by RJ Shara | Jul 20, 2021 | Startups
On Tuesday, R-Zero, a pandemic-era biosafety business, announced the acquisition of CoWorkr — — a company that develops space occupancy sensors. The acquisition marks a shift in focus for R-Zero as individuals return to work, vaccines are rolled out and companies that emerged in action to the COVID-19 adjust to another phase of the pandemic. […] Biosafety start-up R-Zero obtains CoWorkr to develop an ‘OS for the workplace’ …
by RJ Shara | Apr 27, 2021 | Startups
Let’s be clear: The equity capital industry has actually done not have variety. The good news is the industry is working to improve itself. The objectives of the study– powered by the National Venture Capital Association, Endeavor Forward and Deloitte– are to gather demographic information on the VC labor force throughout all firm types, sizes, sectors, locations and stages, as well as trends on company skill management and recruitment practices. This intentionality equates to enhanced diversity results. Venture firms are fairly little and turnover is generally low, however 21%of firms in 2020 reported their number of senior-level financial investment positions had actually increased, while 43 %said their number of junior-level positions had expanded. More companies are prioritizing these useful conversations, both within their firms and publicly with market peers. 
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by RJ Shara | May 12, 2020 | Startups
Increasing healthcare costs, an aging population, suppressing policies and the intricacy of present-day technological offerings make the trillion-dollar healthcare market ripe for disturbance. Not just are we discovering innovative and brand-new methods to get medical aid, this worldwide pandemic has caused explosive development in telemedicine, health-tracking apps and digital devices– much of which […] We are only starting to see the efficiencies and brand-new capabilities opened up by getting the information organized and using modern techniques. I believe we are about to embark on a new period of open information in healthcare where we lastly resolve the longstanding mission for interoperability with personal privacy mediated by clients. I’m spending time on RPA and open data, which is the crucial to improving health care B2B/infrastructure (see above). If healthcare today is approximately 2x too expensive, getting information streaming is essential to eliminating most of that waste. …
by RJ Shara | Mar 19, 2020 | Fundings and Exit
Hiring chatbot Mya Systems — which uses a conversational AI to grease the recruitment pipeline by automating sourcing for agencies and large enterprises needing to fill lots of vacancies in areas such as retail and warehouse jobs — has closed an $18.75 million Series C. The funding round was led by Notion Capital with participation […] …
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