Pandemic Perspectives: Riding The Waves Of Asia’s Healthtech Innovation Explosion

A VC Investor’s view of healthtech developments during COVID-19 and beyond in the markets that account for 60% of the global population

One year on, we’ve seen how the coronavirus prompted entrepreneurial instincts to surface in the medtech and healthtech sectors. Asia healthtech investor specialist HealthXCapital tells Medtech Insight about the changes that are likely to stick as in an industry that has seen the value of rapid responsiveness to acute need.

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Flexible approaches to business were required to ensure the vital continuity of contact between start-ups and investors was maintained during the worst phases of the COVID-19 lockdown.

Seemant Jauhari, managing partner at the Asia specialist healthtech investment firm HealthXCapital, explains that lockdown and COVID-19 related restrictions in...

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