| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.09.2022 | Economic instability, loneliness, food insecurity block seniors from accessing care, survey finds | The top three social barriers for seniors accessing healthcare are economic instability, loneliness and food insecurity, according to a survey released Monday.
The study by Medicare Advantage insurer Alignment Healthcare surveyed 2,601 adul... |
| 09.12.2021 | Roundtrip Raised a ‘Strategic Investment’ Round to Drive Expansion (and Hiring) Plans | The Callowhill-based company makes software that connects ride requests to a group of transportation companies. It’s aimed at transporting patients to non-emergent healthcare appointments via the likes of medical cars, wheelchair vans, stre... |
| 23.06.2021 | HumanFirst, Duke Clinical Research Institute validate remote monitoring for clinical trials | The news: HumanFirst (formerly Elektra Labs), a tech startup focused on building out remote clinical trials, and the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) are launching the Digital Measures Evaluation Center to assess how biometric sensor... |
| 10.05.2021 | Science 37 signs off on a SPAC merger—here’s how it can boost diversity in clinical trials | Digital clinical trial company Science 37 is going public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) LifeSci Acquisition II. This deal vaults Science 37 to unicorn status with a valuation of $1.05 billion valuation. For co... |
| 10.05.2021 | Roundtrip Partners with Clover Health to Provide Medicare Advantage Members with Non-Emergency Transportation Services | The goal of the collaboration is to combat one of the most significant barriers to care for seniors in America: transportation.
Clover members whose plans include transportation benefits will be able to schedule non-emergency medical transp... |
| 13.04.2021 | Roundtrip and ACS Remove the Roadblock to Cancer Care | Every day, thousands of cancer patients need a ride to treatment, but some may not have a way to get there. The American Cancer Society Road To Recovery program provides transportation to and from treatment for people with cancer who do not... |
| 01.03.2021 | Roundtrip’s Vaccine Access Program Can Help Get People to COVID-19 Vaccination Sites | Americans are in the midst of the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccination rollout. Locally, there have been failures, such as Philly Fighting COVID, as well as signs of hope, like the work of the Black Doctors Consortium, which recently organized... |
| 26.02.2021 | Roundtrip’s Vaccine Access Program can help get people to COVID-19 vaccination sites | Americans are in the midst of the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccination rollout. Locally, there have been failures, such as Philly Fighting COVID, as well as signs of hope, like the work of the Black Doctors Consortium, which recently organized... |
| 27.01.2021 | VC investment in proptech can yield profits and change lives | D. Hara Perkins Contributor
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| 26.08.2020 | NextUp: Roundtrip Is Removing Transportation Barriers From Healthcare | “I saw people giving up on their healthcare, not because of the care they were going to receive, but because the actual ride to receive that care and everything associated with it distracted them and caused angst, forcing them to say to the... |
| 23.07.2020 | Roundtrip adds $4M to Series A round | Health care ride-booking platform Roundtrip continues its upward climb with a $4 million capital raise.
The company, founded in Richmond in 2016, is an online marketplace that allows health care professionals to order rides for patients. Th... |
| 23.07.2020 | Healthcare Transportation Startup Roundtrip Just Raised $4M | In a banner year for healthtech companies, another fundraising announcement just arrived from four-year-old healthcare transportation company Roundtrip.
The company, which raised a $5 million series A last year and just received a $252,000 ... |
| 22.07.2020 | Roundtrip Raises $4M in Strategic Funding | Roundtrip, a Philadelphia, PA-based digital transportation marketplace for health outcomes, completed a $4m funding round.
This brought the total amount of financing raised to date to $10.5m.
The round was led by Motley Fool Ventures with p... |
| 21.07.2020 | Roundtrip Hauls in a $4M Strategic Capital Raise | Motley Fool Ventures and ZOLL® Medical Corporation each participated, with Motley Fool Ventures as lead. UH Ventures, the innovation and commercialization division of University Hospitals health system in Cleveland, and Grays Ferry Capital ... |
| 21.07.2020 | Roundtrip snags $4M to expand its geographical footprint | |
| 21.07.2020 | Roundtrip Nabs $4M to Scale Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Marketplace | What You Should Know:
– Digital transportation marketplace startup Roundtrip raises $4M led by Motley Fool ventures, bringing its total funding to $10.5M.
