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| Nov 18, 2024 | INITIATE Ventures Closes $45 Million to Fund and Co-create Companies at the Intersection of Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Tech | Led by serial founders, INITIATE partners with exceptional leaders to build bold companies that solve vital healthcare challenges
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, INITIATE Ventures announced the close of $45 million... |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Pulse Seismic Inc. Announces Completion of the $17.0 Million Seismic Data Licensing Contract | Pulse Seismic Inc. reported the completion of the $17.0 million seismic data licensing contract that was signed and previously announced in May 2021. The licence was for 3D seismic data located in a liquids rich fairway in the west shale ba... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Pond Technologies Holdings Inc. Announces Supply and Licensing Agreement with Livalta Valued at over $5 Million | Pond Technologies Holdings Inc. announced it has been engaged by Livalta, an AB Agri company, a subsidiary of Associated British Foods for the joint commercialization of algae-based animal feed ingredients. In an agreement dated September 7... |
| Nov 6, 2018 | Where are VCs investing across precision health? | @inventhealth - GE Ventures, Data Collective, Kaiser Ventures, OSF Healthcare Ventures, Mayfield
At our September 2018 event, SplashX Invent Health: Precision Health, Archana Dubey (Global Medical Director, HP Health Centers, HP) and Bambi ... |
| Oct 5, 2018 | SplashX Precision Health: who are you targeting as the end customer? | Who's the best target customer? Pharma, self-insured employers, payers, consumers, hospitals...
At SplashX Invent Health - Precision Health, the Salon co-hosted and co-produced by Vator and HP last week, there were discussions over how this... |
| Oct 23, 2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, October 23 | BUBBLE-MAKER
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| Oct 11, 2017 | How Upskill is helping industry use augmented reality | Remember Google Glass? It’s back!
While the smart glasses never found footing in the consumer space, it appears heavy industry and enterprise customers have found uses for the technology.
Think of businesses using smart glasses so they can ... |
| Sep 6, 2017 | Aras Announces $40 Million Investment Led by Silver Lake | Aras®, the next leader in enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, today announced a $40 million investment round led by Silver Lake Kraftwerk, a fund of Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing, with participat... |
| Jul 10, 2017 | GE Ventures Joins $34M Series B for Advanced Microgrid | Advanced Microgrid Solutions announced it has raised over $34 million in a Series B funding round amid projections by utility executives that distributed energy resources (DERs) will create the biggest stress on the grid in the coming decad... |
| Jul 10, 2017 | Advanced Microgrid Solutions Raises $34 Million in Series B | Advanced Microgrid Solutions announced it has raised over $34 million in a Series B funding round amid projections by utility executives that distributed energy resources (DERs) will create the biggest stress on the grid in the coming decad... |
| Jul 5, 2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, July 5 | Welcome back from the holiday weekend. Like many of you, my days off were peppered with a slew of push notifications about the sexual harassment reckoning happening in Startup-land. I felt disgusted by every new accusation. But I also felt ... |
| Jun 20, 2017 | GE and the Mayo Clinic back software to bring cancer-fighting gene therapies to market | Behind the incredible process of developing targeted gene therapies to fight diseases like cancer lies an incredibly mundane problem that prevents these treatments from getting to patients — paperwork and procedures.
While $5.7 billion was ... |
| May 18, 2017 | After Saving GE Millions, Tamr Gets GE Ventures Investment | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
General Electric’s venture capital arm has invested an undisclosed amount in Tamr, the “data unification” software firm based in Cambridge, MA.
Boston-based GE (NYSE: GE) tapp... |
| Apr 18, 2017 | Video: Catalia Health at Vator Splash Health 2017 | Check out Cory Kidds' winning presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
At Vator Splash Health 2017, here's the video of Cory Kidd,Founder, Catalia Health, LLC, giving his presentation.
Catalia Health charge on a per patient per month ... |
| Apr 14, 2017 | Video:Multisensor Diagnostics - Vator Splash Health 2017 | Check out Sathya Elumalais' winning presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
At Vator Splash Health 2017, here's the video of Sathya Elumalai,Founder, Multisensor Diagnostics (MDx), LLC, giving his presentation.
