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• How does trivago make money?

  by Steven Loeb, June 23, 2017

  The hotel search engine charges hotels for referrals on a cost-per-click basis

  In the first quarter of 2017, the company saw the number of Qualified Referrals on its site increase by 60 percent year-over-year to 177.2 million. A Qualified Referreral is defined a unique visitor per day that generates at least one referral; the same person can count as more than one referral if they click on more than one advertised rate, but each person can only be counted once as a Qualified

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• Accelerators focused on Smart Cities

  by Steven Loeb, June 22, 2017

  Some focus on companies in the smart city space, while some work directly with the cities themselves

  For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but another popular method to get a foot in the door, as well as some funding and traction, are accelerators. These are programs that provide companies advice, guidance and various forms of support for startups in their early stages. They also often invest

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• With Kalanick out at Uber, here's what he might do next

  by Steven Loeb, June 21, 2017

  Gates went philanthropic; Ballmer bought a sports team; Phil Libin went the VC route

  Tinder CEO Sean Rad, like Kalanick, was never accused of harassing anyone himself, but of creating a culture where such actions were permitted. Rad's firing seemed like damage control over a very public sexual harassment claim from company co-founder, and former VP of Marketing, Whitney Wolfe. Tinder settled the sexual harassment claim, with the company having not actually admitted any wrongdoing.

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• Gartner recognizes noHold as a 2017 Cool Vendor

  by Josiah Motley, June 21, 2017

  The company was recognized for their innovation and impact in conversational platforms

  In 2015, noHold received recognition for their business process services, and this year sees recognition for AI used in conversational platforms. From the report, "The use of conversational platforms is a much-hyped topic, with chatbots, assistants, messaging platforms and other natural-language processing (NLP) uses vying for attention. The Cool Vendors in this note show the breadth of offerings available

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• Uber makes an appeal to keep drivers, starts allowing tips

  by Steven Loeb, June 20, 2017

  Uber has seen a slew of bad press recently, including the departure of Travis Kalanick

  While Uber settled in April of last year, in order for drivers to remain independent contractors, the company was forced to pay out $84 million to the approximately 385,000 drivers represented in the suit. It will have to pay another $16 million if it goes public and hits a certain valuation. More importantly, Uber also agreed to a number of concessions, including new specific policies designed to

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• Welltok's Michelle Snyder reveals new healthcare paradigm

  Keys to building a consumer centered healthcare platform: Interview with Reena Jadhav

  Reena Jadhav interviewed Michelle Snyder of Welltok at Vator Splash Health on the new paradigm of building a consumer centric healthcare platform. Welltok is a leading consumer health enterprise SaaS company ...
  By Reena A Jadhav
  

• Sports-centric streaming TV service fuboTV raises $55M

  FuboTV offers a package of 65 channels, including NBC, Fox, Bravo, USA and MSNBC

  As more people turn to cord-cutting [aka: cancelling cable TV], we're increasingly seeing new viewing options, including online-only subscriptions from HBO and Showtime, and offerings from cable companies, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Travel app, FinalPrice, raises $4 million in funding

  The subscription-based travel app will use the funding for product development and scaling

  There are quite a few services that cater to travelers of all kind, services that will save you money on flights, hotels, and rental cars, but most of them have to make money on the individual purchase, ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• Meet Elizabeth Galbut, Founding Partner at SoGal Ventures

  Galbut also founded A-Level Capital, a student-led venture capital firm, while at Johns Hopkins

  Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh how times have changed. While there are more startups than ever, there's also more money chasing ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Looking for an AI focused accelerator? This list is for you!

  These accelerators include Eonify, Rockstart, Techcode and Zeroth

  For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but another popular method to get a foot in the door, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Podcast: Dr. Robert Pearl on his new book Mistreated

  Innovation opportunities in Digital Health & the Truth about why we are not getting care we deserve

  Reena Jadhav interview with Dr. Pearl, who offers every American critical information on how to get better healthcare as a consumer and how to pick the right doctor among other key insights. Packed with ...
  By Reena A Jadhav
  

• Peter Hames, CEO Big Health, on Digital Medicine and Sleepio

  Reena Jadhav interviews Peter on emergence of evidence based non drug therapy at scale

  Reena Jadhav interviews Peter Hames, CEO of Big Health about emergence of "Digital Medicine" and Big Heallth's first product Sleepio, which addresses sleep problems digitally to help manage the deeper ...
  By Reena A Jadhav
  

• When Wikipedia was young: the early years

  Wikipedia, launched in 2001, was an offshoot of online encyclopedia Nupedia

  It's a look back at the modest days of startups, what traction they had in their first few years, and how they evolved. In the end, we hope to provide a glimpse into what great startups looked like in ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Your guide to accelerators focused on the FinTech space

  These accelerators include Plug and Play, Barclays and Wells Fargo

  For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but another popular method to get a foot in the door, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Algolia raises $53 million in Series B funding round

  The Search-as-a-Service company will use the funding to continue to invest in search innovations

  The French startup, Algolia, has just finished their Series B round of funding, closing at $53 million raised. Their first round of funding happened back in May of 2015 with Accel as the leading investor. ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• Success path for Omada Health and key insights for startups

  Reena Jadhav interviews Sean Duffy Co-Founder & CEO of Omada Health

  Omada Health is the largest provider of "Prevention Medicine at Scale" health services in the World having helped over 100,000 patients stop the progress of chonic disease. Sean, the co-founder and CEO, ...
  By Reena A Jadhav
  

• Your guide to accelerators focused on the healthcare space!

  Dreamit, Blueprint Health and Healthbox are among those programs focused only on healthcare

  For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but another popular method to get a foot in the door, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• How does Delivery Hero make money?

  The company, which recently announced an IPO, takes 10 percent per order on its platform

  At one point there was a glut of food delivery companies popping up, including Just Eat, GrubHub, Sprig and Deliveroo, while some already established companies, like Square and Uber, were also trying to ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Savonix raises $5.1M for neurocognitive testing

  Ushering in a new age to replace traditional cognitive test-taking

  Taking a blood test is a common way to determine if you have diabetes. No one ever stops to think, however, about taking a neurocognitive test at the same time, despite the fact that managing the progressive ...
  By Bambi Francisco Roizen
  

• Snap buys Placed for deeper insights into offline behavior

  Placed will remain an independent company, keeping its headquarters in Seattle

  We tend to think of online and offline advertising as two separate things, but the reality is that they are intertwined and feed off each other. Online ads are not only designed to get you into a digital ...
  By Steven Loeb
  
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