HealthcareDive
"Venture capitalists poured $15 billion into healthcare startups during the first half of 2018, 70% more than the $8.9 billion from the first half of last year.”
BevNet
"The Artesa Chickpea Protein concentrate has a minimum protein content of 60%, and a fiber content of 14% – the latter of which is quite high compared to existing dairy and plant proteins that usually top out at around 2% fiber."
Eater
"Vertical farms’ energy usage carries a significant carbon footprint. While vertical farm companies promise more-sustainable produce by growing it closer to consumers and using renewable energy to power their operations, the industry still has a long row to hoe."
Project Nosh
“Apple comes out with a new iPhone every year, shouldn’t our tribe members expect us to [have] superior chia bars every year? I think so.” - CEO Shane Emmett
Healthcare IT News
"When it comes to information, external data factors beyond clinical and claims information are said to make up 70 percent of a potential patient’s outcomes.... It’s likely even higher for patients recently discharged from the hospital, especially those in need of post-discharge wound care."
CNBC
“Combining ICX Media’s data-inspired storytelling platform with SEEN’s unique hyperlocal social intelligence platform will provide our customers with access to a deeper level of data, insights and performance metrics, giving them even more confidence in their campaign decisions.” - Founder and CEO Michael Avon
Axios
“Now more than ever, ad dollars for e-commerce are spent on platforms like Google, Facebook and Amazon as they perfect the link between what consumers want and their ability to serve up other items the consumers might like”
Laura Markley
NRV's Director of Investments, Laura Markley, explores aspects of awarding employee options in start-ups.
Harvard Business Review
“Complex algorithms will soon help clinicians make incredibly accurate determinations about our health from large amounts of information, premised on largely unexplainable correlations in that data.”
Richmond Times-Dispatch
“The three firms have previously invested in Envera, having led a $14 million investment round in 2016 after the company acquired two area businesses: inHEALTH and MedVirginia, which were integrated into the business.”
Harvard Business Review
“Growth boards are the missing piece of the startup ecosystem that ignites the power of the entrepreneurial approach. With an effective growth board in place, a company can start to realize the benefits that have eluded it.”
Food Business News
“Personalized wellness and conscious consumption are two of the biggest trends affecting the food and beverage marketplace over the next few years.”
Bloomberg
“By making suppliers more accountable, proponents say adoption of the technology would help reduce some of the headline-grabbing food tampering of recent years.”
Business Wire
“Award-winning production partners Edward Burns and Aaron Lubin join ICX Media's Board of Advisors.”
Crunchbase
“Although funds at the high end of the AUM spectrum grab most of the headlines lately, most of the new funds are fairly small, coming in at or below $250 million.”
LiveMint
“It is easy to see why there is action in the food start-up space. For starters, the big fast-moving consumer goods companies are expanding to reach out to rural markets.”
Forbes
“Brown applied her keen eye for aesthetics and belief in inner strength to create the “World’s Most Beautiful Bar,” along with the award-winning superfood snack company, Health Warrior.”
Forbes
“Biometrics market will be disrupted, rules engines will disappear, online transactions verification will become obsolete, the use of artificial intelligence in regtech, blockchain’s capabilities will continue to grow.”
blokt
“Unlike other competing platforms, which tie freelancers to a specific site, Moonlighting plans to use the blockchain to make freelancers’ profiles portable.”
Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Nutriati’s new test kitchen hosts R&D experts and marketing professionals from food companies that are interested in new types of allergy-free, high-protein food ingredients that could be used in making snack foods, pastas, soups and health shakes.”