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• Daily funding roundup - January 18th, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, January 18, 2019

  Vinebox raised $5.9M; HyperScience raised $30M; Limelight Health raised $33.5M

  Limelight Health: Limelight Health delivers the most efficient and compelling quoting, underwriting, and proposal solution for the employee benefits industry. Limelight Health has raised $33.5 million in Series C funding. Principal Life the round; other participants included AXA Venture Partners, MassMutual Ventures, Aflac Ventures,Transamerica Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, LaunchPad Digital

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• Startup competitions from top healthcare companies

  by Steven Loeb, January 18, 2019

  They include competitions from Humana, UnitedHealth Group, Aetna, Pfizer and UCSF

  Description: "The Surgical Innovations Accelerator provides seed funding, engineering support, and personalized consultation and advising to assist promising medical device ideas from UCSF faculty through the product development process towards market availability and patient benefit. The award is supported by our dedicated network of consultants from academia, industry, and venture capital. Award

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• Daily funding roundup - January 17th, 2018

  by Kristin Karaoglu, January 17, 2019

  Acorn Biolabs raised $3.3M; Alluxio raised $8.5M; BenchPrep raised $20M; Foretellix raised $14M

  Immersive Games Lab: Immersive Games Lab is developing the next generation of immersive group gaming. Immersive Games has raised roughly £2.5 million in seed funding led by Index Ventures, with participation from Sweet Capital and JamJar Investments. Read more Acorn Biolabs: Acorn Biolabs is a Biotechnology company. Acorn Biolabs has raised $3.3 million in seed funding from Real Ventures,

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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

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

  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 ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

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

  Tenthoff shares some promising and intriguing opportunities in biotech

  Director and Senior Research Analyst Ted Tenthoff is at the forefront of some of the greatest opportunities in this space. He’s been at it for nearly 16 years, which just might be one of the longest ...
  By Kymberlie Mcnicholas
  

• Daily funding roundup - January 15th, 2018

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

  Fortify: Fortify Software offers security assurance solutions that address the threats posed by security flaws in business-critical software apps. Fortify has raised $2.5 million in seed funding, including ...
  By Kristin Karaoglu
  

• 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
  

• Startup 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
  
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