INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
In December 2019, Extra Crunch spoke to a group of investors leading the charge in health tech to discuss where they saw the most
opportunity in the space leading into 2020.At the time, respondents highlighted startups in digital therapeutics, telehealth and mental
health that were improving medical practitioner efficiency or streamlining the distribution of care, amongst a variety of other digital
health markets that were garnering the most attention.In the months since, the COVID-19 crisis has debilitated national healthcare systems
Weaknesses in healthcare systems have become clearer than ever, while startups and capital providers have struggled to operate while wide
swaths of the market effectively shut down.Given significant volatility and the rapid changes seen in the worlds of healthcare, venture and
startups broadly, we wanted to understand which inefficiencies might have been brought to light, what new opportunities might exist for
founders looking to reduce friction in healthcare systems, how digital health startups have been impacted and how health tech investing as a
whole has changed.We asked several of the VCs who participated in our last digital health survey to update us on how COVID-19 is impacting
digital health startups and broader healthcare systems around the world:Our current unprecedented global crisis has put a spotlight on
companies to step up and embrace new challenges and opportunities.
