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• Daily funding roundup - September 21th, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, September 21, 2018

  Jones raised $2.8M; Copado raised $8.8M; Alydia Health and Cleo raised $10M; Clippings raised $15.M

  Jones: Jones brings the freedom and flexibility of Pay-As-You-Go solutions to the traditional world of liability insurance. They're helping independent contractors across the US to overcome the liability insurance hurdle, bid for any project and cut their business expenses. We built technology that automates the insurance compliance process and provides contractors with Pay-As-You-Go insurance so they

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• Meet Kristin Gunther, Vice President at Revolution

  by Anna Vodopyanova, September 21, 2018

  Revolution Growth fund focuses on later-stage startups outside of the typical hubs

  Ideally, the companies we invest in are a bit off the beaten path, as we try to support entrepreneurial ecosystems outside of the typical SF/BOS/NYC hubs. One such example is our investment in Tempus, a Chicago-based company that uses big data to transform the way doctors treat cancer patients. We are also relatively sector agnostic – almost nothing is out of bounds from a vertical standpoint.

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• Corporate innovator: Dave Scrim, SVP of Product and Pricing at Conversant

  by Steven Loeb, September 21, 2018

  Conversant has begun expanding to CPRM with the launch of its Mesobase platform

  I would say the big data really is allowing companies do two things they never could before: one is targeting, finding the right people, finding the right individual to talk to. The inputs that they have to do that, whether that be massive amounts of historical data on the history of individuals, and understanding their purchase patterns and buying behavior and likes and dislikes, but also the real

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• Daily funding roundup - September 20th, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, September 20, 2018

  Jones raised $2M; Lunewave raised $5M; Yumble raised $7M; Providence raised $25M

  PrimaryBid: PrimaryBid provides private investors access to new share issues from listed companies, at the same discount as institutions. PrimaryBid is a regulated platform, across desktop and mobile, which automates the aggregation of retail demand, allowing the large and active pool of private investors to be connected with companies seeking to raise capital. Primary Bid raised £2M in funding.

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• A conversation with Helix Chief Product Officer Chris Glode

  by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 20, 2018

  Helix is in search for partners to build on its next-gen DNA platform

  Chris Glode, named Chief Product Officer of Helix, in June, defines precision health as a way to use "new technologies to help individuals manage their health proactively. Moving away from a model where we discover health issues after they've already arisen, and treat them in a "one-size-fits-all" manner - it's about preventing them from occurring in the first place and treating them based on the

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• Jones, a provider of insurance for the real estate space, raises $2.8M

  The company is overhauling liability insurance for owners, managers and builders

  The nature of insurance is changing thanks to companies like Metromile, which lets drivers pay per the miles they drive, and Lemonade, which allows renters to insure specific items in their apartment. ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Digital adoption platform WalkMe raises $40 million

  The company will use the funding to expand geographically, and to make more acquisitions

  Digital adoption platform WalkMe is on a mission to change the way that people interact with software: instead of helping users understand how to use the application, it wants applications to better understand ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Daily funding roundup - September 19th, 2018

  Leena AI raised $2M; Scythe raised $3M; DataGrail raised $4M; Empower raised $4.5M

  Leena AI: Leena is smart AI powered HR companion dedicated towards engaging employees. Leena is powered by ChatterOn, a cutting-edge AI chatbot development platform with self- learning cognitive capabilities, ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Public Goods raises $3M to sell natural products direct to consumer

  The company will be expanding to new product lines, including food and drink, in the fall

  Most people, I presume, would like to be healthier. They'd like to eat right and use natural products, and reap all the benefits that come from that. That kind of lifestyle comes with a cost, though. By ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Meet Casey Berman, General Partner at Camber Creek

  Camber Creek invests exclusively in real estate technology 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
  

• Daily funding roundup - September 18th, 2018

  Maison Me raised $1M; Public Goods and DarwinAI raised $3M; Saykara and Domic raised $5M

  Maison Me: Bay Area-based startup whose platform lets people provide clues or specific details about clothing that they would like and then makes it to order, has raised $1 million. Backers include Founders ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Reali releases new PricePredictor tool, using AI to prevent buyers from overbidding

  Amit Haller, CEO of Reali, will be a part of Vator's Future of Real Estate salon on Oct. 25

  Artificial intelligence has the potential to have a huge impact across all aspect of technology, with everything from education to advertising benefiting from cost and times savings. In healthcare, for ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Daily funding roundup - September 17th, 2018

  ZenLedger raised $1.5M, Emplify raised $7.5M, Apprentice.io raised $8M, Setoo raised $9.3M

  ZenLedger: Built by industry veterans in technology, finance, and accounting, ZenLedger.io allows you to import transactions, calculate gains and income, and prepare your tax returns.Using ZenLedger, cryptocurrency ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Daily funding roundup - September 14th, 2018

  AVVAY has raised $1M; Sisu has raised $1.2M; Moka has raised $24M

  AVVAY: AVVAY is a platform for finding and booking brilliant places for creative things. Their ultimate goal is to give creative people the freedom and space they need to make what they want. Whether that ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Mary Meeker leaves Kleiner Perkins to start her own firm

  The influential author of the Internet Trends Report has taken three other investors with her

  Mary Meeker, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and the author of the annual Internet Trends Report, is leaving the firm she joined eight years ago to start her own late-stage venture. This ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• How advancements in fintech and robo-advisors can help people with retirement

  Planning your retirement is a drag, letting an algorithm-crunching robot handle the work can help

  Fintech continues to grow in influence, investments, and products available to end users, and it makes sense. The financial industry is one of the oldest around and with technology continuing to become ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• Daily funding roundup - September 13th, 2018

  Applied Intuition has raised $11.5M; HYP3R raised $17M;  Coda Biotherapeutics raised $19M

  Singularity 6: Singularity 6 explores new styles of game design and tackling difficult technical problems to create worlds that are beautiful and intricate, delivering far more than superficial entertainment ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Interview with Arjun Moorthy, co-founder and CEO of CivikOwl

  With fake news everywhere, there are now companies out there looking to fight the wave of false info

  Everyone from Google to Facebook has suffered from an influx of fake information that is doing everything from putting people against each other to influencing the US elections. And it is getting smarter, ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• When Thumbtack was young: the early years

  The company had made 450,000 connections a year and half after its launch

  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
  

• What happens when everyone is a publisher?

  In a content-flush world, True Anthem’s AI delivers targeted distribution

  We live in a direct-to-consumer world. Look no further than the unrelenting use of Twitter by our 45th President, Donald Trump, as well as high-profile CEOs, such as Elon Musk, taking to social media to ...
  By Steven Loeb
  
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