What a week for digital health tech. Yesterday, Google Capital invested $32.5M in health insurance startup Oscar, which boosts the company's valuation to $1.75B and its total funding to $328M. This morning, digital therapeutics startup Omada Health announced $48M from NVP and Andreessen Horowitz, among others, to provide 16-week digital health programs for people who are at risk of developing diabetes. Those two investments combined, however, are merely a fraction of the $200M that Amazon's Jeff Bezos will be pouring into Blue Origin, his new rocket manufacturing venture in Florida. Bezos revealed yesterday that Blue Origin is already developing its first rockets, and will partner with Boeing and Lockheed Martin for future engine development. Phil Libin, former CEO of Evernote, stepped down yesterday and announced that he will be joining General Catalyst Partners as the firm's fourth GP in Palo Alto. General Catalyst has made 355 invesments to date, according to CrunchBase data, and Evernote is not one of them.
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