Meet the 12 bankers that digital health startups need to know

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Welcome to Insider Healthcare. I'm Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, and today in healthcare news:

• We found the 12 go-to bankers for digital health companies and got their predictions for the industry;
• How fertility startup Kindbody is branching out beyond going directly to consumers;
• $5 billion digital health startup Ro is on a dealmaking spree.

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We found the 12 go-to digital health bankers. They broke down how tech is driving record deals and the next generation of giants.

• The digital-health sector is one of the hottest, with record M&A, go-publics, and private funding.
• We spoke with top bankers to understand what's driving deals and the next generation of giants.
• They said companies were harnessing tech and investor appetite to change in a few key ways.

Find the full list here>>

The CEO of Kindbody shares how the $612 million fertility startup branched out beyond direct-to-consumer to work with major employers

• Kindbody just raised $62 million, valuing the "SoulCycle" of fertility clinics at $612 million.
• Over 1,000 patients have frozen their eggs or done other fertility treatments with the startup.

CEO Gina Bartasi said rising demand and the employer business are key to Kindbody's growth>>

$5 billion digital-health startup Ro is on a deal spree as competition heats up in the hottest part of healthcare

• Digital health startup Ro is acquiring at-home testing startup Kit.
• It's the company's third deal in the last year.
• The acquisitions are part of a digital health takeover boom as companies look to sustain growth.

Get the full analysis>>

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• The highly infectious Delta variant may already be dominant in the US, says leading coronavirus test lab (Insider)
• Fauci: The spread of the Delta variant threatens to widen the divide between parts of the US with high and low vaccination rates (CNN)
• Mutiny at Great Jones: How a cofounder war led every employee to quit Instagram's trendiest cookware company (Insider)
• Why it's hard to know if the Delta variant is deadlier (The Atlantic)

- Lydia