NeobankingA neobank is a type of direct bank, that operates exclusively online without traditional physical branch networks. It's a wide umbrella of financial service providers. Neobanks can be called financial technology firms that provide digital and mobile-first financial solutions payments and money transfers, money lending, and more.
Greenlight Financial TechnologyAnnounced in June 2017, Greenlight raised $7.57,5 million in their Seed round. Relay Ventures led the round in which Social Capital, New Enterprise Associates and TTV Capital participated. The funding came after Greenlight announced their 10,000th customer since their January 2017 launch.
The company’s proprietary ARTEMIS® platform was created to mimic the natural biology of T-cells to fight cancer. Its ARTEMIS® platform is a novel T-cell therapy construct, that is intended to create safer and potentially more effective T-cell therapies than are currently available.
MetaMe HealthMetaMe Health is a telemedicine and microbiome company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, that was founded by Danny Bernstein in 2015. MetaMe Health offers a prescription-based digital brain-gut therapy called Regulora that is the first FDA approved digital treatment for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). MetaMe has completed over 25 randomized clinical trials that prove Regulora to be an effective treatment for reducing IBS symptoms. MetaMe Health is also developing a drug candidate for the treatment of heartburn.
Altona DiagnosticsThe company offers laboratory equipment, such as an automation system that is a robotic pipetting workstation and PCR set-up with the company's software. It also has products, that are offered in other two categories: Alto Star and Real Star. The Alto Star products consist of instruments and equipment for molecular diagnostic workflow, including devices and software. There are also products that are real-time PCR reagents. The Real Star products include PCR reagent kits and can test for human adenovirus, human herpesviruses and human polyomaviruses. Other viruses that the kits can test for include blood borne, respiratory, enteric, and tropical viruses. The kits can also potentially be used for rapid testing of epidemic viruses, such as COVID-19.
Venture capital
Venture capital
Venture capital is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which have demonstrated high growth. Capital invested usually carries a substantial element of risk.
BiotechnologyBiotechnology is the use of technology to modify or manipulate living systems or parts of living systems for the generation of useful products, biological processing, to treat disease or to acquire knowledge. Products manufactured or processed using biotechnology are found in agricultural, pharmaceutical, food, chemical, and biofuel industries. Biotechnology is also used in waste treatment.
TouchLightTouchlight was awarded Best Emerging UK Biotech Company in 2015 at OBN awards. Touchlight developed an in vitro process to amplify circular DNA templates to commercial scale and quality. It uses two enzymes and rolling circle amplification and their closed-linear constructs, called doggybones or dbDNA. The error rate is low and their system eliminates the need for antibiotic resistance genes.
Touchlight intends for their technology to be used in development and commercialization of DNA products with applications in cell therapy, gene editing, DNA vaccines, DNA monoclonal antibodies and DNA nanotechnology. Touchlight established a GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) dbDNA production facilty in 2016 and claims their DNA amplification system, that meets cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) standards produces multi-gram scale dbDNA and is more cost effective than for producing plasmids by plasmid fermentation.
Brain-computer interfaceA BCI relies on direct measures of brain activity, provides feedback to the user, is processed in real time, and relies on intentional control. BCIs measure central nervous system (CNS) activity, converting it into artificial output in order to replace, restore, enhance, supplement, or improve natural CNS output and changing the ongoing interactions between the CNS and the external and internal environment. BCI systems have applications in neurorehabilitation, assistive device technology, cognitive enhancement, and human-to-computer communication. BCIs are used for communication or control of external prosthetic devices in people living with conditions such as spinal cord injury, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Locked-in Syndrome (LIS), and Multiple Sclerosis (MS). BCIs can be used for functional electrical stimulation of muscles in a paralyzed person or of peripheral nerves to restore bladder function. BCIs can monitor brain activity during prolonged demanding tasks and detect lapses of attention and alert the person. BCIs are used in research to study CNS function.
ShionogiShionogi group is made up of 11 companies based in Japan, and 6 more based in Taiwan, USA, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, China, and Singapore.
Monero (cryptocurrency)Unlike most cryptocurrencies today, Monero is based on the CryptoNote protocol. The CryptoNote whitepaper was originally written by pseudonymous author Nicolas van Saberhagen in 2012, and updated in 2013. The protocol only allows the approximate amount of a transaction to be known, while the origin, destination, or actual amount remain hidden. Though Monero allows a hidden trace of every transaction made, their users still have the privilege to share certain information selectively. All Monero accounts have their own distinctive view key which allows users to check a specific account’s transactions.
Acquiring Monero is possible through cryptocurrency exchanges like Poloniex, Bitfinex, Kraken and others. Poloniex was the first cryptocurrency exchanges, that offer Monero starting in July 2014.