- St. Louis-based Ascension’s venture arm invested in Strive Health, a health tech company providing kidney care, during a $140 million series B financing round.
- Providence’s digital health spinout DexCare recently closed a $20 million investment round backed by the Renton, Wash.-based health system’s innovation arm and Kaiser Permanente Ventures.
- Miami-based Baptist Health South Florida launched a new healthcare technology innovation fellowship to foster development of new products and interventions in healthcare. It will match a $1 million grant from the Knight Foundation to fund the fellowship, which applications open for June 1.
- Ascension Ventures, the healthcare venture arm of St. Louis-based Ascension, closed a $285 million strategic venture capital fund, bringing the firm’s total assets to more than $1 billion. The new fund is backed by 13 health system partners and is Ascension Ventures’ fifth venture capital fund.
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