2021 Year-End Insights Report: $44B Raised Globally in Health Innovation, Doubling Year Over Year

"Thanks to a wave of mega deals in the United States, England, India, and China, health innovation funding has reached heights that would have seemed impossible just a year or two ago. Plus, acquisitions are up 50%, and more than 20 companies went public.

For more than a decade StartUp Health has been monitoring the digital health landscape and tracking market data globally. Back in 2011, when there was around $2B being invested in health tech, we wrote about the nascent potential of the market. Digital health was barely a topic of conversation and telemedicine was struggling to gain traction. But we knew that with global collaboration, entrepreneurship and, yes, much more capital, we could achieve historic gains in health. We could, in fact, achieve health moonshots that previous generations thought were impossible.

Now, as we end 2021, the conversation has shifted completely. We just closed the books on a year that hit $44B in health innovation funding globally. That’s more than a 20x increase in 10 years. To call that number record-breaking would be an understatement — we’ve seen record-breaking funding numbers nearly every year since we started tracking. What we’re seeing now is a doubling of funding. 2021 saw twice as much funding as 2020 ($22B) which itself was a 50% increase over 2019 ($14B). This new, accelerating growth rate shifts our expectations for the future..." Lire la suite