Sentences with phrase «of health startups»

MaRS HealthKick 2015, Canada's largest showcase of health startups, today announced its lineup of new ventures competing for three $ 20,000 cash prizes at the annual pitch competition on May 7, 2015.

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One accounting puts the number of AI startups in health care, where I compete, at more than 100.

Vice President Joseph Biden gave a shout - out to health care startup Theranos and its founder on Thursday, as he toured the company's Newark, California, facility and then made some brief remarks before an audience of about 150 Theranos employees and press.

One New York startup, Nomad Health, pairs doctors with hospitals in need of physicians in three specialties — internal medicine, emergency medicine, and psychiatry.

Others, like Avatar director James Cameron and Interstellar «s Christopher Nolan, have argued that the startup threatens the health of the movie industry, which turned in a record year in 2015 in terms of overall box office gross.

Startups are helping women take control of their reproductive health with fertility - tracking apps and other services.

The CEO and co-founder of Vayable, a platform to request, design and book unique travel experiences, dishes on how stress was not only detrimental to her health but also her startup.

Thomas Goetz is co-founder and CEO of Iodine, a digital health startup based in San Francisco.

Canada is home to between 800 and 1,000 health - related technology startups, with nearly half of those in Ontario, according to an estimate from business accelerator MaRS.

In a sign of its ambition, last month, CVS hired a senior executive from a startup that specializes in primary - care clinics to oversee expanded health - care services across the company.

He also has designed social games as chief experience officer of the boutique agency Dark Roast Media and serves as an advisor to vFit, a 3D - printing startup in health innovation.

The pace of change driven by startups seems to be accelerating as companies devoted to essential needs — from reducing procurement costs and improving operational efficiency, to delivering more efficient primary care or dialysis care — try to do something about the sorry state of health care.

In the new issue of Inc., I talked to the billionaire venture capitalist about why he's been putting so much of his time and money into biotech startups, particularly those focused on health and human biology.

Indeed, since 2010, 56 percent of all insurance tech startups are focused on health insurance, either delivering new employer brokerage models (Liazon, Zenefits, Benefitter), new consumer brokerage models (Gravie, Stride Health) or even new health insurance (Ohealth insurance, either delivering new employer brokerage models (Liazon, Zenefits, Benefitter), new consumer brokerage models (Gravie, Stride Health) or even new health insurance (OHealth) or even new health insurance (Ohealth insurance (Oscar).

Southern California startup Ceresti Health is using technology to relieve the stress associated with in - home care of Alzheimer's and dementia patients.

The Middle East Financial Health Competition, an initiative of MetLife Foundation and Village Capital, has awarded three MENA - based fintech startups grants worth a total of US$ 50,000 for their solutio...

Vic Gundotra embarked on his health tech startup journey with the confidence of a tech industry veteran boasting years of experience.

Funding for health IT has reached more than $ 956 million in 2014, according to an October 2014 study by HIT Consultant, bringing with it an explosion of startups.

In the meantime, it also has a growing list of competitors including other startups and large health insurance companies.

While some startups, such as Taskrabbit, have attempted to address some of the inequity invovled in being a contract worker, for example by setting a wage floor of $ 11.20 an hour — higher than the proposed national minimum wage of $ 10.10 — and providing some discounts for health care and transportation, contractors clearly need a lot more.

The founders of a number of NYC startups, including Warby Parker, Birchbox, Flatiron Health, Seamless, Sweetgreen, and Doumar and Cerilli's old company, SinglePlatform, have all invested in the startup.

Look inside the women's reproductive health care industry: This Startup's First - of - Its - Kind Test Helps Women Understand Why They Can't Get Pregnant

Beyond Meat is part of a growing number of startups looking to make meat (or something very close to it) without animals in order capitalize on consumers who are attempting to cut back on the amount of meat they eat for environmental, animal welfare, and health reasons.

With that in mind, Bruno launched Hometeam, a homecare technology startup that pairs older adults — many of whom suffer from diseases such as Parkinson's, dementia, or multiple sclerosis — with in - home health aides.

