The digital health funding market continues to mature according to both StartUp Health's Q3 2015 Insights Report and Rock Health's data. Although, both reports use different methodologies in how they define digital health, the overall trends are largely consistent. Q3 2015 continues to demonstrate a trend towards digital health market maturity with an increase of investment dollars combined with larger deals. Some highlights for healthcare entrepreneurs and industry innovators: [Disclosure: StartUp Health Insights reports are published quarterly by StartUp Health, the company I co-founded. Download the free report here, and read about the methodology here.]
Data from StartUp Health and Rock Health 's Q3 reports show the continued maturation of the digital frontier venture capital space . Patient and consumer experience ventures topped the list , with 62 investments , resulting in $ 1.1bn of funding , whilst Big Data and analytics fell down the rankings , seeing only 30 investments , which represented $ 500 m of funding . Series A rounds comprised 64 % of all funding activity , in line with 3Q14 , and the California Bay Area led the geographical equity stakes . frontier ventures put total VC funding at $ 3.3bn for the third round . ﻿﻿﻿﻿