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#Harvard TGIF - New Focus, New Venue If you are interested in lively conversation and networking with fellow alumni, join us for TGIF. We meet on the third Friday of each month.                   Date:           Friday, January 19, 2024                   Time:           5pm (and typically running until 7 or 7:30 - so it's ok to arrive later)                   Place (new!): Yankee Doodle Tap Room in the Nassau Inn, Palmer Square, Princeton, NJ 08542                                    At our December TGIF, we discussed the focus of future TGIF's. Should they remain part of our Entrepreneur's series (Breakfasts on the 1st Friday, TGIF on the 3rd)? Or should we expand the focus to non-business topics - a what's-on-our-minds discussion to wrap up the week? We decided on B.   So Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors - please continue to attend. We will discuss innovations and opportunities. But other Harvard University alumni should join us as well. We have been discussing Israel vs Hamas and Harvard's reaction, DEI and it's role on campus and other topics of interest. You'll hear and air differing points of view in a collegial, respectful and good humored environment.   Join us to celebrate the end of the week and the start of new connections! Our HARVARD TGIF is an informal gathering on the third Friday of every month for Harvard Alumni to meet, toast, connect, and share ideas and opportunities.   ANY QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS, OR REQUESTS? Contact Fred Fritz at ffritz@neurodx.com.  Organizer:          Fred Fritz  Cost:                    There is no charge for this event. Your only expense is your bar tab.  Registration:     None required - but please email Fred if you plan to attend so he can give the venue a headcount Dress Code:     Wear something crimson/burgundy!

To learn more about what we're up to at Holoclara Inc, check out this video:

⭐️THIER WILL BE ATTENDING THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE FEMALE FOUNDERS EVENT. ⭐️ I’m delighted to announce that we will be attending “Female Founders: Connecting Companies to Capital “at the London Stock Exchange. I look forward to seeing you all there. Join us for an evening of pitches from some of the most exciting female founders in the UK. Hosted by the London Stock Exchange and supported by Notwics and Honordex, the evening will bring together the very best of Seed to Series A businesses from across the tech and tech enabled universe. Company presentations will last 10 minutes and will be preceded by a panel of representatives from across the company and fundraising landscape. The event will be followed by networking and drinks. Speakers Dan Bowyer at SuperSeed Martina King CEO Featurespace: Hephzi Pemberton Founder & CEO Honordex 🦖 Christopher Lowe Founder & CEO NOTWICS Date: Monday, 14 October 2024 Time: 16:00 - 20:00 Venue: London Stock Exchange, 10 Paternoster Square, London, EC4M 7LC 🤖 About Thier Thier is the AI-enabled mobile platform for the prevention of obesity and type II diabetes 🏥. Our goal is to offer Heads of Wellness, Heads of HR, and Heads of Occupational Health at incumbent mid-tier and large organisations that offer private healthcare to their employees. Operating in the following industries; Manufacturing 🏭 Healthcare 🏥 Technology 💻 Financial Services 💰 Energy ⚡ Transportation 🚛 Tools to identify, track, monitor, and prevent the emergence of lifestyle diseases in employee communities they serve 🛡️. Through leveraging machine learning algorithms, community support, and personalised interventions from healthcare practitioners focused on disease prevention, all data will be securely stored on the blockchain. 🎥 Learn more about Thier here: 🔗 Watch Video: https://buff.ly/3X9nk2L. 👈 😀 🤝 If you are an angel investor, super angel investor or micro venture capitalist, and invest in early stage digital health start-ups get in touch here: 🔗 Investor Form: https://buff.ly/3WNmbxl 👈 😀 BTW we have SEIS and EIS Assurance 👈 😀 Be Healthier, Be Wealthier, Use Thier #Thier #Health #Wellness #Lifestyle #GoodHealth #Healthyrecipes #Obesity #TypeIIDiabetes #Innovation #Technology #Innovation

We might have been a bit quiet behind the scenes, but it's only because we've been busy running our latest Accelerator Programme 🤓 This cohort is pretty varied, but what each company has in common is they're bringing fresh thinking to their industries. Here's a quick look at what they're all about: 🎉 DoDays: Helping providers do more of what they love, and less of the boring stuff. And helping families make each day a DoDay! 💇♀️ Styler: Salon software with something more. 🧠 ESP Diagnostics Limited: The timely diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders using biomarker blood tests. 🎮 BeamXR Ltd: The first in-game live-streaming solution for standalone XR headsets. 💼 Connection Heroes (Stick Theory): Helping businesses build better connections across their hybrid workforce. ⚽ SportFin Limited: Helping sports organisations and funders automate social impact reporting. 🏠 Home Sale Pack: Helping you sell your home faster and closer to asking price. 📚 Moralbox: Empowering organisations to control learning, ensure compliance, and protect employees.