Family and our personal health frame our lives in meaning, without which none of the sacrifices of a startup matter.

Within the Jumpstart Ventures portfolio, we have health - related startups such as Healthfinch and Swipesense, which are taking on one of the biggest areas for opportunity within healthcare: compliance.

In an era of small businesses and startups, however, benefits packages are considered extras, with workers sometimes forced to choose between higher pay and costly health insurance premiums or lower pay for the ability to provide great medical insurance for their families.

Entrepreneurs who run startups are obsessed with the health of their companies.

The overall sums of private capital raised by today's tech startups over longer periods of time are indicators of industry health.

Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital and an investor in startup Modern Fertility, says the number of pitches he sees from companies addressing women's health care has increased about 10 times in the past five years.

Over the past few years, businesses have added 14 million jobs as regional economies have rebounded; their workers have gained access to health insurance, and a new flock of startups has brought economy - altering innovations, some of which have changed the nature of work itself.

Thanks to bold self - revelations from some top names in the industry, greater media coverage (such as this award - winning story from Inc. magazine by Jessica Bruder) and, sadly, the tragic loss of several members of the startup community to suicide, the curtain that once completely walled off founders» mental health struggles is starting to crack open.

Many of the new women's health care startups, such as Modern Fertility and Future Family, let women order hormone - based fertility tests without having to see a doctor first and then deliver the results directly to them.

A startup called Treato has developed a platform that combs the Web for health - related discussions to create a Google - meets - WebMD for all of us.

I have long expected more organizations and startups to build health and safety tools using technology, and I have been surprised by how little of what must be built has even been attempted.

Many startup leaders discover that their emotional health ends up reflected in the well - being of their business.

It's further proof of the public markets» unrelenting interest in biotech startups — the health care industry produced the highest number of IPOs in 2013.

Since the passing of the Affordable Healthcare Act, many startups and small businesses opted not to offer employee health insurance benefits.

Any startup that can help health care providers gain more insight into patients» conditions or behaviors is going to at least get a look from even the best and biggest of hospital systems.

Enter a wave of startups creating innovative ways to aid people battling opioid addiction, thus taking on one of the gravest health challenges of our time.

Since then, this mental health startup has not only provided affordable care, it's also become a part of the wellness program for on - campus students at Washington University.

Carreyrou, to his great credit, managed to pierce the wall of secrecy that Holmes had constructed around her startup — a secrecy that is particularly common in health, science, and medtech startups, in my experience.

AirStrip, an app that lets doctors use their mobile devices to monitor a hospital patient's vital signs remotely, is one of the many mobile technology startups that is helping to cut health care costs under Obamacare.

I began the session by asking the four entrepreneurs (whom I mentioned in Monday's note)-- Adrian Aoun, the founder and CEO of Forward; Daniel Chao, cofounder and CEO of Halo Neuroscience; Arun Gupta, founder and CEO of Quartet Health; and Lisa Maki, cofounder of PokitDok — this question: Why do you need your special digital sauce — or whatever else whizbang technology your startup is offering — to solve the problem you're trying to fix?

He would soon leave to start Walker & Company, a health and beauty startup dedicated to the needs of people of color.

The startup also maintains on - site health centers for companies like Facebook (fb) and Apple (aapl) that offer a variety of services like primary and urgent care and physical therapy.

Digital health startup HealthTap, which launched an artificial intelligence - fueled digital doctor app called Dr. AI last month, is now bringing the power of Amazon Alexa to its services.

Nomad Health, a startup that's set up a platform for a new generation of doctors and nurses to pursue gig work that meets their own needs, has raised $ 12 million in a Series B funding round led by Polaris Panthers, the company announced Tuesday.

The company that invented «Cold Gear» and made bundled - up athletes a thing of the past gobbled up nearly $ 1 billion worth of health tech startups last year with the intention of integrating them into the company's clothing.

«Anyone who doesn't understand the core aspects of practicing medicine can't understand how messy it is,» says Abernethy, who four years ago became the chief medical officer at Flatiron Health, a startup backed by Google Ventures (GV).