| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.10.2025 | HLTH 2025 Day 1 Summary & Insights: AMA Launches AI Governance Center, Google Cloud, Microsoft, ChatGPT for Medicine | Core Clinical & Diagnostic Innovations
Real-World Evidence (RWE) Agent Pilot: Atropos Health, in collaboration with Microsoft, is piloting the Atropos Evidence™ Agent at Stanford Health Care. This expert agent generates patient-specific... |
| 24.07.2025 | Fortuna Health Secures $18M to Reshape Medicaid Access | Fortuna Health, a NYC innovator, secured $18M in Series A funding. Andreessen Horowitz led the round. Fortuna revolutionizes Medicaid navigation. Its platform simplifies government healthcare access. New federal policies, like work requirem... |
| 22.07.2025 | Fortuna Health: $18 Million Raised For Consumer Medicaid Navigation Platform | Fortuna Health, a leading platform for consumer Medicaid navigation, has secured $18 million in Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz with additional participation from Y Combinator and several industry leaders. This funding will enh... |
| 21.07.2025 | Fortuna Health Raises $18M Led by Andreessen Horowitz to Modernize Medicaid Access and Infrastructure Amid Federal Reforms | NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 21, 2025–
Fortuna Health, the leading consumer Medicaid navigation platform, announced it has raised $18 million in Series A funding. The round was led by returning investors Andreessen Horowitz with participat... |
| 14.05.2025 | Sanford Health to Deploy Cedar’s AI-Powered Payment Tools to Enhance Patient Financial Experience | What You Should Know:
– Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States and Cedar, the leading patient financial experience platform for healthcare providers announced a significant partnership with.
– The collaboration... |
| 03.05.2025 | Building a Safer Future: How Predictive Analytics is Transforming Construction Safety | Every day, construction sites pulse with activity. Heavy machinery roars, workers hustle, and structures rise. Yet, lurking beneath this industrious facade is a grim reality. Each workday, three construction workers in the United States fai... |
| 29.04.2025 | Cedar Launches ‘Kora’ AI Voice Agent to Automate Patient Billing Calls | What You Should Know:
– Cedar, a patient financial platform for healthcare providers announced the launch of Kora, its advanced AI voice agent designed to automate patient billing calls.
– Developed in collaboration with communications plat... |
| 26.03.2025 | Smart Solutions for Outdoor Weather Protection | Share
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| 06.03.2025 | Twilio's Expanding Horizons: Revolutionizing Communication in Business and Healthcare | In the fast-paced world of technology, communication is the lifeblood of success. Twilio, a titan in customer engagement, is at the forefront of this revolution. With its recent partnerships, Twilio is reshaping how businesses and healthcar... |
| 05.03.2025 | Cedar and Twilio Collaborate to Improve Patient B****** Experiences with AI-Powered Solutions | Twilio, the customer engagement platform that drives real-time, personalized experiences for leading brands, and Cedar, the leading patient financial experience platform for healthcare providers, today announced Twilio is powering Cedar’s p... |
| 10.02.2025 | ISLE 2025 to Open on March 7: Global Innovation & Production Hub of LED Display & Integrated System | SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ISLE 2025, Asia's biggest exhibition of Smart Display & Integrated System, will take place at Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center (SHENZHEN WORLD) from March 7‐9, 2025.
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| 11.04.2024 | Cedar Enters Dental Market Through Partnership With Tend | Tend's implementation of Cedar Pay is part of the provider's commitment to transforming the dental experience; will bring a digital-first billing experience to Tend's rapidly expanding patient base
NEW YORK, April 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- C... |
| 07.02.2023 | Startups in the billing space you need to know | They include Chargebee, Zentoni, DeferIt, SplitWise, and Monetize360
Like nearly eveything else, digitization has changed the way we pay for things. I'm not only talking about electonic payment consumer apps like Zelle and Venmo, but even t... |
| 12.05.2022 | Walgreens, CVS Health could offer buy now, pay later options to address top consumer pain points | The news: Top patient pain points when dealing with different aspects of their care process include difficulty acquiring and paying cost estimates, per a new Experian Health Digital Health survey of 2,333 consumers.
Nearly 16% of patients s... |
| 07.03.2022 | Cedar Launches Cedar Pre to Transform Patient Financial Experience | What You Should Know:
– Cedar launches Cedar Pre to deliver seamless and comprehensive healthcare experiences to consumers preparing for care.