Multisensor Diagnostic... |
| Apr 13, 2017 | Video: Invivox - Vator Splash Health 2017 | Check out Julian Delpechs' winning presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
At Vator Splash Health 2017, here's the video of Julian Delpech,Founder, Invivox giving his presentation.
Invivox takes a commission (10 to 25% based on the n... |
| Apr 12, 2017 | Video: Amicomed - Vator Splash Health 2017 | Check out Giangiacomo Rocco di Torrepadulas' winning presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
At Vator Splash Health 2017, here's the video of Giangiacomo Rocco di Torrepadula,Founder, Amicomed giving his presentation.
Amicomed addres... |
| Apr 11, 2017 | Blumio - Vator Splash Health 2017 Runner-Up | Check out Catherine Liaos' winning presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Blumio took home the silver at Vator Splash Health 2017. Here's the video of Catherine Liao, Blumio, Founder and CEO, giving her presentation.
Blumio has deve... |
| Apr 10, 2017 | Iris Plans - Vator Splash Health 2017 Winner | Check out Steve Wardles' winning presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Health 2017 cohort Iris Plans, took home the gold. Here's the video of Steve Wardle, Iris Plans, Founder and CEO, giving the winning presentation.
... |
| Mar 29, 2017 | Freight marketplace Freightos secures $25 million in funding from GE Ventures | Freightos, a company specialising in freight logistics technology, has raised $25 million in a Series B round from lead investor GE Ventures.
The Israeli company’s funding round also included Aleph VC, Annox Capital, Gold Lion Holdings, ICV... |
| Mar 23, 2017 | Presenting the finalists for Vator Splash Health! | 8 startups will be pitching their ideas to some of the top healthtech VCs!
Vator Splash Health is finally here! And in just a few hours, we'll find out who the winner of our competition is!
The winning company, and the runner up, gets about... |
| Mar 23, 2017 | The winner of Vator Splash Health is... Iris Plans! | Congratulations to our runner up: Blumio!
The ballots are in! They have all been counted and recounted, and we have a winner for this year's Vator Splash Health, Wellness & Wearables 2017.
Hubert Zajicek of Health Wildcatters, and one o... |
| Mar 22, 2017 | New York Shipping Exchange Raises $8.5M in Series A Funding | The New York Shipping Exchange (NYSHEX), a provider of a digital forward freight contract for global container shipping, raised $8.5M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Goldman Sachs Principle Strategic Investments and GE Ventures, w... |
| Mar 21, 2017 | Goldman Sachs and GE Ventures Lead Series A Round for NYSHEX | The New York Shipping Exchange (NYSHEX), the innovator of the first digital forward freight contract for global container shipping, today announces $8.5 million in Series A funding led by Goldman Sachs Principle Strategic Investments and GE... |
| Feb 21, 2017 | Northwell Health, GE Ventures Announce Strategic Alliance | Northwell Health's Feinstein Institute for Medical Research today announced a strategic alliance with GE Ventures to support the Feinstein's Center for Bioelectronic Medicine (CBEM). With this investment, the Feinstein Institute will contin... |
| Feb 14, 2017 | The opportunities and challenges of AI in health care | 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 we asked dozens of venture capitalists where... |
| Feb 1, 2017 | How real investors separate AI hype from reality | 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!
Artificial intelligence has captured public imagi... |
| Jan 24, 2017 | How women are fighting to be part of the new world order in healthcare, life sciences and beyond | —Alice Paul
It has been, not just for me but for many, national women’s month. Maybe it’s not officially proclaimed as such, but it has just worked out that way.
