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• Daily funding roundup - March 18th, 2019

  by Kristin Karaoglu, March 18, 2019

  DeHaat raised $4M; Alcatraz AI raised $6M; Tookitaki raised $7.5M; LeanData raised $27.5M

  Imara: Imara is provider of novel therapeutics for the people living with sickle cell disease and hemoglobinopathies. Imara has raised $63 million in Series B funding. Arix Bioscience and Orbimed Advisors co-led the round. Other participants include RA Capital, Rock Springs Capital and earlier backers NEA, Pfizer, Bay City Capital, Lundbeckfonden Ventures and Alexandria Venture Investments. Read more

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• America Movil acquires Nextel Brazil for $905M

  by Steven Loeb, March 18, 2019

  Parent company NII will be shutting down once the deal closes, signaling the end of the Nextel brand

  As Nextel Brazil is described in the announcement as "NII's sole remaining operating asset," NII plans to "dissolve and wind up" once the transaction is closed. There are a number of terms that have to be met for the deal to go through, including the approval of NII's stockholders, as well as regulatory and antitrust hurdles that will need to be gone through but, if the acquisition is completed, this

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• Daily funding roundup - March 15th, 2019

  by Kristin Karaoglu, March 15, 2019

  Aeponyx raised $5.9M; UPshow raised $6M; ArangoDB raised $10M; Zeus Living raised $24M

  Aeponyx: Aeponyx is a fabless micro optical switch semiconductor chips designer and manufacturer. Aeponyx has raised C$7.9 million ($5.9 million) in Series A funding. Pangaea Ventures led the round, with participation from Fonds InnovExport and Ecofuel Fund. Read more UPshow: UPshow is a TV-powered social marketing platform that boosts customer traffic and revenue. UPshow has raised $6 million in S

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• Startup competitions from top universities

  by Steven Loeb, March 15, 2019

  They include NYU, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia, USC and UCLA

  Description: "The $50k Brown Venture Prize is designed to empower the most advanced entrepreneurial ventures by Brown students. It supports teams who have identified a significant opportunity, and whose ventures have the potential to create “impact at scale”. The prize is agnostic with respect to what sectors or industries ventures are working in, or even whether they are commercial, social,

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• How I retrained my brain naturally

  by Rebecca Mandel, March 15, 2019

  VR could have accelerated the process and help me recover from my brain tumor

  Understandably, I developed anxiety as I continued to discover the new “me” and mourn who I once was: cheery, laid back, and a high achiever. I was given antidepressants to cope, however, the medications produced adverse side-effects, which only exacerbated the problem. After 18 months, I stopped taking them and became committed to changing my behavior and retrain my brain with meditation,

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• Meet Teppei Tsutsui, Managing Partner at GFR Fund

  GFR Fund works with strategic partners in Asia, and is an affiliate of mobile gaming company GREE

  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 - March 14th, 2019

  StoryFit raised $1.75M; CryptoNumerics raised $2.5M; Gencove raised $3M; Fi $7M

  StoryFit: StoryFit puts the power of artificial intelligence in the hands of publishers and studios. StoryFit has raised $1.75 million in new funding led by ff Venture Capital. Other participants in the ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Daily funding roundup - March 13th, 2019

  Cluster raised $1.9M; Tetrate raised $12.5M; Glia raised $20M; AgroStar raised $27M

  Cluster: Cluster is connecting engineers to industrial tech careers in aviation, aerospace & defense. Cluster has raised $1.9 million in seed funding led by billionaire Mark Cuban and ECMC Group, with ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Some digital health startups that could go IPO in 2019!

  Livongo and Grail are already reportedly considering it, while Oscar, Clover and Bright Health wait

  While there are big expectations for tech companies looking to go public in 2019, surprisingly there aren't many digital health companies on that list. That's despite a record $8.1 billion that was invested ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Alex Katz, founder of Two Chairs, on his efforts to erase the stigma around mental illness

  Two Chairs, which uses a matching app to pair up therapists and patients, recently raised $7M

  Register now so you can reserve a seat. There are 250 available. Join Aydin Senkut (Felicis), Sonia Arrison (Author, 100 Plus), Alex Morgan (Khosla Ventures), Dr. Archana Dubey (HP), Mark Goldstein (UCSF ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Daily funding roundup - March 12th, 2019

  Oova raised $1M; Livly raised $10M; ZayZoon raised $15M; Cloudflare raised $150M

  OOVA: Oova is a fertility diagnostic company that brings the accuracy of a clinic into your own home. Oova has raised $1 million in funding led by Special Situations Life Sciences Innovation Fund. Read ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Daily funding roundup - March 11th, 2019

  Knox raises $1.4M; Amun raised $4.2; StellaService raised $11M; HealthJoy raised $12.5M

  Knox: Knox is the smart and frictionless way to turn your current home into an investment property delivering passive income while empowering lifestyle freedom, and superior wealth creation. Knox has ...
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• The casual gaming roots behind Happify Health

  Happify Health uses the same incentives learned from gaming to encourage behavioral change

  Recently, there have been several acquisitions of startups focused on self-care, self-administered digital therapeutics, in other words evidence-based interventions in cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness ...
  By Bambi Francisco Roizen
  

• Mike Ghaffary joins Canvas Ventures as fourth General Partner

  Ghaffary was formerly the CEO of Eat24 and general partner at Social Capital

  With investments in companies like Transfix, Zola, Kinetica, Figure Eight, Platform9, Future Advisor, Gabi and Roofstock, early stage venture capital firm Canvas Ventures has already made a name for itself ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Daily funding roundup - March 8th, 2019

  Bid Ops raised $1.75M; Jargon raised $1.8M; DesireList raised $3M; Osano raised $3M

  Bid Ops: Bid Ops accelerates business partnerships between leading buyers and top suppliers. Bid Ops has raised $1.75 million in seed funding co-led by Illuminate Ventures and Cervin Ventures, with participation ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• How does WalkMe make money?

  WalkMe is a digital adoption platform, and has raised over $217 million in funding

  Digital adoption platform WalkMe has gone through a number of iterations since being founded in 2012. When it raised funding $11 million in 2014, its mission was to help people navigate the Internet by ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Daily funding roundup - March 7th, 2019

  GoJavas has $1M; Xapix raised $2M; StrongBlock raised $4M; Hammerhead raised $4.2M

  Spill: Spill.com is a films review site where members can watch videos of animated characters, discuss on new movie releases, and blog about them. Spill.com has raised £650,000 in seed funding from ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Airbnb acquires last minute hotel booking service HotelTonight

  This is Airbnb's second acquisition this year as it prepares for its IPO

  As Airbnb gets ready for its long anticipated IPO, which is expected to happen sometime this year, the company is looking to expand its services. In January it purchased Danish co-working space marketplace ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Meet Chris Shonk, Managing Partner at ATX Seed Ventures

  ATX Seed Ventures is an Austin, Texas-based firm that just raised a $32 million fund

  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 - March 6th, 2019

  SYNQY raised $1.2M; OpenMartech raised $1.5M; Alto raised $2.8; Tasso raised $6.1M

  SYNQY: SYNQY is an online retail media that enable retailers to monetize existing e-commerce real estate through product-targeted advertisements. SYNQY has raised $1.2 million in funding. The investors ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  
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