What The Health

🦅 La Trobe University launched it’s $18M Eagle Fund with Breakthrough Victoria to back pre-seed research in AI, digital health, disease detection, & food security https://lnkd.in/gpDD86uV Keen for more hot healthtech developments? 🍩🙌@ Subscribe to our What The Health Newsletter - link in the comments 💜 📩

Going Global: Investing & Scaling Medtech was one for the books! 🎉 Huge thanks to our brilliant friends at Tenmile for organising, ANDHealth for hosting at the beautiful CHICC space, and MedTech Actuator for supporting the event alongside What The Health. And of course, thanks to the amazing panelists, Aizaz Syed, Sahan Ranamukhaarachchi, Makenzie Thomas and Gemma Sturt, for the insightful conversation. From honest insights to inspiring stories (and of course, some top-tier networking), it was a night that reminded us why the medtech community is one to watch 💥 (Missed the event? Subscribe to our What The Health Newsletter and never miss another! - link in the comments 💜 📩)

🧠 Synchron, the Aus-founded competitor to Musk's Neuralink, unveiled Chiral, a brain-trained foundation AI model that lets users control devices with thought, using its BCI tech, Nvidia Holoscan, & Apple Vision Pro https://lnkd.in/ghgMDnGj Keen for more hot healthtech developments? 🍩🙌@ Subscribe to our What The Health Newsletter - link in the comments 💜 📩

🧪 NEXT Life Sciences has launched clinical trials in Aus for Plan A™, a hormone-free, reversible male contraceptive designed to last up to 10 years https://lnkd.in/gbvKfVDK Keen for more hot healthtech developments? 🍩🙌@ Subscribe to our What The Health Newsletter - link in the comments 💜 📩

📞 Aus’s first virtual ED, the Vic Virtual Emergency Department, hit 500k consults, helping 83% of patients avoid hospital visits & easing pressure on paramedics https://lnkd.in/g6TZ6nhj Keen for more hot healthtech developments? 🍩🙌@ Subscribe to our What The Health Newsletter - link in the comments 💜 📩

💥 Opthea, an Aus biotech targeting macular degeneration, faces collapse after its $1B eye drug failed a Phase-3 trial, underperforming standard care, & triggered investor repayment risks https://lnkd.in/gPi92mwc Keen for more hot healthtech developments? 🍩🙌@ Subscribe to our What The Health Newsletter - link in the comments 💜 📩

🧠 Cortical Labs launched the CL1, a biological computer using living brain cells, now available via cloud and hardware after 6 years of R&D https://lnkd.in/gDhYxjmN Keen for more hot healthtech developments? 🍩🙌@ Subscribe to our What The Health Newsletter - link in the comments 💜 📩

🧠 Next Level Collaboration, a teamwork-based video game for neurodivergent kids spun out of University of Melbourne, scored a $500k pre-seed round to go global https://lnkd.in/gByQAmch Keen for more hot healthtech developments? 🍩🙌@ Subscribe to our What The Health Newsletter - link in the comments 💜 📩

❤️ BiVACOR’s total artificial heart enabled an Aus man with severe heart failure to live 100 days before transplant in a world-first clinical success at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney https://lnkd.in/e5tzdTUF Keen for more hot healthtech developments? 🍩🙌@ Subscribe to our What The Health Newsletter - link in the comments 💜 📩

🚀 What does it take to go global as an Aussie healthtech startup? Melbourne's health and life science scene is on the rise - with more ventures, research and investment. Yet it can still be hard to break onto the global stage, attract international attention or know how to compete. So, we’re bringing together some of the experts who have cracked the code and are doing it! Join us for an evening of insight and networking 🎤 Going Global: Investing & Scaling Medtech - brought to you by Tenmile, What The Health, MedTech Actuator, and ANDHealth 📅 April 9 | 5:30 - 8 PM | CHICC, Melbourne CBD Expect real insights, real stories, and real connections (plus plenty of time to network with fellow founders, investors, and innovators.) You’ll hear from… 🎙️ Gemma Sturt - Senior Investment Manager, Werfen VC 🎙️ Sahan Ranamukhaarachchi - Founder & CEO, Proton Intelligence 🎙️ Michelle Gallaher - CEO, Cerulea Clinical Trials 🎙️ Aizaz Syed - Portfolio & Investment Manager, Tenmile What to expect: 🔥 Insightful panel discussion exploring global fundraising lessons, insights and more 🔥 Live Q&A with our amazing panelists 🔥 Plenty of time to network with fellow founders, investors & innovators Spots are limited, so RSVP now! https://lu.ma/p2qz39e1 (Who’s joining us? Tag a fellow founder or investor who should be there 👇)