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| 23.04.2024 | Smart Tools for Remote Work: Pioneering Efficiency | Share
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In the dynamic world of today’s work culture, many companies are happily hopping on the remote work bandwagon. And why not? It offers flexibility, comfort, and often a better work-life balance. But let’s not su... |
| 08.12.2023 | Ментальное Здоровье и ИИ: Как ChatGPT меняет Игру в Психологической Помощи" | Как может выглядеть будущее психологической помощи, ментального здоровья, благополучия с применением технологий искусственного интеллекта
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| 13.09.2021 | Ginger : Announces its On-Demand Mental Healthcare Offering in Spanish for all 25 Million People With Access to Ginger : | Ginger, the leader in on-demand mental healthcare, today announced Spanish language capabilities of Ginger’s entire on-demand mental health offering. Available to select Ginger clients in the fall, and all Ginger members by early 2022, Ging... |
| 31.08.2021 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; August 30 | Headspace's resilience brand and Ginger's clinical heft create mental health powerhouse
Bambi Francisco Roizen sits down with Russ Glass, CEO of newly-formed Headspace Health, the combination of Ginger, a provider of on-demand coaching, the... |
| 15.07.2021 | Ginger : Announces On-Demand Mental Healthcare Access for Adolescents to Address Escalating Teen Mental Health Crisis | Ginger, the leader in on-demand mental healthcare, today announced Ginger for Teens, an expansion of the company’s full continuum of mental healthcare for adolescents ages 13-17. Ginger’s employer clients will be able to offer the benefit t... |
| 24.03.2021 | Ginger Announces $100 Million Series E Financing from Blackstone to Bring Value-Based Mental Healthcare to Millions of Employees | - |
| 05.03.2021 | Video: Future of mental and behavioral health virtual conference 2020 | Innovation by BetterHelp, Crosscut Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Blue Shield of California
This was the main event of Future of Mental and Behavioral Health on May 27, 2020. The panelists across all three sessions included:
Where’s the beef (u... |
| 21.12.2020 | Winter Blues: Seven Tools To Foster Mental Wellness In The Workplace | As we’re dealing with a prolonged pandemic and work-from-home environment, it’s the right time to ... [+] examine what resources we have in place for more sustainable mental wellness.Unsplash |
| 24.11.2020 | Digital Health Platforms Are Addressing An Epidemic Lurking Beneath The Covid-19 Pandemic | Robin and Russ Glass aren’t the average married couple in which both just happen to work in healthcare. They’re both at the center of what is arguably the most vibrant and blossoming space in 2020 — the virtual care revolution. Robin is Pre... |
| 11.08.2020 | От медитаций до лекарств от депрессии: в 2020 году стартапы для ментального здоровья стали чаще привлекать инвестиции Статьи редакции... | Только во втором квартале 2020 года, во время пандемии и ограничительных мер, инвесторы поддержали 57 проектов.
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6 августа американский сервис для психотерапии Ginger получил инвестиции на $50 млн от частно... |
| 10.08.2020 | When Ginger was young: the early years | Ginger started by selling health data to providers, before pivoting to becoming a provider itself
Our when they were young series is a look back at the modest days of startups, what traction they had in their first few years, and how they e... |
| 10.08.2020 | StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups | Specifica has designed and created an exclusive antibody display library in collaboration with Scholar Rock. The collaborative library design will enable Scholar Rock to more easily and efficiently discover antibodies with characteristics c... |
| 07.08.2020 | Mental health service provider Ginger raises US$ 50M in Series D funding | Ginger has also declared that David ibnAle, the founding partner of Advance Venture Partners and Steve Kraus, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, have joined the company’s board of directors. |
| 07.08.2020 | Mental health coaching startup Ginger raises $50M | David ibnAle, a founding partner with Advance Venture Partners, and Steve Kraus, a partner with Bessemer Venture Partners, will both join Ginger’s board. To date, the company has raised $120 million.
The San Francisco-based startup connects... |
| 06.08.2020 | On-demand mental health service provider Ginger raises $50 million | Ginger, a provider of on-demand mental healthcare services, has raised $50 million in a new round of funding.