– The company plans to use the funding to geographically scale and specialize its sal... |
| 06.07.2020 | Money Moves: These 8 Philly-Area Companies Raised More Than $118M Total This Spring | In late May, Palvella Therapeutics, a Wayne-based biopharmaceutical company focused on genetic diseases, announced that it had raised $45 million in Series C funding. In addition, the company said that two key investors — Scott Morenstein, ... |
| 15.06.2020 | Can a Free Lyft Ride Help Combat Opioid Addiction? Philly Startup Gets $252,000 to Find Out | Roundtrip, based in Old City, makes a platform that helps health care providers coordinate patient transportation, anything from a Lyft to a follow-up appointment to a medical transport to a rehab facility. The company received a $252,000 S... |
| 09.06.2020 | Paris-based Ambler wants to become the ‘Uber for ambulances,’ raises €6M funding | Based out of Paris, Ambler, an intermediation platform that connects health care prescribers to ambulance companies, has raised €6 million after 18 months of its first round of funding. The round was led by Bpifrance, which is taking a stak... |
| 02.06.2020 | NIH Grant Gives Roundtrip $252K to Study Impacts of Transportation on Opioid use Disorder Treatment | Specifically, the study will be zeroing in on appointment show-rates and patient experiences. Roundtrip, the University of Pennsylvania, Lyft and Contra Costa Health services are joining forces to conduct the study, which will predominantly... |
| 23.01.2020 | Patient Transportation Startup Roundtrip Gets a New Partnership Amid Year of Growth | Roundtrip was founded in 2016 with the mission of connecting patients, care managers and relatives or friends with a way to book and pay for non-emergency medical transportation options. It’s essentially rideshare for medical transportation... |
| 12.12.2019 | Here were Houston's top 5 fundraising stories in 2019 | Editor's note: As 2019 comes to a close, InnovationMap is looking back at the year's top stories in Houston innovation. When it came to the money raised in Houston, five stories of new funds and closed rounds trended among readers.
These 7 ... |
| 12.06.2019 | TMCx companies plant Houston roots with pilots, partnerships, and more | At the conclusion of TMCx's recent Digital Health cohort — the most international group to date — there was only one Houston company among the 19. However, most of that group have developed a presence in Houston throughout the program.
Besi... |
| 07.06.2019 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | This week was flooded with more than just the tropical disturbance that hit Houston. The city hosted a slew of events — from Plug and Play's Houston Innovation Week and Capital Factory's Texas Startups Roadshow to TMCx's Demo Day and the Lo... |
| 04.06.2019 | 3 TMCx companies have raised funds while completing the Houston accelerator | The Texas Medical Center's accelerator program is wrapping up its Digital Health cohort this week with the culmination of its TMCx Demo Day, and, while all of the companies have something to celebrate, three have announced that they are lea... |
| 07.05.2019 | Data Gumbo closes $6M round, Alice partners with accelerator, and more Houston innovation news | Houston's innovation ecosystem has been busy, and the ongoing 50th anniversary of the Offshore Technology Conference has claimed a lot of attention in town lately. While I'm sure you've seen the big news pieces, like the Texas Medical Cente... |
| 03.05.2019 | Roundtrip Nabs $5.1M to Expand Digital Transportation Marketplace for Providers & Patients | Roundtrip, a Philadelphia, PA-based digital transportation marketplace for better health outcomes announced it has raised $5.14M in Series A funding led by Motley Fool Ventures, with participation from a multi-billion dollar international h... |
| 02.05.2019 | Roundtrip Completes $5.14M Series A Funding | Roundtrip, a Philadelphia, PA-based company connecting healthcare and transportation providers, completed a $5.14m Series A funding.