It started for me the second week of January at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Con... |
| Jan 3, 2017 | Why GE Ventures is betting on analytics in healthcare | In other words, the fundamental challenge facing healthcare providers —improving quality while cutting costs — remains. Compounding this challenge are numerous competitive and regulatory factors, many of which are constantly evolving. In ad... |
| Dec 13, 2016 | HMD announces $26 Nokia 150 phone, the first after inking 10-year licensing deal | HMD Global, the business vehicle set up for the express purpose of bringing Nokia-branded mobile devices to market, has announced the first phone to emerge from the 10-year licensing arrangement announced earlier this month.
The Nokia 150, ... |
| Dec 2, 2016 | A Q&A with Lisa Suennen on her new role as a managing director with GE Ventures | Lisa Suennen, GE Ventures managing director
This week marked Lisa Suennen’s return to the venture capital grind as a managing director with corporate venture investment firm GE Ventures. Before she started her business consultancy, Venture ... |
| Nov 29, 2016 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, November 29 | Today in Fallen Unicorns
Two shareholders have filed a class action lawsuit against Theranos, accusing the company of fraud and negligence. I believe it’s not terribly common to see private companies involved in class action shareholder law... |
| Oct 5, 2016 | Clearpath Robotics raises $30 million to become a Tesla for the factory floor | Ontario tech firm Clearpath Robotics has raised $30 million in a Series B round of venture funding to scale up production of its self-driving vehicles.
They’re not exactly Teslas or Google self-driving cars. Intsead, Clearpath makes vehicle... |
| Sep 15, 2016 | Sarcos Robotics Secures Investment from Caterpillar, GE and Microsoft | Sarcos Robotics, a global leader in the development of dexterous industrial robots for use in unstructured environments, announced it has secured funding from a group of top-tier strategic investors including Caterpillar Ventures, GE Ventur... |
| Sep 8, 2016 | Chrono Therapeutics raises $47.6M for smoking cessation wearable to deliver nicotine fix before you wake | The wearable also has a “crave” button users can press that records the moment they want a cigarette and triggers an immediate coaching message through the app to help the user get through the moment without smoking.
There is also a behavio... |
| Aug 17, 2016 | EventBoard raises $13.5 million to make managing office meeting rooms less terrible | EventBoard, a startup that offers cloud-based meeting tools and analytics, announced today that it has scored a $13.5 million series B investment.
The round, which was led by Nokia Growth Partners and followed by GE Ventures, will “fuel sup... |
| Aug 17, 2016 | EventBoard raises $13.5 million to make managing office meeting rooms less terrible | 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!
EventBoard, a startup that offers cloud-based mee... |
| Aug 5, 2016 | Meet Risa Stack, General Manager at GE Ventures | While GE Ventures does invest in external companies, Risa leads the New Business Creation team
There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or not. What everyone can agree on, though, is that ... |
| Jul 29, 2016 | Former Lumiata COO leads pharma-backed investment firm targeting digital health startups | Would you liken your firm to SR One but focused on digital health?
Unlike SR One, we are not a corporate arm of a pharma company but an independent financing company that has been funded by pharma and MPM Capital. Moreover, we will not be a... |
| Jul 27, 2016 | GE Ventures Leads $12M Series A for FogHorn Systems | FogHorn Systems, a leading developer of "edge intelligence" software for industrial and commercial Internet of Things (IoT) applications, announced today that it has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by March Capital and ... |
| Jun 27, 2016 | Resin.io Raises $9 Million from GE Ventures | Resin.io, provider of a modern DevOps management platform for connected devices, today announced that it has secured $9 million in funding from DFJ, GE Ventures,Ericsson, and Aspect Ventures. Resin.io was founded in 2013 with a mission to u... |
| May 19, 2016 | StartUp Health Adds 3 Digital Health Startups to its Portfolio | StartUp Health, a global entrepreneurship development company for Healthcare Transformers, and GE Ventures, announced the addition of three digital health startups to its StartUp Health Academy’s GE Program. As part of the partnership, both... |
| May 18, 2016 | StartUp Health Academy adds medical documentation, community care coordination to health tech investments | Jiseki Health Led by Tushar Vasisht, this company provides a technology platform to help hospitals work with community resource providers to coordinate care beyond hospital settings. It’s intended to help community health care coordinators ... |
| May 18, 2016 | StartUp Health & GE Ventures Launch Call for Companies Transitioning to Value-Based Care | StartUp Health, a global organization dedicated to innovate the health industry, and vc firm GE Ventures, announced a new call to discover and support companies focusing on the transition to value based care.
