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Soylent Closes $1.5M In Seed Funding From Lerer, Andreessen Horowitz
Soylent, the drink that’s designed to fulfill a person’s nutritional needs, just raised $1.5 million in seed funding from investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Lerer Ventures. Yes, that’s right. The seemingly wacky personal experiment of YC-backed founder Rob Rhinehart and his team is becoming a full-fledged business with $1.5 million in pre-orders. Chris Dixon led… Read More
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The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Reinventing Yourself
Here are the rules: I’ve been at zero a few times, come back a few times, and done it over and over. I’ve started entire new careers. People who knew me then, don’t me now. And so on. I’ve had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And… Read More
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Glow, The Fertility App Founded By Max Levchin, Partners With MyFitnessPal To Add BMI Data To Babymaking
Glow, the fertility tracking app co-founded by Max Levchin, is announcing today that it's inked a partnership with MyFitnessPal, the popular diet and exercise tracking app. Starting today, users of Glow and MyFitnessPal will be able to connect their accounts. At first, Glow is only pulling in data about users' body mass index (BMI), which is calculated from height and weight. But eventually… Read More
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Nike Introduces New Nike+ FuelBand SE, An Activity Tracker That’s Harder To Trick
Nike is revealing a new version of its FuelBand today at an event in New York City. Dubbed the FuelBand SE, the new fitness tracker sports a variety of color accents and represents the sporting goods maker's first non-cosmetic update to its activity tracking wearable since the gadget's introduction. Read More
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Next IT Launches Alme For Healthcare, A Virtual Assistant For Chronic Disease Management
Next IT has been working on building natural language processing and artificial intelligence based virtual assistant systems for enterprise customers for years. Its tools are currently being used by major airlines and insurance companies to provide answers to their customers with voice and text-driven virtual assistants that can answer their questions. Today, after almost 12 years of working on… Read More
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Comprimato
- Size $257.3K
- Round Seed
- Investors Credo Ventures, Y Soft
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Indotrading
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Rebright Partners
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Teambox
- Size $5M
- Round A
- Investors Avalon Ventures
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Talknote
- Size $2M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Claro Energy
- Size Not available
- Round A
- Investors Sheetal Bahl
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Appsee
- Size $1M
- Round Seed
- Investors Giza Venture Capital
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CYP Design
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Mercia Fund Management
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UNBOUND
- Size $1.8M
- Round Seed
- Investors DFJ Esprit, Cambridge Angels group, Forward Investment Partners
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Tensorcom
- Size $5M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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SMS Assist
- Size $45M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Pritzker Group Venture Capital
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Symbiotec Pharmalab
- Size $48M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Actis
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Rebelle
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Not available
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NanoCellect
- Size $700K
- Round Grant
- Investors Not available
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EDUonGo
- Size $530K
- Round Seed
- Investors Circulus Education
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Photonics Healthcare
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapital
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Inventorum
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Klingel New Media, Vogel Ventures, MCB Salt
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BountyJobs
- Size $4.5M
- Round D
- Investors Not available
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InReal Technologies
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors High-Tech Gruenderfonds
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WePay
- Size $1.5M
- Round Crowd
- Investors Not available
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Panorama Education
- Size $4M
- Round Seed
- Investors SoftTech VC, Google Ventures, A-Grade Investments, Startup:Education, Yale ... See More
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Sqrrl
- Size $5.2M
- Round A
- Investors Atlas Venture, Matrix Partners
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Kona Medical
- Size $10M
- Round D
- Investors Morningside Group
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ChromaDex
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors DSM Venturing
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Insightra Medical
- Size Not available
- Round C
- Investors Baird Capital, Tekla Capital Management
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OneClass
- Size $1.6M
- Round A
- Investors SAIF Partners, Real Ventures
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Soylent Corporation
- Size $1.5M
- Round Seed
- Investors Lerer Ventures, Initialized Capital, Hydrazine Capital, Andreessen Horowitz ... See More
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Cloudnexa
- Size $2.3M
- Round A
- Investors Not available
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Panoramic Power
- Size $8M
- Round B
- Investors Marker LLC, Qualcomm, Israel Cleantech Ventures, Greylock Partners
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United Capital
- Size $38M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Sageview Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Grail Partners
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Once Innovations
- Size $5.3M
- Round A
- Investors Ag Ventures Alliance, Lateral Capital, New Fashion Pork
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From Sprint And TechStars To The FDA, A Look At The Changing Landscape Facing Health Startups
The health-care industry in the U.S. is broken, and considering the industry itself represents some 18 percent of the U.S. economy, it's a sizable problem. While other sectors have begun to adapt, health care has managed to resist change -- particularly the technology-based variety. Meanwhile, 30 percent of total health-care spending in the U.S., or more than $750 billion per year, is wasted on… Read More
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PUSH Looks To Crowdfund A Pro-Grade Activity Tracker For Athletes For Real Workout Metrics
