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Proteus Digital Health

Digital HealthUSAClosed 2020

Total Raised

$487M

Peak Valuation

$1.50B

Employees

—

Year Collapsed

2020

Business model

Ingestible sensors embedded in pills that track medication adherence, paired with a wearable patch.

In brief

Developed FDA-approved "digital pills" with embedded ingestible sensors to track whether patients actually took their medication, a genuinely novel technology. Despite raising nearly half a billion dollars over almost two decades, it never found a reimbursement model that made th…

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Key facts

Founded
2001
Closed
2020
Headquarters
Redwood City, USA
Industry
Digital Health
Employees
—
Revenue
Undisclosed

Related failures

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