– By leveraging Cedar’s expanded patient engagement suite, providers can empower patients with un... |
| 11.01.2022 | Cedar Launches Payer Intelligence Layer to Integrate Payer-Provider Data | What You Should Know:
During a single healthcare encounter, a typical consumer may have multiple, disconnected interactions with their provider and payer about the financial aspects of their visit. For example, consumers looking to pay a bi... |
| 03.01.2022 | Health systems could invest in Buy Now, Pay Later options to satiate consumer demand | The data: In 2022, about 74% of health system executives will likely invest in technology that supports patient access and convenience (like self-scheduling, bill-pay, and price transparency tools), per a December 2021 KLAS and Center for C... |
| 18.11.2021 | Radical Transparency: What Healthcare Can Learn From Fintech | Florian Otto is CEO & co-founder of Cedar, a leading healthcare financial technology platform transforming the consumer financial experience |
| 21.10.2021 | Northwell Selects Cedar to Deliver Personalized Financial Experience | What You Should Know:
– Northwell Health, the largest health system in New York State, and Cedar, a market-leading healthcare financial technology platform, today announced a collaborative relationship to improve the financial experience fo... |
| 04.10.2021 | Yelp-like capabilities could help telehealth companies boost satisfaction | The data: Despite the surge in telehealth adoption during the pandemic, there are still major pain points contributing to lower satisfaction with the tech, per J.D. Power’s 2021 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.
Overall satisfaction of telehea... |
| 20.09.2021 | RCM: The Art of Compassionate Billing—and Why You Should Put Patients First | Florian Otto Co-founder and CEO, Cedar
A woman is charged $22,000 for stitches and scar repair after being bitten by a dog. A man gets hit with a $30,000 bill for ACL reconstruction surgery. People around the country receive Covid-19 test b... |
| 25.08.2021 | WebMD launches appointment booking, challenging competitors like Zocdoc | The news: Health information company WebMD is teaming up with healthcare operations company Symplr to give WebMD website visitors direct access to provider search and scheduling tools.
WebMD users can now book appointments with Symplr’s cli... |
| 11.08.2021 | Don’t miss these special breakout sessions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 | Go ahead and add “produce a world-class tech conference” to the long list of items that can complete the expression “It takes a village to…” TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 runs September 21-23, and we’d like to take a moment to give a major shout-... |
| 21.07.2021 | Digital Health Funding Blasts Off And Showcases Promise Of Platforms | Like Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos’s recent space flights, digital health funding blasted off in the first half of 2021, following an already record-breaking year in 2020. In fact, per Per Rock Health’s 1H 2021 Digital Health Funding Repor... |
| 15.07.2021 | Medallia : What Pharma can Learn from Retail's Customer Experience Innovatio | With the direct impact of experience on outcomes, what can brands learn from the retail customer experience to improve the pharma customer experience?
We have compounding evidence that better experiences lead to better participation, relati... |
| 16.06.2021 | Discharged into debt: A chronic diagnosis | It is impossible to discuss healthcare without acknowledging the severe financial burden placed on consumers. Financial hardship is practically woven into the DNA of the US healthcare system. Today, medical debt is the number one cause of b... |
| 17.05.2021 | Cedar makes multimillion-dollar acquisition to move into insurance | Billing software startup Cedar has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase OODA Health, a healthcare technology company focused on improving the administrative experience, for $425 million, per a press release. The acquisition was p... |
| 14.05.2021 | Patient financial engagement platform Cedar snaps up medical billing company OODA | Photo by Martin Barraud/Getty Images |
| 13.05.2021 | Cedar Acquires OODA Health for $425M to Power Healthcare Financial Tech Platform | Cedar Acquires OODA Health for $425M
What You Should Know:
– Cedar, a healthcare financial technology platform, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OODA Health, a healthcare technology company focused on im... |
| 11.03.2021 | Cedar Closes $200M Series D Funding Round | Cedar, a NYC-based innovative patient engagement and financial technology platform, closed $200m Series D financing round.
The round, which brought the company’s valuation to $3.2 billion, was led by Tiger Global Management and existing inv... |
| 09.03.2021 | Cedar Closes $200M in Series D Funding to Continue Fueling Growth as a Leading Patient Financial Engagement Platform for the Healthcare Industry | - |
| 09.03.2021 | Cedar lands $200M Series D to help modernize how patients pay for medical services | - |
| 17.02.2021 | Cedar Partners With Summit CityMD to Offer a New, Patient-Forward Financial Experience | NEW YORK and BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J., Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit CityMD, the first-of-its-kind urgent and multi-specialty healthcare entity created by the merger of Summit Medical Group and CityMD, and Cedar, a leading patient enga... |
| 07.08.2020 | Cedar Receives Investment From Concord Health Partners As Part of Series C | Cedar, a NYC-based patient engagement and financial technology platform, received an investment from Concord Health Partners, a healthcare focused investment firm as part of its Series C funding.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Co... |
| 06.08.2020 | Concord Health Partners Announces Investment in Cedar's Series C Funding | Concord Health Partners, a healthcare focused investment firm, announced today its investment in the Series C funding of Cedar, a leading patient engagement and financial technology platform.