Toronto-based startup PUSH is hoping to add some professionalism to an essentially amateur space, with its fitness tracker aimed specifically at pros and demanding athletes who want data, not vague metrics about general activity levels. The PUSH can provide solid data about reps, sets, force, power, balance, velocity, max weight, tempo and more to athletes who depend on informed workouts to push… Read More
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Luminate Health Raises $1M To Make Patient Lab Results Comprehensible
Although blood tests are meant to tell you something about your internal state of affairs, it usually feels like you need a medical degree to decipher the results. A New York-based startup called Luminate Health has raised a $1 million seed round led by KEC Ventures to do just that. A graduate of the health tech accelerator Blueprint Health, Luminate is promoting patient empowerment by… Read More
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Basis Fitness Watchmaker Raises $11.75M To Build A Cross-Device Health Data Hub
Fitbits, FuelBands, and Jawbones don't matter and neither does their data unless they make us healthier. That's why Basis wants to build a platform that unites our fragmented quantified self data and mines it for healthy ways to improve our behaviors. So today Basis announced an $11.75 million extension of its Series B and the hire of Ethan Fassett, former head of platform at gaming giant GREE. Read More
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Filing Says Sleep- And Health-Tracking Startup Lark Is Raising Another $3.6M
Lark, which launched a wearable silent alarm onstage at TechCrunch's Disrupt conference back in 2010, has raised $3.1 million of an intended $3.6 million round of funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. I've emailed the company and its CEO Julia Hu for confirmation, and I'll update this post if I hear back. The filing doesn't specify the investors in the new… Read More
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Oscar, The New York Health Startup Looking To Revolutionize Insurance, Launches
Oscar, the New York-based startup from Thrive Capital’s Josh Kushner, has finally launched. Their debut comes as the U.S. government unveils new health insurance exchanges where consumers can pick and choose plans. The startup, backed with $40 million in funding, is an insurer itself and is looking to make the consumer experience less opaque. They’ve launched four tiers of plans for… Read More
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Goldee Does Dynamic Lighting For Philips Hue, Banks On A Future Where Light Isn’t Static
A brand new app called Goldee launches today, offering Phlips Hue users a new way to use their connected lighting system. The app provides dynamic "light scenes" which use artist-sourced photos as their palette, changing tones gradually to provide dynamic shifts in color, including gradual on/off sequences for waking up in the morning or going to sleep at night. Read More
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As Its Partner Ecosystem Expands, Box Taps Google Health Founder To Lead Its Cloud-Based Assault On Healthcare
Over the last year, Box has been ramping up its efforts to bring its cloud storage platform into new verticals. That began in April, when the seven-year-old cloud services company began making a major push into healthcare, which given the mayhem around the launch of the new healthcare exchanges yesterday, seems like it couldn't have come at a better time. Read More
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Amidst Obamacare’s Marketplace Madness, The YEC Wants To Help Startups Take The Hassle Out Of Health Insurance
Amid partisan shenanigans, a government shutdown and much squabbling, The White House launched a new website today that will eventually allow Americans to compare the price of health insurance plans — which is now mandatory under the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare. While the exchange, or the Insurance Marketplace as it’s being called, did in fact go live this morning, it’s… Read More
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Senior Facebook, Netflix Scientist Joins Identified To Help It Fix Professional Search, Take On LinkedIn
This summer, Identified pulled back the curtain on a new artificial intelligence technology, called "SYMAN," which it developed to help organize and clean the swaths of unstructured professional data that today lives on the Web. In doing so, the startup moved away from its original focus -- a kind of Facebook data-driven "Klout score for professionals" -- essentially admitting that if it were… Read More
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VetCloud Hopes To Unlock The Dormant Data In Veterinary Clinics Around The World
Unlocking the value hidden in data that has long gone unaggregated and unanalyzed is a hugely attractive proposition of big data and cloud-based SaaS startups, and newcomer VetCloud is no exception. The startup was part of TechStars London, and while it's targeting a very specific niche, it could hold the key to a problem that any government in the world would be happy to have help with. Read More
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The Science Behind Using Online Communities To Change Behavior
Is it just me, or is it impossible to talk to technology entrepreneurs without mentioning user engagement and behavior? I’m a behavioral psychologist, so that might be why I keep having conversations about engagement, but I don’t think that’s the only reason. I think it’s because entrepreneurs have realized that behavior change and engagement is critical to technology development (and to… Read More
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Quantified Work: Meet Stir, A Former iPod Engineer’s Smart, Health-Tracking And Height-Adjustable Desk
If you're anything like me, you spend too much of your day at your desk, in front of your computer. During busy days -- especially once you go deep into "the zone" -- it's easy for a few hours to fly in our usual, sedentary position. For this reason, I'm probably not the only one who could use a gentle reminder: "Hey Rip, you've been sitting for two hours, how about a walk?" Read More
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Neurotrack Raises $2M From Founders Fund, Social+Capital To Predict And Diagnose The Onset Of Alzheimer’s Disease
I have two grandparents who are afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. Unfortunately, in both situations we didn't find out that they had the disease until they were both showing strong symptoms. In the case of my grandfather, we found out when he was traveling back to India from the U.S. and forgot to get on the plane from Mumbai to Bangalore. He was found wandering the streets of Mumbai with no… Read More
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Russian Health Advice Site VitaPortal Merges With Local Medical Platform ZdorovieOnline, Gets $1.35M Funding Injection
A spot of consolidation in the Russian online health services space today. Health advice portal VitaPortal, which raised a $2 million Series A last October from Prostor Capital and Esther Dyson, has merged with ZdorovieOnline.ru, a smaller medical platform and electronic medical records portal, backed by Runa Capital. Read More
