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• Daily funding roundup - November 14, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, November 14, 2018

  Gas Pos raised $1M; Syndio raised $5.2M; Savi raised $7.5M; Heyday raised $8M; iBanFirst raised $17M

  Gas Pos: Gas Pos is fintech company solving the nationwide EMV gas pump crisis, as well as providing EMV pos for stores. Gas Pos has raised $1 million in funding from Merus Capital. Read more 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 Investmen

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• Cigna partners with Annum Health to help combat alcohol-related disease

  by Steven Loeb, November 14, 2018

  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 had Alcohol Use Disorder in 2015, and an estimated 88,000 people die from alcohol-related causes annually, behind only tobacco and poor diet and physical inactivity as a preventable cause of death in

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• Will one company make sense of health data?

  by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 14, 2018

  Komodo Health captures fingerprints to enable precision medicine

  Komodo Health sits on an exponentially-growing rich repository of hundreds of billions of data points aggregated from hundreds of sources and stitches together a high-quality tapestry of 300 million people profiles across hundreds of different therapeutic conditions. The beauty is not only in its grouping of macro populations but also its extraordinary detail down to micro-subsets of individuals.

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• Daily funding roundup - November 13, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, November 13, 2018

  WeRecover raised $2M; Guardian Pptical raised $2.5M; For Days raised $2.8M; XM Cyber raised $22M

  For Days: For Days is a basics apparel business designed for circularity. The company aims to drive positive impact by changing relationship with those pesky essentials that have an inherently limited lifespan and save the planet with clothes. For Days has raised $2.8 million in seed funding led by Rosecliff Ventures, with participation from Collaborative Fund, Congruent Ventures, Third Prime Capital,

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• A healthy lifestyle is the best prescription for healing

  by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 13, 2018

  Google's new hire: Feinberg; Why sleep is important; Esther Dyson's Wellville

  It's a reminder that healthy lifestyles can be more effective than drugs because the benefits of such lifestyles, as the word implies, are habitual, routine behaviors. These recurring activities turn out to be associated with positive long-term benefits. Compare this to drugs, which are considered short-term, addictive fixes, with potentially insidious consequences. They may create positive feedback

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• WalkMe extends its Series F round to go deeper into the Asia Pacific market

  The funding came from EDBI, the venture capital arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board

  When digital adoption platform WalkMe raised $40 million in September, the company said it would be using the funding, in large part, to expand its platform globally, specifically to go deeper into the ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Can new players win big media on mobile?

  Nextgen technologies shifting the competitive landscape

  Our phones are omnipresent. Our data plans are unlimited. This leads us to increasingly fill our down time with mobile media, which is much like how we once pulled out newspapers and novels from our bags ...
  By Gregory Wester
  

• Daily funding roundup - November 12th, 2018

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

  Idelic: Idelic is a software enterprise solutions provider for transportation fleets. Idelic has raised $2 million funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from TDF Ventures, SaaS Venture ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

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

  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 ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• Daily funding roundup - November 9th, 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 Kristin Karaoglu
  

• Startup competitions seeking gaming companies

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

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

  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, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• 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
  
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