StartUp Health and GE Ventures ... |
| Apr 8, 2016 | Crediyo - Vator Splash Health Class of 2016 | Check out Leonard Hinton's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Health 2016 cohort Crediyo, Crediyo leverages big data and analytics to lower consumer out of pocket medical expenses. We work directly with patients to ... |
| Apr 7, 2016 | Vator Splash LA 2016 Honorable Mention - Bloom Technologies | Check out Eric Dy's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Health 2016 cohort Bloom Technologies, won the Honorable Mention. Here's the video of Eric Dy, Bloom Technologies Founder and CEO, giving the winning presentati... |
| Apr 5, 2016 | Daily funding roundup - April 5, 2016 | Human Longevity bagged $220M Series B; Persado closed $30M; Sequoia Capital invested in Mintigo
London-based on-demand delivery company Jinn closed a $7.5 million Series A round of funding, according to TechCrunch, led by Samaipata Ventures... |
| Jan 25, 2016 | mPrest Raises $20M in Series A Funding | mPrest, a Menlo Park, CA and Petach Tikwa, Israel-based global provider of mission-critical monitoring and control software for the Internet of Things (IoT), raised $20m in Series A funding.
The round was led by GE Ventures, and OurCrowd.
T... |
| Jan 25, 2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 25, 2016 | CARSgen Therapeutics completed $30M funding; mPrest raised $20M; Wingz closed $11M Series B funding
DMWay Analytics, a Jerusalem, Israel-based startup specializing in expert systems for creating predictive analytics models, raised $1 millio... |
| Jan 19, 2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 19, 2016 | Big Switch Networks raised $48.5M, Omni-ID secured $21M; CapLinked landed $3.5M funding
CapLinked, a company offering enterprise clients the ability to share documents securely is announcing it has raised a $3.5 million financing round. The... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 6, 2016 | Flatiron Health bagged $175M; NextCure, Inc. raised $67M; AirCloset received $8M funding
Ossia, a Bellevue, WA-based maker of a wireless power technology, received a strategic investment from Molex, LLC, a global manufacturer of electronic ... |
| Dec 26, 2015 | These digital health deals in 2015 illustrate how the patient experience is evolving | ZocDoc raised one of the largest funding rounds this year at $130 million. The move is to support an expansion beyond its flagship appointment booking services and will focus on improving the patient experience. Making appointment booking e... |
| Dec 24, 2015 | Brand licensing startup Black White Orange raises $303K | Mumbai-based brand merchandise startup Black White Orange Brands Pvt Ltd has raised Rs 2 crore ($303,000) in a fresh round of funding from Collaborative Licensing Ventures LLP.
The Economic Times reported the development citing the startup'... |
| Nov 18, 2015 | Internet of Things Software Maker APX Labs Raises $13M Led by NEA | APX Labs, a Herndon, Va.-based software developer of connected devices and wearables for industrial clients, has raised a $13 million venture round funded by New Enterprise Associate (NEA), GE Ventures, CNF Investments, Salesforce Ventures ... |
| Oct 10, 2015 | Scanadu CEO gets provocative: 5 must-read stories from MedCity News this week | The main reason consumers need doctors? Prescriptions, De Brouwer said.
But if doctors simply delegate prescription information to the advanced algorithms that are currently being developed, that’ll cut down on patient face time with rote a... |
| Oct 6, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 6, 2015 | Impossible Foods raised $108M; Code42 secured $85M; Canva bagged $21M
Mumbai-based Aasaanjobs Pvt. Ltd that owns and operates the online recruitment portal Aasaanjobs.com said on Wednesday that it has raised $1.5 million in funding from Inv... |
| Sep 16, 2015 | Omada Health raises $48M with plans to extend program to Medicaid patients | It more than doubled its staff numbers in the past year from 75 to 185, according to the blog entry.
