Finnish neurowellness startup Audicin raises $1.9M
Finnish neurowellness startup Audicin raises $1.9M

The all-female-founded company, backed by Oura Health co-founders and Business Finland, uses brainwave entrainment to support focus, sleep, and recovery via background audio. Its new Sleep Headband targets secure environments where phones are banned. A…

myStoria raises $1.625M to support patients navigating complex reproductive health
myStoria raises $1.625M to support patients navigating complex reproductive health

The Ontario startup combines AI with trained human professionals to help patients navigate PCOS, endometriosis, fertility, and perimenopause, the conditions with the longest diagnostic delays and most fragmented care in the system. Graphite Ventures le…

Laigo Bio closes €17M seed to advance SureTACs
Laigo Bio closes €17M seed to advance SureTACs

The Dutch biotech’s SureTACs platform targets membrane proteins that have long eluded conventional drug discovery by engineering them out of existence rather than blocking them. Biovance Capital joins as new co-lead alongside Kurma Partners in a final …

Blossom Health raises $20 million to put AI copilots alongside psychiatrists
Blossom Health raises $20 million to put AI copilots alongside psychiatrists

Blossom Health, a New York-based telepsychiatry startup founded in 2024, has raised $20 million in combined seed and Series A funding to scale an AI-powered platform that pairs psychiatrists with clinical copilots and automated administrative support. …

A new app wants to cure loneliness by getting people off their phones and into the same room
A new app wants to cure loneliness by getting people off their phones and into the same room

A startup called Friending has launched a social platform built around a premise that sounds almost quaint in 2026: helping people make friends by meeting in person. The app, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, connects users by shared interests and geog…

JAAQ raises $17M to embed clinically governed mental health content inside the digital tools people already use
JAAQ raises $17M to embed clinically governed mental health content inside the digital tools people already use

The London-based platform, which already covers 1.5 million eligible lives across enterprise and healthcare deployments, is using the Series A to accelerate US market entry and deepen its clinical infrastructure, with a new CEO who sold his last compan…

Perplexity has launched Perplexity Health
Perplexity has launched Perplexity Health

The AI search company launches a suite of health data connectors, linking Apple Health, wearables, and electronic health records, making it the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health after OpenAI. Consumer health AI has become the year…

Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe
Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe

Every patient discharge in a European hospital triggers a paperwork cascade. Clinical information from the stay must be converted into standardised codes, the ICD classifications and procedure codes that determine what a hospital gets paid. Someone has…

German biotech Kupando raises €10M more to take its innate immunity drug into the clinic
German biotech Kupando raises €10M more to take its innate immunity drug into the clinic

An extension to the company’s Series A brings total funding to €23 million and clears the path for the first human trial of KUP101, a dual TLR agonist targeting solid tumours and drug-resistant infections. Most immunotherapy research in oncology has co…

Fitbit improves sleep tracking and adds an AI coach that uses your medical history

Fitbit is adding medical record integration, smarter sleep tracking, and glucose insights, aiming to turn its app into a more personalized health companion with AI guidance based on real user data.
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