# Healthtech

Why late-stage secondary offerings are transforming private market access

How bio:cap is reconnecting Europe’s life sciences ecosystem

Despite capital, talent and high class research, Europe's life sciences sector remains fragmented

Europe's bid to become a healthtech powerhouse

Europe already has everything it needs to lead; the challenge now is connecting the pieces

The rise of the AI healthcare ecosystem in Scotland

A small but connected ecosystem, Scotland is demonstrating growth beyond its own borders

AI’s potential in healthcare meets the reality of computing demands

“We are pre-training huge models in-house, with up to 80bn parameters”

What is creating momentum for the women’s health sector — and will it continue?

Unicorns, soaring investment and breaking taboos: femtech is having a moment

DACH and CEE’s fastest-growing healthtech startups by revenue

How AI is reshaping pharma

The tech could drastically change the industry, but only if it can scale

This biotech made the biggest leap on the Sifted 100 ranking — now it’s getting an overhaul

Revenue is up but Cambridge’s Bit.bio still reshuffles board, lays off staff and drops therapeutics focus. The interim chief explains why it ‘narrowed focus’

The tech teaching dogs to ‘talk’

“The talking pet industry is in its infancy and is bursting with potential” 

11 digital therapeutics startups to watch, according to VCs

Which startups have the best shot at navigating the choppy landscape?

Germany’s Earlybird raises €173m healthtech fund as it looks to tap 'unprecedented' biopharma opportunity

The 2030 pharma "patent cliff" means there's "loads more opportunities to exit" for startups, says Earlybird principal Christoph Massner

UK healthtech Cera nears profitability but delays international expansion

The startup plans to invest directly into other healthtech startups and grow its headcount by 50% over the next 12 months

Shooting for the stars: The healthtech using cosmology and AI to try to cure cancer

UK and Australia-based startup, Concr, uses methods from astrophysics to predict treatment responses and outcomes

UK healthtech Peppy makes redundancies as revenue growth slows

The redundancies, confirmed by the company, come less than a year after it raised a $45m Series B

Zoe’s Tim Spector on the rise of the UK’s fastest growing healthtech and becoming more than a 'diet app'

Tim Spector says the healthtech wants to “change the way people think about food forever” — but Zoe has its critics

Europe's most active early-stage healthtech investors

Here are the investors signing the most cheques in European healthtech in 2023, according to Dealroom data

Cancer-fighting tech: Emerging startups to watch in Europe

Sifted analysis finds rush of new cancer tech players bringing AI-powered tools to market

Atomico backs GenAI healthcare assistant Corti’s Series B

“We are active in 150k patient meetings a day”, Corti’s cofounder says

The startups founded by Babylon’s ex-employees

Sifted has tracked down 10 companies founded by ex-Babylonians, from those still in the healthtech space to foodtech and blockchain-focused startups

UK healthtech Huma to lay off nearly 10% of workforce

The company has confirmed that it plans to lay off around 45 employees

Babylon hopes to secure a buyer by Friday as deadline to submit bids passes

The company is carrying out an “accelerated bidding process”, according to a letter sent to prospective buyers

Who's going to buy Babylon?

As the healthtech scrambles to find a buyer for its UK business, Sifted looks into which companies might stump up the cash

Babylon on the brink of bankruptcy after merger falls through

The healthtech is looking to sell its UK operations, according to a company statement