Vixiar Medical Raises $1.5M in Seed Financing
Vixiar Medical, Inc., an Annapolis, MD-based company dedicated to the development of non-invasive devices and systems for monitoring cardiopulmonary diseases, raised over $1.5m in seed financing.
Shark Tank Meets Spine Start Up VerteCore!
While most of the talk this summer has been about shark sightings and attacks along our beaches and Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps’s race against the great white shark on the Discovery channel, there are some entrepreneurs who are quietly preparing to go head to head with a different group of sharks in the upcoming season of ABC’s Shark Tank which is scheduled to return in the fall.
Selio Medical Wins UK-Ireland HeadStart/Proof-of-Concept Awards
Seven winners from the UK and Ireland were chosen to receive funding when EIT Health UK-Ireland held its HeadStart/Proof-of-Concept finals pitch competition on 19 July at Oxford University.
MobileODT Secures $6.8M Series B Funding led by OrbiMed
Today, MobileODT announced it has raised an additional $6.825 million in a Series B fundraising round led by OrbiMed Advisors - a leading healthcare venture fund. Previous investors Tristel plc. also participated in the round. MobileODT has raised over $13 million to date.
Spry Health Lands $5.5M to Fund Commercialization of Clinical-Grade Wearable
Spry Health, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of remote patient monitoring solutions has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding led by Grove Ventures with participation from the Stanford-StartX Fund.
Osso VR Gets $2M to Train Surgeons in Virtual Operating Rooms
Osso VR, a startup looking to disrupt the surgical device training space with virtual reality, has raised $2 million in seed funding in a round led by Signalfire, with participation from Anorak Ventures. The company provides software that creates a virtual operating room on VR platforms like Oculus Rift/Touch or the HTC Vive.
Precision Dosing Leader Abreos Biosciences Announces New Investment Round
Abreos Biosciences, a San Diego-based biotech company and a leader in the precision dosing of biological therapeutics, is pleased to announce that it has completed a new investment round. The funding came from existing investors as well as new investor TLP Investment Partners LLC and its affiliates.
Atlanta-based Patientory raises $7.2 million in three days
Atlanta-based cybersecurity startup Patientory raised $7.2 million in three days from 1,728 individual purchasers. The money will be used to launch Patientory's electronic medical record (EMR) storage platform, the goal of which is to unite EMR chains.
11 Israeli Startups You Should Know
Back in 2015, I ran an article about 10 innovative Israeli startups to watch, compiled from my discussions with Hillel Fuld and others who follow the Israeli startup scene. It is now 2017, and I have assembled a new list of Israeli firms to watch. (Please note that I have specifically avoided including any information-security related businesses in this list as I cover cybersecurity firms in other pieces.)
Tech Toys and Tools That Excite the Top Entrepreneurs
Everybody has their favourite app, gadget or new technology that can make life easier, work more productive, and the future that much more exciting, and entrepreneurs are no different. For Virgin founder and disruptive technology fan Richard Branson, it’s graphene, the world’s thinnest material, set to revolutionise life as we know it, that he’s buzzing about.