Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life. Meanwhile, the individual costs to our own health of what we eat will add up to 1.3 trillion USD by 2030. Photo: Kina Mama.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Digital health startup Everlywell has raised a $175 million Series D funding round, following relatively fast on the heels of a $25 million Series C round it closed in February of this year. “We’ve been talking about the digital health movement, and the consumer-directed movement probably for a decade now,” she told me.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Prox has worked in healthcare for more than a decade with major organizations such as Providence Health, Mount Sinai and Baylor Scott & White, mostly focused on digitizing health records and designing and implementing software for doctors, nurses, etc. The company was founded by Halston Prox and Joshua Smith.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2023

Plus, I interviewed Kevin Hart on the Disrupt stage. Now, founding partners Sheel Mohnot and Jake Gibson are launching an accelerator of their own. Here’s what to know: The Mint will be a three-month accelerator, based out of San Francisco, that cuts $500,000 checks in exchange for 10% equity in between six to 10 startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Founders focusing on gut health, optimizing the way our bodies process waste and what that can do to the brain. Technology that enables people to live longer on their own (not as big a factor in other countries where it is normal for multi-generational households to exist) and to take ownership of their health and care is on the rise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

By leading the shift to more telehealth services, Fuzzy hopes to encourage pet parents to consider the health of their pet on a more regular basis to aid in their longevity. He called Bhettay “an energetic and smart entrepreneur” who is building a strong team to go after a space that is ripe for disruption.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Koa is one of 20 companies competing for $100,000 and the Disrupt cup in this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition. For one, Roman sees promise in offering embedded finance and banking-as-a-service tools that would enable other startups to launch fintech products at a faster pace.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Don’t worry, it’s for fun reasons: We want to be the first to tell you about the awesomeness that is our TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield companies. For you, special price : Kyle reports that Enable lands $94 million to help B2B companies manage their rebate programs. News Drops from Disrupt. Christine and Haje.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

Funding will support platform roll out to accelerate the loan origination process for lenders and borrowers NEW YORK, March 29, 2023 – Presta , an end-to-end digital lending platform that modernizes and accelerates the loan origination process, announced its launch today after raising $3.3 million in oversubscribed pre-seed fundraise.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Investment will accelerate advancements of the MIRA Surgical System LINCOLN, Neb. The round was led by current investors Bluestem Capital, Endeavour Vision, Baird Capital, cultivate(MD) Capital Funds, and PrairieGold Venture Partners, as well as new health-tech investors Arboretum Ventures and InVivium Capital.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

ArborMetrix is an Ann Arbor startup dedicated to improving health care outcomes using data models and health care analytics for improved research. It accelerates enrollment and improve retainment of trial participants. It also enables users to automate workflows and resolve accounts. ArborMetrix. Spellbound AR.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

We plan to raise $100 million for investment in urgent technological solutions for the medical, business, educational and social needs triggered by global pandemics and other health emergencies. The pandemic has accelerated the pace of technology adoption across many domains.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. ” Health U. Founders: Emily Stebbins (Co-CEO), Jonathan Siktberg (Co-CEO).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Workit Health. Founded by two of the top female founders in the Midwest , Workit Health is a health startup that’s providing digital tools for people recovering from addiction. So they created Workit Health. DaySmart is a software company that’s accelerating small business growth with digital tools. Groundspeed.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

The company’s goal, according to co-founder and CEO Kevin Nazemi (who also co-founded now publicly traded Oscar Health), is to help retirees and soon-to-be-retirees “make the most of their limited resources.” Enter Charlie , a new startup offering banking services for the 62+ community, which launched last week with $7.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

He tells me he lived off the proceeds of his flat for two years “in a closet” in a hacker house, bootstrapping Timely, until eventually getting into an accelerator (500 Startups) and subsequently starting to raise money. It is, in a sense, a timely disruption.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Quantified health activity is all around us these days, as scores of people use mobile sensing technologies to keep an eye on their well-being by tracking their steps, workouts and even how long and deep they sleep — so why shouldn’t women who cycle (as in menstrual cycle) track monthly changes to their hormone levels?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

BJ Jenkins is CEO of Barracuda , a provider of cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions. Because of digital disruption, businesses must move at an unprecedented pace to stay competitive. BJ Jenkins. Contributor. Share on Twitter. He is a member of the boards of directors at SumoLogic and Generac Power Systems.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

