by RJ Shara | Jul 21, 2021 | Startups
Pangaea began with the launch of guys’s skin care brand name, Lumin, consisting of natural Korean-based formulas. “Pangaea, to date, has been a brand incubator, but post the Series B will broaden to be a vertically incorporated e-commerce platform for other brands. Hong started Pangaea with the launch of guys’s skincare brand name Lumin that consists of natural Korean-based solutions. Pangaea ended up developing proprietary infrastructure, including warehousing, payments and shipping, as a holding business to grow and scale direct-to-consumer brands. The business is currently money circulation positive, and the brand-new financing will make it possible for Pangaea to round out management roles in its brand names and reach the next stage of development with the objective of being “omnichannel male megabrands,” Gani said. 
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by RJ Shara | Jun 1, 2021 | Startups
The world of expert services has long depended on specialists to fill in for projects and projects that may not belong of the course of everyday work, but are vital work nonetheless. Today, a start-up that’s built a market to make it simpler for freelance developers, designers and others with technical abilities with […] Malt raises $97M at a $489M assessment for its freelance marketplace for developers …
by RJ Shara | Apr 28, 2021 | Fundings and Exit
New York headquartered Kaia Health, which offers AI-assisted digital therapies by means of a mobile app for persistent discomfort related to musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions and for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (COPD), has actually raised a $75 million Series C. The round was led by an unnamed leading growth equity fund with support from existing investors, including Optum Ventures, […] In the United States Kaia focuses on activation rate as a percentage of the company population — — and Mehl says this stands between 5%-10%, depending on how the app is interacted to possible users. In February it kicked off a major combination of its patient-facing MSK therapy/pain-management app with a referral system that plugs into services used by other health care providers — — using an escalation algorithm and screening and triage system, which it calls Kaia Entrance — — to recognize clients at threat of needing more intrusive or extreme treatment than the digital treatments its app can supply. “And also work with external medical companies — — physicians etc — and bring our users at the best point to the best physician to avoid any degeneration in pain that we can not deal with in the app. While, for Kaia, it’s deeply focused on building tech to deal with a few specific illness — and so, also, isn’t best suited to basic medical service shipment. 
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by RJ Shara | Mar 18, 2021 | Fundings and Exit, Startups
Cubyn, the Paris-based logistics startup that lets e-merchants outsource fulfilment and delivery logistics, has raised another €35 million in funding. The round is led by Eurazeo and Bpifrance Large Venture, with participation from First Bridge Ventures and Fuse Venture Partners. Existing backers DN Capital, 360 Capital, Bpifrance Smart Cities fund and BNP Paribas Développement followed […] …
by RJ Shara | Oct 1, 2020 | Startups
SOPHiA GENES, the shoutily and badly capitalized-named start-up that’s combining artificial intelligence tools for medical imaging and hereditary sequencing to come up with a more holistic view of illness for much better patient care, has raised $110 million in new financing. The Series F round for the company was led by aMoon an Israeli health care and […]…
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