Cedar facilitates patient-centric financial enga... |
| 06.08.2020 | Concord Health Partners Announces Investment in Cedar's Series C Funding | Concord Health Partners, a healthcare focused investment firm, announced today its investment in the Series C funding of Cedar, a leading patient engagement and financial technology platform.
Cedar facilitates patient-centric financial enga... |
| 26.06.2020 | StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups | NeuroFlow recently hired Matt Stiner, former director at Humana Military, to lead its government affairs department. In addition, the company partnered with Washington, D.C.-based venture firm Risk and Return to further expand its presence ... |
| 23.06.2020 | Patient financial engagement platform Cedar grabs $102M in Series C funds | |
| 22.06.2020 | Healthtech startup Cedar raises $102M in Series C funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to accelerate growth of its patient payment and engagement platform | Cedar, a New York City-based healthtech startup and a provider of patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems and medical groups, today announced it has closed more than $102M in Series C funding, led by venture ca... |
| 22.06.2020 | Cedar Raises $102M in Series C Funding | Cedar, a NYC-based patient engagement and financial technology company, closed more than $102M in Series C funding.
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The round, which brings Cedar’s total capital raise to $157M to date, was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with ... |
| 22.06.2020 | Cedar Nabs $102M to Modernize Patient Financial Experience | What You Should Know:
– Cedar raises $102M to fuel the next phase of Cedar’s vision of evolving from a patient financial engagement solution to a comprehensive healthcare consumer engagement platform.
– Cedar combines healthcare, tech, and ... |
| 17.05.2019 | JPMorgan Chase acquires healthcare payments fintech InstaMed | Acquiring Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based InstaMed helps to expand JPMorgan’s corporate payments business into the lucrative healthcare space. U.S. healthcare spending currently clocks in at more than $3 trillion annually and is expected t... |
| 07.08.2018 | Which New York City healthcare companies raised the most dough from investors in Q2? | Thrive Global, the consumer wellness platform headed up by Arianna Huffington, was at the top of the list. In May, it announced it brought in $43 million.
Aetion, which focuses on real-world data through the science and analytics platform i... |
| 04.07.2018 | Patient Financial Management Platform Cedar Raises $36M in Series B | Cedar, a NYC-based patient financial management platform for hospitals, health systems and independent medical groups, raised $36m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Kinnevik with participation from existing investors Founders Fund a... |
| 01.07.2018 | Cedar Raises $36M Series B | Cedar, the patient financial management platform for hospitals, health systems and independent medical groups, today announced a Series B fundraising round of $36 million, led by the global investment company Kinnevik. Participants in the r... |
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| 25.06.2018 | Cedar Raises $36M for Modern Patient Financial Management Platform | Cedar, the patient financial management platform for hospitals, health systems and independent medical groups, today announced a Series B fundraising round of $36 million, led by the global investment company Kinnevik. Participants in the r... |
| 02.06.2018 | SV Angel goes ‘back to basics’ as partners exit | Although SV Angel Partners Brian Pokorny, Kevin Carter and Robert Pollak will stay on as advisers to SV Angel, Ron and his son Topher Conway will continue to co-manage the existing SV Angel funds. They will also go “back to basics” and cont... |
| 08.12.2017 | Cedar Raises $13M in Series A Funding | Cedar, a NYC-based provider of a smart payment solution for health providers and patients, raised $13m in Series A funding.
Backers included Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Martin Ventures and SV Angel.
The company intends to use the funds t... |
| 07.12.2017 | Cedar's intelligent patient billing platform draws $13M in Series A round | New York City-based Cedar, a startup offering patient-personalized medical billing, has raised $13 million in Series A funding. Participants in the round include Founders Fund, Thrive Captial, Martin Ventures and SV Angel.
Cedar promises a ... |
| 06.12.2017 | A clutch of patient medical billing software startups has raised fresh capital | It is part of a broader practice management product geared for outpatient care.
The company closed a $7.2 million Series A round, led by FCA Venture Partners. OCA Ventures, Healthy Ventures, HealthX Ventures, Waterline Ventures and a small ... |
| 08.01.2002 | Alchemy throws Cedar lifeline | Alchemy throws Cedar lifeline
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Venture capital group Alchemy may have come to the rescue of struggling tech firm Cedar.
Alchemy has offered 5p a share for the company. A year ago shares were trading at GBP 3.87.
