Health

Beckley Retreats, a psilocybin retreats and holistic wellbeing company, closed of its seed round with a $1.5m investment led by Iter Investments and with participation by The Joe and Sandy Samberg Foundation and 5D World. Beckley Retreats offers the most comprehensive psychedelic program currently on the market with a 4-week virtual preparation protocol leading up to the 5-day immersive retreat, followed by a 6-week virtual integration program.

The platform is easier than an app, it doesn’t require any downloads, accounts, or registrations, and is accessible to anyone in the world who can text.

Verizon Business and Visionable, a health technology company based in the United Kingdom, announced that they are expanding their partnership which will enable both companies to work on a range of connected healthcare solutions, via Visionable’s patented technology powered by Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband and 5G Edge network, in the United States. 

Two of Australia’s favourite personalities, comedian Stephen Curry and actor Michala Banas, have united to raise awareness for kidney health disease – and their crusade is personal. Michala and Stephen have developed light-hearted but important videos promoting kidney health to encourage Aussies to put on their red socks and sign up for the Red Sock Run this October to combat kidney disease. Michala almost lost her life when she was six years with an illness that required surgery to remove most of her left kidney in a life-saving operation.

Four in five Aussie parents of adult children are unaware of a major rule change to their health insurance that allows kids to stay on the family health insurance for longer - a change that could save the household around $3,000 on their cover. Despite the federal govt raising the upper age limit for adult children on a family policy from 25 to 31 in 2021, many health funds have only just rolled out changes leaving families unaware of how they could benefit.

Covetrus®, a global organisation in animal-health technology and services, announced the appointment of Michelle Bonfilio as Chief People Officer, reporting to Ben Wolin, President and Chief Executive Officer at Covetrus. In this role, Michelle Bonfilio will oversee the human resources and communications organizations and help shape the culture of the company.

Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (Biocytogen, HKEX: 02315) announced a strategic collaboration with Guangzhou FineImmune Biotechnology Co., LTD. (FineImmune) to co-develop cell-based therapeutic drugs targeting intracellular tumor-associated antigens. Biocytogen will use its TCR-mimic antibody platform to discover fully human antibody sequences that will be further developed using FineImmune’s unique cell therapy platform.

Remedial Health, a healthtech startup that makes solutions to make Africa’s pharmaceutical value chain more efficient, has raised $4.4m in seed funding to accelerate its expansion across Nigeria and to provide access to credit for inventory purchases for its client base of pharmacies, Proprietary Patent Medicine Vendors (PPMVs) and hospitals in the country. 

There are many air purification products sprouting all types of claims however very few provide the high levels of protection and efficacy of air filtration they promise to deliver. The reality is not all air purifiers are created equal and businesses need to understand the key differences and what to look for when purchasing and installing air purification units.

Protembis GmbH, a privately-held emerging cardiovascular medical device firm, announced the appointment of experienced and serial entrepreneur and medical device executive Azin Parhizgar as an Independent Member and Chairwoman of the Board of Directors. Azin is committed to the embolic protection field after her recent successes with Claret Medical.