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Check out new developments from healthcare startups such as Bright.md and funding opportunities from OurCrowd. The post StartUPDATES: New developments for healthcare startups appeared firs...

https://medcitynews.com/2020/06/startupdates-new-developments-for-healthcare-startups-11/

The Houston-based company is crowdfunding its way to providing new hope for glioblastoma patients. The post CNS Pharma tries new therapeutic, financing approaches against glioblastoma appe...

https://medcitynews.com/2018/04/cns-pharma-tries-new-therapeutic-financing-approaches-against-glioblastoma/

In addition to supporting programs in disease prevention and improving access to care in developing countries, CaringCrowd has also hosted projects raising funds for underserved populations i...

https://medcitynews.com/2017/06/jjs-global-health-crowdfunding-website-caringcrowd/

MPIRICA Health is one of 24 healthcare companies that OurCrowd has invested in since January last year. The post MPIRICA Health raises $4.6M for transparency tools to support procedure venu...

https://medcitynews.com/2017/04/mpirica-health-raises-4-6m-transparency-tools-evaluate-procedures-based-price-quality/

Scanadu broke crowdfunding records in 2013 when it raised more than $1.6 million on Indiegogo’s website for tricorder device with the goal of measuring vital signs from home. Now, the company i...

https://medcitynews.com/2016/12/scanadu-shutting-down-tricorder/

Secure Exchange of Encrypted Data (SEED) Protocol met its Kickstarter goal in one day. The post Startup’s new approach to health IT cybersecurity succeeds on Kickstarter appeared first o...

https://medcitynews.com/2016/10/startup-cybersecurity-kickstarter/

This week Vascular Designs launched a $500,000 crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in a bid to get its infusion catheter back into production and, hopefully, begin saving lives. The post Cro...

https://medcitynews.com/2016/10/crowdfunding-campaign-for-infusion-catheter/

In conjunction with the news of Oz’s participation, iBeat is launching a heart-monitoring smartwatch on Indiegogo. The post Dr. Oz invests in startup iBeat, which launches heart-monitorin...

https://medcitynews.com/2016/09/dr-oz-startup-ibeat/

In November, Fruit Street announced it had raised $4 million from 70 physicians. The amended filing shows it has raised an additional $1.4 million since then from 50 more investors. The pos...

https://medcitynews.com/2016/06/telehealth-nutrition-consults/

Funding priorities outlined on the website include physician supply, diagnosing and treating particular illnesses, educating people about their health, and providing better equipment and more...

https://medcitynews.com/2016/03/johnson-johnson-crowdfunding-global-public-health-projects/

A remote monitoring business, People Power, launched an Indiegogo campaign this week to promote its Presence Pro Care sensor tech aimed at caregivers. The post A crowdfunding campaign sparks th...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/11/remote-monitoring/

Dependence on sleeping pills is a problem for many people, but other therapies aren’t always very successful. The designer of SleepCogni believes his device is the answer to not just monitoring...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/11/the-bedside-sleepcogni-device-an-insomniacs-new-best-friend/

The health innovation crowdfunding crowd has been waiting for these rules for quite some time, as has the rest of the crowdfunding fan club. Was it worth the wait? The post Crowdfunding rule ha...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/11/crowdfunding-rule-finalized/

The crowdfunding campaign will support sales and marketing for a smartphone-mounted dermatascope to scan images of moles for board-certified dermatologists to assess. The post Teledermatology b...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/10/teledermatology-indiegogo-campaign-for-smart-mole-scanner/

Physician assistant Jorge Muniz is hoping to raise $15,000 to turn “Medcomic,” his collection of drawings he has completed over the past 2 1/2 years, into a book. The post Comics for medica...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/10/comics-medical-education-kickstarter/

Medical device startups are more frequently crowdfunding, asking consumers to fund the development of their devices. But this creates a legal grey area – because the companies are selling produ...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/09/the-legal-gray-area-of-medical-device-crowdfunding/

A collaboration between Curious and OURA ring will use the wearable to seek answers to crowdsourced questions on sleep after fulfilling its Kickstarter campaign goal. The post To probe answers ...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/08/to-probe-answers-to-sleep-questions-curious-and-oura-ring-activity-tracker-partner-up/

A new data security company called Cloud-Clout launched Thursday on Kickstarter with some pretty bold claims about cloud security. The post Startup Cloud-Clout claims ‘bulletproof’ cloud se...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/07/startup-cloud-clout-claims-bulletproof-cloud-security-hackers-salivate/

Access to capital and liquidity are two of the fundamental building blocks for innovation and a healthy economy. In passing Regulation A+, the SEC has created the most favorable regulatory enviro...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/04/sec-set-stage-healthcare-investing-explosion/

A new SEC rule change will allow startups to crowdfund for much, much larger sums of money. What does this mean for the life sciences industry? Consider this scenario: You’re an early stage b...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/03/ipo-lite-sec-rule-change-means-life-sciences-startups/

Biotechs may be flush with cash, thanks to the ol’ bullish IPO market and an uptick in venture funding. But startups remain on the lookout for alternative funding models – with crowdsourcin...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/02/cell-therapy-may-just-raised-1m-crowdfunding-place-biotech/

Several companies, most notably Glooko and Dexcom have developed different approaches to de-siloing diabetics’ blood-glucose level readings from glucose meters to mobile devices to make it easi...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/01/diabeto-throws-hat-remote-monitoring-glucose-levels-ring/

As I mentioned last week, my family lost several people this year. As I result, I have done a lot of house cleaning – purging, throwing away, donating, and reorganizing. This has really changed...

https://medcitynews.com/2014/12/three-healthcare-campaigns-support-giving-tuesday/

Chai Biotechnologies has developed an open-sourced model of the the real-time PCR machine – updating the traditional DNA-duplication model by spitting out data.It’s crowdsourcing for fundin...

https://medcitynews.com/2014/11/open-sourced-real-time-pcr-machine-doubles-crowdsourcing-goal/

Palo Alto biotech Gardedam Therapeutics is taking the crowdfunding route to raise $195,000 funding for its Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease drug candidate. And it’s offering up perks li...

https://medcitynews.com/2014/11/gardedam-therapeutics-name-drug-donate-enough-crowdfunding-effort/

Researcher Erica Ollmann Saphire is getting sent Ebola samples faster than she can process them at her Scripps Research Institute lab, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports, so she’s turned to c...

https://medcitynews.com/2014/10/researchers-crowdfunding-help-fund-ebola-sample-analysis/

British startup Andiamo is in the midst of a crowdfunding effort on Indiegogo to develop 3D-printed, custom orthotics for disabled children. It’s working toward a £60,000 – or $100,000(ish) ...

https://medcitynews.com/2014/09/british-startup-crowdfunding-3d-printed-orthotics/

Gaming in healthcare has a new supporter in funnyman Will Ferrell, who’s the face of a new crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a charity that provides video games to children with cancer. ...

https://medcitynews.com/2014/09/crowdfunding-therapeutic-video-games-will-ferrell-something-common/

The big trend in the sleep tracking sector is to make these devices less invasive. What’s less invasive than a watch or a clip-on wearable for your jammies? How about an aesthetically pleasing ...

https://medcitynews.com/2014/07/aesthetically-pleasing-sleep-tracker-factors-room-environment/

There’s a panoply of alternative funding streams for healthcare startups out there — fledgling companies are seeking out avenues like prepaid revenue models, grant funding in lieu of venture...

https://medcitynews.com/2014/07/healthcare-startups-finding-alternative-funding-support-models/