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Finance
Fika Ventures raises $76M to fund the growing LA tech ecosystem
The Los Angeles ecosystem is $76 million stronger today as Fika Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm, announces its sophomore…
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Business
Vertex Ventures hits $230M first close on new fund for Southeast Asia and India
Tis the season to be raising in India and Southeast Asia. Hot on the heels of new funds from Strive…
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Trends
XGenomes is bringing DNA sequencing to the masses
As healthcare moves toward genetically tailored treatments, one of the biggest hurdles to truly personalized medicine is the lack of…
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Trends
How Consure Medical Rethinks Patient Hygiene
Amit Sharma, Consure Medical Co-founder, Credits Forbes For years, there has been an aversion to discussing the daily hygiene…
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Trends
Lack of transparency in healthcare startups risks another Theranos implosion
Are more Theranos-style scandals looming for investors in healthcare startups? A team of researchers associated with the Meta Research Innovation…
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STARTUPS
The Pill Club raises $51M as VCs find new opportunities in women’s health
Through telemedicine and direct-to-consumer sales platforms, startups are streamlining the historically arduous process of accessing contraception. The latest effort to…
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Trends
Veteran Googler heads to Lyft to lead 1,000-plus person engineering team
Eisar Lipkovitz, a veteran Google executive who most recently led the video and display advertising team there, is leaving the…
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Trends
China’s Infervision is helping 280 hospitals worldwide detect cancers from images
Until recently, humans have relied on the trained eyes of doctors to diagnose diseases from medical images. Beijing-based Infervision is among…
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Trends
Amazon’s newest service uses machine learning to extract medical data from patient records
Amazon has launched a new service that uses machine learning to extract key data from patient records and can potentially…
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