Healthcare Analytics firms could garner a billion dollars of investor financing in 2014. A number of top tier VC investors are attacking the sector.
Within Big Data, the Healthcare Analytics space is very hot with funding on pace to potentially hit $1 billion in 2014. In February of this year, we highlighted the growth in the space in 2013, and in just the first half of 2014, the space is attracting even more funding. Through the first half of 2013, Healthcare Analytics startups have taken in over $400 million in investor funding versus $155 million in all of 2013. This represents 161% funding growth already.
In an agreement announced last week, China and the United States, which together account for some 45 percent of the globe’s total carbon dioxide emissions, pledged to make significant efforts in the next 10 to 15 years to limit their CO2 emissions.
It’s the first time China has publicly committed to halting the decades-long rise of its CO2 emissions. However, due to economic factors and policy shifts, China may be poised to achieve this goal even earlier than promised.
A new wristband from a startup called Empatica is built for people with epilepsy—it hopes to detect their seizures and alert family when they’re in the throes of one—but it could also appeal to people who simply want a sleek-looking gadget for logging activities and stress.
Empatica, which builds wearable devices to measure how biological signals relate to emotions, sought $100,000 in crowdfunding for the device, called Embrace, on IndieGoGo in mid-November. The company met that goal after a day of soliciting donations, and has since raised more than $50,000 on top of it.
Amazon.com revealed its latest-generation warehouse in time for Cyber Monday. The warehouse uses robotics, vision systems, and other high-end tech to speed up deliveries for its ecommerce customers.
Seattle-based Amazon said its eighth-generation fulfillment center uses 20 years’ worth of software and mechanical innovations. The company plans to build 10 warehouses based on the technology that it has developed.
Como cada inicio de mes, repasamos las inversiones más importantes que se han cerrado en el sector de las startups tecnológicas en España durante el mes anterior, en este caso el de noviembre.
Un año más. 2014 también va a acabar en Gipuzkoa con el traspaso a manos foráneas de algunas de sus empresas más emblemáticas e importantes. Unido al cierre de otras, otra constante durante la crisis, se ahonda en una tendencia que hace ya tiempo preocupa a empresarios, trabajadores, proveedores, clientes y gobernantes por lo que supone de alejamiento de los centros de decisión. Patricio Echeverría pasó en marzo a manos del grupo canadiense ITG, Policlínica Gipuzkoa ha anunciado su integración en el grupo estatal con capital británico IDC Salud, y Fagor Electrodomésticos acaba de iniciar una nueva etapa como filial del grupo catalán con capital luxemburgués Cata-CNA.
Socrata, a startup working to make government data more easily accessible to companies and services, has raised $30 million in new funding.
Socrata has raised at least $30 million out of possible $35 million it’s seeking to close, according to a filing it submitted today to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing lists Jai Das of Sapphire Ventures as a director.
The number of objects connected to the Internet and in use will grow 30 percent from this year to next, for a total of 4.9 billion, according to a new report from market research firm Gartner, and will hit 25 billion by 2020.
Along with the growth in the number of devices, Gartner predicts an increase in total spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) to climb from $69.5 billion next year to $263 billion in 2020.
Bidelek Sareak es un proyecto fruto de una alianza público-privada entre el Ente Vasco de la Energía (EVE) e Iberdrola, para el desarrollo de las tecnologías inteligentes en la red de distribución eléctrica, con una inversión conjunta de 60 millones de euros entre 2012 y 2014, y que conlleva la adaptación de casi 850 centros de transformación, la renovación de más de 200.000 contadores y la modernización de una subestación eléctrica. Este proyecto pionero en Europa se está desarrollando ya en Bilbao y Portugalete, y en la zona rural de Lea Artibai (Bizkaia).
El Ayuntamiento de Eibar, junto a las empresas Tekniker-IK4, CodeSyntax y Zermik está desarrollando el proyecto Eibar Open Living Lab, dirigido a recoger datos en la ciudad a través de una red de sensores abiertos basados en Arduino. La iniciativa se presentó en el encuentro LibreCon.
