Thursday, May 10, 2018PrescribeWellness Acquires Assets From VoicePortIrvine-based PrescribeWellness, which develops cloud-based patient relationship management software, said this week that it has acquired the pharmacy-related assets of VoicePort. VoicePort is a provider of interactive voice response products for regional pharmacy chains and independent pharmacies. Financial details of the buy were not announced. PrescribeWelness said it will use the assets to extend its offerings. VoicePort was based in Rochester, New York, and had been founded in 2003.
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Heartbeat Wants To Pay Women To Post On InstagramVenice-based startup Heartbeat, which wants to pay women to share posts from brands, said this week that it has launched an app which lets women sign up for the company's service. According to Heartbeat, its new app for iOS and Android connects women with campaigns which offer free products, services, and/or payments for branded posts. The company said that brands--including Amazon, Sony Music, Netflix, Warner Bros., Saks Fifth Avenue, H&M, Goop, and others--are looking for "Ambassadors" who wan (More info...)
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SpaceX Calls Off Block 5 Launch, To Try Again TomorrowHawthorne-based SpaceX called off its first launch of its Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket, and its payload, the Bangabandhu Satellite-1, merely seconds before launch on Thursday, saying that it was "standing down" due to a "standard ground system auto abort". The abort came at T-1 minutes. According to SpaceX, the rocket and payload are in "good health" and it will attempt a launch at 4:14 p.m. EDT tomorrow, Friday. SpaceX is launching the new Falcon 9 Block 5 from Cape Canaveral.
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Arrowroot Capital Invests $38M In ClickFoxSanta Monica-based private equity investor Arrowroot Capital has invested $38M in big data and analytics software developer ClickFox, according to a regulatory filing from ClickFox this week.
The funding, without financial details, was announced on April 30th. According to the filing, ClickFox is targeting a total of $41.1M in the funding round. Marco Pacelli is CEO of ClickFox, which is based in Denver, Colorado. Arrowroot Capital is led by Founder and Managing Partner Matthew Safaii; Arrowr (More info...)
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Interview Behzad Kianmahd, TAU Ventures
Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus, which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beach—and also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). TAU Ventures is based in Israel, and is linked with Tel Aviv University—but it hopes to take a lot of what Behzad has learned in Silicon Beach, and apply that to companies coming from Tel Aviv University (More info...)
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SpaceX Prepping For Launch Later Today Of New Rocket DesignHawthorne-based SpaceX is in the final phases of launch for a new rocket design, the Falcon 9 Block 5, targeted at 4:12 EDT today in Florida. SpaceX--which is hoping to launch the very first satellite for Bangladesh, the Bangabandhu-1, with the launch--and also prove out its new, highly re-usable design, which is aimed at making it even easier for SpaceX to re-use its rockets. SpaceX's new design is intended to be re-used without any extensive refurbishment, and only an inspection, and--with som (More info...)
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Digital Map Products Extends Data To ArcGISIrvine-based
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