When CapeRay was still in its infancy at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Kit Vaughan and Tania Douglas were […]
Posts Tagged ‘Venture Capital’
Bioengineering Can Do It!
Ralph Weissleder (seen right, © Wikipedia), who is a professor of systems biology at Harvard and a specialist in interventional radiology, […]
ABUS Firm Raises Another $30 Million
Delphinus Medical Technologies has just announced the closing of a $30 million investment to fast-track commercialisation of its SoftVue automated breast ultrasound […]
Turning Cancer on Itself
Fifteen years ago, Samuel Mazin was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, studying the inverse geometry of computer tomographic (CT) systems. He […]
Angels in the Crowd
When an entrepreneur has a novel idea for a medical device, her biggest challenge will be to secure the necessary […]
Turning Discovery into Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has its origins in a one-room laboratory in New York City in 1887 and […]
Banking on Stock Exchanges
One of the first stock exchanges was established in Amsterdam in the early 1600s, with the first shares offered for the Dutch […]
Has AI Been Overhyped?
Two weeks ago, The New York Times published an article entitled “Whatever happened to IBM’s Watson?” In 2011, the company’s supercomputer beat […]
Deal Making During a Pandemic
One of the final acts when a deal is consummated is for the two parties to shake hands. However, since […]
Investing in Cancer Detection
It is a sobering statistic – one out of every eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. However, […]