House introduces bipartisan bill on AI in banking and housing
The bill would require a report on how these industries use AI to valuate homes and underwrite loans
Read more...We held our first-ever Splash Health even in mid-February and we were thrilled with the more than 350 registered attendees! Pictured above is Jules Walker (KPMG), Bambi Francisco (Founder & CEO, Vator), Siddharth Sinha (Founder & CEO, Luminate Health), and Jessica Hsu (Founder & CTO, Luminate Health).
Luminate Health won the overall startup competitions. KPMG was our title sponsor!
See if you're pictured among those who attended, as well as spoke, including Ryan Howard, Founder & CEO of Practice Fusion, Tom Lee, Founder & CEO of One Medical, Sonny Vu, Founder & CEO of Misfit Wearables, Dr. Nate Gross, Co-founder of Doximity and Rock Health, Lindy Fishburne of the Thiel Foundation, and many, many more.
Woman of many skills: Database System Engineer; SplashX event producer; Author of Startup Teams
All author postsThe bill would require a report on how these industries use AI to valuate homes and underwrite loans
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Vator (short for innovator) is an awesome professional network for entrepreneurs and investors that sits at the intersection of media and finance. Our entrepreneurial ecosystem consists of startups, investors, strategics and service providers.
Vator’s platform offers an extensive set of services to the entrepreneurial community. Here is a quick summary of our suite of offerings:
VatorNews: Research, analysis and coverage, spanning news, thought leadership and lessons learned
VatorX: SaaS platform leveraged by startup communities and competitions to rank and filter participating startups
Vator Events: Well recognized large and small events across numerous geographies and sectors
Vator Investment Club: Our investor group for accredited investor members of the Vator community
Vator Teams: Our confidential acquihire platform for startup teams
Background
Vator was originally founded by Bambi Francisco and seed funded by its original lead investor Peter Thiel as a social network for startups and investors, combining media coverage with rich profiles and filtering. Over the more than decade since its founding Vator has expanded to offer a full range of services to the entrepreneurial community. Today Vator is a well-recognized and trusted member of the startup community.
Business Model
Vator has a range of business models due to its diversified set of offerings.
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Doximity is the largest and fastest growing verified network for physicians. It’s a secure place for doctors to collaborate with each other and grow their own professional profile. The network currently boasts more than 220,000 members and aspires to fill distinct needs for physicians, providing:
Service provider
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KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm, is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International. KPMG International's member firms have 137,000 professionals, including more than 7,600 partners, in 144 countries.
KPMG's Venture Capital (VC) Practice was created to provide the unique guidance and insights our clients in the VC community need to ensure success in the marketplace. Our services are specifically designed to help venture-backed companies navigate each stage of development—from inception to market leadership. Our seasoned VC professionals are dedicated to assisting clients through the many challenges faced in founding and growing a new venture.
Just getting started? Closing that big growth round? Contemplating an IPO? KPMG’s Venture Capital Practice can help prepare you for the opportunities as well as the obstacles that lie ahead. KPMG developed its service suites to align with the interrelated needs of growing companies on their journey to leadership. Each service suite draws on KPMG’s
knowledge, experience, networks, and commitment to quality and can help deliver significant benefits to growing companies. The Venture Capital Practice includes a large network of professionals who have experience working with new and established companies.
Startup/Business
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Practice Fusion provides a free, web-based EMR system to physicians. With medical charting, scheduling, e-prescribing (eRx), lab integrations, referral letters, Meaningful Use certification, unlimited support and a Personal Health Record for patients, Practice Fusion's EMR the complex needs of today's healthcare providers and disrupts the health IT status quo. Practice Fusion is the fastest growing Electronic Medical Record community in the country with more than 150,000 users serving 40 million patients. The company closed a $23 million Series B round of financing led by Founders Fund in 2011. For more information about Practice Fusion, please visit www.practicefusion.com
Startup/Business
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Luminate Health provides labs and healthcare providers with a first-of-its-kind, digital platform for their patients to access and understand their lab results. The company is a SaaS provider, and is partnering with commercial, specialty, and hospital labs across the US. Luminate Health is also helping these labs satisfy a major new federal rule from HHS, which now requires all US labs - commercial, specialty, and hospital - to provide patients with direct access to their lab results.
Luminate Health now counts a number of top-150 US labs among its customers, and continues to see a very positive response to its product from both patients and physicians.
Luminate Health is focused on leading the shift toward patient-centric healthcare by engaging patients to actively manage their own health, and leveraging the growing volume of available health data to improve patient care and outcomes.
The company is venture-backed, and includes KEC Ventures and several prominent healthcare-focsed angels as investors.
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Jules re-joined KPMG in September 2011 to help take the Emerging Technology practice to the next level. We work with pre-IPO companies providing audit, tax and advisory services locally and globally.Joined Vator on
Ryan is the founder, chairman and CEO of Practice Fusion. He founded the company in 2005 and has grown it into the largest physician-patient community in the US.Joined Vator on
Founder and CEO of Vator, a media and research firm for entrepreneurs and investors; Managing Director of Vator Health Fund; Co-Founder of Invent Health; Author and award-winning journalist.Joined Vator on
Co-founder/CEO, Luminate Health. Several years strategy, tech product development, business development experience. Prev.: Bain & Company, Co-founder of clean tech startup. MBA from University of Michigan, BS in Engineering from Cornell University.Joined Vator on
Co-founder/CTO at Luminate Health, entrepreneur and engineer. Passion for building solutions that address complex, challenging problems.Joined Vator on
Executive Director, Breakout Labs Sr VP Investments, Thiel FoundationJoined Vator on
Founder / CEO of One Medical Physician EntrepreneurJoined Vator on