Harvard Business Review
“Complex algorithms will soon help clinicians make incredibly accurate determinations about our health from large amounts of information, premised on largely unexplainable correlations in that data.”
Richmond Times-Dispatch
“The three firms have previously invested in Envera, having led a $14 million investment round in 2016 after the company acquired two area businesses: inHEALTH and MedVirginia, which were integrated into the business.”
Harvard Business Review
“Growth boards are the missing piece of the startup ecosystem that ignites the power of the entrepreneurial approach. With an effective growth board in place, a company can start to realize the benefits that have eluded it.”
Food Business News
“Personalized wellness and conscious consumption are two of the biggest trends affecting the food and beverage marketplace over the next few years.”
Bloomberg
“By making suppliers more accountable, proponents say adoption of the technology would help reduce some of the headline-grabbing food tampering of recent years.”
Business Wire
“Award-winning production partners Edward Burns and Aaron Lubin join ICX Media's Board of Advisors.”
Crunchbase
“Although funds at the high end of the AUM spectrum grab most of the headlines lately, most of the new funds are fairly small, coming in at or below $250 million.”
LiveMint
“It is easy to see why there is action in the food start-up space. For starters, the big fast-moving consumer goods companies are expanding to reach out to rural markets.”
Forbes
“Brown applied her keen eye for aesthetics and belief in inner strength to create the “World’s Most Beautiful Bar,” along with the award-winning superfood snack company, Health Warrior.”
Forbes
“Biometrics market will be disrupted, rules engines will disappear, online transactions verification will become obsolete, the use of artificial intelligence in regtech, blockchain’s capabilities will continue to grow.”
blokt
“Unlike other competing platforms, which tie freelancers to a specific site, Moonlighting plans to use the blockchain to make freelancers’ profiles portable.”
Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Nutriati’s new test kitchen hosts R&D experts and marketing professionals from food companies that are interested in new types of allergy-free, high-protein food ingredients that could be used in making snack foods, pastas, soups and health shakes.”
Laura Markley
Read as NRV's Director of Investments, Laura Markley, delves into the trends in the sizes of venture capital deals, and the outlook for 2018.
Crowdfund Insider
"WealthForge reports these investments have helped fund more than 300 private offerings hosted on their platform, with an average offering size of $17 million."
Huffington Post
“Like Pryze is disrupting crowdfunding and sweepstakes, Moonlighting is disrupting recruiting. These two companies are good examples of how even the most mature markets are facing new disruptive competitors.”
InvestmentNews
"Now, rather than wait months to get a life insurance policy, some companies can issue fully underwritten policies — that is, those taking full medical history into account — within one to two weeks"
Axion
"U.S. venture capitalists invested $84 billion into 8,035 companies in 2017, up from $72 billion in 2016 and the highest annual total since the dotcom era."
ICX Media Builds Executive Team, Board of Directors
DCINNO
"Today, ICX Media announced they’re bringing on a new president and chief operating officer, Scott Bowen, as the company prepares for its next phase of growth. Along with this announcement, ICX Media has also recruited Laura Lang, former TIME Inc. CEO, to its board of directors."
Venturebeat
"Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, and western Pennsylvania ... have seen an increase in the number of seed and early stage investments in the past several years, relative to the rest of the nation."
Join NRV Directors Paul Nolde and Laura Markley as they discuss Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) - an emerging crowdfunding tool that enables start-ups to raise capital on a viral/crypto currency exchange.