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• Daily funding roundup - October 19th, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, October 19, 2018

  Infraspeak raised $1.8M; Change Clothing Technology raised $3.6M; Skydrop raised $5M

  Infraspeak: Infraspeak provides facility management software that speed up and simplify the process of registering and transmission the information. Infraspeak has raised $1.8 million in funding, including from Firstminute Capital, Innovation Nest, Construtech Ventures, 500 Startups, and Caixa Capital. Read more Change Clothing Technology: Change Clothing Technology is a clothing technology which p

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• Startup competitions seeking addiction solutions

  by Steven Loeb, October 19, 2018

  They include FDA Innovation Challenge, The Opioid Hack-A-Thon 2018 and CODE4PA CODEATHON 2018

  Prize: Applicants selected for the Challenge will work directly with the FDA to accelerate the development of and eventual review of marketing applications for innovative products, similar to what occurs under the Breakthrough Devices Program. In addition, Breakthrough Device designation will be granted to those devices that meet the statutory criteria for designation without submission of a separate

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• Daily funding roundup - October 17th, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, October 18, 2018

  Seva raised $2.4M; Invisible Technologies raised $2.6M; Future Family raised $10M; Cobo raised $20M

  Future Family: Future Family offers affordable subscription plans for IVF and egg freezing, with on-demand medical support through Concierge Care. With Future Family, women, men and couples experience stress-free fertility. Future Family has raised $10 million in Series A round led by Aspect Ventures and participating iNovia, BBG Ventures, LaunchCapital, RiverPark Ventures, Ulu Ventures and Portfolia.

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• Future Family lands $10M Series A to make fertility financing easy and affordable

  by Anna Vodopyanova, October 18, 2018

  Founder Claire Tomkins believes the number of babies born with IVF could soon grow to 10% in U.S.

  Tomkins said her company confronts the issue that little fertility care is covered by health insurance and that few people who want in vitro fertilization (IVF) can afford to get it. In addition, having gone through several rounds of IVF to conceive her daughter, Tomkins knows first-hand how tough and isolating the experience can get without support that has never been offered by the existing system.

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• Today's Entrepreneur: Francis Pedraza

  by Steven Loeb, October 18, 2018

  The first lesson is to take care of myself

  -- 2015 - Present. Invisible. A single bot that can do everything. Delegate work you hate doing, and humans coordinated on our Digital Assembly Line will do it for as low as $10/hr. -- 2015. Cheeky. $1-a-day for an idea-a-day in your inbox. A brainstorming and startup idea discussion community. -- 2012-2014. Everest. An iPhone app to help people achieve personal goals. -- 2010. DoBand. A Livestrong

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• Invisible raises $2.6M to combine AI and humans for work automation

  The company combines an AI-powered bot with a human labor force that can free up workers

  There's a lot of fear out there when it comes to automation and artificial intelligence, specifically what that is going to mean for the future of labor. Many, many people are worried about their jobs ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Daily funding roundup - October 17th, 2018

  Memory raised $1M; NowRx raised $7M; Icon raised $9M; Closed Loop Fund raised $10M

  Memory: Memory, a startup out of Norway and maker of time tracking app Timely, has raised $5 million in further funding. Leading the round is Concentric, and Investinor, with participation from existing ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Meet Yashwanth Hemaraj, partner at Benhamou Global Ventures

  Hemaraj also heads up Arka Venture Labs, an accelerator platform for India based B2B companies

  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 ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Taking your mobile app global

  The world is shrinking and the mobile audience is growing but going global isn't easy

  The world is shrinking. Not literally. (Well, maybe literally. I’m not a scientist.) The world is shrinking culturally, and it’s opening our eyes to just how big the global audience is. The ...
  By Matt Raoul
  

• Daily funding roundup - October 16th, 2018

  Journal raised $1.5M; JobUFO raised €2M; Flex raised $3.6M; Kogniz raised $4M; Hubb raised $6M

  Journal: Journal, a machine learning and natural language processing-powered platform designed to search across all your web services and tools, today announced a $1.5 million seed round led by Social ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Hero raises $12M to make it easier for caregivers to dispense medication

  The company has a hardware and a software component, to automatically sort and reorder medications

  If you've ever had an elderly relative, or known someone with a chronic disease, the amount of medications that they have to take can be staggering. Keeping track of when to take each pill and at what ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Kogniz raises $4M seed to bring AI-powered surveillance, analytics to any business

  Kogniz says it eliminates the need for surveillance backrooms and 'democratizes' the service

  The founders of a San Francisco startup have combined AI and analytics to create a surveillance software featuring face, object, and activity recognition powered by computer vision. Then, not finding a ...
  By Anna Vodopyanova
  

• Daily funding roundup - October 15th, 2018

  Penta raised €7M; Flutterwave raised $10M, Kepler raised $21M, Netlify raised $30M

  Penta: Penta offers a digital bank account targeting startups and SMEs. The offering is designed to meet all of the banking needs of small to medium-sized businesses, including startups. Penta has raised ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Today's Entrepreneur: Helena Plater-Zyberk

  Nothing will ever being given to you; Everything is earned

  Today's entrepreneur is Helena Plater-Zyberk. Helena is Co-Founder of Supportiv, a jaw-droppingly affordable mental wellness solution featuring hyper-targeted digital peer support with live moderation, ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Daily funding roundup - October 12th, 2018

  strongDM raised $1M; Deep Lens raised $3.2M; Rollick raised $8.3M; Nyotron raised $10M

  strongDM: strongDM is a platform to define permissions and monitor access to any database. It's so easy, security is the convenient choice. strongDM closes $1 million expansion round to secure access in ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Accelerators targeting gaming companies

  They include The Bakery Start Programme, GameFounders and Indie Games Accelerator

  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
  

• Corporate innovators: Loni Stark of Adobe and Peter Sheldon of Magento

  Stark is SD of Strategy & Product Marketing at Adobe, Sheldon is SD of Strategy at Adobe's Magento

  While everyone wants to be the first to discover the next big company, to be the one to discover the next Facebook or Twitter, oftentimes the major technological shifts are coming from the big companies, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Daily funding roundup - October 11th, 2018

  June.ai raised $1.5M; Papa Technologies raised $2.4M; Paladin Cyber raised $3.6M; Coord raised $5M

  June.ai: June.ai operates as a communication hub that replaces email. New York based company has raised $1.5 million in the bank from a group of strategic investors including John Suh, CEO of LegalZoom, ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• JLL Spark adds another investment: Honest Buildings

  Bringing total investment to $50M raised by the project management platform startup

  I've overseen home construction projects that have always gone over budget and seem to have deadlines that always move out, and move out, and move out. So it's not hard to imagine that it happens in spades ...
  By Bambi Francisco Roizen
  

• Today's entrepreneur: Allie Sutton

  I want to change the world

  Allie Sutton is currently CEO and co founder at June.ai, the company behind June, the artificial intelligence assistant that replaces email. He is a husband and father of two. He was previously co founder ...
  By Steven Loeb
  
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