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| Oct 7, 2015 | Red Bear Angels Backs Startups From The Cornell Community | How’s this for school spirit? A group of alums have come together to invest in startups connected to Cornell.
Chairman and founder Sam Sezak (also a partner at Blue Heron Capital) has a bachelor’s degree from Cornell. He said the idea began... |
| Sep 23, 2015 | MathCrunch Raises Funding from StartX Fund | MathCrunch, a San Francisco, CA-based on-demand mobile tutoring company, received funding from Stanford University’s StartX Fund.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The company will use the funds to enhance the quality of tutoring se... |
| Jul 22, 2015 | Maderight (YC S15) Makes It Simple To Source Ethical Factories Worldwide | In recent years, it’s become almost the norm for United States-based clothing designers to manufacture their products in other countries. But from thousands of miles away, it is not easy for designers to ensure that the factories they’re wo... |
| Jul 20, 2015 | Backed By Y Combinator, Maderight Matches Fashion Designers With Ethical Factories Around The World | Getting apparel made in other countries is like playing a game of telephone. As designers and manufacturers ship prototypes back and forth for weeks, problems ranging from poor quality control to logistic headaches often arise. More serious... |
| Apr 2, 2015 | Y Combinator-Backed PicnicHealth Nabs $2 Million In Seed To Build Out A Virtual Healthcare Records Platform | PicnicHealth launched out of Y Combinator last summer with a service that promised to help chronically ill patients gather all their records from all their doctors and put them in one easy-to-access online profile. The startup has now raise... |
| Feb 6, 2015 | Smart Glasses App Developer VitalMedicals Raises $925k | VitalMedicals, a San Francisco-based company developing smart software platform for surgical teams and hospitals, to improve operational efficiency and patient safety, has announced it has raised $925k in seed funding from professional ange... |
| Feb 6, 2015 | VitalMedicals Raises $925K in Seed Funding | VitalMedicals, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of smart glasses technologies for the hospital, raised $925k in seed funding.
Backers included angel investors and the Stanford-StartX Fund.
The company intends to use the funds to grow its... |
| Feb 5, 2015 | VitalMedicals takes $925,000 for doctors’ smart glasses apps | A growing number of startups are working on streaming clinical information and communications tools to glasses worn by surgeons. Think Droiders, Atheer Labs, Augmedix, Pristine, and Avinent.
One of the more mature solutions we’ve seen comes... |
| Feb 5, 2015 | VitalMedicals takes $925,000 for doctors’ smart glasses apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A growing number of startups are working on streaming clinical information and communications tools to glasses worn by surgeons. Think ... |
| Feb 5, 2015 | HeartThis Lets You Shop All Your Favorite Stores From Just One App | A new mobile application called HeartThis wants to make shopping across multiple retailers more convenient for smartphone users. The app, which is making its official debut later today on stage at StartX’s Demo Day, puts over 330 stores in ... |
| Feb 5, 2015 | Advancing smart glasses as augmented reality tool for surgeons drives Vital Medicals’ capital raise | It currently has three products across smartphones and smart glasses. VitalVideo streams live ultrasound, fluoroscopy,and endoscopy video to smart glasses and tablets during procedures. The idea is to bring the data to the surgeon’s field o... |
| Feb 5, 2015 | Our Top Five Startups At StartX’s Fall 2014 Demo Day | StartX, the Stanford-funded and affiliated incubator, just held its demo day for the Fall 2014 batch of startups at its headquarters in Palo Alto. The 20 companies presenting ran the gamut from Bitcoin and cybersecurity to open source machi... |
| Feb 5, 2015 | StartX Looks To Boost Its Investment Program | The non-profit business accelerator StartX has expanded its investment staff as it looks to place more bets into graduates of its Stanford-affiliated program.
