Signals Data Room: Key Data, Reports, & Analysis on Dialysis, Transplant, VBC, Devices, Diagnostics, Drugs & More

Your invitation to explore the ideas, innovations, and investments shaping the future of kidney health— one space at a time.

Jan 09, 2025

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Welcome to the Signals Data Room, your source for data-driven insights at the crossroads of kidney innovation. Whether you're a clinician, researcher, policy maker or industry professional, this page exists to bring you the latest trends, reports, and analysis from CKD to ESRD. Explore topics like transplant, dialysis, early stage CKD, value-based care, devices, drugs, policy, and more.

What’s Inside

We spent hundreds of hours collecting, curating, and making sense of files + datasets so you don’t have to. We simplify and supplement that data to bring you benchmarks, analysis, and insights that help drive your mission forward.

Visuals

We’re constantly crafting new data-driven visuals to help spread awareness of kidney health, as well as its current challenges and vast opportunities. These visuals augment our writing and help illustrate key points that bring these data to life. Please consider downloading and sharing these with your peers and networks to help us get the word out.

📊 14 Most Active Kidney Investors, By Stage & Segment

This snapshot is from our multi-part series that explores the most active investors shaping the Kidney-verse, from federal funding and accelerators to venture capital. It highlights the "who," "what," and "why" behind kidney care funding.

📊 30 Dialysis Device & Diagnostic Companies, By Application & Stage

Let's zoom-in on dialysis devices, while zooming-out on the timeline and capital needs of getting new devices to market.

📊 12 Value-Based Kidney Care Companies, Capital & Outcomes

This visual shows 12 companies in the value-based kidney care space along with their capital partners, money raised, and select outcome metrics provided by each company.

📊 Average Headcount Growth & Funding Per Employee, By Segment

(Where) did money flow into kidney care in 2024? Certain sub-segments continue to get disproportionate levels of funding, while others face mounting losses on their paths to commercialization. How quickly things can change.

📊 Equation: Goals of Value-Based Kidney Care

This comes from our Risk On piece in early 2024. To put it simply, if we know how healthcare is financed, we can predict how it will be organized and delivered. I learned that one from Mahesh Krishnan, and I think it applies especially well in the world of value-based care.

📊 Summary: Federal Value-Based Programs in Kidney Care

What is a value-based kidney care model? What does it include, and where did it come from? This graphic provides a visual summary of federal value-based kidney care programs since 2012.

📊 9 Kidney Care Market Segments & Key Outcomes

This graphic is from our Kidneyverse page. What segments are you working on, and what else should we be paying attention to?

📊 Landscape of Kidney Care Segments, Characteristics & Needs

This graphic is from our Kidneyverse page. What segments, characteristics, and needs are you solving for? What else should we include?

📊 16 Events Shaping Kidney Care in 2024, By Segment

Normally I prefer tools like premortems and backcasting to help my team put together roadmaps for getting from A to Z. This time around, I thought we’d crowdsource our bets. How did we do?

Why People Trust Signals

“I've spent years delving into CKD and dialysis in America, and rarely have I encountered a resource of such depth, breadth and newsworthiness. A key starting point for understanding this complex, distorted but life-saving industry.” — Tom Mueller, NY Times Bestselling Author of How To Make a Killing

"There is no better, more comprehensive canvas of the kidney space across stakeholders and the care continuum than Kidneyverse." — Dr. Genevieve Springer, Founder and CEO at OrganAI

Data

This section includes datasets, insights, and benchmarks across the landscape of kidney health, from transplant to value-based care. These resources will help you and your team uncover new opportunities to address unmet needs, spot market trends, shape policy, expand your reach, and grow your business.

Paid subscribers get access to more content, including datasets, exclusive interviews, and our growing kidney Slack community.

📊 [XLSX] Kidney Transplants By State, 1988-Present

This sheet tracks kidney transplants in the United States from 1988 to the present, breaking down data by year and state. It includes total kidney transplants per year, yearly growth percentages, and highlights of the largest and smallest growth years. Key fields include: Year, State, Total Kidney Transplants (KT), Year-over-Year Growth, Key Insights (Largest and Smallest Growth Year), and Top State Contributor (by transplant number). Additionally, the sheet provides the average annual transplants over the last 5, 10, and 15 years, as well as the historical all-time average of kidney transplants.