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Speakers At The Europas Conference And Awards Reflect Europe’s Diversity, June 16, London
The Europas Conference & Awards for European Tech Startups, on June 16 in London, is an annual celebration of Europe’s brightest tech companies. From a small bar in central London in 2009, it’s become a fixture of the European scene, with its highly curated daytime speakers and audience, which combines the key startup players in Europe, as well as the hottest newcomers,… Read More
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Built By A Parkinson’s Sufferer, MyHealthPal Tracks Symptoms, Creates Research Data
The development and availability of wearables is running hand in hand with the exploding interest in the digital health space. Managing our health via apps and devices is slowly becoming the norm. And patients that need to monitor their condition day-to-day have even more to benefit from this powerful combination. Startups are of course entering this space in droves. The latest is a startup… Read More
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Andreessen-Backed uBiome Is Now Doing An Indiegogo Campaign To Check Out Dental Bacteria
Have you ever been curious about the bacterial flora and fauna in your gut? Or how about your teeth? uBiome, a YC-backed bio startup that went on to raise funding from Andreessen Horowitz, is launching a second campaign looking at the dental biome. A biome is the entire ecosystem of trillions of bacteria that live in and on our bodies. Even though the human body is made up of 10 trillion… Read More
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Shift Labs Launches Out Of Y Combinator To Make Medical Devices For Healthcare’s Future
Shift Labs is a small startup launching this spring out of Y Combinator with a lofty tagline: to be “the Nest of medical devices.” But as ambitious as that goal may sound at first, when you take a closer look at Shift Labs, it doesn’t sound that crazy after all. In fact, it seems almost inevitable. If you’ve spent any time in a hospital, you’ve likely noticed that… Read More
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YC-Backed Industrial Microbes Is Engineering Bacteria To Produce Chemicals From Natural Gases
The trio of synthetic biologists behind Industrial Microbes, a new East Bay-based startup backed by Y Combinator, have had years of experience in working with biofuels. They met at LS9, a biofuels startup that took more than $80 million of venture investment through the height of the cleantech wave and sought to create fuels from specially engineered bacteria. From a venture perspective, LS9… Read More
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The Eyeball Selfie For Secure Banking, EyeVerify Gets $6 Million In Series A Part 2
Banking is now in the eye of the beholder. That’s literally for EyeVerify. This new kind of ID verification tech lets you simply hold your smartphone about 8 inches from your face and take a picture of your eyeball. EyeVerify then pattern-matches the blood vessels within the sclera, the white part of your eye, to unlock your bank account. This eliminates any possibility of a hacker… Read More
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New At Y Combinator: Startups Solving Huge Problems!
During today’s YC Demo Day, there was a notable block among the startups presenting that didn’t give off the vibe we’re used to seeing at this kind of event in Silicon Valley: companies that are addressing real issues with big, bold solutions. We’re not talking about minor problems we all have — like burritos being too hard to get quickly — but issues that… Read More
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