Founded by a Stanford alum, housed minutes from the university’s Palo Alto campus... |
| Oct 1, 2014 | Incubated: How StartX Helps Stanford-Affiliated Founders Get Their Companies Off The Ground | Over the past few years, StartX has emerged to help founders from Stanford build their companies. The accelerator seeks to take advantage of all the resources at the university, as well as the wide range of tech companies nearby, to improve... |
| Sep 16, 2014 | Stanford startup adds twist to electronic stethoscope with digital adapter | The device uses Bluetooth low energy to transmit audio and analyze heart sounds by using a cloud-based heart murmur detection algorithm. A mobile app gives an audio and visual display of the heart sounds that can be saved in a patient porta... |
| Sep 16, 2014 | Our Four Favorite Startups From The StartX Summer 2014 Demo Day | StartX, the Stanford-funded and affiliated incubator, just held the first demo day at its new Palo Alto-based office space. In an hour, 12 startups pitched their wares to investors and the press, showing products and services that range fro... |
| Sep 3, 2014 | Sustainable Development Goes Massively Online As EdCast Launches With Sustainability Expert Jeffrey Sachs | In the spring of 2015 thousands of students from universities around the world will participate in online negotiations under the tutelage of Jeffrey Sachs to draft a comprehensive treaty on climate change, ahead of the Conference of Parties... |
| Aug 27, 2014 | StartX accelerator launching new Stanford-area lab with QB3 | “Life science entrepreneurs are faced with extremely complex challenges in building their companies,” Andrew Lee, co-founder of StartX Med and founder of StartX-QB3 Labs, said in a statement. “Our facility will enable medical technology fou... |
| Aug 27, 2014 | StartX And QB3 Open A Biotech Lab In Palo Alto | StartX, the nonprofit accelerator program spun out of Stanford University, is opening a biotech laboratory in conjunction with QB3, the institute focused on molecular biology research at the University of California. The StartX-QB3 Labs con... |
| Aug 25, 2014 | LinkedIn: These 3 graphs show that successful founders don't drop out, and Peter Thiel is wrong | LinkedIn released a bold and fascinating report about the career paths of successful tech founders. The public company made a refreshingly opinionated conclusion: Aspiring teens should not forgo college to found a risky tech startup.
“The i... |
| Aug 25, 2014 | LinkedIn: These 3 graphs show that successful founders don't drop out, and Peter Thiel is wrong | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
LinkedIn released a bold and fascinating report a... |
| Aug 18, 2014 | Nirmidas Biotech Raises $2M in Seed Funding | Nirmidas Biotech, Inc., a Palo Alto, CA-based diagnostic research technology company, raised $2m in seed round funding.
Backers included a prominent venture capital firm, a life science angel investor, and the Stanford-StartX Fund.
The comp... |
| Aug 6, 2014 | What's working, what's not at accelerator programs? | StartX, Alchemist, Berkeley Skydeck, Sfuncube share best practices
It started with Y Combinator and then TechStars. Now that there's accelerators emerging every day, what's working and what's not? Panelists included Cameron Teitelman (Found... |
| Jun 4, 2014 | WhatsApp Co-Founder Brian Acton Talks About Not Getting “Swallowed By The Borg” At StartX | In his first speaking engagement ever, at tonight’s StartX event, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton talked about the company’s big “F” word (focus), how people in the U.S. just didn’t get the service when it first launched five years ago, and... |
| May 7, 2014 | What does the future hold for accelerators? | Accelerator Nation panel looks into the future to see how accelerators will disrupt the VC industry
Accelerators are seemingly everywhere these days, from the big dogs like Y Combinator and Techstars, to newer ones like StartX and Sfuncube.... |
| May 5, 2014 | 10 Reasons to go to Vator Splash Oakland | Here's why 700 people have already registered to attend
In the last decade, VC money shifted north from Silicon Valley to San Francisco. In other words, Silicon Valley moved north.
SF accounted for 36% of all venture dollars invested in the... |
| Feb 18, 2014 | Mobile health news: MedWhat raises seed capital for app to process detailed medical questions | The company uses Nuance software which powers the voice technology behind Apple’s Siri and Android solutions such as Samsung’s S Voice. M*Modal, IBM’s Watson and Health Fidelity have also helped health IT companies advance electronic health... |
| Feb 6, 2014 | Meet The Eight Startups From StartX’s Fall 2013 Class | StartX, the non-profit accelerator for Stanford-affiliated entrepreneurs, introduced the most recent eight companies to have gone through its program at a demo day held at Box headquarters in Los Altos, Calif. today. Those companies include... |
| Feb 5, 2014 | Apportable gets $5M for iOS to Android interoperability | StartX startup already generating single-digit millions in revenue
In case you’ve been hiding beneath a rock, we’re in the midst of a paradigm shift from desktop to mobile.
