You can’t read much about the venture capital industry before you start hearing about the so-called “valley of death” for early stage companies.Conventional wisdom holds that young companies enter that valley, in which attracting investment capital becomes extremely difficult, at an early stage, typically between an initial round of angel funding and the company’s first [...]

Bain Capital Ventures, a wing of the Boston private equity firm cofounded by Mitt Romney, has closed a new $600 million fund to invest in business, Internet and healthcare companies.This is Bain Capital Ventures’ fifth fund and its largest to date. Generally, the firm has put about half of its $2 billion-plus capital into early [...]

SoftTech VC, a seed-stage tech fund that has invested in digital health company Fitbit, has closed a $55 million fund and is looking for a handful of new consumer tech startups.With priorities in mobile cloud and web commerce services, the firm plans to invest in 60 early stage tech companies over the next three years. [...]

The U.S. healthcare system has been “spectacularly incompetent” in creating a sustainable model to benefit American citizens, according to Dr. Alan Ying of Chrysalis Ventures.For healthcare investors that means the future will require a laser-like focus on one area more than any other: cost. The old model of pouring cash into new drugs, new devices [...]

Current medical news from today, including funding for early-stage biotech companies drops, healthcare and the State of the Union address, and mobile health revenue jumps.

Healthcare venture capital is still breathing and soon may be off the oxygen tank.The sector closed out 2011 in strong fashion and posted a five-quarter high in funding and recording “solid” deal activity, according to the latest quarterly report from venture capital database CB Insights.var page_count = “off”; [...]

Early stage investing and medical technology innovation just got a boost, which is welcome news to healthcare entrepreneurs.Flagship Ventures, a Cambridge, Massachusetts venture capital company aimed at healthcare and green companies, announced Wednesday that it has closed a new $270 million fund, raking in $20 million more than it had expected from existing and new [...]

Funding for the healthcare information technology sector saw robust growth in the third quarter of 2011.According to data culled by Mercom Capital Group, venture capital funding for healthcare IT firms grew by leaps and bounds for the third quarter of 2011. The research shows that $207 million in new inflows funneled into healthcare IT companies [...]

As 2011 winds down, small business owners looking for new financing options would do well to take a slice of the holidays and use it to study the two most common startup funding options — angel investing versus venture capital.In this two-part series, we’ll do just that. And before the year ends, look for columns [...]

The uncertainty of what a post healthcare reform landscape will look like in the United States is not deterring companies from other countries from pitching for business. At a conference hosted by the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce with the Jefferson School of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, 11 health IT and healthcare [...]