Host Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett and MobiHealthNews Associate Mallory Hackett welcome Startup Health President Unity Stoakes to discuss Q1 2021 digital health funding. With more than $7 billion raised according to MobiHealthNews's tracker and more than $8 billion according to Startup's, we can all agree it was an impressive month. But how do those numbers compare to the past? To other industries? And what does it all mean for the health of the space? Tune in to find the answers to those questions and more.

Talking points:

2021 funding in a larger historical context
The changing geography of digital health startups
Dramatic changes to digital health market dynamics
The talent infrastructure underpinning digital health
How today’s startups are putting together decades of pieces
Is the digital health market oversaturated?
We’re far from the ceiling for digital health funding
Digital health subsectors to watch
“Boomerang” innovation from other geographies
Where digital health investment is headed next
Frugal innovation and what it can teach us

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