Its prevention program is an intervention program for people deemed to be at risk for developing chronic conditions tied to obesity. It com... |
| Aug 26, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 26, 2015 | Fanatics secured $300M; Spoonflower announced $25M; Velostrata raised $14M
Velostrata provides on-demand hybrid cloud software that decouples compute from storage. What that does is enable enterprises to stream production workloads to and f... |
| Aug 3, 2015 | Don’t be so disruptive: Benefits of partnering with a corporation | Today’s tech media loves to romanticise the notion of the startup challenger disrupting big cashed-up corporat
es. Entire conferences like Disrupt explore, encourage and promote the disruption of incumbents.
Disruption at play
But romantic ... |
| Jul 21, 2015 | Report: Smart grid companies raise $289 million in first half of 2015 | Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global clean energy communications and consulting firm, released its report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the Smart Grid, Battery/Storage and Energy Efficiency sectors for the se... |
| Jul 20, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 20, 2015 | Fidelity Growth Partners secured $150M; Survata landed $6M; Vroom announced $54M
Vroom, an online pre-owned car retailer that seeks to tack the hassle out of the experience by increasing transparency, announced a $54 million Series B round ... |
| May 21, 2015 | Jiff raises $23.3M to support enterprise benefits program sales push | Two years ago, Jiff CEO Derek Newell said one of the goals of the new product is to make integrating employer and employee health programs cheaper and easier without employers having to build one themselves through a software-as-a-service p... |
| May 19, 2015 | eVolution Networks Raises $22.5M in Funding | eVolution Networks, a New York, NY-based provider of energy savings solutions for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), raised $22.5m in funding.
Backers included Berkshire Hathaway Energy subsidiary IES Holding and GE Ventures.
The company inte... |
| May 12, 2015 | Bit Stew Systems Raises $17.2M in Series B Funding | Bit Stew Systems, a Vancouver, CA-based provider of Software Defined Operations platform for the Industrial Internet, raised an additional $17.2m in Series B funding round.
The round was led by GE Ventures with participation from existing i... |
| Apr 27, 2015 | Neuronetics Completes $34M Series F Financing | Neuronetics, Inc., a Malvern, PA-based provider of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) technology, completed its $34m Series F financing.
Backers included GE Ventures, as well as its original investors.
The company intends to use the fu... |
| Apr 19, 2015 | Airware and Intel Fly Together, AIP Hits the Sky | Big day in the drone sphere as Airware, the most heavily venture backed drone company in Silicon Valley, made it known it had received an undisclosed investment from Intel Capital, Intel’s investment arm. The information came on the back of... |
| Apr 16, 2015 | Airware launches end-to-end hardware, software, and cloud platform for commercial drones | PETALUMA, California — Companies across a wide range of industries, from mining to oil and gas exploration to surveying and mapping, could have an easier time than ever integrating drones into their businesses thanks to a new end-to-end har... |
| Apr 16, 2015 | Airware launches end-to-end hardware, software, and cloud platform for commercial drones | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PETALUMA, California — Companies across a wide range of industries, from mining to oil and gas exploration to surveying and mapping, co... |
| Mar 5, 2015 | Stanford Health Care and GE Ventures form new company to validate and optimize digital health technology | To illustrate the growth of digital health tools, a Rock Health report released earlier this year said more than $4 billion in venture funding was invested in over 250 digital health companies in 2014 alone.
Evidation raised $6.2 million in... |
| Mar 4, 2015 | Venture perspectives on the venture climate: #CEDLSC15 | Venture funding’s contracting – so are investors making any innovative moves to keep life sciences companies flush with needed cash? This idea was addressed at this week’s panel discussion at the CED Life Sciences conference in Raleigh.
The... |
| Jan 7, 2015 | Apervita Completes $18M Series A Round of Funding | Apervita, Inc. (formerly known as Pervasive Health, Inc.), a Chicago, Illinois-based health analytics marketplace, completed an $18m Series A round of funding.
