Vator

Vator, an abbreviation for innovator, is a dynamic professional community designed for entrepreneurs and investors, bridging the gap between media and finance. Within Vator, you’ll find VatorX, a SaaS platform that helps organizations discover and evaluate startups. There's also the Vator online network, which connects startups with potential investors. Additionally, Vator Events organizes well-known series like Splash for startups and Post Seed VC. Recently, Vator launched the Vator Investment Club, a platform where accredited investors can put their money into Splash startups or other promising ventures identified by Vator. Currently, we manage an early-stage fund valued at approximately $50 million.

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Top AI news of the week #2: Advsr AI Spotlight

1 week ago | vator.tv | Steven Loeb |Bambi Francisco Roizen

Advsr AI SpotlightHighlighting notable AI moves at the intersection of strategic operating companies and emerging startups. Big ideas in the works.
Jake Brukhman, founder and CEO of CoinFund, on the VatorNews podcast

1 week ago | vator.tv | Steven Loeb |Bambi Francisco Roizen

Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning verification platform called World debuted in the US. Altman is known as the founder of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. What does this new biometric tool mean for US consumers? Joining us to talk about this announcement is Jake Brukhman, a Managing Partner, Founder & CEO of CoinFund, an investor in World (formerly Worldcoin). Highlights from the call:0:54 – The origins of World“World was, in part, started by Sam Altman, who today is the CEO of OpenAI.
Function Health acquires cancer screening platform Ezra, launches Full Body MRI powered by FDA-cleared AI

1 week ago | vator.tv | Bambi Francisco Roizen |Steven Loeb

Function Health is a platform that provides patients with access to over 160 lab tests at a single cost of $499 per year. These tests helps people at every life stage understand their current health, discover how it’s changing, and take immediate action. Now the company is expanding into a new area: imaging.
Top AI news of the week: Advsr AI Spotlight

1 week ago | vator.tv | Bambi Francisco Roizen |Steven Loeb

Advsr AI SpotlightAI moves at the intersection of strategics and startups. Strategic Deployments of AI Incentives and rewards company Giftify, the owner and operator of CardCash.com and Restaurant.com, announced the strategic expansion of AI tools across its operations to streamline internal processes, minimize manual workload, and support faster, data-driven decision-making.
CareCloud launches AI CoE to develop artificial intelligence models for healthcare

2 weeks ago | vator.tv | Bambi Francisco Roizen |Steven Loeb

The global AI market is projected to reach $1.81 trillion by 2030 and there’s no industry that isn’t being rapidly changed by artificial intelligence, be it healthcare, which is projected to reach a market size of $490.96 billion by 2032, fintech ($53.30 billion by 2030), or edtech ($92.09 billion by 2033). This has led to the rise of the AI Center of Excellence (AI CoE), a centralized team or organizational structure within a company means to drive AI adoption, optimization, and governance.
Employee mental health provider Lyra Health launches new AI platform and features

3 weeks ago | vator.tv | Bambi Francisco Roizen |Steven Loeb

During the pandemic there were many companies in the mental health space that made a heap of money, including Lyra Health, which helps companies improve access to effective mental health care for their employees. That included a $75 million in March 2020; $110 million in August 2020; $187 million in January 2021; and $200 million in June 2021.
As religion comes to Silicon Valley, startups are developing AI tools for the faith-based community

3 weeks ago | vator.tv | Bambi Francisco Roizen |Steven Loeb

The 2024 election might be seen as a turning point for Silicon Valley, as leaders swung to the right this past election, with Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and, most notably, Elon Musk became vocal Trump supporters, with Musk taking an active role in his administration with his DOGE agency. Alongside that shift, there was also something of a Christian revival happening as well, led by tech leaders like Peter Thiel, Garry Tan, and Trae Stephens.
Assort Health raises $26 million to automate patient phone calls

4 weeks ago | vator.tv | Bambi Francisco Roizen |Steven Loeb

While patients are taking a larger and larger part of their health into their own hands, thanks to wearables and at-home devices, but that is not the case for one key area: appointment scheduling. Despite being able to make their own appointments via an online portal, only 2.4% actually taking advantage of this, while about 88% of appointments are still scheduled via the phone.
Sharp HealthCare partners with generative AI platform Abridge

1 month ago | vator.tv | Bambi Francisco Roizen |Steven Loeb

Abridge is company that uses AI to help patients better understand the details of the appointments, while also making it easier for doctors to review and understand what’s happening with their patients. Its generative AI solution records and highlights the most important part of doctor appointments for patients, while also automatically creating a draft note of the conversation in the standardized format for doctors to review.
Q1 digital health funding reaches $3B, up 11% from 2024

1 month ago | vator.tv | Bambi Francisco Roizen |Steven Loeb

A lot has changed in digital health since the highs of the pandemic, as the amount of funding, and the number of deals, has dropped from the year prior since 2021. In a few years it has gone from over $29 billion being poured in to around $10 billion by 2024. However, there was some good news in Q1 of this year, as investments more than doubled from the prior quarter, as the digital health space saw $3 billion in funding across 122 deals, according to data from Rock Health.