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Health Tech Hatch Brings Crowdfunding And Testing Together

Laura Billingsley | Silicon Prairie News | January 15, 2013

A crowdfunding and beta-testing platform's creators hope to change the way health care products and apps go to market. Based in Iowa City, Health Tech Hatch combines testing and funding into one website, allowing developers to receive feedback from users before finalizing their product. Read More »

Health Tech Hatch Chosen As Test Platform For Healthfinder.gov Mobile App Challenge

Eric Wicklund | mHIMSS | December 18, 2012

A California-based crowdfunding and development resource for mHealth entrepreneurs has been selected to provide the testing platform for the healthfinder.gov Mobile App Challenge. Read More »

Healthcare Crowdfunding Gets Hatched: Passion Is The Possibility Of Health Tech Hatch

Scott Rupp | Health Tec hHatch | October 31, 2012

Fund next year’s Post-it notes. You can. Through crowdfunding; which seems to have become one of the market’s hottest concepts... Read More »

Help Crowdfund This Open-Source Crowdsourced Environmental Monitoring Platform

Derek Markham | TreeHugger | June 5, 2013

By empowering communities to collect data from their local environment and contribute to an interactive, worldwide environmental database, the folks behind the Smart Citizen Kit are enabling a whole new level of participation from citizen scientists. Read More »

How Crowdfunding And Open Source Research Will Fight Cancer

Jess Bolluyt | Tech Cheat Sheet | October 4, 2014

...A researcher named Isaac Yonemoto is applying some of the concepts of open source software initiatives to cancer research. Yonemoto is undertaking Project Marilyn, a campaign to develop a patent-free anticancer drug...

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Interview To Alastair Parvin And Wikihouse Project

Simone Cicero | Open Electronics | October 17, 2013

For the latest episode of our Meet The Founders interviews we are releasing today the intervivew we made recently with WIkihouse funder Alastair Parvin. The interview come up superbe and it touches a lot of topics, ranging from furniture manufacturing to VC strategies, from crowdfunding to openness. Read More »

Israeli Health Monitor Hopes To Spur Medical Innovation

Ben Rooney | Wall Street Journal | October 30, 2013

When Eugene Jorov was 17, his father, who was just 40, had a fatal heart attack. That was the moment when Mr. Jorov knew what he wanted to do. A keen engineer, he wanted to use technology to stop people dying early like his father. The Tel Aviv-based startup Angel is his answer. Read More »

Jompeame Wants To Reduce Poverty In South America Through Crowdfunding

John Biggs | Tech Crunch | December 5, 2015

Jompeame (Jumpstartme in Spanish) is a new crowdfunding site aimed at helping the impoverished in Latin America. The site is currently raising money to launch formally but they’ve already raised $25,000, which is enough to support 59 people in the Dominican Republic. The nonprofit is working hard to raise attention to the plight of Latin America’s poor. They’ve spent about $120 a month so far on servers and Facebook ads but they want to expand and grow to help more folks...

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Kickstarter Doesn't Do Healthcare, MedStartr Seizes Opportunity

Jen Wike | opensource.com | September 19, 2012

MedStartr is a new way to fund healthcare initiatives—think Kickstarter for doctors, patients, and what ails them. It's headed up by Mike Pence and Alex Fair, two guys of different backgrounds and expertise who've come together to share the same dream and passion for helping those in physical need. Read More »

Kickstarting An Open Source Hardware "Machine Shop In A Box" - 3D Printer/Etcher/Mill

Cory Doctorow | boingboing.net | September 6, 2013

"How do you improve upon 3D printers with multiple color heads? Members of the makerspace Artisan's Asylum have built what they're calling a 'microfactory' - a self-contained machine that etches circuitry, mills, and 3d-prints multi-color objects. Their kickstarter is only a week in, but they're going to need a lot of help if they're going to reach their very ambitious goal." Read More »

Kickstarting Your Career: Crowdfunding For Scientific Research

Kevin Hascup | RateMyPI.com | October 7, 2012

Popularized by such sites as Kickstarter, crowdfunding has become a main source of financial support for entrepreneurs with ideas ranging from clothing lines to social media.  Unfortunately, Kickstarter prohibits projects for health and medicine, making the site useless for academic researchers.  To fill this gap, Petridish, iAMscientist and MedStartr have come online in the past 6 months...
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Kinsa Smart Thermometer Takes Grand Prize In Innovate Health Tech

Jasmine Pennic | HIT Consultant | July 23, 2013

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... Read More »

MedStartr Brings Dedicated Crowdfunding Platform To Digital Health

Brian Edwards | iMedicalApps | July 16, 2012

NYC-based MedStartr (@medstartr) has finally unveiled version 1.0 of their crowd funding platform for digital health and medicine projects, which are specifically ineligible for listing on Kickstarter. Read More »

MedStartr Finally Brings Crowdfunding To Health Projects

Rip Empson | TechCrunch | July 11, 2012

...serial healthtech entrepreneur Alex Fair and founding Kickstarter product manager Mike Pence have set out to give health-focused entrepreneurs and projects a Kickstarter of their own. Medstartr, which launched in beta today, is a crowdfunding platform designed specifically for healthcare companies, providing startups with a vehicle to market their wares, generate awareness and raise capital — direct from strangers, investors, and Doogie Howsers alike...
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MedStartr Offers Crowdfunding For Health IT Firms, Including Itself

Arlene Weintraub | Xconomy | July 11, 2012

Kickstarter has collected $250 million for 24,000 projects since it was founded three years ago, but virtually none of that has gone to health-related companies. “I said, ‘Hey, there’s an opportunity here,’” Fair says. “No one’s really doing health care crowdfunding.”
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