Tagged: medical

December 8, 2015 @ 1:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, crowdfunding platform focused on Healthcare Innovation, MedStartr, announced the winners of the MedStartr Momentum 2015 Conference. More than 200 attended the conference held at NYC’s Microsoft Technology Center generating 12 million impressions on Twitter with hashtag #MedMo15. Speakers at the first full-day conference included:… Read More

November 9, 2015 @ 3:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Consano, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit crowdfunding platform that focuses on medical research campaigns, today announced the launch of Honor Funds, a new initiative that allows individuals and groups to create a dedicated online hub to raise funds for a specific research project. Consano developed the Honor… Read More

November 4, 2015 @ 2:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, Give To Cure announced the launch of its nonprofit platform that accelerates drug development through “cure-funding,” or funding promising clinical trials directly and transparently by harnessing the power of the crowd. Lou Reese, co-founder of Give To Cure, stated: “We’ve created a science-driven community that… Read More

September 26, 2015 @ 10:25 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, crowdfunding platform Crowdrise initiated its fourth 24 Hour Impact Project. This campaign was created to help change lives of certain individuals within 24 hours. According to News Medical, Crowdrise flew Saturday night personality, Nicole Myint, to El Campo, Honduras with the goal of helping… Read More

September 17, 2015 @ 4:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Electrospinning Company, a UK SME that was established in 2010 to develop products utilizing the world-class electrospinning platform, has launched an crowdfunding campaign on SyndicateRoom to raise £450,000 for what it believes to the world’s first synthetic corneal epithelial transplant. The company noted that corneal blindness affects around… Read More

September 16, 2015 @ 4:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Rare Genomics Institute (RG), announced that the launching of ten separate crowdfunding campaigns to help patients with rare diseases pinpoint the causes of their illnesses. All amounts raised will go towards exome sequencing, which is a method of partial genome sequencing to find… Read More

September 2, 2015 @ 11:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday,  Indiegogo announced a new feature on its other platform, Indiegogo Life: A fundraising page dedicated to medical projects. The global crowdfunding platform declared: “Though the uninsured rate among US adults has dropped more than 4 percentage points since passage of the Affordable Care… Read More

July 30, 2015 @ 10:32 am By Karsten Wenzlaff  |  

When the Crowd Helps Women to Become Pregnant Entrepreneurs Juliane Zielonka and Julia Lazaro are two energetic founders in the sprawling Berlin startup scene. Their latest creation, LARACompanion, is designed to help families with their desire to have children. LARACompanion is the derivative of a women’s… Read More

July 29, 2015 @ 8:30 am By Chris Tyrrell  |  

  Innovation means creating something that makes a process or product more efficient. The result can be a price reduction passed on to consumers in the short run, or an increase in the speed at which a business operates. Ultimately, innovation serves as the backbone… Read More

July 26, 2015 @ 11:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

A trip to the dentist is right up there with visiting your bank or calling your ISP. While probably not as bad as calling your ISP, dentistry today will be consider barbaric in the not so distant future and Reminova views itself as a significant… Read More

July 14, 2015 @ 1:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Picwell, the company that focuses on providing a recommendation engine for health plan selection, today announced that it has closed its Series A round of funding totaling more than $4 million. MassMutual Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual), led the… Read More

July 3, 2015 @ 9:17 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK company Fertility Focus  and its product Ovusense is said to deliver a 99% accuracy in predicting ovulation.  The company states that 30% of women have ovulatary issues – most of which are difficult to discern.  They also state that over 50% of women are… Read More

June 16, 2015 @ 10:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Acar’Up, a pharmaceutical laboratory specialising in the fight against allergies set itself a challenge to raise €100,000 in 1 hour.  The goal was met in just 8 minutes. According to company representatives, Acar’Up set a window to invest on June 1st, from 12 noon to 1PM…. Read More

June 11, 2015 @ 4:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

RealtyMogul, an online capital markets portal for real estate investing, announced today that it had successfully completed its equity capital raise for a multi-tenant medical office building in a large metropolitan area in Texas. RealtyMogul’s accredited investors used its peer-to-peer marketplace to help purchase the property…. Read More

June 10, 2015 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Internet finance is quickly replacing brick and mortar banks. While the days of healing to your local branch to try and charm a curmudgeonly loan officer may be numbered, there is still tons of finance verticals prime for disruption.  PrimaHealth Credit is targeting one of… Read More

May 26, 2015 @ 10:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

In an effort to beat a disease that has plagued his wife’s life for nearly a decade, husband of California actress, Rachel Farrokh, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe with a mission to raise funds to help fight her battle against anorexia. As the illness continues… Read More

May 13, 2015 @ 3:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Nike, Jibo and Sonos design veterans have partnered up to create a “Cur” a smart pain relief wearable that wants to provide a solution to chronic pain, something that impacts more than half of the adults in the US. If you are someone that lives with chronic… Read More

May 8, 2015 @ 10:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

It’s a devastating story that has been shocking America for a couple months now. A Colorado woman by the name of Dynel Lane took to online personal website Craigslist to sell some baby clothes. Future mom Michelle Wilkins responded to the ad and met with Lane on March 18th… Read More

April 28, 2015 @ 10:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Patient financing company, American Healthcare Lending (AHCL), announced this week that it has officially changed its name to Prosper Healthcare Lending (PHL). This change comes after AHCL was acquired in January by Prosper Marketplace, which operates the largest privately held online marketplace for credit. PHL will continue… Read More

April 27, 2015 @ 12:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In an effort to help those who were affected by this past weekend’s devastating earthquake in Nepal, five crowdfunding campaigns on Indiegogo have successfully captured over $100,000 for the cause. According to BBC, at least 3,617 people are now known to have died in a… Read More