Ethical life insurance company Ethos raised $35 million in a Series B financing round led by Accel, a leading early and growth-stage venture capital firm. Additional participating investors included Google Ventures (GV), previous investors Sequoia Capital and Arrive (a subsidiary of Roc Nation), and a
Covr Financial Technologies, a digital, multi-carrier life insurance platform for financial institutions, raised $10 million in Series A funding. Individual and family investors and current venture partners Nyca Partners, Commerce Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, and Connectivity Capital Partners were joined in the round by new
Abingworth, an international investment group dedicated to life sciences, closed its twelfth fund, Abingworth Bioventures VII, at $315 million, exceeding its target of $300 million. The firm has funds under management in Europe and the U.S. of over $1.2 billion. The fund invests broadly across all
Consumer life insurance platform Bestow Inc., closed $15 million in Series A funding led by Valar Ventures, with participation from existing investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Core Innovation Capital, 8VC, and Morpheus Ventures. The company believes that less than 44% of households have individual life
Life insurance company Ladder announced today that it has raised $30 million in Series B financing, led by RRE Ventures, with participation from Thomvest Ventures, as well as Ladder's existing investors Canaan Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Nyca Partners. Ladder, founded in 2015, is on a
Health IQ Insurance Services announced the completion of $34.6 million in Series C financing, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from CRV, Ribbit Capital, Foundation Capital, First Round Capital, Felicis Ventures, and Western Technology Investment. Health IQ is an insurance startup that uses science and big
Healthcare startup Cake announced it has secured $1.4 million in seed financing, led by Pillar, with participation from LaunchCapital, Honeycomb Portfolio, and Arkitekt Ventures. Cake provides a digital platform for advance care planning and end-of-life planning. Cake’s online profiles store a user’s end-of-life preferences, which can
Life Lapse is an iPhone time-lapse app that allows users to assemble short video clips or photos into a custom-sized video that can be shared in the resolutions specified by different social media channels. Life Lapse was built by Sarah Boland.
Digital Legacy stores a personal message from someone that gets automatically sent to his/her trusted friend once the person who wrote it has passed away. The user writes a message and indicates a recipient he/she wishes to send it to, along with the recipient’s email
Seize The Day helps people get productive, healthy, motivated, and more organized with such features as task management and numerical trackers, and daily and weekly reflections to hold themselves responsible and keep their inner space clear. Weekly objectives help users reach long-term goals by cutting