Re­al-world da­ta get re­al dol­lars: GV, Bain help in­fuse $100M in­to Ve­r­ana Health as prag­mat­ic tri­al space heats up

As the ap­pli­ca­tion of re­al-world da­ta in clin­i­cal prac­tice and drug de­vel­op­ment be­comes the re­al­i­ty for a grow­ing num­ber of physi­cians as well as drug­mak­ers, GV and a mar­quee syn­di­cate are bet­ting some re­al dol­lars on one San Fran­cis­co play­er.

The crew for­mer­ly known as Google Ven­tures is lead­ing a $100 mil­lion round for Ve­r­ana Health, which has just ac­quired a small­er com­pa­ny spe­cial­iz­ing in large-scale da­ta ar­chi­tec­ture so­lu­tions dubbed PYA An­a­lyt­ics. Bain Cap­i­tal Ven­tures, Cas­din Cap­i­tal and De­fine Ven­tures al­so chipped in.

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