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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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Medstartr To Launch After Kickstarter Rejects (Some) Health Projects

Brian Dolan | MobiHealthNews | July 10, 2012

This week health and medical-focused crowdfunding platform Medstartr plans to officially launch on Wednesday. As the name suggests, the website is following in the footsteps of the leading crowdfunding website, Kickstarter, which has helped launched at least two health-related startups that we have covered in MobiHealthNews... Read More »

Strapped For Funding, Medical Researchers Pitch To The Crowd

Virginia Hughes | Nature.com | September 7, 2012

In April, Dyer turned to Medstartr, one of several new crowd-funding websites tailored for scientific research and the healthcare sector. Medstartr, which debuted online in July, focuses on helping biomedical start-ups solicit small donations from everyday citizens. Meanwhile, Petridish, which came online 6 March, and iAMscientist, on 31 July, are helping scientists affiliated with academic or nonprofit institutions raise money for their research.

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