| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.04.2018 | Meet Chris Sklarin, Managing Partner at Castor Ventures | MIT-alumni investor boasts a diverse portfolio with over $60 million in tech innovation
As entrepreneurship has become a global meme, with the title of "Founder" worn like a badge of accomplishment, there's no shortage of emerging... |
| 10.03.2017 | Kinsa plans to add more patient engagement services for connected thermometers | Among the new services Kinsa will provide through its app are real-time answers to questions users have when either they or their child is sick.
“We will expand the availability of features such as fever guidance, how to soothe symptoms, an... |
| 09.03.2017 | Kinsa gets $17M to develop new smart health tools | Smart thermometer maker Kinsa has raised $17 million in a round led by GSR Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, and FirstMark Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $28.6 million.
Kinsa, which received FDA clearance for it... |
| 09.03.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, March 9 | WHAT KILLS MORE JOBS, PRIVATE EQUITY OR VENTURE CAPITAL?
Hi! Erin Griffith here, reclaiming the newsletter for one day during my vacation. The following is from the latest edition of Fortune magazine, where I write a regular column about te... |
| 08.03.2017 | Kinsa Closes $17M in Financing to Develop Additional Digital Health Products | Kinsa, the company behind the world’s first FDA-cleared smartphone-connected thermometer has closed $17 million in additional financing from GSR Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, FirstMark Capital and others. The funds will be used ... |
| 08.03.2017 | Kinsa Raises $17m in Financing | Kinsa, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of smart thermometers, raised $17m in financing.
Backers included GSR Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, FirstMark Capital and others.
The company, which has raised $28.6m in total financing... |
| 08.03.2017 | Kinsa Raises $17M | Kinsa,, today announced $17 million in additional financing from GSR Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, FirstMark Capital and others. The latest financing will be used to develop additional smart products and services to further Kins... |
| 20.07.2016 | Kinsa’s new Smart Elmo Thermometer is Sesame Street’s first connected device | A Sesame Street partnership is a big coup for any company – let alone one that’s only existed for four years and produced two Indiegogo-backed products. But Kinsa’s line of smart thermometers clearly struck a chord with the team behind ever... |
| 20.07.2016 | Sesame Street Teams Up With Kinsa To Launch First Connected Product And App For Children’s Health | Lauren Keating, Tech Times 20 July 2016, 04:07 pm
Sesame Street is a brand that children know and love.
It is also a brand that parents can trust. While the company has been educating and entertaining children for generations, it is now tak... |
| 10.12.2015 | The pharmaceutical industry must go digital. Here’s why – and how. | “For pharma, there comes the question of whether they can tie digital to the assets they have,” says Dr. Krishna Yeshwant, a general partner at Google Ventures. “There is an interesting broader conversation to have with pharmacos about movi... |
| 13.09.2015 | WatchOS 2 And The Future Of Apps | Danielle Levitas Contributor
Danielle Levitas leads the research and marketing communications teams at App Annie.
With flashier announcements at this year’s WWDC, such as Apple Music or more hardcore developer news on the iOS 9 front, it’s ... |
| 01.09.2015 | Kinsa’s New Smart Ear Thermometer Will Tell You What To Do When You’re Sick | Kinsa, the maker of a smart thermometer that tracks the spread of illness, has today announced their second product in the form of the Kinsa in-ear thermometer.
Unlike the first thermometer, which was a standard (though smart) stick thermom... |
| 29.03.2015 | Reimagining Everyday Objects | Matt Witheiler Contributor
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Editor’s note: Matt Witheiler is a general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. You can follow him on ... |
| 04.03.2015 | Kinsa encourages parents to share children’s symptom data to track illnesses at schools | The information is intended to help parents make choices about when to take their children for a doctor’s visit. Kinsa CEO and founder Inder Singh said that it may eventually share the data with public health groups.
