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CHICAGO, April 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Catch Co., a fishing brand, content, and commerce platform, today announced that it has closed a $38 million Series B funding round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm True Ventures with participation from Chicago-based prior investor TechNexus. To date, Catch Co. has raised $56 million in total funding to advance its mission of creating amazing products, content, and shopping experiences for the modern angler.
Ross Gordon, Founder and CEO of Catch Co. Catch Co. has perfectly positioned itself as a must-have for passionate anglers across the U.S., said Jon Callaghan.
AI Cluster Modeling on COVID-19 Data at Scale Offers Opportunity for Improved Patient Outcomes
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Bitscopic contracts with VA Innovation Ecosystem to develop AI models on long COVID-19 patient data for improved treatments.
Bitscopic Logo Leveraging AI on healthcare records of long COVID-19 patients empowers infectious disease experts to assess which care practices work best with various subpopulations. PALO ALTO, Calif. (PRWEB) April 30, 2021 Bitscopic Inc., a Silicon Valley based healthcare analytics company, has contracted with the VA Innovation Ecosystem 10X3 for a ground-breaking project to discover best practices in COVID treatment by examining large volumes of medical and other data sets from those who tested positive for COVID-19.
Fox promotes Chung for growth
US broadcast network Fox has promoted from within to fill the newly created role of chief growth officer.
Steve Chung
Steve Chung will lead the network’s focus on identifying and developing new digital business opportunities across existing and emerging growth categories. He will report to Fox chief technology officer and president of digital Paul Cheesbrough,
Having joined Fox in 2018, Chung has spent the past three years as chief digital officer for Fox Television Stations. Prior to that, he was CEO of Frankly, a software-as-a-service company he founded and incubated from Stanford University’s StartX accelerator.
Indian founders need to build great companies before building unicorns, says Anand Rajaraman, Rocketship.vc
Anand Rajaraman, Founding Partner of Rocketship.vc, tells YourStory about the excitement Bharat is generating for investors across the world.
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Launched in 2015 with a corpus of $50 million, Silicon Valley-based VC Rocketship.vc closed its second fund in 2020 with a corpus of $100 million. Founded by
Anand Rajaraman, Venky Harinarayan, and Sailesh Ramakrishnan, the firm has invested in 54 companies so far, of which 16 are startups from India.
Rocketship.vc chooses its investee companies based on data. It has built a large database of potential startups, and has several metrics to measure their growth. Then, it uses ML to scan this database to find the most exciting companies around the world. But these data points vary across sectors.
TechnologyUber to sign up 20,000 more UK drivers as COVID rules ease
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The Logo of taxi company Uber is seen on the roof of a private hire taxi in Liverpool, Britain, April 15, 2019. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo
Uber (UBER.N) aims to sign up an additional 20,000 more drivers in Britain as the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions boosts demand, the ride-hailing app said on Thursday.
The Silicon Valley-based firm has already seen a more than 50% increase in trips after restaurants were allowed to reopen for outdoor dining from April 12 in England, it said.
Further restrictions are due to be eased over the next few weeks and months as Prime Minister Boris Johnson s government pursues a roadmap to unlock the economy.