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Accelerators targeting wellness companies

by Steven Loeb, October 24, 2018

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They include The Technogym Wellness Accelerator and SEG Health and Wellness 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 ...

Envoy raises $43M to make the office digital

by Steven Loeb, October 23, 2018

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The company automates the front desk, as well as package delivery, for companies like Slack and Nike

There's a lot of talk in recent years about whether or not, thanks to technology, the modern office will eventually become a thing of the past. Envoy, however, is a company that is taking the complete opposite view: it not only believes in the physical work space, but it is on a mission to modernize the modern office, by making ...

Amazon is winning the smart speaker wars, at least for now

by Steven Loeb, October 22, 2018

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Two of Alexa's devices take up nearly half the smart speaker market

Updated with additional comment from Strategy Analytics Smart speakers went mainstream earlier this year, with just under 20 percent of all adults in the United States having access to one. With adoption going from 1 percent of the country to nearly a quarter of all adults in just two years is amazing growth. The next question is which company would be ...

Corporate Innovator: Tina Moen, Deputy Chief Health Officer at IBM Watson Health

by Steven Loeb, October 22, 2018

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IBM's initiatives include Care Manager and Watson for Genomics to individualize care

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 ...

Startup competitions seeking addiction solutions

by Steven Loeb, October 19, 2018

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They include FDA Innovation Challenge, The Opioid Hack-A-Thon 2018 and CODE4PA CODEATHON 2018

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 ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Francis Pedraza

by Steven Loeb, October 18, 2018

	The first lesson is to take care of myself Today's entrepreneur is Francis Pedraza, CEO of Invisible. Invisible is a company pioneering the global digital assembly line by creating a single bot that enables people to outsource their work and add more time into their day. Pedraza founded Invisible in 2015 with an idea to give people a way to spend more time focusing on the work that matters so ...
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Invisible raises $2.6M to combine AI and humans for work automation

by Steven Loeb, October 18, 2018

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The company combines an AI-powered bot with a human labor force that can free up workers

There's a lot of fear out there when it comes to automation and artificial intelligence, specifically what that is going to mean for the future of labor. Many, many people are worried about their jobs being taken away by a machine. The general feeling seems to be that we should all embrace the change, join hands to sing and say ...

Meet Yashwanth Hemaraj, partner at Benhamou Global Ventures

by Steven Loeb, October 17, 2018

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Hemaraj also heads up Arka Venture Labs, an accelerator platform for India based B2B companies

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 ...

Hero raises $12M to make it easier for caregivers to dispense medication

by Steven Loeb, October 16, 2018

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The company has a hardware and a software component, to automatically sort and reorder medications

If you've ever had an elderly relative, or known someone with a chronic disease, the amount of medications that they have to take can be staggering. Keeping track of when to take each pill and at what time and how often can be confusing for anyone, let alone someone who is distracted by constant pain or who has cognitive degeneration. ...

Accelerators targeting gaming companies

by Steven Loeb, October 12, 2018

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They include The Bakery Start Programme, GameFounders and Indie Games 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 ...

Corporate innovators: Loni Stark of Adobe and Peter Sheldon of Magento

by Steven Loeb, October 12, 2018

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Stark is SD of Strategy & Product Marketing at Adobe, Sheldon is SD of Strategy at Adobe's Magento

While everyone wants to be the first to discover the next big company, to be the one to discover the next Facebook or Twitter, oftentimes the 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, and they ...

Today's entrepreneur: Allie Sutton

by Steven Loeb, October 11, 2018

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I want to change the world

Today's entrepreneur is Allie Sutton, co-founder and CEO of June.ai, a communication hub for your digital world. Allie Sutton is currently CEO and co founder at June.ai, the company behind June, the artificial intelligence assistant that replaces email. He is a husband and father of two. He was previously co founder and Managing Partner at Conscious Equity Ventures, and founder and CEO ...

June.ai raises $1.5M to revamp the way we communicate

by Steven Loeb, October 11, 2018

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The company offers a hub that allows users to go beyond just their e-mail inbox

E-mail is like almost like a monster movie villain at this point. Much like Michael Meyers or Freddy or Jason, people keep trying over and over to kill it, but it seems like it will never actually die. The newest company to try and take on that behemoth is June.ai, a company that launched into public beta on Thursday with ...

At SplashX: the challenges of shifting to precision health

by Steven Loeb, October 10, 2018

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The environment and incentive structure can both stand in the way of making precision health work

Last week, Vator held a salon, SplashX Invent Health - Precision Health, co-hosted and co-produced by our awesome partner, HP, where we took a deep dive into precision health. Precision health is a relatively new term that 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 ...

Foundry College raises $6M to teach workers to stave off automation

by Steven Loeb, October 10, 2018

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The school trains students in the skills they need to obtain "middle-skills" jobs

It feels as though there has been a looming threat of automation to American workers for years now, like we're all sitting around with a sword dangling above our heads. It may not take much longer for it to drop: according a report last year from McKinsey, 73 million U.S. jobs will be lost to automation in a little over a ...

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