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Accelerators targeting faith-based companies
by Steven Loeb
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, ...
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Accelerators targeting faith-based companies
by Steven Loeb, February 19, 2019
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, as well as some funding and traction, are accelerators. These are programs that provide companies advice, guidance and various forms of support for startups in their early stages. They also often invest
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How does Opendoor make money?
by Steven Loeb, February 15, 2019
Opendoor makes money from fees from buyers and sellers, eliminating real estate brokers and agents
That might change in 2019, a year that is shaping up to be near historic in the size of some of the companies that will be making their public debuts this year. With the revitalization of the IPO market, there are a number of real estate companies that could be ready as well, including Opendoor, a company that allows people to buy and sell properties directly, without the need for a real estate agent
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Startup Teams: Optina Diagnostic
by Kristin Karaoglu, February 15, 2019
We have a good understanding of everyone's strengths and weakness
Our fourth company is Optina Diagnostic. Optina Diagnostic technology enables a simple eye-scan to detect key biomarkers of cognitive diseases, using specialized hardware and proprietary A.I. software, focusing first on Alzheimer’s disease. Optina’s eye scanning technology will slash pharma trial recruitment costs, improve patient diagnostics and management of cognitively-impaired aging
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The stigma of anxiety and stress, not mental illness
by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 15, 2019
Mental and behavioral health week 2: Looking at stigma, the 'subjectiveness' of PHQ-9
Stigma of mental health? Or stigma of flaws and inadequacy? June, 2018Fighting the stigma of mental illness through music NYTimes, Jan. 2019Glen Close wants to change the stigma of mental illness ABC, Feb. 2019Mental illness stigma silences many spouses The Denver Post, Jan. 2019Nine ways to fight mental health stigma NAMI, Feb. 2017The stigma of mental illness is making us sicker, Psychology Today,
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Daily funding roundup - February 14th, 2019
by Kristin Karaoglu, February 14, 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 and small batch production, delivering high quality technical custom parts as fast as possible, at a fair price. KREATIZE has raised $4.5 million in Series A funding, including from Earlybird Venture
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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
Accelerators targeting digital health companies
They include Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, DigitalHealth.London and Launchpad Digital Health
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
Daily funding roundup - February 11th, 2019
Corrux raised $3.1M; NXM Labs raised $5.5M; RapidDeploy raised $12M; PerimeterX raised $43M
NXM Labs: NXM Labs is an autonomous security and data integrity software developer. NXM Labs is an autonomous security and data integrity software developer. NXM has closed on $5.5 million in what it's ...
By Kristin Karaoglu
Today's Entrepreneur: Nir Leibovich
Always seek to learn and grow
Leibovich is the Founder and CEO of GoCo.io Inc based in Houston, TX on a mission to simplify and automate business operations and administrations for SMBs. His previous startup, Arpeggi Inc, a genetic ...
By Abhay Vij
Daily funding roundup - February 8th, 2019
Athenascope raised $2.5M; Green Dot Bioplastics raised $6.5M; Castle raised $9.2M; Dixa raised $14M
Athenascope: Athenascope is a small startup aiming to tap computer vision intelligence to record, review and recap. Athenascope has raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital. Read ...
By Kristin Karaoglu
Facebook acquires GrokStyle to enhance its AI capabilites
GrokStyle, which used AI to ID furniture from a picture, will continue to work on retail at Facebook
Like most major tech companies these days, Facebook is putting plenty of resources into developing its AI capabilities. That has included the launch of its own AI-based assistant, called M, back in 2015, ...
By Steven Loeb
GoCo CEO talks HR software and advice for SAAS companies
Last week the company secured $7M funding for product expansion and marketing initiatives
GoCo is a software company that helps organizations streamline their HR operations. The Houston-based company announced that it received $7 million in Series A Funding from ATX Seed Ventures and UpCurve. ...
By Abhay Vij
Ironclad CEO talks legal software and advice for aspiring entrepreneurs
Last week the company secured $23M funding for AI exploration and customer support expansion
Ironclad is a company that develops software to help lawyers increase efficiency in contract management. The San Francisco-based company announced that it received $23 million in Series B funding from ...
By Abhay Vij
Daily funding roundup - February 7th, 2019
ChartIQ raised $17.4M; Ogury raised $21M; KenSci raised $22M; Cluno raised $28M
ChartIQ: ChartIQ builds powerful, lightweight financial applications for capital market institutions, investment banks and retail brokerages. ChartIQ has raised $17.4 million in its latest round of funding, ...
By Kristin Karaoglu
AI risk prediction platform KenSci raises $22M
The company uses artificial intelligence to help health systems save money and lives
In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed into law, including over $19 billion set aside for the implementation of EHR systems. Since health systems were given five years to ...
By Steven Loeb
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