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How Amazon’s continued expansion into healthcare could buoy the sector

TechCrunch

The tech behemoth originally entered the health sector after it acquired PillPack , an online pharmacy, in 2018 and later rebranded as Amazon Pharmacy. Although those endeavors seem to be bearing fruit, Amazon also had a failed venture, Haven, with Berkshire and JPM that disbanded after multiple internal issues.

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Healthie lands $16.5M to build the Stripe for virtual patient care

TechCrunch

And that is effectively a very interesting notion because we’re still top of the first inning when it comes to what healthcare innovation is going to look like in the coming years.”. The company officially launched in 2016 and has been FCF net income profitable since 2018.

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Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in

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Our systems are at a point where it is more productive to work with nature than against it,” said Sanjeev Krishnan, chief investment officer at S2G Ventures. People have been looking at solving these problems in the wrong way,” said Daniela Fernandez, managing partner at Seabird Ventures.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

provides aquatic data collection services and aquatic drones that work in pods of 1- 20 to collect data at unprecedented scale at orders of magnitude less cost. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. Tursus Developing innovative back-office solutions for the point-of-sale industry.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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Mobius Labs nabs $6M to help more sectors tap into computer vision

TechCrunch

The Series A investment is led by Ventech VC, along with Atlantic Labs, APEX Ventures, Space Capital, Lunar Ventures plus some additional angel investors. ” Mobius Labs — which was founded back in 2018 — now has 30 customers using its tools for a range of use cases. Berlin-based Mobius Labs has closed a €5.2

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InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global 

TechCrunch

The bootstrapped company — which didn’t receive outside capital until 2018 — depended on original AI research that Beguir published , which led to the startup being discovered by specialized clients who later became partners and investors, such as DeepMind, Google and its future acquirer BioNTech.

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