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Optum launches $250M fund to invest in digital health companies

November 29, 2017

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Optum, UnitedHealth Group’s health services business unit, has launched a $250 million fund to invest in healthcare technology innovation.

Called Optum Ventures, the fund—with offices in Boston and Menlo Park, Calif.—will provide capital investment as well as strategic guidance to startup and early-stage digital health companies.

The new fund’s initial investments include:

  • Apervita, which provides a cloud-based platform to build, deliver and scale health analytics and data applications.
  • Buoy Health, whose artificial intelligence analyzes thousands of real-world data points drawn from the same medical literature that physicians study to resemble the dynamic and nuanced experience of chatting with a doctor.

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