Alphabet loses control of Verily as life sciences unit pursues independence

Verily's $300M funding round strips Alphabet of controlling stake and launches the life sciences company toward independence with focus on AI-driven precision health.

The Daily Perspective

Engadget: Alphabet’s Verily closes its medical device division and lays off staff. “Alphabet’s Verily was one of the company’s star “moonshot” businesses, with its research delving into areas ranging from connected diabetes therapies to robot surgery. Now, Verily has shuttered its medical device division and laid off staff, the company announced in a memo seen by Business Insider. The number of […]

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Verily, la filiale santé de Google, abandonne les objets connectés pour l’IA
https://mac4ever.com/191442
#Mac4Ever #Alphabet #verily
Verily receives grant to build major Parkinson's molecular dataset

The grant will help Verily generate a detailed molecular dataset of Parkinson’s disease, integrating genomic, metabolic, immunologic and digital health data.

MobiHealthNews

Google life sciences offshoot Verily moving corporate HQ to Dallas

Move marks another step in North Texas’ transformation into one of the country’s premier biotech hubs.

Verily, a health care software company owned by Alphabet Inc., announced today that it is moving its corporate HQ from South San Francisco, Calif., to Dallas later this quarter, just under 3 years since it opened an office in North Texas.

🆓🔗:
https://archive.is/TQCuD

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/health-care/2024/07/24/google-life-sciences-offshoot-verily-moving-corporate-headquarters-to-dallas/

#Dallas #Google #Verily #BioTech

For a company that was founded to "defeat Mother Nature," #Google's #healthtech company #Verily's latest pivot is strangely pedestrian.

It's turning its chronic care program Onduo into a new platform called Lightpath that prescribes #GLP-1s & collects wearable data (including from OTC CGMs for non-diabetic patients) with #AI

for @STAT: https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/11/google-verily-glp1-weight-loss-drugs-lightpath-onduo/

#health #healthcare #ozempic #wegovy #mounjaro #zepbound

Google’s Verily to offer GLP-1 drugs through Lightpath, its retooled chronic care app

Google's Verily is pivoting, again. Its chronic disease management app Onduo will transition to a new, “evolved” product called Lightpath.

STAT
Backing Tessier-Lavigne in "Raiders for brand new molecules designed by #ArtificialIntelligence to cure everything" are two venture capitalists: Bob Nelsen
of ARCH Venture Partners and
Vikram Bajaj, formerly #Aphabet's #Verily, of Foresite Capital Management.
Really important email has been going to my Gmail spam and the service flagged one of my iCloud emails as phishing. #Verily

An unlikely CEO to take #Google's former moonshot factory #Verily to profitability:

Stephen Gillett doesn't have #healthcare experience, but he didn't have electronics experience before his Best Buy gig (besides being a gamer) and didn't drink coffee before his Starbucks gig.

(The #WoW reference isn't just a tease, either.)

https://www.statnews.com/2023/02/08/verily-ceo-stephen-gillett-alphabet/

Verily, struggling to turn profits, taps a Starbucks veteran and ‘Warcraft’ master

Stephen Gillett's breakthrough executive job, far from the halls of science or medicine, was at Starbucks. Now, he finds himself at the helm of Verily's effort to transform health care with technology.

STAT