Sword Health to acquire Headspace for up to $300M
Plus: AusperBio raises $120M Series C for hepatitis B therapy. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
Plus: AusperBio raises $120M Series C for hepatitis B therapy. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
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Sword Health to acquire Headspace for up to $300M
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Plus: AusperBio raises $120M Series C for hepatitis B therapy. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
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Deal Confidence: High
Sword Health, a virtual musculoskeletal care company valued above $4 billion, is paying up to $300 million in cash for Headspace, the meditation and therapy app once valued near $3 billion.
The deal surfaced in a Massachusetts regulatory filing and is expected to close September 14. It's Sword's second acquisition this year, after Kaia Health, as it builds toward a planned 2028 IPO.
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Why it matters
A virtual care company just agreed to pay up to $300 million for a mental-health app once valued near $3 billion, a steep markdown that shows how far 2021-era digital health valuations have fallen and how the sector is consolidating around fewer, broader platforms.
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Deal Confidence: High
AusperBio, a San Francisco biotech developing new therapies for chronic hepatitis B, a disease with no approved functional cure, closed a $120 million round to push its lead drug toward a pivotal trial.
The Series C brings AusperBio's total raised since 2024 to $360 million. Proceeds advance AHB-137 into Phase 3 and fund a second candidate, AHB-171, plus combination-therapy research.
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Why it matters
A biotech just raised $120 million to push an experimental hepatitis B drug toward a pivotal trial, a reminder of how much capital it now takes to reach late-stage testing for a disease with no approved cure.
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