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• Daily funding roundup - November 15th, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, November 15, 2018

  DUST Identity raised $2.3M; RoadBotics raised $3.9M; Ezra raised $4M; Shyft raised $6.5M

  AsclepiX Therapeutics : AsclepiX Therapeutics uses bioinformatics and systems biology methods to design classes of short biomimetic anti-angiogenic (anti-neovascular) and anti-lymphangiogenic peptides. AsclepiX Therapeutics has raised $5 million in convertible note funding led by Barer & Son Capital, with participation from Rapha Capital Management, Salem Partners, TEDCO, and Piedmont Capital

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• Mish Guru lets brands and businesses take full control over their Instagram Stories

  by Josiah Motley, November 15, 2018

  It's like Sprinklr, but for Instagram Stories

  I'm not sure when it happened, but social media has changed. Like, a lot. No longer are Facebook ads or sponsored Twitter posts enough, now, if you're a brand (new or established) you have to start telling stories. Stories, of course, referring to social media aspect of platforms like Snapchat and Instagram. As a quick refresher, these Stories have quickly increased in popularity and offer quick, e

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• Health IQ launches behavioral life insurance for diabetics

  by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 15, 2018

  A high Health IQ score and an active healthy lifestyle could lower premiums

  Still, life insurance providers don't really take this information into account, according to Health IQ, which just revealed a new insurance plan just for diabetics. Health IQ is a new insurance startup that creates special and discounted life insurance plans for active people, like runners, triathletes and cyclists, to name a few. Now they're bringing the same idea to active people with conditions.

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• Today's Entrepreneur: Emi Gal

  by Steven Loeb, November 15, 2018

  The quality of the startup is directly proportional with the quality of the team 

  Today's Entrepreneur is Emi Gal, co-founder and CEO of Ezra, a company that uses AI to screen for cancer. Emi started his first company, Brainient, when was was 19 and spent the following 10 years building it into one of the leading ad-tech companies in Europe. Brainient was acquired by Teads in September 2016 and he then spent two years scaling the Brainient business unit (now called Teads Studio)

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• Direct-to-consumer cancer screening platform Ezra comes out of stealth with $4M

  by Steven Loeb, November 15, 2018

  Ezra looks to change cancer screening with MRI scans and artificial intelligence

  Members pay Ezra $999 to get one screening a year, though they will eventually be able to pay more if they wish to do additional screenings. They can schedule an appointment with a RadNet imaging facility on the Ezra platform, and, when they arrive, they will be greeted by a member of the Ezra staff at the facility who will guide them through the process. The member gets their scan done and then the

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• Daily funding roundup - November 14, 2018

  Gas Pos raised $1M; Syndio raised $5.2M; Savi raised $7.5M; Heyday raised $8M; iBanFirst raised $17M

  Mintos: Mintos is a global online marketplace that provides retail investors with an easy and transparent way to invest in loans. Mintos has raised €5 million in Series A funding from Grumpy Investments. ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Cigna partners with Annum Health to help combat alcohol-related disease

  Cigna is the first health service company to pilot Annum’s digital addiction treatment program

  Alcoholism is a still a big problem, one that affects millions of people in the United States alone. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), over 15 million adults ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Will one company make sense of health data?

  Komodo Health captures fingerprints to enable precision medicine

  Precision medicine has attracted a lot of attention in recent years as two technological advances - inexpensive mapping of human genomes and the near ubiquitous use of electronic medical records - have ...
  By Bambi Francisco Roizen
  

• Daily funding roundup - November 13, 2018

  WeRecover raised $2M; Guardian Pptical raised $2.5M; For Days raised $2.8M; XM Cyber raised $22M

  Guardian Optical Technologies: Guardian Optical Technologies is an innovative israeli startup developing an advanced 3D sensor. Guardian Optical Technologies has raised $2.5 million in funding, including ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• A healthy lifestyle is the best prescription for healing

  Google's new hire: Feinberg; Why sleep is important; Esther Dyson's Wellville

  It's a reminder that healthy lifestyles can be more effective than drugs because the benefits of such lifestyles, as the word implies, are habitual, routine behaviors. These recurring activities turn out ...
  By Bambi Francisco Roizen
  

• WalkMe extends its Series F round to go deeper into the Asia Pacific market

  The funding came from EDBI, the venture capital arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board

  When digital adoption platform WalkMe raised $40 million in September, the company said it would be using the funding, in large part, to expand its platform globally, specifically to go deeper into the ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Can new players win big media on mobile?

  Nextgen technologies shifting the competitive landscape

  Our phones are omnipresent. Our data plans are unlimited. This leads us to increasingly fill our down time with mobile media, which is much like how we once pulled out newspapers and novels from our bags ...
  By Gregory Wester
  

• Daily funding roundup - November 12th, 2018

  Idelic raised $2M; CheckMate raised $3M; Looxid Labs raised $4M; 4iQ raised $18M

  Idelic: Idelic is a software enterprise solutions provider for transportation fleets. Idelic has raised $2 million funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from TDF Ventures, SaaS Venture ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Interview with Laimonas Noreika, co-founder and CEO of Desico

  A look into how security token offerings could take the place of the 'traditional' ICO

  The fact that the cryptocurrency industry is completely buzzing comes as no surprise, as it has been growing steadily in recent times. Earlier this year, CoinDesk reported that, in the first 3 months of ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• Daily funding roundup - November 9th, 2018

  Dormify raised $3.45M; Analytical Flavor Systems raised $4M; Coder raised $4.5M; Woven raised $4.8M

  Dormify: Dormify is a direct-to-consumer, e-commerce and retail brand that creates bedding and decor items specifically designed for small spaces. Dormify has raised $3.45 million in Series A funding led ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Startup competitions seeking gaming companies

  They include IT’S A START Pitch Competition, SiGMA Pitch and Gaming StartUp Challenge

  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
  

• Oncology Analytics looks to empower patients to have a voice in their cancer treatment

  An interview with Rick Dean, CEO of Oncology Analytics

  All healthcare is pretty expensive in the U.S., where even a doctor visit for a something as small as a common cold can run you hundreds of dollars when all is said and done. It's exponentially more expensive, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Daily funding roundup - November 8th, 2018

  Drivetime raised $4M; Bonobo AI raised $4.5M; Big Box VR raised $5M; Opternative raised $9M

  Drivetime: Drivetime is developing the next generation of interactive entertainment targeted at a huge but underserved market: car drivers. Drivetime raised $4 million in seed funding from Felicis Ventures, ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Software-building Engineer.ai scores $29.5M as it expands to Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia

  "Making software," the AI-powered, developer-assisted platform says is "as easy as ordering a pizza"

  One of Europe’s largest Series A fundraisings, totaling $29.5 million, was announced this week by Engineer.ai, which builds AI-powered, human-assisted tools for software development and aims to make ...
  By Anna Vodopyanova
  

• Meet Jake Chapman, Managing Partner at Alpha Bridge Ventures

  The VC firm says it takes seriously the health and wellness of the founders it supports

  The San Francisco-based VC firm, launched a year ago, promotes a “humanistic approach,” as it says, to the founding teams it backs. Focusing on projects in the post-seed, pre-Series A stage, ...
  By Anna Vodopyanova
  
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