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The crowdfunding floodgates are (kind of) open. Now another healthcare investing portal is jumping in

The crowdfunding floodgates are (kind of) open. Now another healthcare investing portal is jumping in

May 17, 2013 4:54 pm by | 0 Comments

It’s been just over one year since the JOBS Act was passed, which makes equity- and debt-based crowdfunding legal for accredited and nonaccredited investors. Although the U.S. Securities and Exchange ... Read more

ONC backs $40K app challenge for improving cancer care transitions

ONC backs $40K app challenge for improving cancer care transitions

May 15, 2013 6:17 pm by | 0 Comments

The National Cancer Institute and the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT are throwing down $40,000 in an innovation challenge to encourage app developers to step and brainstorm ideas ... Read more


TechStars expands into Austin with new incubator branch

TechStars expands into Austin with new incubator branch

May 15, 2013 8:00 am by | 0 Comments

The latest city that incubator program TechStars will expand into is bustling tech city Austin, Tex., the organization announced today. For those not familiar with it, TechStars is an incubator ... Read more

New York patient portal contest winners take on health literacy challenge

New York patient portal contest winners take on health literacy challenge

May 13, 2013 6:39 pm by | 0 Comments

What should a patient portal for a statewide health information network look like? That’s a question New York eHealth Collaborative has been considering for awhile. If the interface characteristics of ... Read more

Entrepreneur recuperating from heart surgery wins hackathon pitch for Teva project

Entrepreneur recuperating from heart surgery wins hackathon pitch for Teva project

May 9, 2013 2:23 pm by | 0 Comments

Entrepreneurs face plenty of stress pitching a new idea to a potential customer. But most don’t have to do it the day they’re discharged from the hospital after having laparoscopic ... Read more

Q is for Quintiles: CRO picked good time to return to the public markets

Q is for Quintiles: CRO picked good time to return to the public markets

May 9, 2013 9:00 am by | 0 Comments

[Update] Contract research organization Quintiles returned to the public markets today, trading on the NYSE under the stock symbol Q. It raised $947 million after it was priced at $40. ... Read more

Five steps for bootstraping your startup — permanently

Five steps for bootstraping your startup — permanently

May 5, 2013 1:56 pm by | 0 Comments

Are would-be entrepreneurs letting the funding-equals-success myth stand between them and true success? Too many startup founders crave the validation of big-name investors and end up buying into the idea ... Read more


DocuTAP raises $11.9M to build software for urgent care clinics

DocuTAP raises $11.9M to build software for urgent care clinics

May 2, 2013 12:59 pm by | 0 Comments

The Emergency Room is often a chaotic place where precision and agility mean the difference between life and death. DocuTAP has raised $11.9 million from Bessemer Venture Partners to make ... Read more

Capital Royalty’s $805M fund could be a source of alternative funding for life science companies

Capital Royalty’s $805M fund could be a source of alternative funding for life science companies

May 2, 2013 10:15 am by | 0 Comments

Somewhere between venture funding and bank loans is a kind of investment that seems to fly under the radar, but apparently over the last several years has become increasingly popular ... Read more

Merck’s latest Type 2 diabetes deal uses innovative enzyme selection tech

Merck’s latest Type 2 diabetes deal uses innovative enzyme selection tech

May 2, 2013 8:01 am by | 0 Comments

The ongoing effort to develop better drugs to address the $250 billion problem of Type 2 diabetes has a new development. Merck (NYSE: MRK) is collaborating with Abide Therapeutics on ... Read more

Celator offers disruptive approach to chemo treatment options for acute myeloid leukemia

Celator offers disruptive approach to chemo treatment options for acute myeloid leukemia

May 1, 2013 4:45 pm by | 0 Comments

A drug developer has done a final closing for its latest financing round to advance its new twist on chemotherapy treatment for 60- to 75-year-old patients with secondary acute myeloid ... Read more

RainDance Technolgies raises $20M to grow market for DNA sequencing tools

RainDance Technolgies raises $20M to grow market for DNA sequencing tools

April 29, 2013 4:28 pm by | 0 Comments

It seems like many of the ongoing developments in genetic research share one thing in common: the need for speed. RainDance Technologies, a life science company with DNA sequencing tools ... Read more

Google Ventures is betting its money on these 8 healthcare and life sci companies

Google Ventures is betting its money on these 8 healthcare and life sci companies

April 26, 2013 3:48 pm by | 0 Comments

Google Ventures has been backing startups through its venture capital fund since 2009 and offers a pretty diverse range of services to entrepreneurs. Here’s a look at the eight healthcare ... Read more

Becton Dickinson forms alliance with Penn incubator company CytoVas

Becton Dickinson forms alliance with Penn incubator company CytoVas

April 26, 2013 7:45 am by | 0 Comments

CytoVas, a diagnostics company in University of Pennsylvania’s UPStart incubator program in its Center for Technology Transfer has forged an alliance with a division of diagnostic company Becton Dickinson (NYSE: ... Read more

Report: Proportion of women angel investors rose in 2012

Report: Proportion of women angel investors rose in 2012

April 25, 2013 3:20 pm by | 0 Comments

Are women shaking up angel investment? That could be one conclusion made from a new report showing that the proportion of active women angel investors allocating funds to healthcare and ... Read more