Year: 2021

9/ Over 400 investment firms have funded the startup tracked by H+. Few of them have invested in both tech and healthcare startups. Among venture capital firms, the most active are @GV and @khoslaventures. Among the investment banks, the most active is @Fidelity.

8/ But while tech companies are now focusing on around-the-body devices that have broader applicability than pure healthcare, they also infiltrate the in-the-body category (initially in the form of monitoring devices).

7/ H+ segments the human body augmentation market opportunity in 2 categories: around the body and inside the body. Healthcare companies used to dominate both. Now technology companies have started to infiltrate the former category.

6/ Second, an enormous amount of investors has put almost $10B behind less than 100 startups.

Half of the total investments made for all startups that H+ tracks went to a single company: Magic Leap. https://t.co/rW1J98hZpU

5/ For H+, I created a timeline of the key milestones of this journey: https://t.co/Dg2ct6a0Hb

4/ Throughout history, humans have moved from 1- Embellish (as a way to hide imperfections) to 2- Repair to 3- Augment. That’s what I consider the 3 main stages of a hypothetical maturity model and today we are between 2 and 3.

3/ First, the (incomplete) Classification Criteria used by H+ should give you an idea of how much effort the industry is putting in augmenting various parts of the human body. We are well past sporadic efforts at the edge of sci-fi. https://t.co/lMvISAWYvJ

2/ Today, I’d like to share some basic insights about what I learned so far.

1/ H+ (https://t.co/7m1GuT6S6F) is 4 years old. And while it remains a hobby, during this time I developed the research platform in a significant way. H+ now tracks almost 100 industry players around the globe.

Hysteria.

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