What we're reading this week in urban tech news. 

In this webinar, the teams from Care@Work  (Care.com) and Chiron Health discuss how to create and execute a content marketing strategy in healthcare. A strong content marketing strategy is critical in healthcare. And crafting a strategy is a long game. Your marketing team must invest time and energy in creating effective content to foster engagement and loyalty from your customers.

We are excited to announce that Dreamit has teamed with Accenture, one of the world’s leading professional services companies, in an effort to connect Accenture’s strategy and innovation leadership to the startup founders at Dreamit working on transformational products in healthcare and urban tech.
 

People think that when you memorize a sales pitch, you become less creative. Kiva Kolstein, CRO of AlphaSense, believes the opposite is true. If you’ve retained your pitch or demo, you go in knowing what you want to say about your company or product and you are free to be more present in the moment. Every single interaction with or for a prospect, from research and introductions to discovery and close, has the potential to impact the outcome of a deal. Kiva will take you on a journey from the first touch to executed contract, introducing the concept of choreography at every step.

There are now about 50 million rental homes in the U.S. with 100 million tenants. And this does not even include commercial spaces. The gatekeepers of this huge market are property managers, notoriously busy people who often manage dozens of properties, all with different needs and requirements. Property management still lags behind other industries in terms of innovation, but managers increasingly see tech products as a way to differentiate their spaces and to save money. This webinar is focused on how to sell to property managers.  

Global real estate value is worth about $217 trillion, and startups are just beginning to scratch the surface of digitizing this massive pool of assets. VCs are set to pour over a billion dollars in real estate tech startups in 2017. 

Cities represent a massive untapped market for startups. But many founders see government sales as a risky strategy. In this webinar, we will demystify the B2G sales process and help startup founders chart a successful strategy for B2G sales. We aim to cover topics such as:

A 409A valuation is a formal report that tells you the value of your company’s common stock. When you give stock options to your employees, you are giving them the option to buy equity in your company in the future at a price (the “strike price”) that is determined today. This post explains when and why you should have a 409A. 

On a global scale, more people are moving to cities than ever before. We are now building cities for 3 billion people, a doubling of the urban environment. Sustainable cities are critical for creating a livable future for humanity. For Peter Calthorpe, founder of Calthorpe Associates, the largest problem with existing cities is the issue of sprawl. Read about how his firm is solving this problem for cities.

Water Street Tampa will create 3,500 new residential apartment and condominium units; 630 modern hotel rooms; an iconic cultural arts pavilion; 1 million square feet of new retail and cultural spaces; and more than 2 million square feet of office space, including the first two new office towers in downtown Tampa in nearly 25 years. SPP has also donated land to the University of South Florida, which will relocate the Morsani College of Medicine and Health Heart Institute into a new 300,000-square-foot facility in downtown Tampa.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston announced on Wednesday a multiyear agreement with Redox to use the startup’s tools to connect the Brigham’s electronic health records system with outside software applications. 

Watch an interview with Dreamit UrbanTech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman. 

Dreamit CINO Steve Barsh sits down with two Dreamit Health alums to discuss their startup journeys. Learn how Mindi Knebel of Kaizen Health and Hari Prasad of Yosi took advantage of the Dreamit program to gain customers and build relationships with healthcare enterprise companies. 

MedAware, Dreamit Health 2016, leverages advanced machine learning algorithms to help prevent medication mistakes, improving patient safety and saving lives.

More than 50% of Americans are living with at least one chronic condition. Despite effective treatments that would allow patients to live healthy lives and lessen the $100B+ cost burden on the healthcare system, up to 60% of chronic patients fail to adhere to their medication regimes. In fact, up to 125K deaths and at least 10% of hospital admissions annually are the result of non-adherence. This startup seeks to solve that problem.

The Dreamit HealthTech program is unique among healthcare-focused accelerators because of its singular focus on business development and deploying tech solutions from startups into large healthcare organizations. The cornerstone of this effort is the customer immersion program, when startups in our accelerator meet, pitch, and partner with large enterprise health organizations. 

Fintech startup MPOWER Financing (Dreamit Spring 2016), which provides educational loans to high-potential, international students, has launched a $100 million debt financing round to meet its growing pipeline of loan applications.

We often get asked questions like... "What happens during a typical week at Dreamit?" "Is it worth it?" "What value can startups gain from joining the program?" In this post, we try to give an in-depth look at various aspects of the program.

We are excited to announce that Adam Dakin has joined the firm as Managing Director of Health. In this role, Adam will have direct responsibility for overseeing the hands-on de-risking and acceleration of cutting edge digital health and medical device companies from around the world. 

Blackstone today announced that it has acquired a majority stake in Philadelphia-based cloud computing analytics and migration automation leader Cloudamize. Cloudamize, an alum of Dreamit Health, will form a new software business unit within Cloudreach,  a company majority owned by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities, and continue to scale its industry-leading cloud analytics platform and independent global partner ecosystem.