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Healthcare startups Nurx and Carbon Health ship at-home COVID-19 test
Efforts to get at-home test kits for the COVID-19 coronavirus are ramping up quickly, and two more health industry startups are bringing their own products to market, with both Carbon Health and Nurx starting to ship their own in-home sample collection kits.Both of these new offerings are the same in More
Claimer raises seed backing to make it easier for UK
Claimer, a London-based startup that makes it easy for companies to claim R&D tax credits in the U.K., has raised £300,000 in seed funding.Backing the already revenue-generating company is Ben Holmes (who was previously at Index Ventures), Nick Telson and Andrew Webster (the founders of DesignMyNight, which recently exited), Rupert More
Where top VCs are investing in remote events
The novel coronavirus pandemic has rapidly moved companies into a remote-first world.Nearly all of the world’s largest events have been canceled, put on pause or pivoted to online-only. In the tech world, event cancellations thus far have included SXSW, GDC, Mobile World Congress, Google I/O, Facebook F8, E3 and others.As More
YC-backed EduRev wants to democratize online learning in India
As edtech startups emerge and expand in India, millions of students in the country now have an additional option to choose from when they prepare for competitive exams.But despite the proliferation of cheap Android handsets and availability of some of the world’s cheapest mobile data plans, online learning platforms in More
FitnessAI races past $1M ARR heading into YC Demo Day
Y Combinator’s Demo Day is a key soirée on the startup calendar. This year, however, instead of a packed room replete with short pitches and lackluster catering, Demo Day has gone virtual. Even more, it was moved up by a week, pushing the public debut of a host of More
Glisten uses computer vision to break down product photos to
It’s amazing that in this day and age, the best way to search for new clothes is to click a few check boxes and then scroll through endless pictures. Why can’t you search for “green patterned scoop neck dress” and see one? Glisten is a new startup enabling just that More