Owlet Baby Care, developers of a baby sock health monitor (that TTA has followed since 2013!), is trying its best to pivot to profitability. After going public via the then-popular-like-hot-muffins SPAC route in early 2021, then being forced to pull its original Smart Sock off the market in November 2021 by the FDA due to medical device claims without 510(k) marketing clearance [TTA 16 Feb 22], it spent the first half of 2022 introducing the new Dream Sock and Dream Duo at retail, then in second half dramatically cutting back marketing spend and staff. Their 2022 revenue of $69.2 million dropped 8.7% from 2021’s $75.8 million in 2021, but operating expenses increased 18.7% for a net loss of $79.3 million last year. After last August’s layoffs, the company now has fewer than 100 people compared with 227 earlier in 2022. Another change in strategy: after spurning the FDA and the medical device clearance process before the SPAC, in October they filed for an FDA 510(k) for BabySat, a prescription device to alert on baby heart rate or blood oxygen saturation falls out of a prescribed range. In December, FDA accepted a de novo submission for an enhancement to Dream Sock that provides heart rate and oxygen notifications in addition to sleep monitoring tools (release). In February, it raised a $30 million private placement financing of convertible preferred stock. Mobihealthnews, Owlet Q4/FY 22 earnings release, financing release
Two fundings of note even as Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank exit to the Bank Graveyard…
Point-of-care shared data platform Zus Health raises $40 million. Financing was raised from JAZZ Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital, Maverick Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Zus Health is led by digital health veteran Jonathan Bush, founder of athenahealth, which he departed in 2018. The financing will be used to add new data sources, build workflow and referral tools, and introduce integration pathways so providers can use external patient data. Zus also announced a partnership with primary care EHR/tech company Elation Health to integrate the Zus Aggregated Profile to enable real-time access of expanded patient records from hospitals, clinics, labs, and pharmacies. Release, Mobihealthnews
SpectrumAi’s Series A raised $20 million from CVS Health Ventures with participation from Cobalt Ventures, and follow-on investments from seed investors F-Prime, Frist Cressey and Autism Impact Fund. SpectrumAi focus is to improve therapies in use for autism. Its Twyll EHR uses applied behavior analysis (ABA), a therapy used with autistic patients, plus Patterns, its network analytics platform, to improve data capture and objective measurement of ABA therapy. According to the release, “Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in the United States driving unprecedented growth in the ABA industry. ABA is intensive and long-term therapy, averaging up to 25-40 hours each week. Measurement of ABA therapy’s efficacy to date has been limited to subjective parent and provider surveys.”
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