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Today's Entrepreneur: Emi Gal

by Steven Loeb, November 15, 2018

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

Today's Entrepreneur is Emi Gal, co-founder and CEO of Ezra, a company that uses AI to screen for cancer. 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 2016 and he then spent two years ...

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

by Steven Loeb, November 15, 2018

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, meaning that those patients are exposed to more testing and radiation as a result. Ezra is a new company that is looking to put an end ...

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 ...

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

by Steven Loeb, November 13, 2018

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 Asia Pacific region. Now the company is doubling down on that plan, extending its round with a strategic investment from a leading venture capital firm in the region. ...

Startup competitions seeking gaming companies

by Steven Loeb, November 9, 2018

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

If you're a startup seeking opportunities to get funded, educated or connected, startup competitions are a great resource. 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 rounds including Thumbtack, DogVacay, Pokitdok, Grovo, Udemy ...

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

by Steven Loeb, November 9, 2018

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, though, when you develop something like cancer. According to the Agency for Healthcare research and Quality (AHRQ), the direct medical costs for ...

GetWellNetwork acquires HealthLoop to expand its capabilities to all points of care

by Steven Loeb, November 8, 2018

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. It was only recently, though, that is began working beyond the inpatient side, with people who spent days in the hospital, extending its platform patients beyond a hospital stay. While GetWellNetwork has ...

How IntelyCare uses artificial intelligence to solve the nursing shortage crisis

by Steven Loeb, November 7, 2018

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 is going to be a shortage of 1.2 million nurses in just a few years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Combine that ...

Corporate Innovator: Meghann York, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Salesforce

by Steven Loeb, November 7, 2018

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 years, if not decades. Those companies have survived because they know how to pivot. They're the ones who either seed new ideas or acquire them and ...

What big health insurers are doing with big data

by Steven Loeb, November 6, 2018

Insurance companies like Kaiser, Aetna, Anthem and UnitedHealth have been making big data pays

When Vator and HP held the SplashX Invent Health - Precision Health salon at the end of September, one of the things that came up repeatedly was how big data was changing healthcare from every perspective, from the doctor to the patient to the entrepreneur. Big data is fueling everything from precision medicine to technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning. You can't ...

Meet Ben Joseph, President of Mend Medical

by Steven Loeb, November 2, 2018

Mend Medical, an investing arm of Ambassador Enterprises, launched last week

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 chasing them. In this series, we look at the new (or relatively new) VCs in the early stages: seed and Series A. But just who are these funds ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Rephael Sweary

by Steven Loeb, November 2, 2018

It is my belief that entrepreneurship is not a job, it’s your being

Today's entrepreneur is Rephael Sweary, co-founder and president of digital adoption platform WalkMe. WalkMe enables all online publishers and ISVs to create interactive on-screen 'Walk-Thrus' that assist end-users to quickly and easily complete even the most complex tasks. Previously, Rephael was the co-founder, CEO and then president of Jetro Platforms, which was acquired in 2007. Since then, he has funded and ...

Accelerators targeting addiction solutions

by Steven Loeb, October 31, 2018

They include Opioid Safety Accelerator Program and Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program

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 ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Peter Colis

by Steven Loeb, October 31, 2018

The most rewarding thing about entrepreneurship is building an A+ team

Today's entrepreneur is Peter Colis, the CEO and co-founder of Ethos. Ethos, just raised $35 million in Series B funding, is a new kind of life insurance built for people who don't have time for fine print, extra doctors appointments or hidden fees. Ethos uses the power of technology and predictive analytics to modernize the life insurance process and align products with what ...

Carrot CEO David S. Utley talks new $25M round and how to get people to stop smoking

by Steven Loeb, October 30, 2018

Pivot uses mobile technology, behavioral science, and clinical expertise to help people quit

It really goes without saying at this point that smoking is bad for you. That's something the majority of us have been hearing that our whole lives. Yet, according to the Center for Disease Control, tobacco use still causes nearly 6 million deaths per year around the world, more than 480,000 of which occur in the United States. That is 1,300 ...

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