By end of this year, about 22% of people in the world will own a sm... |
| Oct 7, 2013 | oDesk Launches Startup Accelerator Partnership Program | Redwood City, CA-based online workplace oDesk announced the launch of a new startup accelerator partnership program called oDesk Upstarts.
The program will help startups in 20+ partner accelerator programs delegate tasks in tech hubs, inclu... |
| Sep 13, 2013 | Merck and J&J back StartX; “clinical-trial-in-a-dish” biotech wows at Demo Day | Two StartX Med companies presented at demo day last night – one new company and one graduated company that returned with some exciting updates.
Stem Cell Theranostics has developed what it calls “clinical trials in a dish,” with the goal of... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | Your Board Game Is In My Video Game: Tangible Play Mixes The Real And Virtual | What do you get when you put a pair of board gaming geeks who have worked at NVIDIA, Google, LucasArts, and Ubisoft together in the same room? It probably looks like Tangible Play, debuting at Disrupt SF.
Founded by Pramod Sharma and Jerome... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | Koality Helps Engineers By Eliminating Broken Builds And Making Test Suites Efficient | Launching at Disrupt SF, Koality is a development tool that fills an important gap for engineering teams. It’s a seamless server-side application that sits between your startup’s repository and your engineers. Instead of submitting code to ... |
| Sep 5, 2013 | Bay Area Deals News: AlienVault, Check, HotelTonight, StartX & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated and corrected, see below] It’s time for one of our (infrequent) roundups of local venture funding announcements and other deals.
—San Mateo, CA-based AlienVault, whic... |
| Sep 5, 2013 | StartX receives $3.6M grant, forms fund to support Stanford entrepreneurs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Stanford’s StartX program received a $3.6 million... |
| Sep 5, 2013 | Funding Daily: America's Cup | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
America’s Cup is coming up this weekend. The fina... |
| Sep 5, 2013 | StartX receives $3.6M grant, forms fund to support Stanford entrepreneurs | Stanford’s StartX program received a $3.6 million grant and announced the formation of the StartX Fund, which will support Stanford entrepreneurs as they develop ideas and bring products to market.
StartX is a nonprofit startup accelerator ... |
| Sep 4, 2013 | Stanford University Is Going To Invest In Student Startups Like A VC Firm | Stanford University is going to start directly investing in students’ companies. Stanford is also giving a $3.6 million grant to StartX, a non-profit startup accelerator for Stanford-affiliated entrepreneurs.
StartX founder and CEO Cameron ... |
| Aug 23, 2013 | Instagram’s First Acquisition Is Video Sharing App Luma | Instagram has just made its first acquisition, buying both the team and technology of Y Combinator company Luma (formerly known as Midnox). Luma created a video-capture, stabilization and sharing app, which will be shut down soon. In fact, ... |
| Jul 24, 2013 | Physicians and hospitals are warming up to symptom checkers as communication tool | “Now more health-care providers are turning the tables, steering patients to new and improved computerized symptom-checkers that make it easier for them to get reliable information about possible diagnoses, research their condition and even... |
| May 30, 2013 | StartX, The Stanford-Affiliated Startup Accelerator, Kicks Off Spring 2013 Demo Day With 10 Company Debuts | StartX, the startup accelerator for companies founded by Stanford students, is just about to kick off Demo Day for its Summer 2013 startup class in Palo Alto this evening.
The non-profit StartX program, which was launched in 2010 as SSE Lab... |
| May 14, 2013 | MindSumo works to improve the job hunt process | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Cover letters and résumés could soon be things of... |
| May 14, 2013 | MindSumo works to improve the job hunt process | Cover letters and résumés could soon be things of the past thanks to one Mountain View, Calif. ed-tech startup.
