Video consultation service Doctor on Demand raised $74 million so everyone can see a doctor anytime

Healing America’s broken healthcare industry has been at the top of the priority list for almost every politician, entrepreneur, and inventor for at least the past forty years. Costs continue to climb (roughly 5% this year) and spending is already 20% of the nation’s GDP. For the trillions of dollars Americans spend on healthcare they’re […]

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Safe’s app answers the question “Have you been tested for STDs?”

 The idea for Safe Group, a new Los Angeles company that’s developed a mobile app to track and verify a user’s sexual health, started on the Playa at Burning Man. The company’s chief executive and co-founder Ken Mayer was dating someone at the time who demanded to see the results of a recent STD test before agreeing to have sex. “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t be cool… Read More

View More Safe’s app answers the question “Have you been tested for STDs?”

Safe’s app answers the question “Have you been tested for STDs?”

 The idea for Safe Group, a new Los Angeles company that’s developed a mobile app to track and verify a user’s sexual health, started on the Playa at Burning Man. The company’s chief executive and co-founder Ken Mayer was dating someone at the time who demanded to see the results of a recent STD test before agreeing to have sex. “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t be cool… Read More

View More Safe’s app answers the question “Have you been tested for STDs?”

New startup takes aim at erectile dysfunction, and they’ll even mail your Viagra in a sleek little box

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Move over, cheesy Cialis bathtubs. There’s a sleek new startup targeting men with erectile dysfunction.

A first of its kind, Roman is an app that will screen you for ED, let you talk one-on-one with doctors, and even get prescriptions delivered to your door — all without ever leaving your house. The service, whose wares are packaged in dignified red and black branding, is aiming to take the shame out of the condition for a new generation. 

While an app that dispenses Viagra sounds like something out of an episode of Silicon Valley, in a refreshing turn of events, Roman is not being pitched as a cynical ploy to disrupt your dick. Instead, it’s a personal mission of the company’s CEO, Zachariah Reitano, an earnest software developer who has struggled with erectile dysfunction since he was a teenager.  Read more…

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View More New startup takes aim at erectile dysfunction, and they’ll even mail your Viagra in a sleek little box

New startup takes aim at erectile dysfunction, and they’ll even mail your Viagra in a sleek little box

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Move over, cheesy Cialis bathtubs. There’s a sleek new startup targeting men with erectile dysfunction.

A first of its kind, Roman is an app that will screen you for ED, let you talk one-on-one with doctors, and even get prescriptions delivered to your door — all without ever leaving your house. The service, whose wares are packaged in dignified red and black branding, is aiming to take the shame out of the condition for a new generation. 

While an app that dispenses Viagra sounds like something out of an episode of Silicon Valley, in a refreshing turn of events, Roman is not being pitched as a cynical ploy to disrupt your dick. Instead, it’s a personal mission of the company’s CEO, Zachariah Reitano, an earnest software developer who has struggled with erectile dysfunction since he was a teenager.  Read more…

More about Startups, Apps And Software, Telemedicine, Viagra, and Erectile Dysfunction

View More New startup takes aim at erectile dysfunction, and they’ll even mail your Viagra in a sleek little box