The new capital comes as interest and investment in mental health and wellness has emerged as the next big area of interest for in... |
| 06.08.2020 | Ginger.io Scoops Up $50M Series D Round |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Ginger, the leader in on-demand mental healthcare, today announced a $50 million Series D funding.
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| 06.08.2020 | Ginger Announces $50 Million in Series D Funding to Expand Access to the World’s First On-Demand Mental Healthcare System | - |
| 06.08.2020 | Virtual mental health care platform Ginger raises $50M | The company has seen an influx of activity since the start of the COVID pandemic
Even before COVID hit, there was a mental health crisis happening in America, with around 20 percent of the US population having a diagnosed mental health cond... |
| 06.08.2020 | Ginger Raises $50M in Series D Funding | Ginger, a San Francisco, CA-based on-demand mental healthcare company, raised $50m in Series D funding.
The round, which brought total funding to over $120m, was led by Advance Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners with participati... |
| 06.08.2020 | Healthtech startup Ginger lands $50M Series D funding to provide on-demand mental healthcare to millions around the world | 2020 is a year we will never forget. With millions of people unemployed, the coronvirus pandemic has brought about uneasy feelings that exacerbate mental illness and record-high demand for mental health support. According to a 2020 Workforc... |
| 02.06.2020 | COVID drives more men to seek mental health care | Healthcare entrepreneurs and investors discussed why men seem to be more affected than women
There's no doubt that the COVID-19 crisis has affected the mental health of the majority of people; how could it not? With social distancing, forci... |
| 17.03.2020 | Online mental health services spike up during pandemic | Social distancing causes stress, anxiety and people are turning online for help
[Editor's note: Future of Behavioral and Mental Health with BetterHelp, Headspace, Ginger.io, Providence Hospitals, UnitedHealthcare Optum, Khosla Ventures, Oak... |
| 12.03.2020 | In ordinary times, we suffer alone | The coronavirus pandemic liberates us into the present and forces us to embrace our humanity
[Editor's note: Future of Behavioral and Mental Health with BetterHelp, Headspace, Ginger.io, Providence Hospitals, UnitedHealthcare Optum, Khosla ... |
| 26.11.2019 | Mental health companies that have raised funding this year | Big companies like Quartet and Calm raised funding as did seed-stage companies like UpLift Health
For the past couple of years, Vator, along with HP and UCSF Health Hub, has been holding salons about different aspects of the healthcare spac... |
| 24.10.2019 | Daily funding roundup - October 24th, 2019 | Demodesk has raised $2.3M; Foundries.io landed $3.5M; Tines secured $4.1M
Demodesk: Demodesk is building an intelligent online meeting tool for inside sales and customer service teams. Demodesk has raised $2.3 million in seed funding round ... |
| 09.09.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Monday, September 9, 2019 | Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Monday, September 9, 2019.
Amazon set its eye on India with major million dollar investment. Facing steep competition from Walmart in India, Amazon just opened a new 9.5-... |
| 04.09.2019 | Daily funding roundup - September 4th, 2019 | RocketBody raised $1M; Litmus Automation picks up $7M; Light closed $8.4M; Railsbank landed $10M
RocketBody: RocketBody is an ECG-based personal fitness trainer for Apple Watch. The app provides high-quality control over body condition duri... |
| 04.09.2019 | Ginger, an MIT spin-out providing app-based mental health coaching to workers, raises $35M | Mental health issues are thought to impact one in every five people in the U.S., and the stress of working life can be an exacerbating factor. Now, one of the startups that’s using technology to build ways to support this population has rai... |
| 04.09.2019 | Ginger Raises $35M in Series C Funding | Ginger, a San Francisco, CA-based on-demand behavioral health solutions, raised $35m in Series C funding.
