Healthcare

Impact investors are making allocations to Redcliffe Labs, the Indian diagnostics service provider. The country’s diagnostics market is estimated to be worth about $15bn this year, with expected growth of 15% annually until 2030.

Social infrastructure plays a key role in the long-term asset allocation of the UK’s local government pension funds, according to a new study.

The aim is to increase healthcare capacity in the Netherlands. The first investment is in Momo Medical, which has developed an app to support more efficient working in nursing homes.

Breast cancer deaths disproportionately affect women in low- and middle-income countries. However, healthtech innovations are increasingly making life-saving screening more accessible.

Keynote speaker Sarah de Lagarde will discuss the impact of healthtech at this year’s Impact Investor Conference. But before that, Sarah, a double amputee, will be attempting to climb Kilimanjaro and raise funds for STAND.

The investment by the alternative business unit of AXA Investment Managers will help healthtech startup Novocuff fund a key clinical trial in the US.

The Swedish impact investor’s inaugural venture fund was backed by European institutional investors and will back companies developing solutions to address future health and environmental challenges.

Impact Expansion has raised €150m for Impact Expansion Fund I and announced the fund’s first investment in Belgium into sustainable energy solutions provider BeliVert.

A report from Better Society Capital shows how the use of outcomes contracts is spreading in the UK, and quantifies their benefits in tackling social and health problems.

The Dutch healthtech venture builder will use the funds to bring more potentially groundbreaking healthcare innovations to market.