NYC Tech News for the week ending 10/17 featuring news for Argyle, Playbook, Clair, and much more…
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Twentyeight Health Raises $5.1M to Expand Access to Reproductive Healthcare for Underserved Communities
Today, low-income women are three times more likely to have an unintended pregnancy than the average woman in the US, and nearly one-third of physicians nationwide aren’t accepting new Medicaid patients. Twentyeight Health is on a mission to provide women with access to affordable sexual and reproductive healthcare. The company’s telemedicine platform, launched in 2018, allows patients to seamlessly consult with physicians online, order 100+ FDA-approved brands of birth control of various types, and delivers within 1-3 business days. AlleyWatch caught up with Twentyeight Health founders (both former Bain consultants) Bruno Van Tuykom and Amy Fan to learn more about how certain segments of the population struggle with access to reliable contraception options, the company’s impressive traction, and recent funding round from investors that include Third Prime, Town Hall Ventures, SteelSky Ventures, Aglaé Ventures, GingerBread Capital, Rucker Park Capital, Predictive VC and strategic angels including Stu Libby, Zoe Barry, and Wan Li Zhu.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/14/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/14/2020 featuring funding details for Augury, Calber, and much more.
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 10/12/20
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup fundings for the week ending 10/10/20 featuring funding details for Observe, goPuff, Onapsis, and thirteen more rounds you must know about.
Noom Raises Another $58M To Redefine Your Relationship with Food Based on Psychology
Many people tend to turn to various figures – celebrities, influencers, bodybuilders – for answers about food and how to live a healthy lifestyle, but you can’t look at others to understand your personal relationship with food. Noom helps people live a healthier lifestyle through its interdisciplinary, psychology-based program that is rooted in Cognitive Behavioral […]
#NYCtech Week in Review: 5/5/19-5/11/19
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 5/13/19
Notable startup fundings for the week ending 5/11/19 featuring funding details for Noom, Sumo Logic, ChowNow, and much more
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 5/6/2019
The latest venture capital seed and angel deals for NYC startups for 5/6/2019 featuring funding details for Noom.