MindSumo, founded by Keaton Swett, Trent Hazy, and Rohan Puranik, hosts what they call MindSumo Challenges. These contests test ... |
| Apr 28, 2013 | Beyond The Box Launches A TweetDeck For Sports To Bring Realtime News And Analysis To Your iPad | Like many avid sports fans, Shailo Rao, Sagar Savant and Vam Makam are well-familiar with how frustrating it can be to find quality, relevant sports content — especially on Twitter and other social media. Rao tells me over coffee that, as a... |
| Apr 25, 2013 | Shake up your routine with SpotOn.it, events tailored just for you | SpotOn.it is making it easier for people to find and plan things to do by filling up empty calendar slots with activities and events based on preference selections from your calendar.
The site enables you to connect your Google calendar to ... |
| Mar 24, 2013 | Apple Acquires Indoor GPS Startup WiFiSlam For $20M | The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Apple has acquired WiFiSlam, an indoor GPS startup that enables a smartphone to pinpoint its location — along with that of your friends — in realtime up to 2.5 meters in accuracy.
Apple paid $... |
| Feb 14, 2013 | After 25 Titles & 5M+ Installs, Game Closure Goes Public, Open Source With Its HTML5 Game Development Kit | Over the last year, it seems that we kept hearing that quality, legit HTML5 gaming was right around the corner. Well, here we are two months into 2013, and the market is still yet to see a single, widely adopted (or even slightly adopted) f... |
| Feb 8, 2013 | Here's The Coolest New Startup From The Kids At Stanford | Stanford's student startup accelerator StartX just hosted its eighth demo day.
It's worth paying attention to StartX because of the success of Google, Instagram, and Snapchat – all companies that were all founded by Stanford graduates.
Out ... |
| Feb 8, 2013 | Here's The Coolest New Startup From The Kids At Stanford | Stanford's student startup accelerator StartX just hosted its eighth demo day.
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It's worth paying attention to StartX because of the success of Google, Instagram, and Snapchat – all companies that were all founded by Stanford g... |
| Feb 7, 2013 | Stanford Student Startup Accelerator StartX Raises Another $400,000, Bringing Total Funding To About $1.5 Million | StartX, which is a startup accelerator for Stanford students, has raised another round of funding, adding $400,000 to its coffers since last December.
That money comes from new investors that include Cisco, Founders Fund, AT&T, Groupon,... |
| Feb 7, 2013 | Meet The Next 10 Companies To Come Out Of StartX, Stanford’s Student Startup Accelerator | Stanford’s student startup accelerator, StartX, had its eighth demo day tonight in Palo Alto, showing off the latest class of 11 companies* to go through the program. The accelerator, which just raised another $400,000, has already had abou... |
| Jan 18, 2013 | Student accelerator pulls Aussie startups out from Down Under | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Australia has thriving environment for surfing, t... |
| Dec 31, 2012 | Silicon Valley VCs predict 2013 trends: Space, robots, self-driving cars | As the year draws to an end, Silicon Valley investors are looking for the next wave of technology after social networking.
VentureBeat spoke to a slew of the top players at well-known West Coast institutions — the founding team at Stanford ... |
| Dec 14, 2012 | Tech Cocktail Week Lightning Talks Recap: Day 2 | Friday was our second day of inspiring lightning talks at Tech Cocktail Week, following a lineup of 10-minute talks Thursday from the likes of Aziz Gilani, Cathy Brooks, and Michael Tchong. The talks kicked off with Andy White, a partner at... |
| Dec 6, 2012 | Knotch Launches On iOS To Give Opinion Sharing More Color | Startup founders are apparently still holding out hope for the social recommendations space, and today, yet another app has launched with its own take on mobile opinion sharing. After three months in private beta, Knotch has officially open... |
| Nov 15, 2012 | Hey, enterprise startups! Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will hear your elevator pitch | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Steve Ballmer is no diva, but he kept 100 senior ... |
| Sep 6, 2012 | StartX, The Startup Accelerator For Stanford Students, Kicks Off Its Summer 2012 Demo Day | StartX, the startup accelerator for companies founded by Stanford students, just kicked off Demo Day for its Summer 2012 startup class at AOL’s Silicon Valley headquarters in Palo Alto this evening. The non-profit program, which recently la... |
| Sep 6, 2012 | TechCrunch’s Picks: The Top 5 Companies From StartX’s Summer 2012 Demo Day | 18 companies presented at the StartX summer demo day today. The summer 2012 class is StartX’s seventh and largest class; the accelerator, started in 2010, has graduated more than 90 companies in its history, about 85 percent of which have r... |
| Sep 6, 2012 | From zero to hero: Game Closure CEO makes rare public appearance at StartX | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Tonight, Game Closure‘s 27-year-old chief executive took the stage at StartX’s demo day to inspire fellow entrepreneurs with the compan... |
| Aug 29, 2012 | StartX Receives $800K Grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation | StartX, a Stanford student startup accelerator, recently received an $800k grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
The company intends to use the funds to expand and scale its program nationally.
