92 - Venture Capital in Crisis | Why Only 9% of Startups Are Getting Series B Funding!
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Marcus & Vic discuss key economic trends - inflation, disinflation, & Wall Street bank earnings, alongside the impact of rising credit card debt & healthcare layoffs. Venture capital, particularly Series B funding, & highlight innovations in AI for healthcare, including virtual digestive care, AI-powered psychiatry, & home testing solutions. The growing role of AI in healthcare call centers & major healthcare AI partnerships addresses the future of AI & automation in the healthcare industry.
1:48 - Wall Street Posts a Strong Quarter
4:39 - Tracking layoffs, closures in healthcare nationwide
5:42 - Carta: Series A to B Chasm
11:00 - Oshi Health Secures $60M To Scale Virtual Digestive Care
12:52 - Legion Health Pivots to Digital AI-Enabled Psychiatry, Raises Over $6M
14:43 - Ash Wellness raises $10M to expand at-home testing
15:19 - Suki banks $70M to build out AI assistants for doctors, expands health system partnerships
16:36 - Parakeet Health expands AI call center, announces $3M seed round
17:53 - Digital health funding: Glooko gets $100M, appoints new CEO
18:47 - RadiantGraph raises $11M for patient engagement
20:50 - True change 'requires investment': Healthcare leaders react to new $250M Gates fund for women's health
21:59 - FTC increases premerger notification requirements despite pushback from providers
27:52 - Health Costs and Flat Raises Are Set to Squeeze Paychecks
30:51 - UnitedHealth Shares Dive After Health Giant Says 2025 Results Likely to Fall Short
32:10 - Medicaid drags Elevance Health as it misses on profit in Q3
33:05 - Medicare Plans Are Making Big Changes for 2025. Here’s How to Navigate Them.
35:31 - KFF: 2024 Employer Health Benefits Survey
39:18 - Nonprofit health systems launch Longitude Health to improve performance, care delivery at scale
41:41 - Walgreens Boots Earnings
44:12 - More Children Are Depressed and Anxious. Is Social Media Really Behind It?
49:01 - Abridge, Wolters Kluwer Health ink partnership to integrate UpToDate with AI medical scribe
50:55 - Introducing healthcare agent service in Microsoft Copilot Studio
52:42 - New York Times to Bezos-Backed AI Startup: Stop Using Our Stuff
55:04 - Amazon, Databricks Strike Five-Year Deal Around AI Chips
57:06 - Google Backs New Nuclear Plants to Power AI
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