Vine Health Secures £1.2M in AI-Powered Cancer Care Platform

On July 19, 2019, VCBeat (WeChat ID: vcbeat) learned that digital health platform Vine Health announced it had secured £1.2 million in angel-round funding. The round was led by Playfair Capital, with participation from Entrepreneur First, Tiny VC, and other investors. Numerous angel investors, including Simon and Michael Blakey, also took part in the financing.

It is understood that Vine Health will use the funds to develop its platform and recruit key personnel at its headquarters. Vine Health is a digital telehealth platform that leverages behavioral science and AI to improve cancer patient survival rates and address challenges in global cancer care by collecting patient-reported outcomes.

In 2018, Rayna Patel, a trainee doctor at the University of Cambridge, and Georgina Kirby, former Vice President of the health technology company Touch Surgery, co-founded Vine Health. Headquartered in London, Vine Health is positioned as an app provider dedicated to helping cancer patients understand and manage their treatment and lifestyle.

Vine Health’s mobile application helps cancer patients track, understand, and optimize their medication adherence, symptoms, and lifestyle to better coordinate their treatment regimens and manage drug-related side effects. On the backend, Vine Health’s platform collects big data on how specific medications affect patients’ quality of life, which can inform new therapiesDevelopment ofProvide important data.

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Playfair Capital, founded in 2013 and headquartered in London, invests in ambitious and aspiring entrepreneurs around the world. Playfair Capital’s investments are not confined to any single industry, with a focus on deep tech, SaaS, and B2B sectors. The firm has invested in more than 50 companies, including CryptoFacilities, Mapillary, Ravelin, Stripe, Thought Machine, and Trouva.

Tiny VC, founded in 2017 and headquartered in California, USA, is a small-scale investment firm that participates exclusively in early-stage financing rounds such as angel investments and focuses solely on the European market.

Entrepreneur First, founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, UK, operates on an investment philosophy of backing individuals “pre-team, pre-idea” to help create new technology startups. It focuses primarily on investing in technical experts, assisting them in building deep-tech companies from the ground up. Entrepreneur First has invested in more than 100 startups, which now have a combined valuation exceeding $1 billion.

(Compiled by Fan Xin)