US Food Tech companies are on fire, raising over $1B in 2014. And the majority of these companies are looking to feed consumers in a faster/more efficient way. This has led investors like Jason Calacanis to make bold statements like “The future of restaurants is no restaurant”.
With this in mind, we plotted how different spaces ranging from traditional restaurants to prepared meal delivery to chefs on-demand that are all competing to feed consumers relate to each other on the premise of convenience and time to meal.
GE said today it would sell its U.S. Sponsor Finance business for approximately $12 billion to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The deal marks another big milestone on GE’s path to sell most of its banking businesses and return to industrials, a strategic shift the company announced in April.
“This announcement is the next step in GE’s transformation to a more focused industrial company,” said Keith Sherin, chairman and CEO of GE Capital. “The sale of Sponsor Finance aligns with our strategy to pair a smaller GE Capital with GE’s long-term industrial growth.”
Virtual reality and augmented reality are still in their infancy, but both spaces are developing quickly. Almost all of the large tech companies have shown interest, including Google (Google Cardboard), Facebook (acquisition of Oculus VR for a reported $2B), Microsoft (HoloLens) and Apple (acquisition of Metaio). As AR and VR devices and applications slowly make their way into offices and households, we used CB Insights data to highlight emerging VR and AR startups that are worth keeping an eye on.
Wasting no time in preparing for commercialization of its surgical robot system, TransEnterix is pulling out plans to raise $50 million through a stock sale intended to finance sales and marketing of the technology.
Medical Informatics, a Houston healthcare IT company, has received FDA clearance to sell the first version of its healthcare data alert system, a major milestone as it works to bring its product to market.
The company is focusing on “alarm management,” with software that aggregates patient data in the hospital gathered from devices like heart rate monitors in real-time in order to alert healthcare providers to an impending issue, say, a heart attack.
“We’re working toward data transformation to provide more actionable information to clinicians rather than raw data,” says Chris Raff, Medical Informatics’ chief financial officer and chief operating officer.
Cars can feel a little outdated given the plethora of technology available nowadays, especially if they’re a few years old. That’s where Vinli comes in, a Dallas-based company that has received $6.5 million of venture funding for its connected-car device that lets developers build apps for automobiles.
El cáncer de mama es una de las principales causas de muerte en mujeres en países desarrollados. Este término engloba realmente distintas patologías desde el punto de vista de las características moleculares, el desarrollo de la enfermedad, el pronóstico de las pacientes y su tratamiento. Existe un subtipo de cáncer de mama que se caracteriza por presentar elevados niveles de la proteína HER2. Esta proteína desencadena respuestas en las células tumorales que llevan a su proliferación y supervivencia. Desde hace algo más de una década, las pacientes con este tipo de tumores reciben como tratamiento un medicamento (Trastuzumab/Herceptin) que bloquea selectivamente a HER2, frenando así las respuestas protumorales que induce esta proteína.
Startup Arcadia Data is today coming out of stealth mode and revealing its business-intelligence application for analyzing data sitting inside the Hadoop open-source software, which can hold lots of different kinds of data. The startup is also announcing today that it has taken on a $11.5 million funding round.
People can now download Arcadia’s software for Mac and Windows for free. An enterprise version with advanced analytics, security features, and higher performance will ship by the end of the year.
Experts from the European Food Safey Authority (EFSA) have confirmed previous conclusions that acrylamide, a chemical substance formed when heating foods like potato chips, barbecued meat, and bread, potentially increases the risk of developing cancer.
EFSA's Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM) said it stood by a draft opinion, published in July last year, which concluded on an increased risk of cancer caused by acrylamide.
Over the past year, EFSA held a public consultation to improve its scientific opinion on acrylomide, but left its conclusions unchanged, the agency announced on Thursday (4 June).
