I'm also hearing that Acasa is currently raising additional funding, most likely a fully-fledged Series A. "I love the idea of leveraging technology to help people live better at home.
The Center for Disease Control has reported that 25.8 million Americans — 8.3percentt of the population — have diabetes and an estimated 79 million have prediabetes, making it one of the most pervasive diseases in the U.S. As a result, there's a huge opportunity for digital health startups in leveraging technology to help those who suffer from the disease to better manage its symptoms.
Founded in 2009, Wisconsin-based startup StudyBlue set out with a simple and straightforward mission: Leverage technology to help students improve their academic performance.
Entelo launched in late 2012 to join a new generation of startups attempting to leverage technology to help companies address the age-old struggle with finding and recruiting great candidates, particularly engineers.
Similar to Ready's outlook, Accel's investment strategy centralizes around the fact that as the financial services ecosystem undergoes a massive transformation, the companies that leverage technology to help underserved market segments will succeed.
These days, Denner, 39, is a senior research associate at ETR Associates, designing and evaluating programs promoting girls' participation in nontraditional careers, helping to prevent HIV infection and teen pregnancy, and leveraging technology to enhance education.
He called it "leveraging technology to mitigate the opportunity for corruption".
We are leveraging technology to deliver tangible, measurable solutions that are not just hype.
"SpotHero is leveraging mobile technology to help the parking industry offer an even better consumer experience," said Paul Martino, managing director at Bullpen Capital in an email.
Other devices in the works include the Triage Wireless wrist worn vital monitoring system, Proteus's RFID monitoring pills, the iShoe project out of MIT and other various projects leveraging wireless technology to help better the lives of everyone.
In a job listing for a computer vision engineer in Jet's office in Dublin, Ireland, Walmart explains Project Kepler's mission is "to create step change in-store experiences, leveraging emerging technology to help define and deliver on evolving customer expectations.
