave Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly, on GLP-1s and the business of pharma