Our friends at Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), in partnership with the City of New York, are looking for cybersecurity startups to compete in the Cybersecurity Moonshot Challenge, a competition to win a $1 million investment from Jerusalem Venture Partners and the chance to join Hub.NYC.
Read MoreEarlier this week, the team at Strategic Cyber Ventures released a report on the state of the cybersecurity venture market. Venture investors poured $5.3 billion into cybersecurity startups in 2018. This is a 20% increase from 2017, which saw about $4.4 billion in venture capital investment in the cybersecurity space.
Read MoreWhat we’re reading in urban tech, real estate, and construction tech news this week.
Read MoreOn this special edition of Marketing Matters, Americus is joined by Eran Ofir, CEO and Cofounder, and Dr. Charles Herman, Chief Medical Officer of Somatix. Somatix has created cutting edge technology for the health care industry in the form of a real-time gesture detection platform that utilizes sensors built into a range of wearables, as well as predictive analytics and machine learning to passively monitor, remotely track, analyze, and deliver insights and help act on massive volumes of detected gesture data.
Read MoreDreamit is designed to help pre-Series A startups with a market-ready product and traction acquire new enterprise customers and raise their next institutional round of funding. Learn more about the day-to-day structure of the program and how it allows founders to scale their companies in a flexible way.
Read MoreRaising money for your cybersecurity or physical security startup? We compiled a list of 101 venture capital firms that focus on investing in security startups to help make the process of closing your next round as easy as possible.
Read MoreRead our latest UrbanTech newsletter for industry news, funding announcements, real estate and construction trends, events, and more.
Read MoreDreamit SecureTech and SOSA are teaming up to host a night of networking, learning, and startup demos with founders and venture investors from the New York cybersecurity community. We’re looking for 10 pre-”Series A” startups to pitch their products to investors at the event.
Read MoreAccording to RE:tech, venture investors deployed over $3.2 billion into real estate tech startups in November. The majority of this capital went to just three companies. WeWork raised $3 billion, while Nested and PropertyFinder raised just over $120 million each. All other earlier stage real estate tech startups split the remaining $34 million of total funding in November.
Read MoreDreamit designed Customer Sprints to help startups overcome challenges and accelerate customer acquisition. Over 50 “startup-ready” corporates that are eager to purchase and pilot early-stage technologies from pre-Series A founders make up Dreamit’s Customer Network.
Read MoreDreamit alum MPOWER Financing, a fintech company providing educational loans to high-potential international and DACA students, has completed its largest funding round to-date with $110 million in new financing for students enrolling in major US universities.
Read MoreCherre, a real estate data platform that completed Dreamit UrbanTech in 2018, announced a $9 million seed funding round led by Navitas Capital. Cherre provides large enterprises, insurance companies, banks and investors with a platform to collect, augment, and resolve property data in real-time from thousands of public, private, and internal sources, allowing them to evaluate investment and underwriting opportunities more accurately and efficiently than ever before.
Read MoreDreamit startup Lia has been named one of TIME magazine’s Best Inventions of 2018.
Read MoreAndrew Ackerman sits down for a brief interview with Atlanta-based 3Ci CONNECT at Built Tech Week to discuss the Dreamit UrbanTech program.
Read MoreDreamit HealthTech alum Biorealize has developed the B | Reactor, which is a device that automates the biofabrication cycle and makes it easier to design with biology. Read the story of how the startup’s co-founders started the company at University of Pennsylvania and worked with Dreamit HealthTech.
Read MoreDreamit HealthTech alum Fellow launched its connected pillbox and medication adherence service last week with backing from Independence Blue Cross, Penn Medicine, and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Learn more about Fellow’s product and the launch.
Read MoreEko, a Dreamit HealthTech alum, announced a new partnership with Mayo Clinic at the end of last week. The two organizations will collaborate to create a product that replaces echocardiograms and detects low ejection fraction in the heart.
Read MoreEver since we started CYR3CON, we are continually surprised at the hype cycle surrounding the application of machine learning. Many marketers opportunistically see it as another angle to entice buyers — and in talking to CSO’s — their frustration with the hype, equivocation, and machine learning marketing charlatans is palpable.
Read MoreDreamit SecureTech startup CYR3CON, which helps companies predict and prevent cyber attacks using artificial intelligence, announced a $1.5 million seed round led by Scout Ventures, with participation from Michael Sutton (former CISO, Zscaler), Aleksandr Yampolskiy (CEO, SecurityScorecard), Steven Witt (former CEO, Onyara and Partner/Co-Founder of DataTribe), and Steve Hassell, (former CIO, Emerson).
Read MoreDreamit HealthTech alum Oncora Medical and Northwell Health recently announced a partnership where the health system will use Oncora’s product to analyze its datasets and create more personalized treatments for cancer patients.
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