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With this joint venture, customers of shop-apotheke.ch and Mediservice as well as new customers will benefit from the combined online pharmacy's extensive offerings, which will include health and beauty products as well as prescription medications and healthcare services. The joint venture will operate under the name Mediservice AG with its registered office in Zuchwil (Switzerland, Canton Solothurn).

The five-year collaboration, backed by the French Government and called PortrAIt, will see the best research hospitals in France working alongside tech firms to develop a minimum of 15 AI-driven tools to enhance cancer diagnosis. They will then be tested and deployed in cancer centers and pathology labs across France.

Care.Chain provides a globally connected, open network architecture where all participants in the healthcare ecosystem can interact on a peer-to-peer basis in a transparent, trusted, and secure manner. The chain integrates seamlessly with the broader Solve.Care ecosystem and adds to the full-stack digital healthcare platform that simplifies the healthcare experience for all stakeholders which include individuals and families, doctors and care providers, employers, insurance providers, government agencies, and more.

Sofinnova Digital Medicine will back entrepreneurs innovating at the cutting edge of technology and biology and help them scale and become global leaders. Like all the funds on Sofinnova's platform of strategies, Sofinnova Digital Medicine will focus on developing the most promising innovations that address systemic challenges in healthcare and can profoundly improve the lives of patients worldwide.

GoJoe is a hybrid consumer and B2B app that enables workplaces and brands to connect and engage their people. It combines wearables, content, and team-based challenges and experiences to socialize everyday solo exercise for the masses of "ordinary joes" and help people stick to their fitness and well-being journeys. The company collaborated with Stanford University on psychology, data, and gamification to build the app, which is used by brands including PwC, PayPal, Experian, and Amazon.

The Finnish medical imaging company aims to speed up the cancer treatment planning process while still delivering high-quality care. Its approach calls for AI-powered automatic segmentation tooling, which lets it streamline the all-important radiotherapy treatment planning workflow. Compared to manual treatment planning, which often requires two to three weeks of anxious waiting before radiotherapy treatment planning starts, MVision's automation enables same-day treatment.

AERA Health's hybrid model brings data-driven P4 medicine to consumers via existing healthcare infrastructure. P4 medicine focuses on future-oriented health plans, using data to foresee patient issues (predictive), acting to prevent rather than cure diseases (preventive), making tailored diagnoses and therapies (personalized), and including patients in decisions (participatory).

Founded out of Berlin in 2017, Medwing targets the healthcare industry in Germany and the U.K. with a platform designed to match hospitals and clinics with nurses and elderly caregivers, though it also caters to pharmacists, midwives, doctors and similar professionals. The platform is currently available in Germany and the U.K., where it claims some 5,500 registered medical employers and 500,000 healthcare professionals, who can access an entirely digital workflow spanning job search, contracts, signatures and timesheets.

The level of European investment has therefore continued to grow in 2022, albeit in a more measured way than between 2020 and 2021. 301 deals were closed, representing a 22% YoY increase in total financing. There are now 1000+ companies active in digital health across Europe today. In contrast, the level of investment in the US in digital health has dropped significantly, while Europe has been more stable in 2022.

The London-based healthtech startup will use the funds (Series B) to further expand its network of therapists, partners, and members across the UK and Continental Europe. Octopus Ventures led the round with the participation of existing investors Omers, Mantaray, and Oxford Capital.