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TechCrunch / Eko Health scores $41M to detect heart and lung disease earlier and more accurately
NTTVC joins Series D funding round to support Eko’s mission of ensuring all patients have access to AI-powered cardiac and pulmonary disease detection.
Eko NewsPramana / Pramana Achieves Industry-Leading Milestone with Digital Pathology 2.0 Technology
Pramana is helping transform the digital pathology market and has digitized over 6.5 million glass slides and validated 15 billion images with near-perfect accuracy using Pramana’s in-line quality assurance algorithms
Pramana NewsAnumana / Anumana Receives 2024 MedTech Breakthrough Award for Best New Technology Solution in Cardiology
Anumana’s innovative ECG-AI algorithms recognized for their transformative potential in cardiology - the first of which is now commercially available.
Anumana NewsEntrepreneur India / AI Startup Neysa Raises $20 Million from Matrix, Nexus, and NTTVC
NTTVC welcomes Neysa to the portfolio – India's first GPU AI cloud and platform-as-a-service company that will use the funding to accelerate generative AI adoption for enterprises.
Neysa NewsFierce BioTech / Eko Secures FDA Clearance for Stethoscope AI to Catch Low Ejection Fraction
Eko’s heart failure AI is FDA cleared – first of its kind, non invasive, AI early detection test to rapidly identify patients with a weak heart pump or reduced ejection fraction.
Eko NewsTODAY Show / The Cutting-Edge Way Doctors Are Using AI to Save Lives Featuring Anumana and Eko Health
Doctors at the Mayo Clinic are using artificial intelligence and pairing it with something similar to a traditional electrocardiogram, giving them the ability to screen for deadly heart conditions.
Anumana & Eko Newsnference / nference and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Enter Into a Multi-Year Collaboration to Advance Health Equity
nference’s federated AI platform is being leveraged to provide access to the deepest clinical data to generate insights and better inform decision-making.
nference Newsnference / nference and Emory Healthcare Collaborate, Adding Another Top-Ranked Medical Center to Federated Data Network
Agreement between nference and Emory Healthcare will expand access to diverse, aggregated, de-identified data with the goal of accelerating groundbreaking research, disease diagnoses, and new treatments.
Nference NewsCRN / Celona named to CRN's List of Stellar Networking And Unified Communications Startups To Know In 2023
As part of CRN’s Stellar Startups for 2023, Celona is included as one of five startups developing next-generation networking and unified communications technology that solution providers should be aware of.
Celona NewsEko / Breakthrough Clinical Data: Eko Health's AI Significantly Improves Heart Disease Detection in Primary Care
Real-world evidence from the AHA Scientific Sessions 2023 demonstrated that Eko’s AI-enabled SENSORA™ Platform more than doubles valvular heart disease (VHD) detection sensitivity over traditional methods in primary care.
Eko NewsPramana / Pramana and Intermountain Health Collaborate to Digitize 8 Million Archival Clinical Pathology Slides Using Advanced AI Technology
Pramana's digital pathology solution equips Intermountain Health with superior, consistent digital images, enhancing the efficiency of clinical research and streamlining workflows.
Pramana NewsAnumana / Anumana Receives U.S. FDA 510(k) Clearance for ECG-AI Algorithm to Detect Low Ejection Fraction
Based on pioneering research from Mayo Clinic, Anumana’s ECG-AI LEF aims to aid physicians in identifying low ejection fraction in patients at risk of heart failure
Anumana NewsCelona / Celona Helps Enterprises Extend Public Cellular Services Indoors With The First Turnkey Private Wireless Neutral Host Solution
Successful interoperation of Celona’s neutral host technology with T-Mobile’s public cellular network services validates an exciting new model for cost-effectively extending cellular signals indoors.
Celona NewsEko / FIGS and Eko Health Collaborate on the FIGS | Eko CORE 500™ Digital Stethoscope
The companies launched an exclusive line of digital stethoscopes that pair Eko’s groundbreaking FDA-cleared CORE 500™ with FIGS’ commitment to style, comfort, and functionality.
Eko NewsSeemplicity / Seemplicity Named an August 2023 Gartner Cool Vendor for the Modern Security Operations Center
This strong step forward enhances Seemplicity’s mission to develop, sell and deliver the world’s leading Security Remediation Operations solution.
Seemplicity NewsOutsourcing Pharma / nference Partners with Banner Health
A partnership between Banner Health and nference offers more potent insight generation, offering researchers the option to examine more inclusive data
Nference NewsMass Device / Eko Launches CORE 500 Digital Stethoscope With Heart Disease Detection AI
Eko’s next-generation digital stethoscope, the CORE 500, is engineered to enhance diagnostic accuracy and early disease detection.
