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Singapore: Biofourmis raises US$1 million angel funding

Medical data analystics company Biofourmis has raised US$1 million in angel funding, led by South Africa’s SpesNet and Eden Strategy, as well as other investors. BioFourmis has developed a personalised analytics engine for physiological data.

Founded by Kuldeep Singh Rajput in November last year, Biofourmis won the Healthcare Information & Management Systems (HIMSS) inaugural innovation award in APAC last year, which brought the company initial support from SpesNet and allowed it to develop its Biovitas analytics engine.
Posted on: 12/08/2016 UTC+08:00


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