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Funding & Acquisitions Newswire: December 9, 2013
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Health/Healthcare Healthloop bags $10M for patient follow-up platform (via VatorNews) Broadband Sckipio raises $10M for chips that will bring gigabit Internet speeds over phone lines (via … [Read More...]
Healthcare startups in the age of the Affordable Care Act: opportunity abounds
By Mitch Rothschild, co-founder and CEO , Vitals People are having babies. They’re still getting older. And they get sick, too. No other industry has quite the demand of healthcare. And with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the demand is only intensifying. Thirty million additional … [Read More...]
Rocketrip’s platform is built to ease the pain points of corporate travel for both employees and managers
A Q&A with Rocketrip co-founder and CEO Daniel Ruch. The New York City-based startup, which offers a corporate travel management platform designed to save money and streamline the process for employees, moved into private beta in late November. It was founded earlier this year. SUB: Please … [Read More...]
Funding & Acquisitions Newswire: December 6, 2013
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Financiers/Funds Benchmark Capital raises $425 million for new startup fund (via GigaOm) Commerce Legal services and cosmetics — these two startups catch the eye of SparkLabs’ seed-stage fund (via … [Read More...]
Featured Startup Pitch: Transfluent combines human translations and automation to help users overcome the web’s language barriers
By Jani Penttinen, Transfluent founder and CEO Elevator Pitch: Transfluent is the ultimate high-tech solution for language translations in social media, web and apps. We do what traditional translation companies cannot—fast, dynamic, and yet high-quality. Product/Service … [Read More...]
Funding & Acquisitions Newswire: December 5, 2013
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Commerce Tony Hsieh leads $800k round in Swapbox (via VatorNews) Design Sketchfab’s $2 Million Funding Should Mean Lots More Fun 3-D Renderings of New Tech Gear (via AllThingsD) Financiers/Funds Spotify Backer Northzone … [Read More...]
OwnZones is working to solve the paywall problem for smaller publishers and consumers alike
A Q&A with OwnZones founder and CEO Dan Goman. The Sammamish, Washington-based company, which aggregates premium paid media content for consumers in an ad-free environment, launched out of beta in early November. It was founded in 2010. SUB: Please describe OwnZones and your primary … [Read More...]
Featured Startup Pitch: Born in Mexico City, Toplist wants to enable New Yorkers to get shopping recommendations from friends in ‘a matter of seconds’
By Andres Teran, Toplist co-founder and CCO Elevator Pitch: Toplist reduces the process of getting shopping recommendations from close friends to a matter of seconds. Product/Service Description Toplist is a social shopping recommendation destination. It’s based on a simple concept—follow … [Read More...]
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Healthcare startups in the age of the Affordable Care Act: opportunity abounds
By Mitch Rothschild, co-founder and CEO , Vitals People are having babies. They’re still getting older. And they get sick, too. No other industry has quite the demand of healthcare. And with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the demand is only intensifying. Thirty million additional … [Read More...]
Implementing your vision: Choosing a cloud vendor that will help, not hinder
By Alex Brown, 10th Magnitude CEO You wouldn’t be reading this if you weren’t buzzing with the energy that comes from a great new business idea. And given how fast things move in today’s business world, you need to somehow manage to get your venture up-and-running within a couple of months. Well, … [Read More...]
Crowdfunding moves to the next level: The JOBS Act’s Title II and its effects on startup fundraising
By Jason Graf, CrowdIt co-founder and CEO Bruce Springstein said, “I have spent my life judging the distance between the American reality and the American dream.” Well, crowdfunding is taking the ‘American dream’ and making it the new American reality. It is based on the idea that anyone can make … [Read More...]
When BYOD is your startup’s mode du jour
By Domingo Guerra, Appthority president and co-founder In early 2011, the enterprise was finally embracing the mobile workforce. Then, the death of BlackBerry and the rise of iOS and Android in the corporate world brought panic to IT departments everywhere. It was World War BYOD, without Brad … [Read More...]
The global talent pool and the critical need for the Startup Visa
By Torsten Kolind, YouNoodle CEO There has been much debate over America’s ‘tech shortage.’ The Economic Policy Institute did a lot to debunk this ‘myth’ earlier this year, when it reported clear and consistent trends that the U.S. has an excess of STEM graduates/workers available in its … [Read More...]