The round was led by WP Global Partners, with participation from City Light Capital, Nimble Ventures, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, as wel... |
| 29.05.2019 | Mental Health App Raises $50 Million for Expansion
Mental Health App Raises $50 Million for Expansion | (Bloomberg) -- A startup whose app connects people with mental health clinicians for counseling through text messages and video chats raised $50 million and forged ties with the biggest U.S. health insurer, a sign that the market for delive... |
| 24.01.2019 | The opportunity for learning & development at scale | Millennial employees are less drawn to the perks of their parents’ generation, like company-funded pensions, and more motivated by flexibility, autonomy, and access to the newest technology (cool offices help, too). One thing that has remai... |
| 09.04.2018 | The top 25 mental/behavioral health startups that have raised funding | They include Iora Health, Quartet Health, Headspace, AbleTo, Ginger.io and Joyable
Healthcare is such a massive space, one that takes up a sixth of the entire U.S. economy, that just one small piece of that pie can be extremely lucrative. T... |
| 09.04.2018 | Top 10 VCs investing in mental/behavioral health | They include Polaris Partners, .406 Ventures, Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures
Healthcare is such a massive space, one that takes up a sixth of the entire U.S. economy, that just one small piece of that pie can be extremely lucrative. Take ... |
| 13.12.2017 | Can tech save the mental, social, and spiritual health of the nation? | Presented by Providence Ventures
For anyone who has experienced a mental or behavioral health issue, either themselves or via a friend or family member, there is likely nothing more frustrating than trying to find help in our fragmented men... |
| 22.11.2017 | Ginger.io transforms from mental health management tech for hospitals to healthcare provider | “We believe that the human-to-human experience is essential for emotional and mental health support. By integrating meaningful data and machine learning into the process, we built the first modern, nationwide behavioral health system that i... |
| 14.11.2017 | Pacifica launches a new online therapy service that integrates with its self-help app | When admitting you are struggling with anxiety or depression is hard enough, asking for help can seem insurmountable. Pacifica’s self-help app was created to make cognitive behavioral therapy exercises accessible to more people. Now the sta... |
| 15.05.2017 | Sunrise gives mental health patients AI-guarded group chat | Between therapy sessions, mental health patients can feel alone. Group chat can help, but people are shy if they have to use their real name, or exposed to trolling if allowed to remain anonymous. And if there’s a need for urgent, professio... |
| 15.08.2016 | Happiness assessment app developer raises $5M for new b2b division in a familiar path | The new unit will work with these commercial partners to improve access to affordable and readily available emotional health and well-being solutions, according to the news release. Ambitions for the new unit include addressing resilience, ... |
| 12.07.2016 | Star Wars and the future of healthcare | Dr. Darren Schulte Contributor
Dr. Darren Schulte is the CEO of Apixio.
In his iconic Star Wars series, George Lucas envisioned a world in a galaxy far, far away, where, among other things, doctors were droids and bots.
In this world, a dro... |
| 01.06.2016 | Romulus Capital closes $75 million fund to back early-stage tech startups | Romulus Capital has raised its third—and largest—fund to back early-stage startups, many sourced in labs at MIT, the alma mater of the firm’s founding General Partner, Krishna K. Gupta.
The firm closed its newest fund, Romulus Capital III L... |
| 12.03.2016 | How to train your human, part II: Products that make habits last | In the first part of this series, we learned about designing products that use good triggers and motivators to get users like Joe to engage in healthy behaviors. Now, how can we ensure that these new behaviors become long-term habits?
In th... |
| 18.09.2015 | Google’s NIH steal Tom Insel on the ‘major paradigm shift’ of digitizing mental health care | “We need a major paradigm shift in mental health,” Insel said. “If we want to see an impact on morbidity and mortality for mental health, we have to do it in a different way. And that could be through digital technology.”
Here is the interv... |
| 14.09.2015 | Here are the next big steps for Israel-U.S. digital health collaboration | A key part of the new group’s plan will involve clinical validation for the digital health tools to get beyond the hype and ensure the early stage companies not only have innovative products but also add value.
