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How does Opendoor make money?

by Steven Loeb, February 15, 2019

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Opendoor makes money from fees from buyers and sellers, eliminating real estate brokers and agents

While venture investing into the real estate space tripled from 2016 to 2017, with a total of $12.6 billion invested, and while there have been some successful IPOs in the space, including RealPage and Zillow, not many companies have actually made it onto the public market so far. That might change in 2019, a year that is shaping up to be near ...

Q4 earnings: despite rough year, tech stocks are still rising

by Steven Loeb, February 14, 2019

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Facebook's stock is up 27 percent since the start of the year, while Snap's is up 71 percent

While 2018 was touch on the tech industry in general, it was a record setting year for venture capital, one that finally saw a resurgence in the IPO market as well, after years of down years. It's likely that 2019 will be another strong year, with a slew of big name tech companies that have either already filed, or are ...

Meet Jake Cassaday, Partner at Relay Ventures

by Steven Loeb, February 13, 2019

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Cassaday was promoted to Partner at the firm at the end of January

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 ...

Americans spend nearly 9 hours a day watching digital content

by Steven Loeb, February 13, 2019

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While video is big driver of engagement, Adobe also found very little patience if it doesn't work

The smartphone has only been around for a decade, but it has completely reshaped every aspect of our lives, from how we shop to how we date to how we read. Most important, it has completely changed the way we consume content. It's hard to remember a time when you'd leave the house and not be able to watch a ...

Accelerators targeting digital health companies

by Steven Loeb, February 12, 2019

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They include Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, DigitalHealth.London and Launchpad Digital Health

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 ...

Facebook acquires GrokStyle to enhance its AI capabilites

by Steven Loeb, February 8, 2019

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GrokStyle, which used AI to ID furniture from a picture, will continue to work on retail at Facebook

Like most major tech companies these days, Facebook is putting plenty of resources into developing its AI capabilities. That has included the launch of its own AI-based assistant, called M, back in 2015, as well as the acquisition of AI chatbot startup Ozlo to power bots on Messenger. It has also developed FBLearner, its machine learning engine, which it used to identify ...

AI risk prediction platform KenSci raises $22M

by Steven Loeb, February 7, 2019

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The company uses artificial intelligence to help health systems save money and lives

In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed into law, including over $19 billion set aside for the implementation of EHR systems. Since health systems were given five years to actually have them in place, that means the era of big data in healthcare has been pretty short. Yet, there has still been a huge amount coming ...

Healthcare analytics company Health Catalyst raises $100M to become the latest unicorn

by Steven Loeb, February 7, 2019

	The company will use the funding to further build out its technology Data in healthcare has seemingly gone from zero to 60 in a blink of an eye. Only a few years ago, most healthcare data was done on paper but now there is almost more data, coming from sources like EHRs and wearables and genomics, than the health systems themselves know what to do with. That is where a company like Health ...
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Meet Andy Johns, General Partner at Unusual Ventures

by Steven Loeb, February 6, 2019

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Johns was previously President of Wealthfront, and also worked at Facebook, Twitter and Quora

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 ...

Accelerators from top corporate companies

by Steven Loeb, February 5, 2019

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They include accelerators from AT&T, Coca-Cola, Google, IBM, Disney, Sprint and Wells Fargo

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 ...

Valued, a tool for stopping workplace harassment, raises $1.7M

by Steven Loeb, February 1, 2019

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Valued allows employees to give anonymous feedback about workplace conditions via Slack

When most of us think of bullying, it probably conjures up images of school and being picked on by other kids. The phrase, "It gets better" is thrown around a lot, as if, once we grow up, that sort of treatment will stop. For a lot of people, though, it actually doesn't get better; more than 60 million workers in the ...

Top tech IPOs that could go public in 2019

by Steven Loeb, February 1, 2019

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The next 11 months might see companies like Airbnb, Uber, Lyft and Slack all debuting

After a number of down years, 2018 finally saw some resurgence in the IPO market. There were 864 companies what either went public or were acquired last year, for a total value of $120 billion, up 33 percent year-over-year and the highest total value since 2012. IPOs made up more than half of exit value for the year, according to the PitchBook-NVCA Venture ...

Meet Ludwig Pierre Schulze, Managing Partner at Waterman Ventures

by Steven Loeb, January 31, 2019

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Waterman Ventures is a fund set up to help Brown University alumni get access to capital

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 ...

Startup competitions seeking faith-based companies

by Steven Loeb, January 31, 2019

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They include The Biola Startup Competition and Tech for Good competition

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 ...

Medicare Advantage provider Clover Health raises $500M

by Steven Loeb, January 30, 2019

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The company has now raised nearly $1 billion in venture funding

It's likely hat health insurance will not be at the top of most people's list of spaces making the most of technological innovations. There's a good reason for that: insurance in general has gained a reputation for not keeping up with the times. That is rapidly changing, though, especially when it comes to health. There have been a slew of ...

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