The round was led by GE Ventures and Baird Capital with participation from Pritz... |
| Jan 7, 2015 | Caremerge attracts $4M from new investors to add up to 20 new staff to expand care coordination for seniors | [Care coordination] to support seniors is an area that has always been neglected and that’s why we started this company three years ago. We also need to figure out ways to help seniors stay at home for as long as they can. We haven’t figure... |
| Jan 6, 2015 | Caremerge Aims To Help Coordinate Elder Care Communications | As the U.S. population ages, more technology is coming online to help manage care for the elderly, a group long neglected by the tech sector.
Among the many apps that are dealing with aging and healthcare is Caremerge, which aims to provide... |
| Dec 12, 2014 | Helping hospitals take on risk pays off big time for HIT consulting company | Even better, revenues from the first half of 2014 were up 51% compared to the same period last year. The company has been hiring, too, adding more than 150 employees this year, and planning a move to a new national headquarters.
That’s a lo... |
| Nov 7, 2014 | The Path To Successful Digital Transformation Starts With Pockets Of Innovation | I’ve been hearing about “Digital Transformation” for a couple of years now, and as I’ve wandered the halls of Web Summit this week in Dublin, I’ve heard lots of talk about how companies must transform and change the way they approach develo... |
| Oct 2, 2014 | MedAware Completes $1M Series A Financing | MedAware, a Ra’Anana, Israel-based developer of big data analytics for the medical prescription market, completed a $1m Series A financing.
The round was led by equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd and GE Ventures.
The company intends to u... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | Facebook Hosts First Hackathon For Female Veterans | There are dozens of hackathons in Silicon Valley every month, but on Monday Facebook hosted one with a twist. Rather than the college-aged brogrammers that usually dominate the coding marathons, female veterans were the only participants at... |
| Jun 12, 2014 | Chrono raises $32M to develop its 'stop smoking' bracelet | Chrono Therapeutics‘ wearable, called SmartStop, injects a tiny bit of nicotine into the wearer’s bloodstream at timed intervals.
In this way it’s similar to the patch, but SmartStop gives the wearer some control over when that happens. Tim... |
| May 27, 2014 | Aver Informatics Raises $8.5 Million to Simplify the Healthcare Reimbursement Process | Aver Informatics – a data management platform that simplifies the healthcare reimbursement process – announced today that it has received $8.5 million in Series A funding led by Drive Capital and GE Ventures. Additionally, Aver has secured ... |
| May 27, 2014 | Aver Informatics raises $8.5M to cure ailing health care billing system | The science of getting paid is on the minds of a lot of health care providers, entrepreneurs, and investors these days. And a wave of new health-data startups have arrived to help the cause.
One of them is Aver Informatics, which has develo... |
| May 27, 2014 | WI-based Aver Informatics Gets $8.5M From GE Ventures, Drive Capital | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s easy to leave out Green Bay in conversations about Wisconsin’s tech startup scene, but Packer country grabbed the spotlight today with healthtech startup Aver Informatics... |
| May 5, 2014 | Cirro Receives Strategic Investment from GE Ventures | Cirro, an Aliso Viejo, CA-based company that enables on-demand analysis across all disparate data sources, received a strategic investment from GE Ventures.
The transaction, whose amount was not disclosed, was part of Cirro’s Series A fundi... |
| Mar 28, 2014 | How GE and Local Motors Will Innovate Manufacturing [Video] | Last night, Tech Cocktail held a DC Sessions event at the GE Garage in downtown Washington, where we got to sit down for a fireside chat with Local Motors‘ Chief Strategy Officer, Justin Fishkin, and GE's Executive Director for Global Innov... |
| Nov 4, 2013 | OurCrowd Closes Partnership with GE Ventures | OurCrowd, the Israeli equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, has closed a strategic co-investment partnership with GE Ventures, the corporate venture capital unit of GE.
