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Forrest’s Tenmile backs start-up solving a looming healthcare crisis

Yolanda Redrup
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Medical technology start-up SpeeDx is the latest to score the support of Andrew Forrest’s Tenmile health tech fund, banking $26 million as it tries to build tech that can tell doctors how to treat infections.

SpeeDx was originally spun out of a diagnostics development program inside healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson in 2009, but is headquartered in Australia and now sells its PCR diagnostics tests into 19 countries.

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Yolanda Redrup is the editor of the AFR Rich List. She previously reported on technology, healthcare and Street Talk. Connect with Yolanda on Twitter. Email Yolanda at yolanda.redrup@afr.com

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