TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” It feels like mental health and women’s health have started to get some well-deserved attention but caregiving is still really under the radar.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer isn’t a pure fintech play; it sits at the intersection of data and finance. to 573 , from 491 in 2019, according to local publication Disrupt Africa. As a user of Nguvu Health, there are different methods to fund a wallet, such as cards and bank transfers; Thepeer is another option. Here’s how it works.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms for data interpretation, WelSpot’s mission is to alleviate financial stress, enabling millions of consumers to access the care they need without the burden of immediate costs. This realization struck a chord with me, highlighting a dire need for accessible, affordable financing.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Fifty organizations will receive a collective $25 million for the piloting or expansion of ideas and projects that seek to address food security, as well as strengthen the physical and financial health of low-income families and their communities.

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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

MAY 23, 2022

Today, he claims, SwipeRx has transformed and digitized the pharmacy industry and become a one-stop platform for pharmacists to perform all their daily tasks, from education to purchasing to inventory financing in Southeast Asia. ”

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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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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

. – September 19, 2023 – Virtual Incision Corporation , the developer of the world’s first miniaturized robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system, today announced a $30 million extension to its previous $46 million Series C financing. The investment will be used to support this mission through a gynecologic clinical study planned for 2024.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

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). Infiuss Health says it is building a decentralized platform for remote research and clinical trials in Africa. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Specifically, Sequoia participated in Klarna’s $800 million financing ; Yokoy’s $80 million Series B; Telda’s $20 million seed round ; and Cococart’s $4 million seed financing. Two of the four deals are at the seed stage. Friday was a sad day for Chipper Cash , as many talented people were let go,” his post read.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Ascend on Wednesday announced a $5.5 Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The quest to disrupt the traditional baby food aisle continues as more of today’s parents seek out nutritional food for their children. One of the startups taking on the $100 billion children’s health and wellness market is Little Spoon , producing fresh, direct-to-consumer baby and children’s meals. Little Spoon products.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Combining efficiency innovations can lead to enabling innovations that create new industries. For example, coupling cheap computing with virtualization enabled cloud computing - a potentially $100B industry. The text message (SMS), a trivial innovation, is the banking mechanism over which 33% of Kenyan GDP flows.

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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. Clients including Google, Coursera, Promedica, Duke Health and the University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center. ArborMetrix. Spellbound AR. Genomenon. FreightVerify.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And today, San Francisco-based Honor has announced that it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing, bringing its valuation to over $1.25 Baillie Gifford led the equity financing, which brings Honor’s total equity raised to $325 million since its 2014 inception. Rowe Price Associates Inc.,

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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

JANUARY 22, 2021

Five success factors for behavioral health startups. As consumers grew more comfortable with the web, marketplaces like eBay, Etsy, Expedia and Wayfair* emerged, enabling historically offline transactions to occur online. The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets.

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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. Parthean teaches personal finance to young professionals.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. This includes storing money, sending and receiving payments, paying friends, budgeting their finances, and accessing capital via overdrafts and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL).

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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. Treatment & Healing – Therapeutics, Diagnostics, Remote monitoring, Digital health, etc.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has quickly established itself as the go-to method of financing for a variety of purchases, particularly online. This financing model has primarily been available to customers shopping online, but customers outside the U.S. have already dipped their toes into similar alternatives at brick-and-mortar stores.

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

Treedom, based in Italy, enables consumers and corporations to plant trees and track their environmental impact with the click of a button. By financing small agroforestry projects, Treedom provides income opportunities for local farming communities in 17 countries. Treedom has already planted 1.8M Register Here. Top Tech News.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

We cover a lot of health startups here on TechCrunch, and you know what it’s really hard to get any sort of excitement about? We’re thrilled this new funding will enable us to continue to define this evolving industry and to help even more patients get the care they deserve.”.

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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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OurCrowd

AUGUST 31, 2020

Putting safety first, the company’s Vehicle Intelligence Platform of embedded computers and cloud software enables its scooters to protect themselves from damage during and between rides by detecting problems including battery fires, short circuits, or failed brakes, and take corrective action to avert damage. Top Tech News.

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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

MAY 18, 2022

This week, on Equity, Natasha asks how digital health startups build successful businesses in a post-Roe world. I think I’ll use my credit card : Mary Ann reports that payments and software startup SpotOn has closed on $300 million in a Series F financing that values the company at $3.6 You want more?

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 7, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director The prestigious Luis Villalobos Award, recognizing the most ingenious and innovative ideas recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association, was recently awarded to two ACA member-funded companies disrupting their fields. Genomenon is such a company.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Independent sponsors (groups seeking to acquire a company which do not have the equity financing needed in advance) earn nothing upfront, but earn 20% of the deals they facilitate. Similarly, certain Revenue-Based Finance investors (e.g., Apollo Health Ventures. Methods in between are a tradeoff of compensation and carry.”

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Our mission statement is to enable the vision of cultivated meat by reducing its cost and improving its quality,” Guy Nevo Michrowski, ProFuse CEO, tells Amy Teibel in The Times of Israel. EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market by producing egg protein for cooking without chickens. Taranis is raising on the OurCrowd platform.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

This is “low code,” but it typically means that the company needs to work with third parties to enable all of this. In all cases, it helps stitch together data from a bank’s own systems with more modern tooling, and to link that up with yet more modern tools to help process that data more easily.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. The DEBUT Challenge is a contest for undergraduate student teams working on innovative solutions to unmet health and clinical problems. We also recommend, at a minimum, learn the basics of coding.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. Eventually, this will extend into wealth generation tools to help customers grow their finances. This did not happen by magic. Venmo) or split the bill (e.g.,

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Diagnostic Robotics helps major healthcare providers like the Mayo Clinic, Anthem and Brown University Center for Digital Health reduce waiting times for patients and guide them more efficiently to the appropriate care, saving time, stress and potentially millions of dollars. Ancient maps portrayed the Middle East as the center of the world.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

The patented technology allows the surgeon to control tiny, human-like robotic arms that enables procedures currently considered unfeasible, and reduces scarring. Future Family is the first company to bring together financing, technology, and concierge care in an easy-to-use online platform. health care system more than $100B a year.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

They were joined this week by Swiss multinational Ferring Pharmaceuticals, which says it is collaborating with CytoReason to establish new treatment options for patients with inflammatory bowel disease, Mobile Health News reports. with software that enables forklifts to be operated remotely from thousands of miles away, Bloomberg reports.

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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. The city has attracted a wide range of people over the years, including more tech and finance companies very recently.

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