BUSINESS: Research + Stats Funding for Digital Health Companies Slows in Q1 2019 By Staff Monday, April 22, 2019 1:28 PM Digital health venture fund Rock Health reports that after 2018’s record-setting year in which U.S. companies raised $8.1B, $986M was invested across 61 digital health deals in Q1 2019. That’s about half of what was raised a year ago in Q1 2018 but roughly in line with 2017 and 31 percent below 2016, according to Rock Health.Rock Health researchers Sean Day and Megan Zweig note that funding was stable over the prior six month period, “making the middle of 2018 something of an outlier.” The pointed out that investors poured $3.3B into the sector at a blistering pace in Q3 2018 alone, compared to $1.2B in Q4 2018. Excluding the sharp influx of dollars in mid-2018 during digital health’s hottest summer, quarterly funding has averaged $1.4B over the past two years (Q1 2017-Q1 2019). “This puts the $986M invested in this past quarter somewhat below recent trends,” Day and Zweig said.