The offer - unanim... |
| - | Walgreens, CVS Health could offer buy now, pay later options to address top consumer pain points | The news: Top patient pain points when dealing with different aspects of their care process include difficulty acquiring and paying cost estimates, per a new Experian Health Digital Health survey of 2,333 consumers.
Nearly 16% of patients s... |
| - | Kinnevik participates in Cedar’s USD 102 million Series C funding led by Andreessen Horowitz | Kinnevik AB (publ) (“Kinnevik”) today announced that it has invested a further USD 8m in Cedar, the leading US based patient engagement and financial technology platform, underlining its conviction in Cedar’s vision to deliver exceptional p... |
| - | Health systems could invest in Buy Now, Pay Later options to satiate consumer demand | The data: In 2022, about 74% of health system executives will likely invest in technology that supports patient access and convenience (like self-scheduling, bill-pay, and price transparency tools), per a December 2021 KLAS and Center for C... |
| - | US Hispanic's challenges with healthcare highlight an untapped opportunity for marketers, providers | The data: Overall, Hispanics are less likely than other Americans to have health insurance and get preventative medical care, per Pew Research.
Less than half (48%) of recent Hispanic immigrants say they have a primary care provider.
More t... |
| - | Cedar snags $200M in new funds, boosting valuation to $3.2B | Healthcare finance technology company Cedar announced Tuesday that it gained $200 million in a Series D financing round.
This new funding has raised the New York City-based company’s valuation to $3.2 billion and brought its total funding t... |
| - | Kyruus deal shows health system execs’ No. 1 priority is improving patient access | The news: Provider search and scheduling company Kyruus is acquiring digital patient engagement entrant Epion Health.
What it means: Kyruus gets access to Epion’s telehealth, virtual scheduling, virtual check-ins, and patient reminder tools... |
| - | VCs just poured $5.4 billion into startups forging the future of healthcare. Here are the 11 top digital health startups that took home the most cash. | Naomi Hassebroek holds her son Felix while working with her husband Doug Hassebroek at their home, after public schools closed in New York due to coronavirus in March 2020. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs This story is available exclusively to Insider... |
| - | WebMD launches appointment booking, challenging competitors like Zocdoc | The news: Health information company WebMD is teaming up with healthcare operations company Symplr to give WebMD website visitors direct access to provider search and scheduling tools.
WebMD users can now book appointments with Symplr’s cli... |
| - | Cedar | “Cedar’s enterprise healthcare fintech platform reduces administrative friction, yielding better outcomes for providers, payers & patients.” |
| - | SV Angel goes ‘back to basics’ as partners exit | SV Angel, a seed stage investment group that has backed several healthcare companies, is scaling down — it won’t raise any more new funds, it will reduce investment sizes and has parted ways with its partners. The seed fund had made investm... |
| - | Discharged into debt: A chronic diagnosis | It is impossible to discuss healthcare without acknowledging the severe financial burden placed on consumers. Financial hardship is practically woven into the DNA of the US healthcare system. Today, medical debt is the number one cause of b... |
| - | StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups | NeuroFlow recently hired Matt Stiner, former director at Humana Military, to lead its government affairs department. In addition, the company partnered with Washington, D.C.-based venture firm Risk and Return to further expand its presence ... |
| - | A clutch of patient medical billing software startups has raised fresh capital | There are more medical billing and practice management software tools coming out of healthcare startups than you can swing an accountant at. Each claims to be more transparent and intuitive than the next. The number of entrepreneurs who thi... |
| - | $3.2 billion digital-health startup Cedar just cut 24% of its workers amid a market downturn | Cedar co-founder Arel Lidow, left, and co-founder and CEO Dr. Florian Otto. Cedar This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Healthcare-payments startup Cedar cut its workforce by 24... |
| - | JPMorgan Chase acquires healthcare payments fintech InstaMed | As part of its efforts to accelerate its activity in the payments processing space, JPMorgan Chase has decided to purchase healthcare payments technology company InstaMed.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but CNBC cited unnamed sources... |
| - | Which New York City healthcare companies raised the most dough from investors in Q2? | A new report from New York City Health Business Leaders found that during the second quarter of 2018, investors poured more than $300 million into healthcare startups based in the Big Apple.
The investment update also provides a closer look... |
| - | Q1 2021 Health IT/Digital Health PC/VE, M&A, IPOs/ SPACs Activity | The first quarter of 2021 has been one of investor optimism as the vaccine rollout continues ahead of expectations and economic activity begins to accelerate in response. Within the Health IT industry, the already strong investment and M&am... |
| - | Yelp-like capabilities could help telehealth companies boost satisfaction | The data: Despite the surge in telehealth adoption during the pandemic, there are still major pain points contributing to lower satisfaction with the tech, per J.D. Power’s 2021 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.
Overall satisfaction of telehea... |