“The companies that build the... |
| 17.06.2015 | Ground-Breaking Report from Accenture Interactive Finds Internet of Things Driving New Era of “Living Services” | India
Organizations will soon be creating a new wave of transformative digital services driven by the convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and shifting consumer expectations, finds a new report from Accenture (NYSE: ACN). The report,... |
| 17.01.2015 | The biggest healthtech deals of 2014 | Categories include telemedicine, digital medical devices and personalized medicine
This month, in anticipation of Vator hosting its first ever Splash Health event on February 12th, we've been putting the spotlight on the healthtech space.
E... |
| 12.01.2015 | Ginger.io Raises $20M in Series B Funding | As FinSMEs anticipated in December 2014 (read here), Ginger.io, a San Francisco, California-based provider of a digital mental health solution, raised $20m in Series B financing.
Backers included existing investors Khosla Ventures and True ... |
| 12.01.2015 | Ginger.io raises $20M partly to support R&D expansion to monitor chronic pain, heart disease patients | Grimberg added that the company is also expanding its technology to cover patients’ functionality following hip or knee surgery.
Last year, it unveiled a series of partnerships with UC San Francisco, Partners HealthCare (which includes Mass... |
| 05.01.2015 | Ginger.io raises $20M for passive, smartphone-based health tracking | San Francisco-based health behavior monitoring and analytics startup Ginger.io raised $20 million, according to an SEC filing. This brings the company's total funding to at least $28.2 million.
It's likely that Kaiser Permanente Ventures in... |
| 26.12.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 12/26/14 | Xiaomi, Appcues, Yetang, Hive, Ginger.io, Elemental Technologies, Front Desk, Orchestro, Cloudwise
Seed stage
Appcues, an SaaS platform for user onboarding, raised $1.2 million in seed funding from Atlas Venture, along with Ty Danco, Dharme... |
| 26.12.2014 | Ginger.io Raises $20M in Funding | According to a regulatory filing with the S.E.C. (read here), Ginger.io, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of behavioral health analytics platform, raised $20m in funding.
Three (still) unnamed backers participated in the round.
Co-founded... |
| 24.12.2014 | Ginger.io Lands $20M in Funding |
CAMBRIDGE, MA, Ginger.io has added $20 million in Series B funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on Ginger.io
>> To export Ginger.io funding data to PDF and Excel, click here
According to an SEC filing, behavioral ... |
| 23.12.2014 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Health analytics startup Ginger.io raises $20M
Ginger.io, a startup whose technology collects behavioral data from patients’... |
| 23.12.2014 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | 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!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 23.12.2014 | Ginger.io Adds $20 Million In Funding | According to an SEC filing, behavioral health analytics startup Ginger.io has added $20 million in Series B funding. This brings the total amount raised up to $28.2 million.
According to the filing, Ginger.io added Kaiser Permanente Venture... |
| 12.12.2014 | Ginger.io Launches A Plan To Engage Low-Income Utahns Suffering From Depression | Behavior health analytics startup Ginger.io has announced the launch of Utah SmartCare, a care management platform designed to help low-income Utah residents suffering from mental health issues.
Utah leads the nation in depression and suici... |
| 22.09.2014 | The Reinvention Of Medicine: Dr. Algorithm V0-7 And Beyond | Vinod Khosla Contributor
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| 19.09.2014 | Your smartphone thinks you're sad | Imagine a smartphone software application that monitors your state of mind. The device could help you, your family and perhaps your employer identify when you're going through a rough stretch and dealing with depression or stress.
Would you... |
| 02.04.2014 | Ginger.io turns cell phone activity into health tracking tool to spot depression | It feels a little creepy to know that the government has everyone’s cell phone data – who you called when and how long you talked to that person, even where you were when you made the call.
What if your doctor were tracking similar informat... |
| 20.02.2014 | Up next for care-hacking startups: Transforming data into action | While some startups like Ginger.io and Validics have garnered a lot of attention in this space, most startups don’t have the resources needed to address all three of those layers, he said.
“A lot of companies are trying to conquer pieces of... |
| 11.09.2013 | Vinod Khosla: In The Next 10 Years, Data Science Will Do More For Medicine Than All Biological Sciences Combined | At TechCrunch Disrupt SF, TechCrunch and CrunchFund founder Michael Arrington and Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla took the stage to discuss the areas Khosla is currently most interested in. Besides food tech, the one area that seems to... |
| 05.08.2013 | Focus is key: 6 cloud startups kicking ass by going narrow | 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!