Under the agreement, GE Ventures will have the right t... |
| Jan 21, 2013 | Pharma licensing deal yields virtual startup that’s optimizing peptide drugs, raising $9.5M | “The EuMederis model of rapid peptide optimization has quickly provided us with an attractive peptide development candidate and its low-infrastructure organization is consistent with our plan for Velocity Pharmaceutical Development,” Veloci... |
| Omada Health raises $48M with plans to extend program to Medicaid patients | Omada Health, which developed an intervention program for obesity-related chronic conditions for employers and health plans, has raised a $48 million Series C round, according to a blog entry on its website. The funding will focus on more v... |
| StartUp Health Academy adds medical documentation, community care coordination to health tech investments | StartUp Health and GE Ventures have added three more healthcare startups to their portfolio and are on the hunt for seven more this year, according to a company statement. They’ve revealed a handful of picks spanning data analytics for card... |
| These digital health deals in 2015 illustrate how the patient experience is evolving | It was a banner year for digital health startups for the patient experience. An end-of-year roundup report from StartUp Health counted 111 deals in this digital health subsector. They collectively raised $1.3 billion and had an average size... |
| Why GE Ventures is betting on analytics in healthcare | The healthcare industry’s transition toward value-based care is forcing providers to adopt new and emerging business models in lieu of traditional fee-for-service payment. At their core, these business models have the principle of value-bas... |
| Venture perspectives on the venture climate: #CEDLSC15 | Venture funding’s contracting – so are investors making any innovative moves to keep life sciences companies flush with needed cash? This idea was addressed at this week’s panel discussion at the CED Life Sciences conference in Raleigh.
The... |
| Scanadu CEO gets provocative: 5 must-read stories from MedCity News this week | It’s healthcare conference season – so we spent this week’s MedHeads chatting about the forthcoming College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) meeting in Orlando. We likened ICD10 coding to the Y2K hype, as well as inte... |
| Stanford Health Care and GE Ventures form new company to validate and optimize digital health technology | The interest in adopting digital health tools such as clinical wearables and smartphone diagnostics has been hindered in some ways by the rapid growth in the number of these devices and relatively little clinical validation. GE Ventures and... |
| Chrono Therapeutics raises $47.6M for smoking cessation wearable to deliver nicotine fix before you wake | Smoking cessation is a big priority for self-insured employer programs and payers, particularly since most payers are inclined to reimburse for these programs because of the impact of smoking on health. The challenge, as Chrono Therapeutics... |
| Jiff raises $23.3M to support enterprise benefits program sales push | Investment firm Rosemark Smart Capital led a $23.3 million Series C round for enterprise benefits tech business Jiff, according to a company statement. The funding comes as the company is poised to launch its new employer wellness product J... |
| Helping hospitals take on risk pays off big time for HIT consulting company | You can’t call an 18-year-old company a startup, so Valence Health doesn’t fit into that category. However, news from the Chicago company this year has been as exciting and impressive as developments from any new HIT company working to chan... |
| Former Lumiata COO leads pharma-backed investment firm targeting digital health startups | The convergence between digital health and pharmaceutical companies has been an interesting trend to witness in the past few years. Increasingly, pharma companies want to move from being customers of digital health companies to having a rol... |
| A Q&A with Lisa Suennen on her new role as a managing director with GE Ventures | Lisa Suennen, GE Ventures managing director
This week marked Lisa Suennen’s return to the venture capital grind as a managing director with corporate venture investment firm GE Ventures. Before she started her business consultancy, Venture ... |
| Caremerge attracts $4M from new investors to add up to 20 new staff to expand care coordination for seniors | A care coordination company to improve communication between hospitals and senior care facilities and make the transitions between the two less problematic has raised $4 million from a set of institutional investors. In a phone interview wi... |
| How women are fighting to be part of the new world order in healthcare, life sciences and beyond | Protesters march on Pennsylvania Avenue during the Women’s March on Washington on January 21 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Paul Morigi, Getty Images)
“There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.”
—Alice Paul
It has been... |