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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

  by Steven Loeb, September 20, 2018

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

  "Jones is solving an age old headache in the insurance world and that is independent contractors who, today, struggle with expensive and inflexible liability insurance products. They really have no choice but to buy those solutions for real estate and construction enterprises that have strict and often varying insurance requirements when hiring independent contractors," Omri Stern, CEO and Co-founder

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• Digital adoption platform WalkMe raises $40 million

  by Steven Loeb, September 20, 2018

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

  "We want to deliver the entire value chain in the localized language. The product itself works in multiple languages, that’s not the problem, but how do you market to them? How do you create PR? How do you do business development? How do you do sales? How do you do professional services? How do you do pre-sales in that language? All of those things are things that increase your conversation rate,

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• Daily funding roundup - September 19th, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, September 19, 2018

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

  Scythe: Scythe moves beyond just assessing access vulnerabilities. It is a platform that enables you to easily build and emulate real-world threat campaigns with a combination of communications and end-point capabilities. Scythe has raised $3 million in funding led by Gula Tech Adventures, with participation from Evolution Equity, Paladin Capital Group, Stony Lonesome Group and SaaS Ventures. Read

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

  by Steven Loeb, September 19, 2018

  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 that I mean a literal cost, given how expensive healthy products often are, putting them out of reach for the average consumer. "In traditional retail, especially in personal care and food, there&rs

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• 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 chasing ...
  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
  

• Daily funding roundup - September 12th, 2018

  Hiretual lands $5M for recruiting platform; Integrate.ai raises $30M in Series A

  Intsite: Intsite is a machine-vision startup based in Haifa, Israel. Intsite develops a machine vision system that alerts construction machinery operators to risks in their work environment, aiming to ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Precision medicine - more laser or shotgun?

  Is precision medicine misleading the public and what does precision medicine mean for your health?

  As parents know, this repetitive, and sometimes annoying while endearing, question (often asked in 2-minute intervals) reflects a child's concept of time, or lack thereof, and implies the trip is taking ...
  By Bambi Francisco Roizen
  

• Accelerators targeting adtech companies

  They include the Intango AdTech Accelerator, Collider Accelerator and Roularta Mediatech 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
  

• Daily funding roundup - September 11th, 2018

  Packet raises $25M to accelerate cloud growth; Syllable is raising $13.71M to healtcare providers

  EngageRocket: EngageRocket is a software-as-a-service platform that helps leaders and organisations make better people decisions using real-time data. They automate employee feedback and analytics to deliver ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  
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