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• Daily funding roundup - November 12th, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, November 12, 2018

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

  Looxid Labs: Looxid Labs is a tech start-up to seamlessly integrate an emotion recognition system with VR using an eye and brain interface. Looxid Labs has raised $4 million series A funding round led by Hastings Asset Management, Daesung Private Equity, Sejong Venture Partners, and Samsung Venture investment. This investment will accelerate the launch of VR user analytics solutions using emotion AI

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

  by Josiah Motley, November 12, 2018

  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 2018 alone, ICOs raised more money than in the entire previous year. With these figures, ICOs has proven themselves as a good financing method, even capable of replacing traditional IPOs. In fact, I

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• Daily funding roundup - November 9th, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, November 9, 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 American Eagle Outfitters. Read more Analytical Flavor Systems: Analytical Flavor Systems which uses artificial intelligence to help companies predict and personalize flavor for new food product

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• Startup competitions seeking gaming companies

  by Steven Loeb, November 9, 2018

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

  If you're a startup seeking opportunities to get funded, educated or connected, startup competitions are a great resource. 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 rounds including Thumbtack, DogVacay, Pokitdok, Grovo, Udemy and Apartment

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

  by Steven Loeb, November 9, 2018

  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, though, when you develop something like cancer. According to the Agency for Healthcare research and Quality (AHRQ), the direct medical costs for cancer in the U.S. in 2015 were over $80 billion,

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• 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
  

• GetWellNetwork acquires HealthLoop to expand its capabilities to all points of care

  HealthLoop will become GetWell Loop and continue to operate as GetWellNetwork's mobile platform

  GetWellNetwork has been doing patient engagement, working with healthcare provider partners to provide them with digital tools to help them more effectively engage and activate their patients, for 18 years. ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Daily funding roundup - November 7th, 2018

  Photomath raised $6M; ShipMonk raised $10M; Fraugster raised $14M; Taranis raised $20M

  Home Made: Home Made is a hybrid lettings agency, offering the superior end-to-end service of a top high-street estate agent. They are focused on mid to high value rental properties in London and charge ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• User analytics platform Mixpanel launches initiative for startups and nonprofits

  The new services will allow both to receive data insights for a fraction of the cost

  Data drives the world. It's become all but a requirement in most aspects of a business. Want to know how an ad is doing on Facebook? There's data for that. Want to know your potential market for a new ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• How IntelyCare uses artificial intelligence to solve the nursing shortage crisis

  An interview with David Coppins, IntelyCare's co-founder and CEO

  Nurses are the unsung heroes of the healthcare space, doing a lot of the work but not getting anywhere near as much credit as they probably should. We might start appreciating them soon, though, as there ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Corporate Innovator: Meghann York, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Salesforce

  York came to Salesforce after its acquisition of ExactTarget in 2013

  While most entrepreneurs want to be the one to discover the next Amazon or Twitter, oftentimes major technological shifts are coming from the big companies, the players that have been on the scene for ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Today's Entrepreneur: Richard Hamilton

  Don't underestimate the amount of time, money, energy that will be required to fulfill your vision

  He loves bridging research and business innovation to develop and deploy products that change lives. Richard combines a background in science with experience in biotechnology investing, entrepreneurship ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• What big health insurers are doing with big data

  Insurance companies like Kaiser, Aetna, Anthem and UnitedHealth have been making big data pays

  When Vator and HP held the SplashX Invent Health - Precision Health salon at the end of September, one of the things that came up repeatedly was how big data was changing healthcare from every perspective, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Video: Optina Diagnostics, Biomarker Labs, Remedy Health

  Startups in the area of precision health

  As part of our SplashX Invent Health salons, co-hosted by HP, we have a segment focused on emerging treatment models. Here we gather younger startups with unique, promising and innovative business models. ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Where are VCs investing across precision health?

  @inventhealth - GE Ventures, Data Collective, Kaiser Ventures, OSF Healthcare Ventures, Mayfield

  At our September 2018 event, SplashX Invent Health: Precision Health, Archana Dubey (Global Medical Director, HP Health Centers, HP) and Bambi Francisco Roizen (Founder and CEO, Vator) moderated a panel ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Daily funding roundup - November 5th, 2018

  Emesent raised $3.5M; Journy raised $3.15M; Emesent raised $3.5M; Zeguro raised $5M

  Journy: Journy creates travel plans using recommendations from top chefs, sommeliers, and local experts. Journy has raised $3.15 million in seed funding led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Pear ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Startups and strategic partnerships

  Insights on how startups can gain leverage via partnerships from Eric Del Balso of Ignite Advisors

  In a world where startups pioneering game-changing innovations are founded daily and incumbent strategics vie for every advantage in an escalating global technology arms race, you’d think they both ...
  By Ezra Roizen
  

• Meet Ben Joseph, President of Mend Medical

  Mend Medical, an investing arm of Ambassador Enterprises, launched last week

  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
  
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