The round was led by Motley Fool Ventures, with participation from a multi-billion dollar international hea... |
| 01.05.2019 | Healthcare Transportation Startup Roundtrip Raises $5M Series A Round | A 2-year-old Richmond startup wants to get its ride-scheduling technology in the hands of as many medical professionals as possible – and fast.
Roundtrip, a platform that connects healthcare and transportation providers, on Wednesday announ... |
| 01.05.2019 | Roundtrip Just Raised a $5.1M Series A | Old City’s Roundtrip, makers of an on-demand transportation platform for the healthcare space, announced Wednesday it closed a $5.14 million Series A.
The company aims to double its staff of 26, currently split between Philadelphia and Rich... |
| 01.05.2019 | Roundtrip's medical transport coordination platform reports $5.1M Series A | |
| 01.05.2019 | Roundtrip nabs $5.1M for non-emergency medical transportation solution | “Our partnership with Motley Fool Ventures was by design – their reach is wide, and their expansive base in healthcare and scaling marketplace models gives us the financial and knowledge reinforcement to eliminate transportation as the barr... |
| 01.05.2019 | Roundtrip’s Medical Transport Coordination Platform Reports $5.1M Series A | The round was led by Motley Fool Ventures with participation from existing investors Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, as well as from an unnamed “multi-billion dollar international ... |
| 28.03.2019 | Ben Franklin Tech Partners’ Portfolio Companies Raised $345M in 2018 |
A new Performance Profile report released this week shows that its portfolio companies raised $354 million in funding in association with BFTP’s investments in 2018, a spike from $152 million in 2017. Some notable local funding from BFTP c... |
| 20.02.2019 | Roundtrip and Oncora Medical are Joining an Accelerator Inside the ‘Largest Medical Complex in the World’ | With 9,200 hospital beds and over 106,000 employees, the center is also a hub for innovation in the Lone Star state, with its TMC Innovation Institute running a yearly accelerator for companies in the healthcare space.
On Monday, when 21 di... |
| 09.08.2018 | Companies Respond to an Urgent Health Care Need: Transportation | “It’s going to become a massive phenomena,” said Ken Dychtwald, founder and chief executive of Age Wave, a consulting firm specializing in age-related issues. “This is an unmet need that’s going to be in the tens of millions of people.”
It’... |
| 16.04.2018 | How Philly Start-up RoundTrip Helps Ease a Huge Health Problem: Getting a Ride to the Doctor |
But what often remains tortuous, time-consuming, and far from reliable is patient transportation for the underprivileged and the elderly.
For many, getting to a chemotherapy treatment or an appointment with a cardiologist or wound speciali... |
| 29.03.2018 | On-demand Medical Transport Startup RoundTrip Closes $1.9 Million Seed Round | More news from the realLIST ’18 cohort: NoLibs-based RoundTrip, a startup using tech to connect patients with medical transportation options, has closed a $1.9 million seed round.
The capital will let the company, which currently offers its... |
| 02.02.2018 | 10 Philly Startups to Watch in 2018 |
We put a call out to Philly’s innovation community to get a pulse on the startups we’re most excited about for 2018. The city answered the call with much momentum — we received more than 150 nominations. These startups have each identified... |
| 06.11.2017 | How a Quick Text to a Lawyer Helped this Startup Nab $800K | Here are two quick lessons for your next pitch competition:
In its second year, the Lion’s Den brought back the same group of investors for the Shark Tank–style panel: Michael Wells, managing director of Princeton Biopharma Capital Partners... |
| - | Roundtrip nabs $5.1M for non-emergency medical transportation solution | Roundtrip, a company offering a non-emergency medical transportation solution, has raised a $5.14 Series A round, according to a news release sent to MedCity.
Motley Fool Ventures led the round, while Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Sou... |
| - | HumanFirst, Duke Clinical Research Institute validate remote monitoring for clinical trials | The news: HumanFirst (formerly Elektra Labs), a tech startup focused on building out remote clinical trials, and the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) are launching the Digital Measures Evaluation Center to assess how biometric sensor... |
