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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

This focus has helped me recruit the best and the brightest in the field, build a world-class operation, and most of all, with all the knowledge in a specific vertical, help build a leading agency for food & beverage manufacturers that are looking to build a direct to consumer channel. 11- Four things. Photo Credit: Mac Fadra.

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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

The eighth is currently operating in stealth mode (yes, even on demo day) but we’re digging to find out more about them. The company said it also has other products in the pipeline that “do the same magic” for other verticals, including using crowd-sourced data and environmental protection.

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Startups Are Leading The Telehealth Charge – But What Does This Mean For Future Health?

The Startup Magazine

As the pandemic drags on and patients grow to telehealth services, let’s take a look at three industry verticals which are being driven by startup innovation. Telehealth platforms which specialize in sexual health – like UPGUYS in Canada – are bringing treatment into the modern age. Mental health. Direct-to-door medicine.

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Announcing Version One Fund III

Version One Ventures

And we also look at companies that are creating the best product for a specific vertical – including bio/healthcare and other emerging tech. and Canada, offering portfolio companies strong networks and resources on both sides of the border. Having run our own companies, we try to pass on as much of our operations knowledge as possible.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Quantstamp

Austin Startup

We’re seeing more governments, organizations, and corporate enterprises start to realize the impact this technology could have on how they operate. Canada, and Germany, speak three languages, and visit Japan and Korea often because of our business in Asia. With this in mind, there’s been incredible growth over the past few years.

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Amazon <3 Living Social

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Living Social recently bought a controlling stake in JumpOnIt, a local deals site in Australia, and have launched owned and operated sites in the UK and Canada. Vertically focused deals. They’re actively looking at expansion into other geographies. Lifestyle focused deals.

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Google’s recent troubles give an insight into how much and why privacy matters

The Equity Kicker

I agree with that, they are becoming no different to other large vertically integrated service providers like Facebook and Apple. they admitted accepting illegal ads for pharmaceuticals in Canada and agreed to forego over $500m in profits. they over-rode users privacy settings in Safari so that Google+1 ads would work.

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