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Infermedica Raises $10 million Series A for R&D and International Expansion

Today, Infermedica (HT ‘18) announced a $10M Series A financing round for their AI-driven platform that helps insurance, telemedicine companies, and health systems increase efficiency through fast, digital symptom-checks. The platform has nearly 60 B2B partners across 30 countries, including Microsoft, Allianz, Global Excel, Sana Kliniken, and Médis, and has performed more than 6 million health checks globally. Read here.

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TrekIT Health Raises $1M Seed Extension, Hires New Executive Chairman

TrekIT Health (HT- ‘18) announced closing $1M in additional seed financing. TrekIt’s technology is a HIPAA compliant and secure, real-time workspace for synthesizing information across EHRs and care teams. Clinicians love TrekIT because of its intuitive and predictive interface which serves as a cure for disjointed information systems and a replacement for paper task lists. Read more.

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EnsoData Raises $9M Series A Financing to Empower Clinicians with Waveform AI

Last week, EnsoData (Healthtech - Spring 2019) announced a $9 million Series A financing round led by Venture Investors and Zetta Venture Partners, with participation from Dreamit Ventures. Their platform transforms billions of waveform data points collected from sensors in medical devices and wearables into an easy-to-read report, so clinicians can make faster, more accurate diagnoses.

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How Wearables Startups Are Solving Major Problems in Healthcare

On this special edition of Marketing Matters, Americus is joined by Eran Ofir, CEO and Cofounder, and Dr. Charles Herman, Chief Medical Officer of Somatix. Somatix has created cutting edge technology for the health care industry in the form of a real-time gesture detection platform that utilizes sensors built into a range of wearables, as well as predictive analytics and machine learning to passively monitor, remotely track, analyze, and deliver insights and help act on massive volumes of detected gesture data. 

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Cybersecurity Startup CYR3CON Raises $1.5 Million to Predict and Prevent Cyber Attacks

Dreamit SecureTech startup CYR3CON, which helps companies predict and prevent cyber attacks using artificial intelligence, announced a $1.5 million seed round led by Scout Ventures, with participation from Michael Sutton (former CISO, Zscaler), Aleksandr Yampolskiy (CEO, SecurityScorecard), Steven Witt (former CEO, Onyara and Partner/Co-Founder of DataTribe), and Steve Hassell, (former CIO, Emerson).

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Grubhub Acquires Dreamit Alum LevelUp for $390M

Dreamit portfolio company LevelUp was acquired by Grubhub in a “spectacular outcome” for the accelerator and venture fund. Founder and CEO Matt Maloney told TechCrunch that while previous Grubhub acquisitions like Eat24 were designed to give the company’s delivery business more scale, “This is kind of a different acquisition. It’s a product and strategic positioning acquisition.”

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Singapore-based smart lock maker Igloohome raises $4M

Singapore-based smart lock maker Igloohome has closed a $4 million Series A round. The startup graduated from Dreamit in 2015. The investment was led by Insignia Ventures, the new firm started by ex-Sequoia venture partner Yinglan Tan. Phillip Private Equity, X Capital Ventures, K3 Venture’s Kuok Meng Xiong, angel investor Koh Boon Hwee, and existing backer Wavemaker Partners also took part. Inspired by the rise of Airbnb and hosts on the platform, Igloohome sells  a range of key-less products that include digital locks, digital deadbolts and a digital safe deposit box. The products are notable because they work offline, requiring either a manually entry pin code or ‘Bluetooth key’ on a phone to unlock. Despite that, owners can still control access remotely, while there’s a physical key just in case.

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