Banks, investments and financial services are not known to be bastions of transparency — not to the general public, and, as the last financial crisis laid bare, sometimes not even to the people who operate within them. This was a fact known all too well by Andrew Hedley. Working in the area of risk at […]
Fintech Fragment eases ledger problems, nabs $9M from Stripe, Jack Altman, BoxGroup, others
Ask any engineer tasked with tracking customer balances, what the experience is like, and you’ll get a deep sigh that says, ledgering is the bane of existence. Fragment is a startup that offers a ledger API that makes real-time, double-entry accounting accessible to engineers without having to learn a whole new accounting vocabulary. Founders Thomas Neckel, CEO, and […]
AI-powered Regard nabs $61M to find missed illness, boost hospital revenue
People in tech often say that data is the new oil. That phrase, coined by British mathematician Clive Humby, of course implies that data is valuable. Data about a person’s health can also provide meaningful insights and improve outcomes, but only 3% of patient data is currently used by physicians, according to the World Economic […]
Data lakehouse Onehouse nabs $35M to capitalize on GenAI revolution
You can barely go an hour these days without reading about generative AI. While we are still in the embryonic phase of what some have dubbed the “steam engine” of the fourth industrial revolution, there’s little doubt that “GenAI” is shaping up to transform just about every industry — from finance and healthcare to law […]
SkyCell nabs $59M more for its greener smart pharma transport containers
The most urgent moments of the Covid-19 pandemic may be in the past, but the need for fast and secure ways to send valuable, fragile medicines and their components around the world is still very current. SkyCell has developed hardware and software to run that transport process better — and greener, it says — than […]