Plug And Play Focused On Biotech, And Digital Health Innovation

                    Plug and Play is coming to Cleveland. The company’s work is focused on biotech, and digital health innovation. Plug and Play will team with the Cleveland Clinic, and JumpStart, in a three-year partnership. Their hope is to attract dozens of healthcare startups from across the

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CLE Clinic To Lure Tech Startups To NEO

The city’s largest health care employer is making moves to attract health tech startups to the city. At the Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Innovation Summit on Monday, executives from the Clinic and the nonprofit business incubator JumpStart, Inc., announced a three-year partnership with Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley company that specializes in running accelerator programs— basically, business boot camps for early-stage tech startups.

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Game Changing Bio-Med Center Coming To Cleveland

Cuyahoga County, the Cleveland Clinic and JumpStart are expected to announce a deal Monday that could cement the region as the nation’s capital of medical innovation. The deal will bring Plug and Play Tech Center, which bills itself as the world’s largest startup accelerator, to the city. The Silicon Valley company that connects entrepreneurs with investors, will

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Global Innovation Firm Plug And Play To Partner With Cleveland Clinic, JumpStart On Health Innovation

Plug and Play, a global business that’s nurtured companies like Google, Paypal and Dropbox, is coming to Cleveland. Its local partners say that it will help the region become a national center for innovation in biotechnology and medicine, bringing with it more entrepreneurial firms, bigger corporate players, and more knowledge-sector jobs. Founding partners include Cleveland Clinic and Jumpstart Inc.,

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Silicon Valley Company Plugs Into Cleveland

A renowned Silicon Valley innovation company is coming to Cleveland to help create an accelerator focused on biotech and digital health innovation and attract companies and startups from around the world. Cleveland Clinic and JumpStart Inc. are teaming up with Plug and Play, the largest accelerator program in the world, in a three-year partnership that

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Cleveland Clinic and JumpStart Partner To Bring Plug and Play Accelerator To The Global Center for Health Innovation

Initiative Will Attract HealthTech Startups and Corporations from Across the Globe to Northeast Ohio Cleveland Clinic and JumpStart Inc. have announced a three-year partnership with Silicon Valley’s renowned Plug and Play to create an Accelerator focused on biotech and digital health innovation in downtown Cleveland’s Global Center for Health Innovation. Announced during Cleveland Clinic’s 2017

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InfoGPS Locates and Secures Sensitive Data

Data is transmitted, stored and neglected across our networks every day. For most of us, this data is largely inconsequential and poses no serious risk. But for businesses dealing with sensitive information, a breach of the network is extremely significant. Customer data such as financial records, social security numbers and other private information, if left

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Meet The Health IT Vendors Working To End The Opioid Crisis

The U.S. is in the midst of a national crisis when it comes to opioid misuse and overdose. Last year, 52,000 people died from a drug overdose — 33,091 of which were caused by a prescription or illicit opioid, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And 12 million people misused opioids in

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Canton Startup Vlipsy Makes Some Noise With $1.3 Million In Seed Financing

Vlipsy, a Canton startup that helps people augment their online communications with video clips that include sound, announced it has raised $1.3 million in seed funding from investors that include JumpStart Inc., North Coast Angel Fund, Impact Angel Fund, Flashstarts, GLIDE and Cox Enterprises Inc. Specific terms of the investments were not disclosed. The funding comes after Vlipsy graduated from the Techstars Atlanta accelerator, a program

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Vlipsy Raises $1.3M in Seed Funding, Graduates Techstars Atlanta Accelerator

Ohio Startup Enhances GIFs by Adding Sound, Attracting Skype and Viber as Early Partners Fresh off graduation from Techstars Atlanta, Canton-based startup Vlipsy has announced $1.3 million in seed funding from multiple investors—including JumpStart Inc., North Coast Angel Fund, Impact Angel Fund, Flashstarts, Great Lakes Innovation and Development Enterprise (GLIDE) and Cox Enterprises—as well as

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Putting Precision Care On The Spot

In 2015, the Obama administration launched the Precision Medicine Initiative — an effort designed to bring national attention to a health care approach that takes into account variability in genes, environmental factors and lifestyle for each person. The role of precision medicine in day-to-day clinical care is still limited, but Northeast Ohio could play a

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