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June 19, 2011 07:45 am GMT

New Health-Focused Startup Accelerator Rock Health Debuts Inaugural Batch

If the numbers shared by Gigaom in this infographic are any indication, Venture funding has stormed back to where it was before the financial collapse in 2008. The amount of capital invested is on the rise, and the current climate is providing an excellent opportunity for startups looking to raise money. GRP Partner Mark Suster confirmed as much at his talk at the Founder Institute this week, in which he urged startups to raise in the current "frothy market" -- especially ahead of a potential bursting bubble. Though the market is indeed frothy: Venture funding in the Web grew by over $1 billion from the first quarter last year. Yet, of all the digital areas in which startups are raising the most money, health and medical-related investment is on the low end, receiving only 3 percent of venture funding over the last year. A new seed accelerator that launched earlier this year called Rock Health, is hoping to break that trend.

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