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• Daily funding roundup - November 22th, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, November 21, 2018

  Feedr raised $1.9M; Argent raised $4M; Quantum Machines raised $5.5M; Botkeeper raised $18M

  Feedr: Feedr is a scalable technology platform empowering healthy and artisan food vendors to produce and supply meals for the workplace. Feedr has raised $1.9 million in funding, including from Episode 1 Ventures and Founders Factory. Read more Argent: Argent is a smart wallet for cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications. Argent as raised $4 million in seed funding from Creandum, Index Venture

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• Today's Entrepreneur: Matthew Kropp

  by Kristin Karaoglu, November 21, 2018

  Making progress requires relentless pushing while also realizing that progress takes time

  Launching too late is death. Since no product survives first contact with the customer, get that contact as fast as possible. You can see the end of the path - what the world looks like with your idea fully realized. But what you can't see is how others react to your idea. That is only visible once your idea is out in the market. The sooner you can get contact with the customer, the sooner you realize

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• When life gives you lemons, put them on your turkey

  by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 21, 2018

  It's Thanksgiving, time to be thankful and see life as a glass half full

  So as we get ready to enjoy Thanksgiving with family, let’s see the good in the bad, the right from what may seem wrong, the opportunity in adversity, the eye-opening lessons from misfortunes. As a friend of mine wrote about her breast cancer journey, “When life kicks you: let it kick you forward.” Sylvie has created a consulting company to improve patient engagement for breast cancer

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• Ursheet Parikhvia, partner at Mayfield Fund, at #SplashXInventHealth

  by Reena A Jadhav, November 21, 2018

  Parikhvia talks about investment opportunities across #precisionhealth

  NOTE: Save the date, our next salon is on Vitality - Healthy lifestyle as a drug, a look at wellness and prevention and behavioral change as the prescription for better health. JOIN us on December 13 at HP's headquarter in Palo Alto. Get Early Bird tickets or become a member. Join Esther Dyson (Welville), Munjal Shah (HealthIQ), Hemalee Patel (Crossover Health/Facebook), Seth Serxner, Senior Health

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• I'm thankful that some of the luster has come off of tech

  by Steven Loeb, November 21, 2018

  Now that the problems have been exposed, maybe we can finally fix them

  Look all that has happened in 2018: from Elon Musk's Twitter antics, which have hurt Tesla's stock price, and which also might get him into legal trouble, to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which has completely eroded public trust in companies like Google and Facebook, to the recent announcement of Amazon's new headquarters in New York City, which has people from both sides of the aisle calling foul,

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• Daily funding roundup - November 20th, 2018

  Jump Technologies raised $2M; Enboarder raised $4M; Alcide raised $7M; Item 9 Labs raised $7.7M

  Jump Technologies: Jump Technologies, Inc. has innovated new solutions in areas including mobile inventory management, replenishment, procurement. Jump Technologies has raised $2 million in funding led ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Jim McCarter of Virta Health at SplashX Invent Health

  McCarter talks about how Virta Health gets more precise about Type II diabetes treatments

  Here's my interview with Jim McCarter, Head of Research at Virta Health. Virta is an online specialty medical clinic that reverses type 2 diabetes safely and sustainably,without the risks, costs, or side ...
  By Reena A Jadhav
  

• SplashX Invent Health Vitality - Week 2

  Halo Neuroscience replaces drugs with electricity; Healthy lifestyles to control risk of cancers

  This week, we should give thanks for our health. And for advances in modern medicine and technologies that have helped eradicate many diseases, such as polio and smallpox, and more in the coming years. ...
  By Bambi Francisco Roizen
  

• Damon Hostin of Precision Medicine Alliance at #SplashXInventHealth

  Hostin talks about the differences between precision health and precision medicine

  Here's my interview with Damon Hostin, CEO of Precision Medicine Alliance. The Precision Medicine Alliance is a partnership between Dignity Health and Catholic HealthInitiatives, two of the nation's largest ...
  By Reena A Jadhav
  

• How Cigna is tackling the mental and behavioral health spaces

  A conversation with Eva Borden, Senior Managing Director, Behavioral and Medical Solutions at Cigna

  Earlier this year, Vator and HP's 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 ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Daily funding roundup - November 16th, 2018

  Zippity raised $2.6M; Kaloom raised $7.6M; Visor raised $9M

  Zippity: Zippity provides on-site car care at the customer’s place of work through a seamless, tech-enabled user experience. Zippity has raised $2.6 million in funding including from A3Ventures, ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Daily funding roundup - November 15th, 2018

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

  DUST Identity: DUST Identity is a proprietary technology which utilizes to create an unclonable identity layer on any object. DUST Identity has raised $2.3 million in seed funding. Kleiner Perkins led ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

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

  It's like Sprinklr, but for Instagram Stories

  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 ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• Health IQ launches behavioral life insurance for diabetics

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

  For many people who hit 40-years-old, it's about time to think of life insurance. At that time, you might have a growing family and life insurance is a way of providing security for your progeny, if anything ...
  By Bambi Francisco Roizen
  

• Today's Entrepreneur: Emi Gal

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

  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 ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

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

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

  Cancer screenings are so important to the lives of so many people, but the effectiveness of those tests is alarmingly low. With lung cancer screenings, for example, 56 percent of tests have false positives, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Daily funding roundup - November 14th, 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
  
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