Venture capitalists are betting on cloud startups... |
| 05.08.2013 | Focus is key: 6 cloud startups kicking ass by going narrow | Venture capitalists are betting on cloud startups with a specific focus: health care, financial services, real estate, and other industries.
This more specialized, “vertical” industry approach is a stark contrast to the more horizontal appr... |
| 11.02.2013 | Albright, Paradise, Bolt, MC10, Verizon Join Mobile Madness on March 19 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Llllllllet’s get ready to rummmmm-ble…
For those of you interested in mobile technology and business—which means pretty much all of you—we have some notable additions to the s... |
| 29.11.2012 | Ginger.io Closes $6.5 Million in Series A |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Behavioral health analytics startup, today announced a $6.5 million Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures.
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| 28.11.2012 | Ginger.io Raises $6.5M in Series A Funding | Ginger.io, a Cambridge, MA and San Francisco, CA-based behavioral health analytics startup, has raised $6.5m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from existing investors True Ventures and Romulus Cap... |
| 28.11.2012 | Funding Daily: Wacky Wednesday | 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!
What do family trees and mobile app discovery hav... |
| 28.11.2012 | Ginger.io Gets $6.5M, Led by Khosla, to “Open Up” Data-Driven Healthcare | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Vinod Khosla has strong opinions on everything from education to energy storage. And he’ll speak his mind. On the topic of healthcare innovation, the bigwig entrepreneur and i... |
| 28.11.2012 | Ginger.io Raises $6.5M To Use Your Smartphone To Track Your Health, Round Led By Khosla | Behavioral health analytics startup Ginger.io just announced that it has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from seed investors True Ventures and Romulus Capital. In the funding... |
| 27.11.2012 | Forget Facebook! Meet 12 investors on the hunt for the next Microsoft | 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!
Smart investors are betting big on business techn... |
| 27.11.2012 | Forget Facebook! Meet 12 investors on the hunt for the next Microsoft | Smart investors are betting big on business technology.
Sure, all the buzz goes to consumer-focused companies like Facebook and Zynga. But while those companies’ post-IPO performance has been tepid at best, enterprise startups have been qui... |
| 02.10.2012 | How Big Data Is Improving Healthcare | With the increasing digitization of healthcare, the trend of “Big Data” has been gathering steam. According to a new report from digital health consultancy DrBonnie360, there is an estimated 50 petabytes of data in the healthcare realm. Tha... |
| 29.03.2012 | Announcing XSITE June 14: Evernote, Uber, Zaarly, IBM’s Watson, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Innovators, start your engines. The economy is ramping up, and so is the innovation scene here in Boston and across the U.S.
For the past three years—starting with the theme “... |
| 18.10.2011 | Ginger.io Raises $1.7M for Mobile Health IT, Rides Wave of MIT Media Lab Startups Trying to Understand People | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
First of all, the name is Ginger.io, not Gingerd. The latter is how the company was incorporated; but the former is its real name.
And real is what Ginger.io is becoming. Sinc... |
| 17.06.2011 | Greenbean Recycle, WaySavvy, Strohl Medical Take Home XSITE Xpo Prizes | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The first time you do something, it’s a novelty. The second time, it’s a pattern. The third time, it’s a tradition. After yesterday, the “Xpo” lightning-presentation portion o... |
| 15.06.2011 | Investors Flock To Boston To See TechStars’ 12 Cool New Startups (Here’s A Peek) | Today, seed fund and accelerator, TechStars, put on its “Demo Day” in Boston to debut 12 new companies to the world. Investors came in from far and wide to vet these young startups and to potentially take out their checkbooks. TechStars est... |
| 14.06.2011 | Hero’s Journey: A Look Inside This Year’s Class of TechStars Boston Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Incubator, schmincubator. The innovation community has had its fill of incubators and accelerators, hasn’t it? Well, this one is a little different.
