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Truepill, the ‘AWS for pharmacies,’ gets $10M from Initialized Capital

sudshr47 March 12, 2019 Startups

Meet the B2B business powering today’s D2C healthcare brands.

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Canvas Ventures hires former Social Capital GP Mike Ghaffary

sudshr47 March 11, 2019

Mike Ghaffary left Social Capital in August, shortly before the firm announced it would no longer raise outside capital.

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Funerals are tough. Ever Loved helps you pay for them

sudshr47 March 9, 2019 Startups

Alison Johnston didn’t plan to build a startup around death. An early employee at Q&A app Aardvark that was bought by Google, she’d founded tutoring app InstaEDU and sold it to Chegg. She made mass market consumer products. But then, “I had a family member who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and I thought about […]

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The death of once high-flying VC funds

sudshr47 September 25, 2018

They all started with the best of intentions. Formation 8 talked about bringing “smart enterprise” to the corporate world. Social Capital talked about how to “fix capitalism,” and Binary Capital wanted to “affect global behaviour change.” Rothenberg Ventures set out to “work on the biggest problems that change the world.” Young founding partners debuting change-the-world […]

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Gawker is relaunching in early 2019

sudshr47 September 11, 2018

After a two-year hiatus, Gawker is coming back. Peter Thiel, be damned. Bustle-owner Bryan Goldberg, who paid $1.35 million for rights to the defunct gossip site in a bankruptcy auction in July, wrote in a memo to Bustle staff Tuesday that Gawker would relaunch next year with Amanda Hale, the former chief revenue officer of […]

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As biological manufacturing moves to the mainstream, Synvitrobio rebrands and raises cash

sudshr47 September 11, 2018

The pace at which the scientific breakthroughs working to bend the machinery of life to the whims of manufacturing have transformed into real businesses has intensified competition in the biomanufacturing market. That’s just one reason why Synvitrobio is rebranding as it takes on $2.6 million in new financing to pursue opportunities in biopharmaceutical and biochemical manufacturing. […]

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Prisma co-founders raise $1M to build a social app called Capture

sudshr47 June 18, 2018 Startups

Two of the co-founders of the art filter app Prisma have left to build a new social app. Prisma, as you may recall, had a viral moment back in 2016 when selfie takers went crazy for the fine art spin the app’s AI put on photos — in just a few seconds of processing. Downloads leapt, art […]