Eko NewsHealthcare Innovation / nference Partners With Duke University Health System
Nference’s partnerships with Duke, Mayo Clinic are milestones toward developing a unique federated network of leading academic medical centers that will accelerate research
Nference NewsSpyderbat / Spyderbat Raises Series A to Deliver Runtime Security throughout Cloud Native Software Development Environments
Led by NTTVC, the funding enables further development of Cloud Native Intrusion Prevention from the team that invented Network Intrusion Prevention Systems
Spyderbat NewsFierce BioTech / Anumana's Pfizer-Backed Cardiac Amyloidosis-Spotting AI Algorithm Nabs FDA Breakthrough Tag
For the fourth time in half as many years, Anumana has earned the FDA’s breakthrough device designation for another of its artificial intelligence algorithms designed to catch hard-to-spot heart conditions in their earliest stages
Anumana NewsForbes / Celona Named to Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups List
Forbes names 25 startups they believe have the "best chance of reaching a billion-dollar valuation."
Celona NewsPerspectives / Why Startups Should Pay Close Attention to the Manufacturing Vertical
With a strong appetite for innovation driven by a unique set of pressures, the manufacturing vertical offers a significant growth opportunity to startups and entrepreneurs.
PerspectivesTechCrunch / Seemplicity Emerges From Stealth With $32M To Consolidate Security Notifications and Speed Up Response Times
NTTVC joins latest Series A alongside Glilot Capital Partners, Atlantic Bridge, S Capital and Rain Capital.
Seemplicity NewsCelona.io / Celona Closes Oversubscribed $60 Million Series C Funding Round
NTTVC joins latest round of funding to help fuel expansion of worldwide sales, R&D, and channel development.
Celona NewsShoreline.io / Shoreline.io Closes $35 Million Series B to Transform Production Operations
New funding allows company to expand its mission to help customers improve availability and free up time for engineers to build.
Shoreline NewsBusiness Wire / Pramana Launches Digital Pathology as a Service Platform, Offering Comprehensive and Scalable Glass Slide Digitization for Health Systems
The DPaaS platform offers a first-of-its-kind service to efficiently digitize pathology slides to meet the needs of pathologists, researchers, and clinicians.
Pramana NewsBloomberg / Japan’s Telecom Giant Prices One of World’s Biggest Corporate Green Bond Deals
NTT announces one of the world's largest green bonds with $2.6B in proceeds for sustainability projects.
NTT NewsPair Team / Pair Team Raises $10M to Improve Quality of Care By Acting as a Virtual Extension for Healthcare Centers
Pair Team's tech-enabled care teams and digital assistants improve access and clinical outcomes.
Pair Team NewsTechCrunch / Zoba, the Global Leader in Micromobility Fleet Optimization, Closes Its $12M Series A Funding Round Led by NTTVC
Zoba helps micromobility companies get more rides and increase profitability.
Zoba NewsCelona.io / Celona and NTT Partner to Deliver Private 5G Solutions
This partnership combines Celona's unique technology with NTT's deep expertise in digital transformation and enterprise networks.
Celona NewsPerspectives / Up and to the Right: The Virtela + NTT Story
Virtela is a real-life model of the Power of Partnership in action – the core concept upon which the foundation of NTTVC is built and the essence of the value that we offer entrepreneurs.
PerspectivesPerspectives / Three Ways Digital Health Startups Can Leverage Partnerships for Growth
Leveraging input from leading healthcare systems, provider-focused digital health startups can harness the power of partnership to scale their impact.
PerspectivesFirm News / Announcing our investment in Tetrate
We’re excited to announce our investment in Tetrate, an enterprise-ready service mesh provider on a mission to create the next generation of cloud networking.
Firm NewsPR Newswire / nference Completes $60M Series C to Accelerate and Expand Augmented Intelligence for Life Sciences
Funding broadens nference portfolio to accelerate development of novel diagnostics and therapies based on nferX™ software platform.
nference NewsCelona.io / Celona Unveils the First Integrated Solution for Private Mobile Networks
New solution bridges the gap between cellular wireless and existing IT Infrastructure, enabling enterprises to build their own LTE/5G wireless networks.
Celona NewsThe Wall Street Journal / Digital-Health Startup Eko to Expand With $65 Million Venture Financing
Eko's Series C raise will enable Eko to expand its platform of telehealth and AI algorithms for disease screening, and launch a monitoring program for cardiopulmonary patients at home.
Eko NewsThe Wall Street Journal / Private 5G Networks Are Bringing Bandwidth Where Carriers Aren’t
Impatient for faster connectivity for everything from smart factories to rural broadband, companies are rolling out their own networks.
Celona NewsThe Washington Post / Artificial Intelligence and Covid-19: Can the machines save us?
Referred to as the 'Google of biomedicine', nference is making headlines on its efforts towards finding a vaccine for COVID-19.
nference NewsFirm News / NTTVC: The Power of Partnership
I’m excited to publicly announce the launch of NTTVC and our first $500M fund. Our vision is to harness the power of partnership to offer entrepreneurs a unique model for scaling their companies.
Firm NewsPress Release / NTTVC publicly announces $500 million fund created in partnership with NTT
NTTVC today publicly announced its $500 million fund to help startups reach rapid global scale by harnessing the power of partnership.
Press ReleaseCelona News / NTTVC Leads Series B Round
Private 5G innovator Celona announces new funding led by NTTVC and Qualcomm Ventures to expand and fuel private mobile network growth.
