Tag: crowdfunding
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Addiction Biotech Using Crowdfunding for Investments
A start-up enterprise developing treatments for drug and alcohol addiction is raising investment capital with a direct pitch to small investors through a crowdfunding platform.
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Crowdfunding Found Supporting Dubious Stem Cell Clinics
More people now use crowdfunding campaigns to raise money to cover families’ medical costs, but the technique is also used to support treatments from stem cell clinics that exaggerate their outcomes and minimize their risks.
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University Spins Off Educational Robot Start-Up
A start-up enterprise spun-off from Harvard University is developing a learning system with robotics to teach computer coding to students.
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Medical Robotics Company Crowdfunding IPO
A medical robotics company spun-off from labs at MIT is issuing its initial public stock offering through equity crowdfunding, aiming to raise $15 million.
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Crowdfunded Digital Health Investment Fund Launches
An investment fund raising its capital through crowdfunding began operations this week to back start-up enterprises developing digital health technologies.
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Winners of ALS Variation Models Challenge Announced
5 November 2015. Participants from universities in the U.S. and Taiwan are winners of a challenge to develop mathematical models that predict variations in progression of ALS in patients with the disease. The Dream ALS Stratification Prize4Life Challenge is a joint undertaking of Sage Bionetworks, a not-for-profit biomedical research organization, Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment…
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Life Sciences Commercialization Firm to Crowdfund IPO
4 June 2015. Innovation Economy Corporation is going public by skipping the usual route of hiring an investment bank, and instead will use crowdfunding to attract investors to its initial public offering of stock. The Riverside, California enterprise, that goes by the trade name ieCrowd, licenses life science and health-related technologies from university research labs…
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Drug-Error Analytics Service Raises $1M in Early Funding
2 October 2014. MedAware, a company harnessing big-data analytics to prevent erroneous drug prescriptions, raised $1 million in its first round of venture financing. The Ra’anana, Israel enterprise completed the funding round led by OurCrowd, an Israeli crowdfunding investment service, with contributions from GE Ventures. The company is the creation of CEO Gidi Stein, a…
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Trial Crowdsources Lung Cancer Biomarker Screening
22 August 2014. A clinical trial at University of Colorado Cancer Center in Aurora is recruiting participants through an online campaign to find people with lung cancer that meet a specific genetic profile who would most likely respond to the drug being tested. The study is led by Ross Camidge, director of the center’s thoracic…
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Heart Assn Challenge Seeks Heart Disease Prevention Tools
11 August 2014. American Heart Association seeks new products to better prevent and manage heart disease and stroke in an open-innovation challenge for early-stage companies in the Midwest. The top three winners will be eligible for awards of up to $20,000, and a chance to pitch their ideas at a November forum on health care…