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• Startup competitions seeking precision health companies

  by Steven Loeb, July 19, 2018

  They include Archon Genomics XPRIZE and MedCity INVEST Pitch Perfect Startup Content

  On September 27, we will be holding a salon, in conjunction with HP, where we take a deep dive into precision health. Precision health encompasses precision medicine. What is precision medicine? It’s a move toward tailored and personalized medicine vs a one-size-fits-all approach. Precision health is more about disease prevention and detection. It’s about providing targeted, predictive

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• A conversation with Mark Goldstein, founding chairman of Health Hub UCSF

  by Steven Loeb, July 19, 2018

  Health Hub is a non-profit that helps healthtech companies gain access to the Bay Area ecosystem

  Mark Goldstein: We’re focusing on sort of what we’re calling the sophomore class of companies. We’re not focusing on necessarily the freshmen. We’re focusing on the companies and ideas that have already sort of either gotten a grant or some form of funding. And we’re focusing on healthcare, most likely in the digital health arena, but that’s increasingly broad; it

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• Viz.ai raises $21M to better detect the early signs of a stroke

  by Steven Loeb, July 18, 2018

  The company will be broadening out its AI platform to detect other medical conditions as well

  "What we developed is a system that connects a CT scanner in any hospital in a hospital network with the phone of the neurosurgical and neurological specialist who’s on call for strokes. I’ve got it on my phone and I can be interrupted at any point with an alarm, and it will say that, in this hospital, there is a patient who is having scan right now and needs my attention," Mansi said in

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• Reali, a provider of AI-powered real estate tools for buyers and sellers, raises $20M

  by Steven Loeb, July 18, 2018

  The company combines AI and human intelligence to upend every aspect of the real estate space

  "What we come to solve is the significant inefficiency in the real estate market: the ways transactions are being held, the poor experience for many consumers, a lack of technology and, last but not least, it’s also very, very expensive. We try to solve it all by creating a totally new platform for real state transactions, leveraging and providing the services you would expect in the old world

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• Standard Cognition raises another $5.5M for its autonomous checkout solution

  by Steven Loeb, July 17, 2018

  The company uses AI to charge shoppers for their items as they leave the store

  One of the ways that those stores have tried to give customers a better experience is with self checkout, making checkout quicker and with less friction. Standard Cognition is a company taking that idea even further: it's an artificial intelligence-based system that lets consumers shop and pay without scanning or stopping to check out. The customer simply takes their items and leaves the store and

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• Meet T.J. Rylander, Partner at Next47

  Next47 incorporates the global Siemens ecosystem into its startups

  Meet T.J. Rylander, a Partner at next47. The global investment firm was created by Siemens in 2016 and has offices in Munich, Paris, London, Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Beijing, Boston, and Palo Alto, where Rylander ...
  By Anna Vodopyanova
  

• How does Lime make money?

  Lime, which recently raised a $335M round and partnered with Uber, charges users a fee to ride

  As the world becomes more eco-conscious, and more cities invest in smart technology, bike sharing has taken off in a big way, leading to an explosion of funding. From 2016 to 2017, investments in bike ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Venture funding scores blockbuster quarter

  While different reports may vary on the numbers, they still show the VC market gaining strength

  When covering different markets or sectors, you're going to have a lot reports thrown at you in regards to how things are trending, whether the numbers are going up or down. It's tempting to take them ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Goodwall seeks to be the recruiter for Generation Z; raises $10.8M

  Beyond the standardized tests, students are encouraged to showcase the best version of themselves

  Recently, the University of Chicago dropped its requirement for students to provide their ACT or SAT scores. While the move is an effort to allow more low-income students in, it's also another sign that ...
  By Bambi Francisco Roizen
  

• Spring Health raises $6M to better match patients with mental health providers

  The company uses AI and machine learning for mental health diagnoses

  Last month, Vator, along with HP, held a salon called SplashX Invent Health: Mental and Behavioral Health, where we had groups of entrepreneurs and investors discuss the space, including some of the innovations ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Nokia enters into a $1B agreement to supply technology to China Mobile

  China Mobile has 902 million subscribers, more than Verizon and AT&T combined

  After Nokia was acquired by Microsoft for over $7 billion in 2013, the company, once the leading vendor in the mobile phone space, took its focus off of what it was best at, partially because of the failure ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• AT&T acquires AlienVault to expand cyber security solutions to SMBs

  AlienVault had raised over $118 million in venture funding

  AT&T recently completed the largest acquisition in its entire history when it spent $85 billion in picking up Time Warner, but that hasn't slowed the company down one bit. It has since spent a reported ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Startup competitions seeking e-commerce and retail companies

  They include Retail Startup Awards, eCommerce StartUP Competition and Shoptalk Startup Pitch

  Vator has been holding its own competitions, using VatorX, to find and filter for the best startups. We've had some very successful and notable winners in the past that have gone on to raise big funding ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• How data and technology offer patients better mental health treatments

  Virtual reality and video games are a few of the emerging digital solutions to mental health issues

  Earlier in the night, the panel of healthcare incumbents and tech pioneers, which of consisted of panelists Michael Fitzgerald (Executive Director, Behavioral Health Services, El Camino Hospital), Tom ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Samsung opens "world's largest mobile factory" in India

  The new facility will allow Samsung to nearly double mobile phone production by 2020

  India is a country that has long represented a huge opportunity for tech companies, thanks to it having the second largest number of Internet users in the world, behind only China; that number is expected ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Walter Greenleaf from Stanford University at SplashX Invent Health

  Greenleaf talks about how to go 'beyond the pill' with digital therapeutics

  Here's my interview with Walter Greenleaf, research scientist trained in Neuro and Behavioral Science. He works at Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and has played a role at a number of startups, ...
  By Reena A Jadhav
  

• Community support and finite treatments for mental health

  Showcasing emerging new models for mental health were: Bravely, Supportiv, Meru Health and 7 Cups

  Ever since Vator began holding events over 10 years ago, we have made the promotion of startups a big part of what we do. We don't just want to talk about what's happening in a given space, but to highlight ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• We're all crazy; it doesn't mean we're all mentally ill

  Healthtech VCs weigh in on mental health challenges, and call treatments a 'crapshoot'

  It's one of the reasons Vator and HP focused on this topic during our second of four SplashX Invent Health salon-styled evening gatherings this year. [Be sure to join us for our next salon focused on Precision ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• After debuting lower-cost streaming option, AT&T raises DirecTV Now prices

  The company also recently raised administration fees by $1.23, netting it a potential $800M

  Starting at the end of this month, the company is going to raise rates on its DirecTV Now streaming service by $5, the company has confirmed to VatorNews. That means rates will go up from $35 to $40 for ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• AT&T's lower-cost streaming service goes live in wake of Time Warner acquisition

  WatchTV, which was announced a little over a week ago, costs $15 for 30 channels

  It's only been two weeks since AT&T completed its much discussed, and somewhat controversial, $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. Yet the effects of it are already being felt in the company's products ...
  By Steven Loeb
  
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