Global healthcare investment reached record levels in the first half of 2019, with $26.9 billion invested across 2,258 deals. While deal activity was up across North America and Europe, Asian funding fell 39% quarter-over-quarter. The report provides an overview of key investment trends and highlights across various healthcare sectors, such as clinical trials, women's health, cannabis, AI, mental health, genomics, and digital therapeutics.

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Global Healthcare Report Q2 2019

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Contents
8 Q2’19 Investment Trends
Quarterly Deals & Dollars
Regional Trends
Q2’19 Top VC-Backed Digital Health Deals
Digital Health Unicorns
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28 Q2’19 Healthcare Industry Highlights
Clinical Trials
Women’s Health
Cannabis
AI
Mental Health & Wellness
Genomics
Digital Therapeutics
Appendix:
Most Active Digital Health Investors Q2’19
Methodology

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Clinical Trials Collection Women’s Health Collection
Cannabis Collection
Artificial Intelligence in
Healthcare Collection
Mental Health and Wellness
Collection
Genomics Collection
Digital Therapeutics
Collection

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Global
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$31,070 $39,667 $59,538 $26,914
3,322
3,810
4,395
2,258
2016 2017 2018 2019
Amount ($M) Deals
Deal count projected to reach all-time high in 2019
Annual global VC-backed healthcare deals and financing, 2016 – Q2’19 ($M)
G L O B A L H E A L T H C A R E O N T H E R I S E I N 2 0 1 9
Deal count and funding projections are based on run rate for H2’19.
2019 run rate
4,516
$53,829

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2019 is off to a record start in deals and dollars
First half global VC-backed healthcare deals and financing, 2016 – 2019 ($M)
T H E F I R S T H A L F O F 2 0 1 9 S A W R E C O R D H I G H S
$15,342 $19,111 $26,499 $26,914
1,690
1,846
2,223 2,258
H1'16 H1'17 H1'18 H1'19
Amount ($M) Deals

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Global healthcare activity near record highs
Quarterly global VC-backed healthcare deals and financing, Q1’16 – Q2’19 ($M)
H E A L T H C A R E D E A L S R I S I N G I N 2 0 1 9
$8,442 $6,900 $8,074 $7,655 $9,252 $9,858 $10,532 $10,025 $12,262 $14,237 $15,983 $17,056 $14,719 $12,196
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942
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991 973
1,016
1,207
1,153
1,019
1,111
1,147
Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Q1'17 Q2'17 Q3'17 Q4'17 Q1'18 Q2'18 Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19
Amount ($M) Deals

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Asian funding fell 39% quarter-over-quarter
Global VC-backed healthcare funding by continent, Q1’18 – Q2’19, ($M)
Other
Europe
North America
Asia
$8,244 $8,736 $9,805 $14,120 $8,743 $8,280
$2,648
$3,625
$4,652
$1,606
$4,218
$2,570
$1,348
$1,810
$1,483
$1,280
$1,708
$1,198
$23
$65
$39
$49
$49
$148
Q1'18 Q2'18 Q3'18 Q4'18 Q1'19 Q2'19
Other category includes Africa, South America, and Australia.

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Mixed results for activity across continents
Global VC-backed healthcare deals by continent, Q1’18 – Q2’19
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