Hello All, I am participating in the contest "Startup World Cup" on the hashtag #StLouis and it is kicking off with Round 1, where the community votes on video pitches to select our top 5 local favorites! https://lnkd.in/gms_RqgA Please vote for Vis-Int, so together we can help millions at risk of vision loss, due to improper eyedrop use. Glaucoma a leading cause of blindness affects 60 million globally, yet only 3% master proper eye technique. Vis-Int is a mobile application that supports revolutionary eyedrop care to improve the proper usage, schedule drops, improve drop efficacy, and uses data analytics to monitor patients remotely and provide doctors with valuable insights to sustain patients' eye health. You're allowed one vote per day, until May 8. The 5 companies with the highest number of votes will automatically snag a spot in the St. Louis top 100 to compete in September for the chance to present in the $1 Million Global Pitch Competition in Silicon Valley. Watch my 1-minute video and vote for Vis-Int on the website: https://lnkd.in/gms_RqgA

As we close in on the end of the year, many companies will be looking ahead to funding their operations in 2025. Do you know of any companies in the aging and aging-tech space that might be a good fit for our pitch competition next spring? Tag them in the comments below!

Round of applause for the shortlisted teams! 👏🎉 You’ve excelled and made it to the Seed Pitch round! We look forward to seeing the ideas you bring to the table. 🙌 All the best and may the best idea win! 🏆 #GoAtomic #ATOMCEOsChallenge #CampusConnect #Bschool #UncaseStudy #Innovation #ProblemSolving #ATOMSeason7

Veridian Ventures Partner Dan Schonfeld recently had the privilege of participating in a panel discussion on structuring and growing Angel Syndicates, as part of the UK Business Angels Association’s recent Angel Group Symposium, held in London on April 16th. The discussion was both engaging and informative, and the audience contributed some great questions and insights. 𝐃𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬: 1) The UK angel investment ecosystem is vibrant and active, despite recent market conditions and regulatory actions. 2) The UKBAA is playing a key role in organising and mobilising angel investment activities, and has been quite successful in making sure our view as a community are heard and taken into account by the government, as evidenced in the recent decision to reverse the changes to investor certification criteria.   3) There is wide agreement in the community that government policy is both confusing and contradictory, trying to encourage angel investing on the one hand while at the same time driving the market – almost forcibly – towards consolidation, in a way which makes it harder for new angels and new angel syndicates to thrive. 4) There is growing involvement by angels based outside of the traditional areas of London and the South-East. 5) The ecosystem is also increasingly professionalising, with growing use of technology to streamline operations and processes. 6) There is a growing number of options for anyone who wants to start angel investing, based on region, gender, sector focus and more – there have never been more opportunities. 7) There is significant benefit for an individual to invest via a syndicate as opposed to on their own, in terms of deal flow, access to opportunities, professional support and education, and higher quality due diligence. "My thanks again to the UKBAA for the invitation and for organising such an excellent event, to my fellow panellists for such an enjoyable discussion, and to the audience for their time, attention, and valuable contributions." Looking forward to the next one!

“I think about three core areas for any product we build, but particularly in healthcare. It boils down to the process, the documentation, and the user considerations.” - Igor "Iggy" Moliver We’re still thinking about the insights from our panel at our #NYTechWeek event “Breakfast Bytes: Building a Scalable HealthTech Startup” with Perkins Coie LLP and SemperVirens Venture Capital. In case you missed the event, we compiled some of the most memorable soundbytes from the breakfast bytes panel, so you don’t have to miss out on the wisdom. Check out our latest blog to read more about what Igor "Iggy" Moliver, our Head of Product, has to say about healthcare product builds, in addition to invaluable insights from LaDale George, Partner at Perkins Coie LLP, and Ion Feldman, CTO at Rightway. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/egqgwHnt

Kudos to the shortlisted teams! 👏🎉 You've shown incredible talent and have made it to the Seed Pitch round! We're thrilled to see what amazing ideas you have. 🙌 All the best and may the best idea win! 🏆 #GoAtomic #ATOMCEOsChallenge #CampusConnect #Bschool #UncaseStudy #Innovation #ProblemSolving #ATOMSeason7