Ethos raises $35M to bring technology to...

The company has an ethical mindset, where it says it won't upsell or overcharge its customers

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Mish Guru lets brands and businesses take full control over their Instagram Stories

by Josiah Motley, November 15, 2018

It's like Sprinklr, but for Instagram Stories

I'm not sure when it happened, but social media has changed. Like, a lot. No longer are Facebook ads or sponsored Twitter posts enough, now, if you're a brand (new or established) you have to start telling stories. Stories, of course, referring to social media aspect of platforms like Snapchat and Instagram. As a quick refresher, these Stories have quickly ...

Health IQ launches behavioral life insurance for diabetics

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 15, 2018

A high Health IQ score and an active healthy lifestyle could lower premiums

For many people who hit 40-years-old, it's about time to think of life insurance. At that time, you might have a growing family and life insurance is a way of providing security for your progeny, if anything terrible happens to you. Unfortunately, for those who suffer from a disease, rates may not be so affordable. For a condition such ...

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. ...

Software-building Engineer.ai scores $29.5M as it expands to Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia

by Anna Vodopyanova, November 8, 2018

"Making software," the AI-powered, developer-assisted platform says is "as easy as ordering a pizza"

One of Europe’s largest Series A fundraisings, totaling $29.5 million, was announced this week by Engineer.ai, which builds AI-powered, human-assisted tools for software development and aims to make it easy for anyone to create software faster and cheaper while bypassing coding. The round was led by Lakestar, an early-stage European VC firm that’s backed Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb, and ...

User analytics platform Mixpanel launches initiative for startups and nonprofits

by Josiah Motley, November 7, 2018

The new services will allow both to receive data insights for a fraction of the cost

Data drives the world. It's become all but a requirement in most aspects of a business. Want to know how an ad is doing on Facebook? There's data for that. Want to know your potential market for a new product or service? There's definitely data for that. There is even data for predicting Halloween costume trends, because why not? The problem ...

Concord scores $25M in Series B to help solve issues inherent in 96% of contracts

by Anna Vodopyanova, October 31, 2018

The SF-based contract management platform seeks to simplify the unpleasantries in reaching a deal

A platform that wants to simplify managing contracts, Concord, announced the closing of its Series B round of funding in the amount of $25 million as the startup prepares to triple its personnel across various sectors and roll out new features as early as next month. The round was led by Tenaya Capital with participation from return investors CRV ...

Anthem building a deep bench of AI scientists

by Steven Loeb, October 26, 2018

Insurer taps ex-Googler Udi Manber; Kaiser and UnitedHealth making inroads with AI

Some form of artificial intelligence is having a big impact on the healthcare space. Chatbots, for example, are expected to save the industry over $3 billion in just the next few years. The healthcare AI market is expected to hit $6 billion by 2021, and there have been a slew of startups using AI that have raised funding in recent ...

VergeSense, which uses AI to make office space more efficient, raises $1.5M

by Steven Loeb, October 25, 2018

The company uses AI to keep track of which areas of the office are being over and underused

The nature of the way we work is changing very quickly, with more people working remotely, and offices changing their designs to reflect this new reality. The buildings, themselves, however, were built decades ago and are not designed for this type of change. It's that dichotomy that has led to a company like VergeSense, which is looking to change that by ...

Envoy raises $43M to make the office digital

by Steven Loeb, October 23, 2018

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

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 ...

Future Family lands $10M Series A to make fertility financing easy and affordable

by Anna Vodopyanova, October 18, 2018

Founder Claire Tomkins believes the number of babies born with IVF could soon grow to 10% in U.S.

Filling in gaps in America’s health insurance and helping tens of thousands of men and women become parents, Future Family has announced scoring $10 million in its Series A funding Thursday. The female-founded San Francisco startup, which provides subscription-based financing plans for fertility care, was backed in this round by lead investor Aspect Ventures and participating iNovia, BBG Ventures, LaunchCapital, ...

Invisible raises $2.6M to combine AI and humans for work automation

by Steven Loeb, October 18, 2018

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 ...

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