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Accelerators targeting legal tech companies

by Steven Loeb, December 20, 2018

They include Tech Lawyer Accelerator, Duke Law Tech Lab and LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator

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 ...

Digital therapeutics are changing healthcare and letting patients be their best selves

by Steven Loeb, December 20, 2018

Entrepreneurs at SplashX spoke about how to best implement digital therapies

Last Thursday, Vator and HP held their holiday salon gathering, called SplashX Invent Health - Vitality: Lifestyle as a drug, where a group of innovators, adopters and financiers got together to take a deep dive into new innovations and frameworks that could get people to be more proactive about lifestyle modifications. One of the key themes throughout the night revolved around ...

Wholesale vehicle auction platform ACV Auctions raises $93M

by Steven Loeb, December 19, 2018

ACV Auctions will use the funding to continue to expand to new markets across the country

While technology seems pervasive in all industries these days, there are still some that have been slow to adopt, still using analog systems and sometimes even pen and paper. One of those was the wholesale automotive space, but now, thanks to companies like ACV Auctions, it is being brought into this century. The company offers mobile platform that enables used-car ...

Ada raises $19M to expand its customer service chatbot platform

by Steven Loeb, December 19, 2018

Ada makes artificial intelligence accessible to non-technical customer service teams

I've often said there are two things about adulthood that nobody ever warned me about. First, how much of my life would be spend giving my money to other people, and second, how much would be spent on the phone, waiting to talk to customer service. It's actually worse than I thought: the average person spends 43 days of their ...

How community creates accountability in healthcare

by Steven Loeb, December 19, 2018

VCs discussed the importance of community in the startups they invest in

On Thursday, Vator and HP held their holiday salon gathering, called SplashX Invent Health - Vitality: Lifestyle as a drug, where a group of innovators, adopters and financiers got together to take a deep dive into new innovations and frameworks that could get people to be more proactive about lifestyle modifications. One of the big topics of the night were the ...

Zip code is a truer indicator of our health over genetics, but not always

by Steven Loeb, December 18, 2018

Healthtech entrepreneurs discussed the way the world around us can impact our health

Meet Paul Bernard, Director of Worldwide Corporate Development of the Alexa Fund at Amazon

by Steven Loeb, December 18, 2018

Bernard used to lead inorganic growth initiatives for Kindle and Digital Services

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 ...

K Health, an AI-powered primary care app, raises $25M Series B

by Steven Loeb, December 17, 2018

The company plans to launch in-app virtual visits early next year

Like with so many industries, AI has revolutionized the healthtech space; on the doctor side, the technology can be used to pull out patient information from EHRs faster and quicker, helping to diagnose patients in a more timely manner. On the patient side, AI has mostly manifested itself in the form of chatbots, which allow patients to talk to machines ...

Precision motivation - the new way to get people to adhere, engage, commit

by Steven Loeb, December 17, 2018

Companies whose solutions work for each patient individually have a greater chance for success

Aspen RxHealth raises $9M to connect patients and pharmacists via mobile app

by Steven Loeb, December 13, 2018

The company will soon begin its beta testing period

Healthtech is a vast space, with myriad different offshoots that are ready to be disrupted. One of the biggest targets seems to be pharma, which has both large companies, such as Walgreens and Amazon, as well as startups like Alto Pharmacy, trying to tackle it. There are a lot of different entities with the goal of making pharma simpler and easier ...

Genomic technology company Mission Bio raises $30M

by Steven Loeb, December 13, 2018

The company will use the funding to expand its technology into CRISPR research

One of the most exciting prospects for healthtech is precision health, which encompasses the move toward tailored and personalized medicine vs a one-size-fits-all approach, but with the emphasis or inclusion of disease prevention and detection vs treatments. For precision health to work it requires a lot of new data, which will then by used to personalize treatment to that particular patient. Mission Bio is ...

The next era in mobile content discovery

by Steven Loeb, December 11, 2018

Mobile Posse turns phones into concierges making recommendations

Voice concierges aren't the only assistants in the future The smartphone has changed just about every aspect our lives. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. From the way we travel, to the way we access information, calm or entertain ourselves to the way we share memories with loved ones - it’s been dramatically altered by simply having this robust computer ...

Online car retailer Vroom raises $146M, adds AutoNation as investor

by Steven Loeb, December 11, 2018

The company has now raised $440 million and will likely be going public in the next few years

The IPO market is heating up right now, with some of the biggest companies in tech announcing within days of each other their plans to go public in 2019: Uber, Lyft and Slack. That will no doubt spur other tech companies, even those that haven't raised $1 billion in funding, to also take the plunge. One of those is likely ...

How does EverQuote make money?

by Steven Loeb, December 7, 2018

EverQuote charges a referral fee to life, auto and home insurance agents

The InsurTech space is having a moment right now; in just the first half of 2018, global investment in reached over 85 percent of the total invested in all of 2017, which itself was a record year for the space. That includes companies like Medicare Advantage provider Devoted Health, which raised $300 million in October; Oscar Health, which raised $375 million from Alphabet in August; ...

Walgreens partners with FedEx for its next-day prescription delivery service

by Steven Loeb, December 6, 2018

The company is competing against the likes of Amazon, which bought PillPack for $1B this summer

There seems to be a race right now in the pharma space to offer the fastest on-demand delivery option. And the competition is heating up. Not only do you have startups raising funding, such as Alto, which just this week raised a $50 million funding round, and Capsule, which also raised $50 million over the summer, but you also have ...

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