Following a record-setting first half of 2019, which boasted $5.6 billion in global health tech investment across 244 deals, the second half is expected to end with investments of $2.3 billion over just 105 deals. That will mark the first time in SVB’s analysis, dating back to 2015, that a six-month period’s deal quantity did not exceed that of the previous half.
Still, global investment for all of 2019 is projected to top all previous years, with nearly $8 billion, due in large part to exponential increases in investments from Europe. Within the U.S., nearly every region has seen gains in digital health investment activity; the Rocky Mountain region boasts the greatest year-over-year increase, from $205 million in 2018 to a projected $415 million in 2019.
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