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• Meet Andre de Baubigny, Managing Partner at The Farm Ventures

  by Steven Loeb, October 20, 2017

  The Farm Ventures is a Stanford alumni venture fund investing in Stanford alum-led companies

  de Baubigny co-founded Deep Fork Capital in 2008 as a Managing Partner of Fund I investing directly for an ultra-high net worth family. In 2003, he co-founded Vintrust, a wine management business with over $300 million in wine assets generating over $10 million in revenue (sold in 2009). Prior to Vintrust, he managed a $500 million venture fund for French industrialist and billionaire, Bernard Arnault.

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• Here are the top corporate competitions and challenges

  by Steven Loeb, October 19, 2017

  They include competitions from Facebook, WeWork, eBay, SpaceX and JP Morgan

  Description: "The Verizon Network Visionaries Program and Intel Network Builders Program are collaborating to accelerate innovation using software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies. The united goal is to work with the Intel Network Builders ecosystem of partners to collectively drive solutions that address network and market opportunities. Part of this

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• Snap partners with NBCUniversal for original scripted shows

  by Steven Loeb, October 17, 2017

  Snap has been producing reality TV, but is it biting off more than it can chew?

  Thanks to the success of Netflix and its original series, every media company now has its sights set on producing original content. That means everyone from Hulu Amazon to Facebook to Buzzfeed is getting in on the game, trying to create the next hot series. It has gotten to the point now where the number of TV shows more than doubled from 2002 to 2016. Last year, there were 96 shows that debuted on

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• A conversation about Oracle's chatbot strategy with Suhas Uliyar

  by Steven Loeb, October 16, 2017

  Uliyar is Oracle's Vice President of bots, AI, and mobile product management

  Among those major tech companies already making waves in the bot space include Amazon's intelligent personal assistant Alexa, as well as Lex, which is Amazon's service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text, and Polly, which turns text into speech, allowing developers to create applications that talk. There's also Google, with its Google Assistant, and there's

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• Top healthtech VCs are investing heavily in technologies that are advancing value-based care models

  by Kristin Karaoglu, October 13, 2017

  What’s the criteria they’re considering? Where are value-based care models working?

  Vator teamed up with HP to hold the SplashX: Invent Health event, where we asked some of the most prominent VCs, entreprenuers and members of the health community to give us their thoughts about the state of the healthcare system. The topic covered was value-based care: the road to accountable healthcare economics. Value-based care is when caregivers are paid on the basis of quality vs per service.

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• Chatbots to save healthcare industry $3.6B in 2022

  Here are some of the healthcare companies already deploying chatbots

  Bot technology is still relatively new and nascent, but it's already becoming part of the strategy of companies both big and small. This is technology that has the ability to space every space and vertical, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Meet Michelle Broderick, Cozy's new board director

  Adventurer at heart, Broderick shares about her work, her relaxation, and the balance - in both.

  Portland-based Cozy, which raised $18.4 million in VC financing, is a growth-stage startup managing more than 16,000 zip codes in all 50 states. Gino Zahnd, co-founder and CEO, says the company has been ...
  By Anna Vodopyanova
  

• Meet Katya Dorozhkina, Managing Partner at Starta Ventures

  Starta Ventures invests in startups with Eastern European roots, specifically those from Russia

  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
  

• Startup competitions, accelerators, programs this week

  Female Founders In Tech, TheNextWomen Pitch, Igniter Conference, Freedom From Cancer Startup Challenge

  Want to list your startup competition or accelerator? List on VatorX. If you're a startup looking for competitions, bookmark the listing or join Vator to get a weekly update on what's happening around ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Venture capital dollars rise for the third quarter in a row

  The amount of capital went up 6% from Q2, and it up 33% from where it was a year ago

  There was $18.68 billion raised in 1,043 venture capital deals in the third quarter of this year, according to the Venture Capital Report from Dow Jones VentureSource. The amount raised rose 6 percent, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Creative Market spins out of Autodesk; raises $7M

  Online marketplace for designs, such as fonts, logos, and website templates becomes a startup again

  More than 55 million people work as freelancers, or about 35 percent of the US workforce. This is "more people than ever," according to the surveyors. So despite all the talk about the gig economy being ...
  By Bambi Francisco Roizen
  

• Standard Cognition raises $5M for automated checkout

  The company tracks customers with cameras, and automatically charges them as they walk out the door

  While online shopping offers a convenient and quick experience, one where buyers can get what they want, when they want it and have no hassle in getting it, it still only accounted for 8.5 percent of all ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Interview with Lynn Perkins of UrbanSitter

  Cloud platform for fast and safe babysitting raises $17M Series C to launch recurring care

  If your babysitter cancels, or if you urgently need to run errands or simply want a date night and need to find someone to take care of your kids, you can use an app to instantly connect with a trusted ...
  By Anna Vodopyanova
  

• Meet Greg Baker, Managing Partner at Bascom Ventures

  Bascom Ventures is a UW alumni venture fund investing in UW alum-led 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 chasing ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Startup thought leadership paves the path to M&A

  Frame your market, establish the dominant narrative and be the North Star of your sector

  Virtually all of my past M&A clients wish they had “started sooner.” But what does that mean? What does it mean to “start sooner” when it comes to startup M&A? It means ...
  By Ezra Roizen
  

• When AI tells you the success of your new hire, before you hire them

  Machines will learn to make sense of myriad data sources, to provide insights and recommendations

  When a person thinks about artificial intelligence (AI), they might visualize Terminator, the iconic 80’s film starring futuristic sentient robots. More than three decades later, we’re starting ...
  By Michael Buhrmann
  

• Startup competitions seeking IoT companies

  They include IoT Stars, TechStars, Antwerp Pitch Competition and Connax

  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
  

• Startup competitions, accelerators, programs this week

  Igniter Conference, Royse Law Healthtech, Queen City Fintech, DOCSF Innovation, Samsung Next Start

  Want to list your startup competition or accelerator? List on VatorX. If you're a startup looking for competitions, bookmark the listing or join Vator to get a weekly update on what's happening around ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Delivery wars heat up amongst Target, Walmart, Amazon

  With a myriad of tests, acquisitions around delivery - shopping is looking very different

  Fast forward nearly a decade later and next-day or same-day delivery seems commonplace, driven in part by our on-demand culture. In fact, we may soon see direct-to-fridge or our closet if we allow smart ...
  By Aaron Concepcion
  

• Single-family rental marketplace Roofstock lands $35M

  Investors searching for rental units to buy or sell can now meet in one place

  If there’s a market bursting with change and opportunity it’s real estate. Home prices have been rising since 2012; population growth in big cities has been shrinking during the same period ...
  By Bambi Francisco Roizen
  
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