BioHealth News Archive
This 15-year-old 3D printed a case that turns an iPhone into a stethoscope & started a company
Here’s a testament to how 3D printing is making rapid prototyping more accessible to startups and entrepreneurs. Pictured here is a smartphone case designed…
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NHLBI Small Biz Hangouts: Conquering the (Regulatory) Basics – Navigating the FDA Website
Featuring Chris Sasiela, PhD, RAC, Regulatory Strategist, Office of Translational Alliances and Coordination, NHLBI, this inaugural Hangout, “Navigating the FDA website,” will provide biomedical…
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DreamIt Ventures joins Y Combinator and TechStars on list of top 15 accelerators
MIT professor Yael V. Hochberg revealed the most effective startup accelerators in the country Tuesday at SxSW in Austin. DreamIt Health showed up in…
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Team Juxtopia® Imhotep Competes in Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE The Telemedicine Olympics
Juxtopia®’s (www.juxtopia.org) team, Juxtopia® Imhotep, formed as a program to create minority telemedicine companies to address telemedicine marketplace needs. The global telemedicine market grew…
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DreamIt Health Accepting Applications for Third Class (INTERVIEW)
DreamIt Ventures continues its investment in the health tech space by launching its third DreamIt Health program. We’ve previously covered the 2013 DreamIt Health…
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Biotech IPO March Continues; Aquinox and Recro Rise – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ
The IPO wave kept rolling for venture-capital-backed biotech as two life science companies held their first trading day Friday, while another estimated a price…
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When everyone says your tech idea is impossible, here’s what you do – VentureBeat
To celebrate Women’s Day, we hobnobbed with 24 year-old Silicon Valley-based high-tech startup founder Meredith Perry. She’s audacious, persistent, resourceful and a game changer…
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Wello for Vital Signs Monitoring on Your iPhone
A number of devices now exist that turn smartphones into medical monitors, but they tend to focus on specific vital signs and you’d have…
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Venture debt: An increasingly common source of alternative funding for life science startups
Debt isn’t always a dirty word in the world of startups. Yesterday I heard John Hoesley from Silicon Valley Bank give a brief presentation…
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Alejandro Zaffaroni, 91, Biotech Entrepreneur on Medical Frontier, Dies – NYTimes.com
Alejandro Zaffaroni, a prolific biotechnology entrepreneur and Silicon Valley legend who played a significant role in the development of the birth control pill, the…
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8th Annual University Startups Conference – March 20-21, 2014 – Washington, DC
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MARCH 14 The 8th Annual Entrepreneurial University Startups Conference is organized annually by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2.org). The…
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Top 10 Sites for Biotech Venture Capital in US — 2013 – The Big Red Biotech Blog
Fierce Biotech today published the top 15 sites in the US for biotech venture capital in 2013. This according to figures from the National…
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What Will United Therapeutics do With Over $1 Billion in Cash? – Metro Business Media
Silver Spring-based United Therapeutics (NASDAQ: UTHR) finished off 2013 with a strong showing, collecting revenues of over $1.1 billion for the first time in…
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DreamIt Ventures launches new microfund powered by AngelList (exclusive) – VentureBeat
Startup incubator DreamIt Ventures Austin is kicking off a new microfund this week that will benefit the companies involved with its second accelerator program.…
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Founders Fund is loaded with a new $1B fund. Here’s a look at what it’s been doing in healthcare
The rumors were true – kind of: The Founders Fund has been out raising a massive amount of cash for a fifth fund, but…
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