Formerly known as SSE Labs, StartX ... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | Stanford’s nonprofit accelerator StartX nabs $800K funding grant | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
StartX functions a little bit differently than ot... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | StartX, The Accelerator For Stanford Students, Wins $800K Grant From The Kauffman Foundation | StartX, the startup accelerator for Stanford students, has raised its first big piece of funding — an $800,000 grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Under the name SSE Labs, StartX first launched in 2010. Since then, 240 founders... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | Stanford’s nonprofit accelerator StartX nabs $800K funding grant | StartX functions a little bit differently than other accelerator programs in Silicon Valley.
A Stanford affiliated nonprofit, the accelerator provides student entrepreneurs with housing, office space, cash stipends, advice, and mentorship —... |
| Aug 18, 2012 | Three female engineers build toys to inspire young girls to love science | When Alice Brooks was a little girl, she asked her father for a Barbie doll. He gave her a saw, which she used to hack a dollhouse.
Alice, now 24, excelled at school and went on to study mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of ... |
| Aug 18, 2012 | Three female engineers build toys to inspire young girls to love science | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When Alice Brooks was a little girl, she asked he... |
| Aug 14, 2012 | 21-year-old biotech leader: How I waged a tech transfer debate & won nondilutive funding | It’s been a great experience for the 21-year-old entrepreneur, who’s on leave from school for now. “We’ve been learning from (other companies’) mistakes and seeing how their decisions play out,” she said. “It almost feels like I’m CEO of 11... |
| Jul 5, 2012 | Watchup aims to be the only iPad news video app you’ll ever need | Tablets are a dream come true for news junkies, but with a tidal wave of content spread across countless apps and sites, it’s tough to just sit back and stay informed.
Watchup, a new startup competing at our MobileBeat 2012 Innovation Compe... |
| Jul 5, 2012 | Watchup aims to be the only iPad news video app you’ll ever need | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Tablets are a dream come true for news junkies, but with a tidal wave of content spread across countless apps and sites, it’s tough to ... |
| Jun 6, 2012 | iPads in the OR: New mobile platform to monitor blood loss during surgery | Other methods for measuring blood loss — like a catheter that’s inserted into the heart to transmit information to a monitor — are invasive and still inaccurate. There’s been some research and innovation in this field in recent years, but m... |
| Jun 2, 2012 | Inside StartX Stanford’s Spring 2012 Demo Day [TCTV] | StartX, the startup accelerator for Stanford University students, held its Spring 2012 Demo Day this past week at AOL headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Seven very diverse startups presented to a room of investors, media, and tech indus... |
| May 29, 2012 | Game Closure Poaches Zynga’s CTO Of Mobile To Lead HTML5 Game Development | Last we heard from Game Closure, the young startup had just turned down offers from Zynga and Facebook on its way to a $12 million raise from Highland Capital, Greylock, Benchmark, General Catalyst, and more. Even in spite of $100 million-p... |
| May 28, 2012 | 25 things investors say when rejecting your startup | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
After speaking with a number of fellow “hustlers”... |
| Mar 3, 2012 | I’m A Startup — Why Am I Being Inundated With Cloud Providers? | Editor’s note: Robert Scoble is Rackspace’s Startup Liaison and a blogger. Follow him on Twitter @scobleizer.