“We may eventually shar... |
| 15.01.2015 | Kinsa Smart Thermometer Integrates with Apple HealthKit | Kinsa, the company behind the world’s first FDA-cleared smartphone-connected thermometer, has announced the integration of its app with Apple’s HealthKit for iOS 8. The company recently raised a $9.6M Series A round and launched its nationa... |
| 11.12.2014 | Kinsa Raises $9.6M in Series A Funding | Kinsa, a NYC-based maker of an FDA-cleared thermometer that connects to a smartphone, raised $9.6m in Series A funding round.
The investment was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with participation from FirstMark Capital, Andy Pal... |
| 11.12.2014 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 11.12.2014 | Kleiner Perkins, others invest $9.6M in Kinsa for smartphone-connected thermometer | New York City-based Kinsa Health has raised $9.6 million in a round led by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers for its FDA-cleared smartphone-connected thermometer. Other investors in the round include FirstMark Capital and Andy Palmer. ... |
| 11.12.2014 | Kinsa Health raises Series A to tap big data potential of smartphone-enabled thermometer | The longterm goal is to set up a way for users to join groups and track illnesses in their neighborhoods, schools and offices.
“We’ve reimagined the world’s most common medical device, the thermometer, and given it the potential to improve ... |
| 11.12.2014 | Kinsa takes $9.6M for FDA-approved smartphone thermometer | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The thermometer is perhaps the most used medical ... |
| 11.12.2014 | Kinsa Raises $9.6M Series A For A Smart Thermometer That Tracks The Spread Of Illness | Kinsa, the company behind the world’s first app-enabled, FDA-approved smart thermometer, has today announced the close of a $9.6 million Series A financing round with participation from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, FirstMark Capita... |
| 11.12.2014 | Kinsa takes $9.6M for FDA-approved smartphone thermometer | The thermometer is perhaps the most used medical device in the world, and yet it’s one of the last to connect to a mobile device and an app.
New York-based Kinsa Health takes care of that problem with the first smartphone thermometer to be ... |
| 25.08.2014 | Penn undergrads develop wireless thermometer: Life Patch | When Collin Hill was 19, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
During his first semester at Penn, he’d travel to New York City every other weekend to undergo chemotherapy. Chemotherapy weakens your immune system, so every night, he’d ha... |
| 29.06.2014 | Apple’s New iPhone Pitch To Parents | In my line of work I’m often called on to think critically about the usability of both hardware and software, especially smartphones. One of my big touchstones, and one that’s ignored by a surprising amount of designers — is that stuff does... |
| 02.01.2014 | FDA Clears Kinsa for Smartphone-Connected Oral Thermometer | Kinsa, an early stage digital health startup, today announced 510(k) clearance for its smartphone-connected thermometer by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
How It Works
Like traditional thermometers, the Kinsa Smart Thermometer ... |
| 14.10.2013 | Smart thermometer is the favorite at Cleveland Clinic & StartUp Health’s venture challenge | The favorite among the judges, and it seemed among attendees as well, is trying to track the spread of human disease by mapping it using mobile tools, starting with a smartphone-enabled thermometer and app. The company’s low-cost thermomete... |
| 01.10.2013 | Putting predictive analytics in hands of primary care physicians, wearable tech among DC to VC winners | It fits in with the Obamacare healthcare reform which puts more emphasis on primary care physicians to improve preventive care and identify potential health problems earlier.
One thing that I find a little big brother-ish is a component lis... |
| 30.09.2013 | DC to VC’s batch of health startups: semen analysis, wearables & more | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It has been a big month for health care startups.... |
| 30.09.2013 | DC to VC’s batch of health startups: semen analysis, wearables & more | It has been a big month for health care startups. Last week, the FDA released its final guidance on smartphone applications, removing roadblocks to innovation and investment. Tomorrow, elements of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act are s... |
| 23.07.2013 | Kinsa Smart Thermometer Takes Grand Prize in Innovate Health Tech | Kinsa Smart Thermometer was announced today as the $25k grand prize winner in Innovate Health Tech NYC, a competition designed to promote innovation within NYC’s health technology sector. The competition is an initiative of New York City Ec... |
| 18.06.2013 | Smartphone thermometer, concussion detector among finalists in NYC medtech innovation contest | A medication adherence app for families, a social network for recovering alcoholics and a mobile health diagnostic that claims to diagnose concussions based on eye movements. In addition to contributing to the debate on mobile health apps a... |
| 17.04.2013 | ‘Demo God’ awarded to 5 startups pushing boundaries of mobile technology | SAN FRANCISCO- The 5 winners of the coveted Demo God award are Kinsa, PanaCast, Volio, MakerSwarm, and Beer Hunt.