Celona NewsMayo Clinic / Mayo Clinic completes deidentification of expansive medical dataset
Mayo Clinic completes deidentification of expansive medical dataset to protect patient privacy, and advance research discoveries and clinical outcomes.
nference NewsLinkedIn / Eko takes home the Best Hospital Diagnostics Award at the UCSF 2020 Awards
Eko took home the Best Hospital Diagnostics Award! Congratulations to Eko for leading the way and elevating cardiopulmonary care to the needs of a new era!
Eko NewsForbes / These are the startups applying AI to transform healthcare
Healthcare is perhaps the most important sector in the U.S. economy. In each of three areas, machine learning is being applied in transformative ways. This will only accelerate in the years ahead.
Eko NewsFortune / COVID-19 has spurred rapid transformation in health care. Let’s make sure it stays that way
Until there is a definitive therapy or vaccine for COVID-19, we must adapt to the virus—it won't adapt to us. Here are three ways we're using the pandemic as a springboard to reshape health care.
nference NewsNetworkWorld / 5G can make for cost-effective private backhaul
While 5G use cases tend toward connecting many devices to a network, using the wireless technology for private backhaul can have a surprising amount of utility.
Celona NewsBusinessCloud / Is this the end of the traditional stethoscope?
For the past month Dr Hussain Gandhi been testing the new Eko CORE digital stethoscope, which he says could have massive benefits in the wake of COVID-19 and the tragedy that took place in UK care homes.
Eko NewsThe Washington Post / Many with coronavirus infections have no symptoms. Might they be the key to ending the pandemic?
New research suggests that some of us may be partially protected due to past encounters with common cold coronaviruses.
nference NewsNetwork World / Private 5G can solve some enterprise problems that Wi-Fi can’t
Private 5G cellular deployments fit the needs of enterprises for high-speed, low-latency connections between large numbers of devices, may replace Wi-Fi in years to come.
TrendsCardiac Rhythm News / Eko and AstraZeneca announce digital cardiovascular health partnership
Eko has announced a collaboration with AstraZeneca to accelerate the development of digital health tools for the earlier screening of cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure.
Eko NewsNew York Times / Old vaccines may stop the coronavirus. Scientists are skeptical.
Certain vaccines may provide broad protection against infections. But new research doesn’t prove these vaccines can turn back the coronavirus, experts said.
TrendsRCR Wireless News / Five verticals that are exploring the use of CBRS
Enterprise use cases of the shared Citizens Broadband Radio Service are being explored, and CBRS start-up Celona is aiming squarely at making CBRS “consumable” for enterprise IT.
Celona NewsBusiness Wire / Eko awarded $2.7m SBIR Grant to advance clinical study
Eko has been awarded a $2.7 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant will help validate algorithms for screening pathologic heart murmurs and valvular heart disease.
Eko NewsComputerWorld / How Apple devices can use CBRS spectrum and private LTE connectivity in the enterprise.
Jonny Evans from ComputerWorld reviews how Apple devices can take advantage of CBRS spectrum and private LTE connectivity in the enterprise.
Celona NewsMobihealthnews / Eko lands EUA for device that helps detect coronavirus patients with cardiac complications
Early this week Eko scored a temporary Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its ECG low ejection fraction tool, which can be used to help clinicians spot cardiac complications associated with the novel coronavirus.
Eko NewsForbes / Digitization of healthcare and the need for augmented intelligence
This digitization of health records presents an unprecedented opportunity for their systematic synthesis across tens of millions of patients over a privacy-preserving platform.
nference NewsVentureBeat / AI indicates which symptoms might be leading indicators of COVID-19
Mayo Clinic and nference, a startup developing tech that analyzes text from biomedical publications, report that they’ve used AI to isolate phenotypes characteristic of the coronavirus.
nference NewsMedical Device Network / nference launches RNA-sequencing software resource to fight COVID-19
nference launches software resource that synthesises disparate single-cell RNA-sequencing data sets to assist in the fight against the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
nference NewsGlobeNewswire / Celona shows simplicity of deployment for CBRS-based enterprise cellular networks
Enterprise cellular network innovator gathers all of the elements needed to support enterprise organizations, including its unique architecture, channels, and ecosystem partners.
Celona NewsGenome Web / nference poised for growth following Mayo Clinic investment partnership
nference is assisting drug discovery and precision medicine as the first partner of Mayo's Clinical Data Analytics. The partnership is set to offer the startup significant growth potential.
nference NewsSF Business Times / FDA clears Eko algorithms to detect heart problems
Berkeley health-tech startup Eko was granted FDA clearance today to take its algorithm for detecting atrial fibrillation to the market. The algorithm screens for atrial fibrillation and other types of heart disease caused by heart murmurs.
Eko NewsFierce BioTech / Mayo Clinic, nference launch ambitious data platform initiative
Just a week after backing its $60 million series B round, the Mayo Clinic has tapped healthcare data analytics firm nference to build out an artificial-intelligence-powered engine
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