Rahanuma, Tarannum and Sakhawat Hussain, Tanim and Md Manarat Uddin, Mithun and Md Ashiqul, Islam (2024) Healthcare Investment Trends: A Post-COVID Capital Market Analysis Investigating How Public Health Crises Reshape Healthcare Venture Capital and M&A Activity. American Journal of Technology Advancement, 1 (1). pp. 51-79. ISSN 2997-9382

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered the trends of healthcare investment around the world, intensifying financial inflows in the field of biotechnology, digital health, and life sciences and emphasizing the need to strengthen the role of the sector in the resilience of population health. This research article is a study of post-COVID-investment trends in the healthcare industry, specifically venture capital (VC) and mergers and acquisition (M&A) in the United States, with similar insights drawn across high-growth sectors of artificial intelligence (AI), fintech, and renewable energy. This study has a quantitative and comparative design based on the use of the Largest U.S. Venture Funding Deals of 2023 and 2024 Startup Investments Dataset to examine the size of deals, industry funding distribution, investor concentration, and how the investment patterns vary over time. The results indicate that healthcare, although no longer as crisis-centered as during the years of the pandemic, retains its stable role in world capital markets, taking about a quarter of venture activities with stable deal sizes pointing at the stability rather than the instability of such fields as AI and fintech. The interdependence between venture funding and M&A is presented in figures, based on the fact that startups are often designed to be acquired by bigger companies, in search of innovation pipelines and scalability. Despite the fact that the total amount of financing that healthcare currently receives is lower, compared to other dynamically growing sectors, the major players, including Monogram Health and Aledade, also received substantial investments, which proves the cynical promise of investors. This study also observed in monthly analysis that there was quite a volatility in funding which was based on macroeconomic conditions but the high rebounds indicated that healthcare had great potential in the long run. Ethical issues also surfaced, notably, the concentration of capital in the hands of a small group of dominant actors and companies, that casts the need to question the equity, inclusivity, and access to innovation, as well as provides a source of societal resilience and well-being.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General)
Divisions:	Postgraduate > Master's of Islamic Education
Depositing User:	Journal Editor
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2025 05:18
Last Modified:	22 Sep 2025 05:18
URI:	http://eprints.umsida.ac.id/id/eprint/16369

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