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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth.

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Neko, Daniel Ek’s next play, is another spin on preventative healthcare

TechCrunch

He has also put some money where his mouth is — investing in Swedish telehealth platform, Kry , for example. But dabbling as an investor evidently has not stopped him from wanting to get hands-on too — as one of two co-founders for Neko Health (the other being Hjalmar Nilsonne, whose prior startup focused on energy data analysis).

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With $21M in funding, Code Ocean aims to help researchers replicate data-heavy science

TechCrunch

Every branch of science is increasingly reliant on big data sets and analysis, which means a growing confusion of formats and platforms — more than inconvenient, this can hinder the process of peer review and replication of research. Certainly there’s an air of “Too many options? Try this one!”