Dreamit UrbanTech was created in partnership with Jeff Vinik and his $3B urban redevelopment of the Tampa waterfront (Forbes: Why Jeff Vinik and Bill Gates are Investing $3B in Tampa). Dreamit CEO Avi Savar and Chief Innovation Officer Steve Barsh sat down for a webinar Q&A with Jeff Vinik about the accelerator, the project in Tampa, and the future of cities. Watch the AMA here.

The startup, which was co-founded by CEO Danny Weissberg and CTO Stas Tiomkin, is a graduate of the DreamIt Health accelerator. Investors in Voiceitt’s seed round include Amit Technion, Dreamit Ventures, Quake Capital, Buffalo Angels, 1,000 Angels and other angels.

Real estate is the most valuable asset in the world. According to Fortune, all of the world’s real estate is worth more than $217,000,000,000. The construction industry employs 6,000,000 people. It also creates close to $1,000,000,000,000 in buildings and structures each year. Take a moment to think about those statistics. They’re mind-blowing. Land and property are extremely valuable. Businesses that develop property and facilitate the exchange of land are also quite profitable. So why are there not more startups disrupting these industries? 

Eight breakthrough companies accepted into the 5th year of Dreamit Health. A partnership with Penn Medicine and Independence Blue Cross has helped to launch companies like BioBots, Biomeme, TowerView Health, Wellth and nearly 75 others.

In health, it has always taken partnerships to communicate with and serve an audience in a meaningful way; businesses of all sorts have long been a mash-up of skills in art and a host of sciences. That hasn’t changed. Partnerships can often be arrangements of conformity: acquisitions or vendor relationships crafted to help validate the version of the story the entity in the catbird seat has chosen. These only help strengthen the forces governing the gravitational pull of the familiar.

Tine Health uses just-in-time education to reduce preventable medical errors, saving both lives and money. Read a profile of the Dreamit Health company. 

NarrativeDx, an Austin-based health IT startup that developed a way to analyze patient feedback and visualize that information, has closed a Series A round. The startup was part of Dreamit 2014, along with BioBots, Tissue Analytics, RegDesk and TowerView Health. 

Kaizen has partnered with Lyft to get patients to healthcare providers cheaply, reducing patient discharge times and missed or late appointments for providers.

Every year 3.6 million Americans miss or delay medical treatment due to a lack of transportation, and every year missed appointments cost our country $150B. Mindi Knebel discovered this problem when, over the course of a month, both sides of her family in rural Iowa and in urban Chicago were unable to find affordable, reliable transportation to access healthcare.

When creating a marketing campaign or ad set, asking the question “What’s Powerful Now?” is critical. As a startup, you must deliver value dynamically for users in the moment they seek your service, and you must harness the rapid pace of behavioral change in today’s health journeys.

Health tech funding news, stories, and policy updates. 

One of the common themes coming out of the awards shows these days is that marketing to Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) just isn’t cutting it from a creative point of view.  All too often, we hear that no trophy was given within the HCP categories.  But why is this area of health marketing so under-served when it comes to ideas and innovation. Graham Mills of Digitas Health explains.

Redox, the leading integration platform for digital healthcare applications and health systems, announced today that the Intermountain Healthcare Innovation Fund has invested $1 million as a follow-on to the company's recently announced Series B, bringing the final closing to $10 million. The round was led by RRE Ventures with participation from .406 Ventures, HealthX Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Dreamit Ventures.

What we're reading in the world of digital health startups, policy, and fundraising announcements.. 

I was exchanging emails with the founder of one of the larger startup pitch conferences. He had asked me if I would promote his event with some of the Dreamit startups who are currently fundraising. Normally, I’m happy to share these opportunities with our alumni but in this case, this was a pay-to-pitch event and, as a general rule, I’m not a fan of that model.

Who stands to benefit from the shift to value based care? What is the payment relationship between each of these entities (cash payments, contractual fees, wholesale pricing, chargebacks, reimbursements, data sharing, etc.)? What innovations are making each of these pieces more efficient? This panel aims to provide an illuminating look at how money flows through the healthcare system from the perspective of top healthcare innovation officers.

The most innovative healthcare providers around the country are doing their part to expand access in local communities, but this effort must be complemented by technology developed outside of these organizational structures to make a broad impact across society.

What we're reading about digital health, investments, and venture capital. 

Two dreamit startups have taken top prizes in their industry pitch competitions at South by Southwest. Keriton, a breast milk management startup, beat out 150 other companies to win the South by Southwest Impact Pediatric Health Pitch Competition. A day later, 101 EDU, which encourages active learning in STEM classrooms, won top prize at Student Startup Madness, a nationwide tournament-style competition digital media startups.

Dreamit startup among those honored by AARP at its Innovation @ 50+ Event.