DETROIT: A tech startup has raised $35 million from investors.
The Series B funding comes two years after Scanadu raised almost $1.7 million from more than 8,500 backers on the crowdfunding website Indiegogo. Also in 2013, the company raised $10.5 million in a Series A round. Total funding now is close to $50 million.
Scanadu has developed Scout. It is a small device that measures vital signs such as body temperature, heartbeat and blood pressure when pressed to a person’s forehead, and it shares those results to an app that can be installed on Android or Apple smartphones. It is the first cuff-less blood pressure monitor offered directly to consumers…