The Boston area has become a hotbed for companies testing new ways to merge software with fields like healthcare, rehabilitation, and education. One of the more interesting areas of activity is assessing and treating brain health and cognitive disorders.
Those elements have come together in a startup called Constant Therapy, which today announced it raised a $2 million Series A funding round led by Golden Seeds. Other investors in the round include Kapor Capital, Launchpad Venture Group, Pond Capital, and Community Health Network of Connecticut. The three-year-old company has raised a total of about $2.8 million to date.
When you’re shopping online, finding the right piece of clothing can be difficult because it’s hard to be sure about the sizing. Avametric is a fashion software company that has developed technology it hopes will prevent this problem from ever happening again. Today it has raised $10.5 million in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures to bring its product to the retail market.
La alianza entre MONDRAGON Engineering & Business Solutions y Bascotecnia Group posibilitará la oferta de soluciones globales a las necesidades de proyectos internacionales de sus clientes a través de la Ingeniería, Construcción y Gestión Integral de Instalaciones o Infraestructuras tanto industriales como de uso general.
An Israeli startup is making glasses with lenses that can automatically adjust their optical power in real time, which may be a boon to people with age-related trouble focusing on nearby objects and could also be helpful for making virtual reality less nauseating.
The digital currency Bitcoin was designed to be independent of any government—a feature that also limits its mainstream appeal. Now researchers have invented a Bitcoin-like system that could make digital cash more practical by allowing a central bank such as the Federal Reserve to control it.
Attivio, a Newton, Massachusetts-based startup that promises to “accelerate data discovery,” announced today that it closed a $31 million financing round.
The investment, the startup said, will help the company to meet investors’ expectation of turning profitable “later this year.”
Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, arthritis—chronic conditions such as these account for 84% of health care spending. Yet many are preventable. An estimated 40% of all premature deaths can be attributed to lifestyle, such as smoking and inactivity. How can the health care system shift focus (and dollars) from acute to preventative care?
It’s fun to imagine how new technologies and design trends will influence future cars. Car bodies of the future might be completely 3D printed. They may be completely autonomous — and now, they might have multi-directional spherical tires.
Goodyear’s new “Eagle-360” spherical tire concept, recently unveiled at the Geneva International Motor Show, would allow cars of the future to move in all directions by using magnetic levitation, rather than axles, to suspend the tires under the car body.
Robert Bosch is taking on U.S. technology rivals by launching its own cloud computing network to connect up anything from cars to dishwashers via the Internet.
Traditional German industrial companies like Bosch are looking to transform themselves from manufactures of equipment to service providers using data generated by their machines.
Bosch is hoping its engineering expertise will give it an advantage in making the “Internet of Things” (IoT), where objects communicate with each other, a reality for its customers in smart homes, connected mobility or intelligent industry.
Its announcement on Wednesday that it plans build its own cloud puts it in competition with services from U.S. technology giants Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Salesforce.
La fabricación aditiva se basa en el uso de tecnologías láser de aporte de material que conllevan numerosos beneficios en procesos productivos de sectores como el ferrocarril, el aeronáutico, el petroquímico o la automoción. Sin embargo, el coste de desarrollo del proceso y la elevada dependencia de operarios altamente especializados son frenos que limitan su introducción en la industria.
