Minute Insight: Pear Therapeutics Files For Bankruptcy, Hopes To Find Buyer For PDT Assets
Executive Summary
A few weeks after announcing that it was exploring its "strategic options," Pear Therapeutics announced that it is filing for bankruptcy and is not filling new prescriptions for its digital therapeutics.
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