The Demo God award is given to the startups that are not only building innovative products, but also made compelling presentat... |
| 17.04.2013 | Can smartphones solve the healthcare crisis? 4 startups say yes | SAN FRANCISCO- Demo Mobile kicked off this morning with presentations from four mobile health startups. Each of these companies is applying mobile technology to the medical field to give people more control over their bodies, or to streamli... |
| 17.04.2013 | Can smartphones solve the healthcare crisis? 4 startups say yes | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SAN FRANCISCO- Demo Mobile kicked off this morning with presentations from four mobile health startups. Each of these companies is appl... |
| 17.04.2013 | ‘Demo God’ awarded to 5 startups pushing boundaries of mobile technology | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SAN FRANCISCO- The 5 winners of the coveted Demo God award are Kinsa, PanaCast, Volio, MakerSwarm, and Beer Hunt.
The Demo God award is... |
| - | Putting predictive analytics in hands of primary care physicians, wearable tech among DC to VC winners | Big data once again stole the show at an innovation challenge, as developers find new ways to integrate software into their web-based and mobile apps. The DC to VC challenge at the Health 2.0 Fall conference in Santa Clara cast a spotlight ... |
| - | Smart thermometer is the favorite at Cleveland Clinic & StartUp Health’s venture challenge | Mobile health company Kinsa continued its victory lap around the startup competition circuit at the Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit today, taking home top honors at the summit’s first ever new ventures healthcare challenge.
Eleve... |
| - | Kinsa plans to add more patient engagement services for connected thermometers | Kinsa smart ear thermometer
Kinsa has long seen itself as more than a 21st century take on digital thermometers with its FDA-cleared device and companion app. The business sees a variety of applications for its connected device such as trac... |
| - | Smartphone thermometer, concussion detector among finalists in NYC medtech innovation contest | A medication adherence app for families, a social network for recovering alcoholics and a mobile health diagnostic that claims to diagnose concussions based on eye movements. In addition to contributing to the debate on mobile health apps a... |
| - | Kinsa encourages parents to share children’s symptom data to track illnesses at schools | Kinsa, a digital health company that developed an FDA approved thermometer for smartphones, has added a way to track illnesses and symptoms for schools through a population health component. The goal is to help track and stop the spread of ... |
| - | Digital health startup with early warning system for diabetic foot ulcers raises $1 million | A digital health company that graduated from Rock Health’s healthcare startup accelerator in Boston has raised $1 million in a second and final closing of its Series A round, according to a Form D filing with the Securities and Exchange Com... |
| - | Kinsa says FDA has cleared Smart Thermometer as makers work on big data tool | For mobile health to become more mainstream, companies will have to provide tools that add value, save time and get the blessing of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Today, Kinsa said the FDA gave 510(k) clearance to its Smart Thermome... |
| - | The pharmaceutical industry must go digital. Here’s why – and how. | The pharmaceutical industry remains behind the times in all things digital. It needs to get creative, break away from the pack mentality and take some risks in order to join this digital revolution that’s rapidly changing the face of health... |
| - | Kinsa Health raises Series A to tap big data potential of smartphone-enabled thermometer | Kinsa Health has been building up support for a low cost thermometer it developed with a big data component. Its mission to use its device to collect big data to improve population health got some financial validation with the company’s $9.... |