As echoes of Commencement ... |
| - | The Hardware Revolution is Upon Us and Why it Matters | Almost exactly six years ago, Apple launched the first iPhone. It was a small device that many dismissed as a toy. In reality Steve put a supercomputer in our pocket — we just didn’t know it. And like super computers before, it came with im... |
| - | Happiness assessment app developer raises $5M for new b2b division in a familiar path | There are plenty of startups and app developers that have emerged within the past five years in the realm of behavioral health assessment to quantify how depressed people are. It’s logical since this factor can affect adherence to medical r... |
| - | Internal Talkspace memo illustrates challenge of delivering virtual mental health services in 50 states | Online therapy provider Talkspace sent a memo to therapists asking if they wanted to join a group to work in many states, and offered to provide indemnification for denied insurance claims and “fund any legal appearances before state regula... |
| - | Here are the next big steps for Israel-U.S. digital health collaboration | Luminox has big plans for Israeli digital health startups and its partner Johns Hopkins is just one part of it.
Dr. Yossi Bahagon, the CEO of the digital health hub, said he is in talks to add more strategic partners across pharma, retail, ... |
| - | Mental health coaching startup Ginger raises $50M | Ginger, a digital health startup that lets users chat with a mental health coach, raised $50 million in funding in a series D round. Advance Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners led the funding round, with participation from Cigna... |
| - | Жизнь 3.0: Современные реалии биохакинга и перспективы на будущее | Это перевод статьи с Medium специально для vc.ru и моего Telegram-канала. Она показалась мне интересной и достойной вашего внимания. Приятного чтения!
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| - | Vital Labs Creates App for Cardiovascular Care | At True, one focus of our investment strategy is to fund products that capture the imagination.
Some recent examples in our portfolio include physical products like Ring, which gives anyone the ability to “always be home,” and Zymergen, wh... |
| - | The Why Behind Wellness Apps: An Interview With Kevin Rose | Companies focused on wellness and personal betterment have been part of the heartbeat of True since the early days, beginning with Fitbit in 2008. Around that time, we began to see the hardware revolution unfold, both in terms of sensor-dri... |
| - | Up next for care-hacking startups: Transforming data into action | Digital health futurist Fard Johnmar has a great way of describing the movement under way in consumer health engagement — he calls it care hacking.
In a Wednesday webinar hosted by personal health record startup Dossia, Fard described how c... |
| - | Ginger.io transforms from mental health management tech for hospitals to healthcare provider | In the past couple of years, Ginger.io has transformed itself from a mental health management technology business which used people’s smartphone behavior to identify patterns and gather insights on their mental health for hospitals to a hea... |
| - | Disrupting Health Care with Ginger.io | In August 2011, we led the Seed round for a small team out of the MIT Media Lab who wanted to use passively collected data from mobile phones to detect and help treat health conditions. They called their company Ginger.io, and their goal wa... |
| - | Google’s NIH steal Tom Insel on the ‘major paradigm shift’ of digitizing mental health care | Google’s new life sciences division made an important steal this week: It hired away Thomas Insel, the lauded and longtime director of the National Institutes of Mental Health.
Insel spoke with MedCity News about the promise – and challenge... |
| - | StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups | Specifica has designed and created an exclusive antibody display library in collaboration with Scholar Rock. The collaborative library design will enable Scholar Rock to more easily and efficiently discover antibodies with characteristics c... |
| - | Ginger.io turns cell phone activity into health tracking tool to spot depression | It feels a little creepy to know that the government has everyone’s cell phone data – who you called when and how long you talked to that person, even where you were when you made the call.
What if your doctor were tracking similar informat... |
| - | True Insights: Voice | We say “I’m speechless” colloquially when we don’t know what to say. Something is so surprising to us that we describe ourselves as unable to communicate, without words.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen the power of Freedom of Speech ca... |
| - | Startups Win at SXSW | In the past few years, South by Southwest has become increasingly famous for producing “winners.” These winners—Twitter (2007), Foursquare (2009) and GroupMe (2011)—can credit the festival for an early boost within the press and influencer ... |
