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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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

Avinew raises $5M to offer insurance for autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles

by Steven Loeb, January 30, 2019

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The company plans to launch its insurance product at the end of the year

If you only listened to the news, it might seem like we should already be looking out our windows and seeing cars on the road driving themselves, without a human anywhere to be seen. The truth is, though, getting to that level of autonomy is going to take a long time, probably decades, before it's a reality. In the meantime, we ...

Dropbox takes on Adobe and DocuSign with acquisition of HelloSign

by Steven Loeb, January 28, 2019

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The company paid $230 million in cash to acquire the eSignature and document workflow platform

This past November, Dropbox unveiled a new product called Dropbox Extensions, which allows users to integrate all of their tasks into the Dropbox platform. That included a number of partnerships for things like file editing, video annotating, and image editing, among others. One the areas that Dropbox included was eSignature, partnering with Adobe, DocuSign, and HelloSign to allow users to share a ...

Airbnb acquires Danish co-working space marketplace Gaest

by Steven Loeb, January 25, 2019

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The acquisition will go toward building out Airbnb for Work, the company's enterprise solution

Of course Airbnb is best known as a hotel alternative for travelers, but as it gets ready for its long anticipated IPO, which is expected to happen sometime in 2019, the company is looking to expand some of the other parts of its business, namely the enterprise side. On Friday, the company announced that it acquired Gaest, a Danish marketplace for ...

Munchery announces it is going out of business

by Steven Loeb, January 21, 2019

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The company had been struggling recently, stopping deliveries in Seattle, LA and NY last year

The food delivery space is littered with companies that have struggled to succeed in a crowded and difficult space. For every DoorDash and GrubHub, there's a Sprig and a SpoonRocket Now you can add another company to that list, and it's a fairly high profile one: Munchery. On Monday night, the company sent an email to customers announcing that it ...

Top 10 tech companies innovating in mental and behavioral health

by Steven Loeb, January 17, 2019

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Twitter has partnered with suicide prevention orgs, while IBM is using ML to identify schizophrenia

Last year, Vator, in conjunction with HP. held a salon called SplashX Invent Health: Mental and Behavioral Health, in which entrepreneurs and investors discussed what is happening both in terms of technology and investments in the mental and behavioral health space. What we found was that it's a space that is growing quickly, with the number of companies getting funding, and the amount being ...

Employee benefits software solution Limelight Health raises $33.5M

by Steven Loeb, January 17, 2019

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The company will use the funding to expand geographically and to deliver further automation

While tech has seemingly permeated all aspects of our lives, there are still some industries that haven't quite made the transition. Trucking, for example, was pulled into this century thanks to the ELD mandate, after spending decades still using paper and pencil. Likewise, the insurance industry has resisted the urge to automate, but that is finally changing. The insurance industry ...

Meet Ted Tenthoff, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Piper Jaffray

by Kymberlie Mcnicholas, January 16, 2019

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Tenthoff shares some promising and intriguing opportunities in biotech

As Cancer is unfortunately on the heels of Heart Disease, vying for the #1 killer in America, breakthroughs in oncology are critical to stop its progression. Piper Jaffray Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst Ted Tenthoff is at the forefront of some of the greatest opportunities in this space. He’s been at it for nearly 16 years, which just might ...

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