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• Top 10 tech companies innovating in mental and behavioral health

  by Steven Loeb, January 17, 2019

  Twitter has partnered with suicide prevention orgs, while IBM is using ML to identify schizophrenia

  Last year, Vator, in conjunction with HP. held a salon called SplashX Invent Health: Mental and Behavioral Health, in which entrepreneurs and investors discussed what is happening both in terms of technology and investments in the mental and behavioral health space. What we found was that it's a space that is growing quickly, with the number of companies getting funding, and the amount being invested,

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• Employee benefits software solution Limelight Health raises $33.5M

  by Steven Loeb, January 17, 2019

  The company will use the funding to expand geographically and to deliver further automation

  "The first thing that anyone ever needs when they start a business is insurance. Often, the next thing they say after they need insurance is, ‘I worked for HP or Google or Facebook for years and they paid for my insurance and this stuff is expensive.’ Or,’ I didn’t know it was this much work to put all this stuff together.’ Usually it’s really manual, this process

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• Daily funding roundup - January 16th, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, January 16, 2019

  Big Squid raised $9M; Bond-Pro raised $10M; Truss raised $15M; Bold Commerce raised $22M

  Chooze: Chooze is a psychological decision making platform. Chooze has raised $4 million from Gotham Green Partners. Read more Big Squid: Big Squid's innovative platform brings Predictive Analytics & Machine Learning to the Business Decision Maker & front lines of a business. Big Squid has raised $9 million in funding led by Lewis & Clark Ventures, with participation from Silverton Part

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• Meet Ted Tenthoff, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Piper Jaffray

  by Kymberlie Mcnicholas, January 16, 2019

  Tenthoff shares some promising and intriguing opportunities in biotech

  Piper Jaffrey covers 31 biotech companies in different areas. They include infectious disease as well as some RNA-focused therapies (such as RNA interference and messenger RNA), just taking Moderna , which uses messenger RNA or mRNA to design new medicines, public in what became the biggest IPO in biotech history at $600 million. But likely his largest focus is in oncology. That’s because so

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• Daily funding roundup - January 15th, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, January 15, 2019

  BenchPrep raised $20M; ScoutRF raised $3K M; Knock has raised $400M

  ScoutRFP: Scout RFP is an innovative e-sourcing solution for companies in all industries. Scout RFP San Francisco-based sourcing and supplier engagement platform that aims to help procurement teams optimize contracts and increase their companies' profitability, has raised $33 million in Series C funding. Scale Venture Partners led the round, with participation from Workday Ventures and Salesforce Ventures

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• Four crucial criteria when starting a medical device company

  The secret to capitalizing on the $3 trillion healthcare market

  Three years ago I set out on an adventure, traveling the world visiting hospitals and Outpatient Interventional Suites (OIS’s) to better understand what innovation doctors are looking for that could ...
  By Kymberlie Mcnicholas
  

• Competitions seeking agtech companies

  They include AgSharks Competition, IoT.ATL AgTech Challenge and Future Agro 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
  

• Amazon, Apple, Alphabet - targeting the $3 trillion healthcare industry

  As tech tumbles, tech giants' moves into healthcare are being overlooked

  This week, healthcare is a big theme as JP Morgan is wrapping up its mega healthcare conference in San Francisco while CES - host to 100k-plus techies - is making healthcare innovation a big deal as attendees ...
  By Bambi Francisco Roizen
  

• Interview with Pierre Berlin, VP of Global Sales at Mixpanel

  A look into global sales, creating great teams, and building relationships with customers

  When creating a product or delivering a service, scaling can quickly become one of your biggest hurdles. It's one thing if you're selling something to a certain location, it's a lot easier to understand ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• Daily funding roundup - January 10th, 2018

  Mr Jeff raised $12M; TemperPack raised $22.5M; Emeritus raised $40M; Vena Solutions raised $115M

  Mr Jeff: Mr Jeff provides dry cleaning and laundry services online and at home in Spain, Peru, Mexico, Brazil and Colombia. Mr Jeff has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by All Iron Ventures. ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Humana's Go365 adds new wellness tools from FitBit and others

  Go365 is Humana's wellness and rewards program that reaches up to 5 million people

  There has been a noticeable shift in the conversation around healthcare in recent years, with less of a focus on only taking care of people when they get sick and more of a focus on preventive care and ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Daily funding roundup - January 9th, 2018

  Totle raised $1M; Yallacompare raised $8M; GAN transforms $15M; GreenLight Biosciences raised $50M

  Totle: By aggregating the liquidity of the top decentralized exchanges, Totle is providing a ERC-20 token trading platform. Totle has raised $1 million in funding led by Arrington XRP, NEO Global Capital ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• 2018 sees record year for venture capital with $130.9B invested

  The previous record for VC investing was set all the way back in 2000

  In Q3 of this year, the amount invested in U.S. companies was already higher than the total raised in all of 2017 and, with an entire quarter left to go, it was feasible that 2018 could see the most venture ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Daily funding roundup - January 8th, 2018

  LendingFront raised $4M; Headset raised $12.1M; Managed by Q raised $25M; Humatics raised $28M

  Carson Living: Carson is a real estate tech startup that provides services to unstaffed residential buildings. Carson has raised $3 million in seed funding led by BuildingLink, an online property management ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Accelerators targeting agtech companies

  They include AgLaunch, The Pearse Lyons Accelerator, Hatch, Sprout Accelerator and TERRA

  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
  

• VC investments in lifestyle modification technologies

  At #splashxinventhealth, Ariel Poler, Will Quist, Jak Chapman, Bambi Francisco Roizen, Archana Dubey

  Top health tech VCs are investing heavily in technologies that encourage healthy behavior and habits around sleep, nutrition, exercise, mindfulness. At #splashxinventhealth Vitality: Lifestyle as a Drug ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Daily funding roundup - January 7th, 2019

  Synapse Technology raised $6M; Vengo raised $7M; FloWater raised $15M; 10x Genomics raised $35M

  Synapse Technology: Synapse uses proprietary deep learning and computer vision systems to modernize the security and defense visual analysis field. Synapse has raised $6 million in seed funding, including ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Standard Cognition buys mapping company Explorer.ai in first acqusition

  The Explorer.ai team will form the core of the mapping team at Standard Cognition going forward

  The era of cashierless stores seems to be upon us. While many people might automatically think of Amazon as the pioneer of this technology, thought, the fact is that the company was actually beat to the ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• When DoorDash was young: the early years

  DoorDash started as Palo Alto Delivery in 2013, delivering food around the Stanford campus

  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
  

• Dr. Pankaj Vij from Kaiser at #SplashXInventHealth

  Vij talks about the movement away from prescribing drugs toward lifestyle medications

  Dr. Vij was a traditional physician prescribing medications for ailments. But in the last several years, he's embraced lifestyle medicine as the prescription for heretofore conditions typically treated ...
  By Reena A Jadhav
  
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