We believe BNPL adoption at the point of sale will accelerate rapidly given consumer familiarity. Frances Schwiep: We’re on the lookout for companies both enabling and distributing next generation financial products. Jonathan Whittle. I believe the next Alibaba will start as a fintech play.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 10, 2024

The first wave of therapeutic candidates designed and optimized by AI/ML tools are making their way through clinical trials now, and new NDA/BLA applications referencing AI are accelerating rapidly. Beyond protein design, recent advances in reference-free protein-ligand structure prediction and generative chemistry approaches (e.g.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In fact, while a general partner with Flagship Pioneering over the last 15 years, David Berry has started more than 30 companies, five of which trade publicly right now: Seres Therapeutics, Sensen Bio, Evelo Biosciences, T2 Biosystems, and Axcella Health. Is there a way to make it clearer to outsiders why this platform is so unique?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Remedial Health has secured $1 million in pre-seed funding to digitize pharmacies and stem the supply of fake and substandard pharmaceutical products, starting with Nigeria before expanding to the rest of Africa. Image Credits: Remedial Health. That business was pretty small.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Eflex Intelligent digital energy for homes and small business 2020 Lumme Lumme Health is a digital behavioral health company with a radically superior approach to facilitating success with weight management and problematic eating patterns. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. management.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

As far as green shoots, COVID-19 has “played a role of an accelerator for innovation in many business areas and even e-government and other rigid/conservative industries,” said one. Enabling communication, transparency within the remote workforce. Automation, AI, enabling remote, authentication. I’ve always had hope.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Reports Manish Singh: “India and Singapore have linked their digital payments systems, UPI and PayNow , to enable instant and low-cost fund transfers in a major push to disrupt the cross-border flow of money between the two nations that amounts to more than $1 billion each year.” Reports Bloomberg : “ JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

That’s the product Backbone , the startup Patil helped to cofound, is selling: a platform designed to enable companies to respond to supply chain disruptions by surfacing replacement options, including vendors. ” Building a supply chain backbone. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s the 33rd Demo Day of the well-known accelerator and holds the largest cohort yet. A wave of disruption of digitizing informal retail stores is sweeping across emerging markets this year, and Chari is joining in on the action. Infiuss Health (Nigeria). About half of the companies represented are based outside the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

However, the pandemic has shown an increased need for investment and focus on solutions that work on human and planetary health. For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator run by VC firm SOSV, this unprecedented year offered high stakes and new challenges. Leaving the $3.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We will fund businesses that meet our criteria in categories we like such as health and wellness, consumerization of healthcare, food and beverage, beauty, and other consumer and techsumer areas. Miami has everything in place to accelerate its rise to be cemented as a significant tech/startup ecosystem.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products. Today, the average user has 30 friends on Monzo and 83% of active customers enable P2P payments within their first year. Banking is a ubiquitous but hard to crack industry.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all. More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Hence the parallel goal of tackling a variety of gaps (territorial, gender, socio-economic, generational and so on) that might otherwise be exacerbated by a more single-minded rush to accelerate the size of the digital sector. We accelerate also that path — into innovative entrepreneurship system. France and Germany.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Startups tackling Covid and urgent health challenges. 3: Startups tackling Covid and urgent health challenges. Top health startup executives will look at medical efforts to combat Covid-19, the race for a vaccine, a possible therapy and how to make drug usage safer and more efficient. Click here to learn more about the company.

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OurCrowd

JULY 11, 2021

Ro Health acquires at-home testing startup Kit. OurCrowd’s Top 10 Post-Pandemic Tech Trends offers invaluable insight into what will be hot, disruptive and investible in startups for the coming 12 months. Zebra Medical Vision wins landmark approval for AI radiology code. Zzapp Malaria wins $250,000 Cisco Global Problem Solver Prize.

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OurCrowd

JULY 25, 2021

DouxMatok’s low-sugar sugar’s sweet spot on Netflix’s ‘Explained’ Sweetch raises $20M for app that helps boost health outcomes. The company has already enabled more than 28 million people in over 120 countries to kick start and scale their businesses online. Microsoft picks MagniLearn for education initiative.

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