| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.12.2017 | HITLAB and NYCEDC unveil Digital Health Breakthrough Network’s third class of startups | In simplest terms, the Digital Health Breakthrough Network functions as an accelerator for pre-revenue and pre-Series A healthcare startups. Eligible participants must be early-stage companies based in New York City.
In a phone interview, H... |
| 14.09.2017 | Pear Therapeutics gets greenlight from FDA for addiction treatment via digital therapeutic | Positive results from a 12-week, multisite, unblinded clinical trial of reSET were used to justify the FDA’s marketing approval. Of the 399 patients who received either standard treatment or standard treatment with a desktop version of reSE... |
| 17.05.2017 | RightCare Solutions cofounder has a new healthcare startup, this time in behavioral health | More than a year after Cardinal Health subsidiary naviHealth snapped up RightCare Solutions, the cofounder of that business, Eric Heil, is embarking on another healthcare startup, this time in behavioral health. It is the latest example of ... |
| 08.02.2017 | These 5 women-owned businesses won free coworking space at CoLab-Factory | Downtown Brooklyn coworking space CoLab-Factory announced the winners of its Women’s Startup #BuildYourDream scholarship last week, with five businesses receiving four months of free office space, as well as mentorship.
The winners are:
Ane... |
| 09.01.2017 | Women Who Tech Announces 10 Finalists for Women Startup Challenge | Promoting women in tech is no longer just an equalizing effort; being inclusive in tech has shown to be good for business as well as the right thing to do. Fortunately, Women Who Tech, a national nonprofit working to break down barriers to ... |
| 08.11.2016 | AbleTo founder raises $5M for digital health startup to treat heavy drinkers (Updated) | Update Laskoff clarified in an email that the New York City-based company raised a total of $5 million, $2.5 million of it was reflected in a Form D filing. He shared a few details about the business in an interview with MedCity News.
He sa... |
| 09.08.2016 | Workit Health raises $1.1M in bid to go beyond digital version of addiction recovery program | The company, which is taking part in the Healthbox Studios, Los Angeles cohort, attracted investment from institutional and angel investors. Montage Ventures and Lux Capital led the seed round, but Workit also secured funding from Invest De... |
| 21.07.2016 | Dreamit’s spring 2016 class met with 100 investors on both coasts | The first cycle of Dreamit Ventures’ spring 2016 class just graduated. What do they walk away with?
In March, we reported that around a third of the 25 startups in this cohort would stay in Philly during the 16-week program. This class was ... |
| 20.07.2016 | Dreamit accelerator ditches demo days, unveils 25 new health and education startups | Dreamit Ventures’ accelerator has ditched the demo day, according to Chief Innovation Officer Steve Barsh. That’s not the only change the early-stage venture firm and accelerator has made of late.
Today, Dreamit unveiled a list of 25 new he... |
| 28.03.2016 | At least one-fifth of the new Dreamit class will be based in Philadelphia during the program | In the fall of 2015, Dreamit announced a new model that would allow participating startups to be based anywhere in the world. For some startups, like Baltimore-based edtech Lessoncast, that made the program more attractive. But we wondered ... |
| 24.03.2016 | Philadelphia's Dreamit Health announces 15 startups in its 2016 accelerator class | Philadelphia-based accelerator Dreamit Health has announced the 15 health startups that will join its next accelerator class.
As in previous years, the accelerator is sponsored by Penn Medicine and Independence Blue Cross, but this year, Dr... |
| 24.03.2016 | Global startup accelerator Dreamit announces new cohort of companies for 2016 | Last year, Dreamit began its “Zero/Zero” offer, which allows entrepreneurs to be involved without giving up equity during the four month program. The accelerator is also giving up “Demo Day” and instead will curate investor meetings during ... |
| 18.06.2013 | Smartphone thermometer, concussion detector among finalists in NYC medtech innovation contest | A medication adherence app for families, a social network for recovering alcoholics and a mobile health diagnostic that claims to diagnose concussions based on eye movements. In addition to contributing to the debate on mobile health apps a... |
| 06.03.2013 | And the winners of Launch are… Zillabyte, Jawfish Games, Boxbee, and more | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The awards ceremony at Launch is the culmination ... |
| 21.11.2012 | Bizodo Launches SignupasaService At AngelHack NYC To Cut Registration Woes Out Of The Design Process | This weekend a company named Bizodo won the AngelHack NYC Fall 2012 Hackathon. But not for Bizodo, a form automation tool that launched in September out of the ER Accelerator. Instead, the company hacked up a brand new feature called Signup... |
| - | Global startup accelerator Dreamit announces new cohort of companies for 2016 | For Dreamit‘s inaugural 2016 four-month cycle, the accelerator has accepted 25 new companies – twice the number it usually accepts and the first class to be part of its evolved new program. Fifteen of these startups are part of the accelera... |
| - | Workit Health raises $1.1M in bid to go beyond digital version of addiction recovery program | Workit Health, a digital health business geared to people in various stages of substance use, has raised $1 million in seed funding, according to a news release on its website. The investment will be used to scale its model so it can be bet... |
| - | HITLAB and NYCEDC unveil Digital Health Breakthrough Network’s third class of startups | HITLAB and New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) have revealed the third cohort of startups in the Digital Health Breakthrough Network.
The network, a partnership between HITLAB and NYCEDC, launched in 2016. It is part of ... |
| - | AbleTo founder raises $5M for digital health startup to treat heavy drinkers (Updated) | The convergence of substance abuse and digital health has produced a fair few startups such as Sparkite, Addicaid, and Pear Therapeutics. Michael Laskoff founded AbleTo, previously known as AbilTo, to harness telemedicine, phone and other m... |
| - | RightCare Solutions cofounder has a new healthcare startup, this time in behavioral health | More than a year after Cardinal Health subsidiary naviHealth snapped up RightCare Solutions, the cofounder of that business, Eric Heil, is embarking on another healthcare startup, this time in behavioral health. It is the latest example of ... |
| - | Pear Therapeutics gets greenlight from FDA for addiction treatment via digital therapeutic | In a milestone development for addiction recovery through mobile devices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved marketing for Pear Therapeutics’ prescription reSET app. The program is aimed at individuals as part of outpatient ther... |
| - | Smartphone thermometer, concussion detector among finalists in NYC medtech innovation contest | A medication adherence app for families, a social network for recovering alcoholics and a mobile health diagnostic that claims to diagnose concussions based on eye movements. In addition to contributing to the debate on mobile health apps a... |
