Following a traumatic birth experience with her second child, Baymatob Ltd. Founder and engineer Sarah McDonald felt she had a moral obligation to do something to help women, and she developed a wearable device that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify mothers during labor who are at high risk of developing abnormal postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) well before giving birth. 

Just nine months after a $55 million series B fundraising round, Billiontoone Inc. delivered an oversubscribed series C of $125 million. Demand for the company’s Unity prenatal test, which can assess fetal risk for common recessive conditions and aneuploidies using one maternal blood sample, tripled over the last year.

Health tech firm Qure.ai Technologies Private Ltd. has secured a $40 million investment from investors including Novo Holdings and Healthquad to expand its portfolio of automated artificial intelligence (AI)-based imaging diagnostics. The company’s suite of technologies incorporates deep learning and AI to interpret radiology images such as X-rays, CTs, and ultrasounds in less than a minute.

Vivosense Inc. aims to improve clinical trial recruitment and outcomes by developing new digital biomarkers and clinical outcome assessments (COAs) that use data from wearable devices, a goal made a touch easier by its successful completion of a $25 million series A financing round. The company’s platform is designed to detect and rigorously interpret subtle shifts in physiology using body-worn sensors.

Nalagenetics Pte. Ltd. has landed $12.6 million in a series A round of financing. The Singapore-based company wants to use the capital to expand on its genetic testing solutions to implement predictive and presymptomatic testing for prevention geared towards chronic conditions in Asia.

U.K. health tech startup Sano Genetics Ltd. landed $11 million to develop a genetic data-sharing platform that connects patients with clinical researchers. MMC Ventures led the series A funding round, with Episode 1, Seedcamp and other individual investors participating.