Affectiva raises $5.7 million in second round
Affectiva, a start-up that aims to quantifiably analyze emotions to improve consumer experiences, announced this week that it has received a $5.7 million second round of financing. The funding was led...
View ArticlePatient behavior tracking startup Ginger.io nabs $1.7 million
Social behavior analysis startup Ginger.io recently announced $1.7 million in its first round of funding. The start-up, which was born out of MIT’s Media Lab, is developing software for mobile devices...
View ArticleAffectiva releases Bluetooth-enabled emotional arousal sensor
Affectiva released the second generation of its Q Sensor this week, a wearable wireless biosensor that measures emotional arousal (excitement, anxiety, and calm) via skin conductance, as well as...
View ArticleEmotion sensor company scoops up $12 million
Waltham, Massachusetts-based Affectiva, which spun out of the MIT Media Lab in 2009, has raised $12 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Horizons Ventures to build out its emotion...
View ArticlePassive sensors are next big thing, but questions remain
The future of sensors won’t be handheld devices like Star Trek’s tricorder. It will be invisible sensors in your shoes, floorboards, and cars that quietly collect your health data, analyze it, and...
View ArticleMobile epilepsy sensors: student-led, stopped, or stalled
Epilepsy is one medical condition where the constant monitoring capability of a wearable sensor could save lives, providing an early warning when a person with epilepsy has a seizure or even predicting...
View Article14 private digital health companies shared their 2013 revenues
This year, on Inc Magazine’s list of the 5,000 fastest growing private companies, several of the companies listed were in the digital health space. Inc created this list by measuring a private...
View ArticleEmpatica crowdfunding Embrace, a wearable for epilepsy
Cambridge, Massachusetts and Milan, Italy-based Empatica is crowdfunding a new wristworn tracker device, Embrace, which brings clinically validated tracking methods to the consumer market. The...
View ArticleAffectiva makes its emotion-sensing technology easier to deploy for online...
Waltham, Massachusetts-based emotions analytics company Affectiva has launched a new offering, called Emotion as a Service, that allows organizations to track the emotions of people interacting with...
View ArticleHow a wearable built for autism could lead to a new understanding of seizures
One of the great but nebulous promises of wearable health trackers is that, by monitoring something 24-7 that previously was only ever monitored intermittently, it will help us discover new things...
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