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• Meet Pat Matthews, founder and managing director at Active Capital

  by Steven Loeb, February 22, 2019

  Matthews was a co-founder of Webmail.us, which was sold to Rackspace in 2007

  Pat Matthews: I’m really an entrepreneur turned investor. I live in Texas now but I‘m from from Virginia, and I went to school at Virginia Tech during the height dot-com boom. I got there in ‘95 and met some really smart, engineering oriented friends and we ended up dropping out of school to chase our dot-com dreams. Of course, we launched our first business in March of 2000 and the

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• Daily funding roundup - February 21st, 2019

  by Kristin Karaoglu, February 21, 2019

  SensorFlow raised a $2.7M; Zoba raised $3M; Back to the Roots raised $3M: WaitWhat raised $4.3

  Neighborhood Goods: Neighborhood Goods is a contemporary evolution of — and alternative to — the department store. Neighborhood Goods has raised $8.8 million in seed funding led by Global Founders Capital. The company has now raised $14.5 million in funding altogether, including from Forerunner Ventures, Maveron, NextGen Venture Partners, Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Ground

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• Mixmax 2.0 sees improved functionality with Gmail and something called "Beast Mode"

  by Josiah Motley, February 21, 2019

  The update not only helps with the new Gmail interface, but gives more options with LinkedIn

  Whether you're in sales, recruiting, or just find yourself interacting with a bunch of colleagues and clients through email, having tools that automate some of the busy work and make reaching out to others easier is important to keeping your productivity at the highest levels. Mixmax, who I've interviewed in the past, is one such company that offers those types of services, plus other tools to help

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• Mojio CEO on the future of the connected car and his company's new funding round

  by Steven Loeb, February 21, 2019

  The connected car company raised $40M in venture funding earlier this week

  On Wednesday, the company announced that it raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round, led by Kensington Capital. Investors also include vehicle protection services provider Assurant, automotive industry supplier Bosch, as well as T-Mobile. Innogy Ventures, Iris Capital, Telus Ventures, Trend Forward Capital, along with Series A investors Amazon Alexa Fund, BDC IT Venture Fund,

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• Google partners with the DEA to help tackle the opioid crisis

  by Steven Loeb, February 21, 2019

  The government is supplying Google with data on where people can dispose of their prescription drugs

  It has been nearly a year and a half since the department of Health and Human Services declared the opioid crisis a public health crisis, and yet there seems to have been little to no progress on actually fixing the problem. In fact, prescription drug overdoses have recently overtaken car accidents as the leading cause of death in 16 states, so the problem actually seems to actually be getting worse.

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• Daily funding roundup - February 20th, 2019

  ThinkGenetic has raised $1.5M; Staytuned raised $2.5M; Senseon raised $6.4M; ParkHub raised $13M

  ThinkGenetic: ThinkGenetic is a cutting-edge tool empowering patients who want to know about possible genetic causes for their medical issues. ThinkGenetic has raised $1.5 million in funding. Investors ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Interview with Vishal Rai, founder and CEO of software company Acellere

  A look into the company's Gamma software which helps developers and managers keep code under control

  Developing software is not a one-and-done thing. Code has to be tweaked, changed, and evolved to make it work for the people using it. As countless memes have shown, however, it's never as easy as "just ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• Corporate Innovator: Roberto Roitz, Director of Innovation at Humana

  Roitz has been with Humana for five years and oversees its strategic partnerships

  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
  

• Daily funding roundup - February 19th, 2019

  3DEN raised $2M; Orai raised $2.3M; HiHello raised $2.5M; COFE App raised $3.2M

  3DEN: 3DEN is a network of pay as you go urban sanctuaries, with everything needed to work, relax, freshen-up, shower and replenish. 3DEN has raised $2 million in seed funding, including from b8ta and ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Accelerators targeting faith-based companies

  They include Ocean Accelerator, Tsai CITY’s Accelerator and Praxis Business 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
  

• How does Opendoor make money?

  Opendoor makes money from fees from buyers and sellers, eliminating real estate brokers and agents

  While venture investing into the real estate space tripled from 2016 to 2017, with a total of $12.6 billion invested, and while there have been some successful IPOs in the space, including RealPage and ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Startup Teams: Optina Diagnostic

  We have a good understanding of everyone's strengths and weakness

  If you read through our popular Meet the VC series, which profiles hundreds of VCs, you’ll see that an overwhelming majority say the founder and his or her founding team are the biggest factors they ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• The stigma of anxiety and stress, not mental illness

  Mental and behavioral health week 2: Looking at stigma, the 'subjectiveness' of PHQ-9

  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 Bambi Francisco Roizen
  

• Daily funding roundup - February 14th, 2019

  Kreatize raised $4.5M; Tank Utility raised $6M; Complion raised $7M: Sight Diagnostics raised $27.8M

  Kreatize: KREATIZE changes the way custom parts are ordered and manufactured by building a digital solution to the agency model for manufacturing, and enabling on-demand agile manufacturing for prototypes ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Q4 earnings: despite rough year, tech stocks are still rising

  Facebook's stock is up 27 percent since the start of the year, while Snap's is up 71 percent

  While 2018 was touch on the tech industry in general, it was a record setting year for venture capital, one that finally saw a resurgence in the IPO market as well, after years of down years. It's likely ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• How parents can help their child's mental health

  Embracing emotional intelligence as prescription drug overdosing becomes an epidemic

  Recently, my husband and I attended a school meeting to learn "The Zones of Regulation." The program helps parents encourage their children to be aware of their emotions and manage them accordingly. It ...
  By Bambi Francisco Roizen
  

• Daily funding roundup - February 13th, 2019

  ecoSPEARS raised $2M; Medivis raised $2.3M; Donde Search raised $6M; Polly raised $7M

  Enfuce Financial Services: Enfuce is a new kind of financial service provider focusing on the future possibilities within payments – from a world without legacy. Enfuce has raised €5 million ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Meet Jake Cassaday, Partner at Relay Ventures

  Cassaday was promoted to Partner at the firm at the end of January

  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
  

• Americans spend nearly 9 hours a day watching digital content

  While video is big driver of engagement, Adobe also found very little patience if it doesn't work

  The smartphone has only been around for a decade, but it has completely reshaped every aspect of our lives, from how we shop to how we date to how we read. Most important, it has completely changed the ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Daily funding roundup - February 12th, 2019

  Zoovu $14M; Chainalysis raised $16M; Second Measure raised $20M; Nuvaira raised $79M

  iFarm Project: Farm develops an innovative technology to grow natural salads, berries and vegetables year-round in fully controlled automated environment. It is a single engineering platform for food cultivation. ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  
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