At the end of the first quarter of this year, we have not yet grasped that the scale of financing for Internet medical care was the same as last year. But now half a year has passed, and investment activities have shown that in 2015, the speed of Internet medical financing has not slowed down, and it has already received $2.1 billion in investment, only a little less than the same period in 2014. A total of 139 transactions, with an average size of $15 million, exceeded last year's $14.6 million.
In the first six areas of 2015, financing accounted for more than half of the total financing, and three of them did not appear on the list last year.
The wearables field and corporate health are on the list only because of a single transaction - Jawbone and Virgin Pulse. These two areas, along with the electronic medical records and clinical workflow areas, are three new areas for this year. Analysis and big data are on the list every year, indicating that health care is not immune to the general trend of technology development. The Reasonable Medical Expenses Act allows a large number of consumers to enter the medical market, but they are not satisfied with the web and mobile experience. The company hopes to shorten the gap with user expectations and actively provide consumers with health insurance purchases (such as Stride Health), product purchases (such as PillPack) and decision making (such as MDsave) services.
M&A transactions rose, but overall dollar trading volume was less than last year.
In the first half of the year, there were a total of 92 M&A transactions, with a total of 95 games last year. However, the volume of transactions only accounted for 13% of the total amount last year. M&A transactions in the first half of the year were mainly small acquisitions between Internet medical services (such as Welltok/Predilytics, Fitbit/FitStar, Teladoc/StatDoctors, Elekta/CliniCast).
The most noteworthy in the first half was Under Armour's $475 million acquisition of MyFitnessPal.
In the second quarter, Fitbit, as the largest IPO issuer, led an IPO boom.
Many well-known Internet medical companies have listed in succession, including Evolent Health and Fitbit (the first day of the third quarter of this year). IPOs generally showed an increasing trend until July 1, when a total of five companies went public, equal to the total amount last year. At the same time, this year's IPO market responded well (although the company's trading volume decreased), three-fifths of IPOs held prices higher than the issue price. The strong performance of the newly listed company's stock on the first day indicates the market's acceptance of Internet medical companies.
The above content is compiled from Rock Health.
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