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Huma announces investment to scale its digital health platform

In an interview with Sky News today, Dan Vahdat, CEO and Founder of Huma describes how the new investment will support our mission to help people worldwide live longer and fuller lives.

First published: 12 May 2021

Huma Therapeutics Limited today announces the completion of its latest funding round with financing of approximately $130 million. The investment will scale Huma’s modular platform which can power digital ‘hospitals at home’ nationally, and support the pharmaceutical and research industries to run the largest ever decentralized clinical trials. Huma’s platform combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers and real-world data to advance proactive care and research.

Leaps by Bayer and Hitachi Ventures led the Series C funding round, which also saw new strategic and financial investors become shareholders. Samsung Next, Unilever Ventures and HAT Technology & Innovation Fund by HAT, as well as individuals Nikesh Arora (former president of SoftBank) and Michael Diekmann (Chairman of Allianz) are also new shareholders.

Read the full press release.