Kenya’s Tawi takes on auditory processing disorder to win Microsoft Imagine Cup Microsoft’s student tech-for-good competition, the Imagine Cup, has crowned this year’s winner: Tawi, a team from Kenya that applied machine…
Category: Biotech & Health
Wellen taps OpenAI’s GPT for a chatbot that dishes advice on bone health
Wellen taps OpenAI’s GPT for a chatbot that dishes advice on bone health What are AI chatbots good for? Lovers of sci-fi novels may recall the “librarian”, a character in Neal Stephenson’s…
Patient21, a digital healthcare startup with brick-and-mortar clinics, raises $108M to grow beyond Germany
Patient21, a digital healthcare startup with brick-and-mortar clinics, raises $108M to grow beyond Germany Patient21, a four-year-old German startup that combines a digital healthcare platform with real-world brick-and-mortar clinics, has raised €100…
UK Court tosses class-action style health data misuse claim against Google DeepMind
UK Court tosses class-action style health data misuse claim against Google DeepMind Google has prevailed against another UK class-action style privacy lawsuit after a London court dismissed a lawsuit filed last year…
Time’s up for Elizabeth Holmes
Time’s up for Elizabeth Holmes After years of high-profile court proceedings, Elizabeth Holmes could actually be headed to prison. For real this time. The former Theranos founder and CEO was found guilty…
Singapore’s Ora takes a vertically-integrated approach to telehealth
Singapore’s Ora takes a vertically-integrated approach to telehealth According to the founder of Singapore-based telehealth platform Ora, 90% of its patients are less than 39 years old and have not been treated…
Youth mental health startup Somethings launches with a $3.2M raise led by General Catalyst
Youth mental health startup Somethings launches with a $3.2M raise led by General Catalyst When he was 10 years old, Patrick Gilligan’s childhood struggle with food began. Placed on a caloric-restrictive diet…
NewLimit, cofounded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, raises $40M to extend life
NewLimit, cofounded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, raises $40M to extend life NewLimit, a 1.5-year-old, San Francisco-based, 17-person company that aims to increase the number of healthy years each person lives by…
Cold-chain startup Figorr raises $1.5M, backs the roll out of data-driven perishables insurance
Cold-chain startup Figorr raises $1.5M, backs the roll out of data-driven perishables insurance Oghenetega Iortim built Nigerian-based cold chain startup Figorr after imagining better means of storage and transportation of temperature-sensitive products,…
Ryan Breslow’s Love health, wellness marketplace goes live
Ryan Breslow’s Love health, wellness marketplace goes live Ryan Breslow, the brazen founder and former CEO of Bolt, told TechCrunch in 2022 that he was leaving the one-click checkout company to start…