Over the past few weeks, when I’ve visited several startup incubators from Stanford’s Start X, to Los Angeles’ Start Engine, to th... |
| Feb 24, 2012 | Game Closure Turns Down Facebook & Zynga To Raise $12M For HTML5 Mobile Gaming | Gaming is changing fast these days, especially in the browser. Sure, social games are great and everything, but there’s always been a sense that, as browser-based technologies mature, the opportunities that present themselves will make casu... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | Game Closure raises $12M for HTML5 cross-platform games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Game Closure has raised $12 million in a first round of funding for its HTML5-based cross-platform multiplayer game business, which aim... |
| Feb 22, 2012 | First Floor Labs Sold A Company To Facebook, Graduated Three YC Startups, And Is Accepting Applications | Last Friday I visited the Aol* building on Page Mill Road in Palo Alto. But instead of the stench of death and decay you would normally find at a dying company, I found joy and the hustle and bustle of youth. More importantly, I found start... |
| Feb 10, 2012 | From Big Data to telemedicine, Stanford startups tackle health tech | AgeTak Inc. has developed an IT platform to privacy protect Big Data for healthcare so that providers and payers can gain valuable insights on the cost and outcomes of care in a timely manner. It’s middleware technology that pulls in data s... |
| Feb 10, 2012 | Stanford StartX Graduates Tackle Cell Therapy, Mental Health, Batteries | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Nine startups graduating from the Fall 2011 session of StartX, the startup accelerator for Stanford students and affiliates, shared their wares with investors and journalists ... |
| Feb 10, 2012 | StartX Demo Day: A Direct Link Between Silicon Valley And Top Stanford Student Entrepreneurs | On the surface, the StartX Demo Day last night could have looked like any other accelerator pushing its latest class of startups. Nine groups got on stage and fired off presentations about how they were working on something cool, and why th... |
| Jan 28, 2012 | FounderSoup: Stanford and Andreessen’s New Startup Generator | A single entrepreneur alone is vulnerable to shortsightedness, to fatigue. But with a team comes diverse perspective, encouragement, and the wherewithal to push through problems. That’s why a group of Stanford computer science and business ... |
| Advancing smart glasses as augmented reality tool for surgeons drives Vital Medicals’ capital raise | Health IT company VitalMedicals has developed a way to use smart glasses to save surgeons time in the operating room has raised roughly $1 million to grow its technical team and expand its technical implementations beyond its first two pilo... |
| Physicians and hospitals are warming up to symptom checkers as communication tool | The fact that 72 percent of people use the Internet for health-related queries has spurred the popularity of symptom checkers. Physicians have traditionally taken a skeptical view of patients using the Internet to figure out what they have,... |
| iPads in the OR: New mobile platform to monitor blood loss during surgery | A dynamic health technology startup is using the iPad as the base of a new method to help anesthesiologists monitor blood loss during surgery in real time, hoping to facilitate better intraoperative fluid management and more appropriate blo... |
| Stanford startup adds twist to electronic stethoscope with digital adapter | Eko Devices, a member of Stanford’s accelerator StartX, is moving ahead with a digital accessory for analog stethoscopes to transform them into electronic stethoscopes. The idea is to create a clinical decision support tool with a digital c... |
| StartX accelerator launching new Stanford-area lab with QB3 | Stanford-backed accelerator StartX has partnered with QB3 to open a new life sciences laboratory called, aptly, “StartX-QB3 Labs.” It’s the first research space that’s both close to Stanford and is focused on that bench-to-bedside approach ... |
| Mobile health news: MedWhat raises seed capital for app to process detailed medical questions | If you had heart surgery and were being discharged, what questions would you be most likely to ask? How would an app distinguish between questions that require an urgent response and others that are simply routine questions that are part of... |
| 21-year-old biotech leader: How I waged a tech transfer debate & won nondilutive funding | Last summer, when regenerative medicine company Stem Cell Theranostics went through the StartX accelerator program at Stanford University along with one other biotech company, the team members realized that many aspects of their experiences... |
| From Big Data to telemedicine, Stanford startups tackle health tech | Four new health technology companies covering areas from Big Data to telemedicine to therapeutics made their pitches to investors and media at the StartX demo day on Thursday.
StartX is Stanford University’s nonprofit student startup accele... |
| Merck and J&J back StartX; “clinical-trial-in-a-dish” biotech wows at Demo Day | Two Big Pharma companies, Merck (NYSE:MRK) and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), are the latest partners to sign on to support healthcare startups that come out of Stanford University.
StartX, the accelerator that spun out of Stanford in 20... |
