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Investor Eye: Claudio D’Angelo Of RYSE Asset Management Explains Early-Stage Digital Health Investment

 
• By Catherine Longworth

RYSE head tells Medtech Insight about his firm’s shift to investing in virtual primary care and telemedicine.

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Securing funding for early-stage companies is a challenge at the best of times but with COVID-19 the challenge may be even greater. For London-based asset management firm RYSE, the pandemic caused a rethink of its six-month investment program for early-stage digital health and medtech start-ups.

The firm's second funding call, launched in 2019, invited start-ups to apply for £250k-£5m in funding with the opportunity to...

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