See the presentation Belong Health used to raise $40 million including NEA and Maverick Ventures

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Welcome to Insider Healthcare. I'm healthcare editor Leah Rosenbaum, and today in healthcare news:

• We have the pitch deck from Belong Health's Series A to help low-income older adults;
• We also have the pitch deck from Akido Lab's Series A to collect public health data;
• An Insider analysis shows that the most common health conditions don't always receive the most funding. 

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Here is the 29-slide presentation a former Cigna executive used to raise $40 million to improve how lower-income older adults receive healthcare

• Belong Health works with insurance companies to provide care to dually eligible patients.
• On Wednesday, it raised $40 million in Series A funding from NEA and Maverick Ventures.
• CEO Patrick Foley also worked at Medicare startup HealthSpring, which was acquired by Cigna in 2012.

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Here is the 12-slide presentation that convinced health-tech juggernauts like Anne Wojcicki and Elad Gil to back a public health data analytics startup

• Akido Labs makes data analytics software for first responders working with at-risk populations.
• On Thursday, it raised $25 million in Series A funding.
• Its software helped track COVID-19 outbreaks among populations experiencing houselessness.

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We looked at what conditions receive the most research funding compared with the leading causes of death in the US. Here's what we learned from 2021.

• Heart disease, cancer, COVID-19, unintentional injuries, and strokes claimed the most lives in 2020.
• The conditions that caused the most deaths and the best-funded conditions often don't align.
• COVID-19 is a new entrant to leading causes of death and to research funding areas.

Dive in>>

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More stories we're reading:

• Vaccines could still protect against Omicron via powerful 'T cells' that are hard to measure but prevent severe illness and death (Insider)
• A reporter talks to an expert about how to stop people from hacking medical devices (Politico)
• Is Omicron as infectious as it gets? Scientists lay out their best and worst scenarios for the virus' future. (Insider)
• New documents show that COVID-19 tests used by the CDC were badly designed and potentially contaminated (The New York Times)

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-Leah