Tagged: medical

December 20, 2013 @ 8:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Donate Health to World’s Most Vulnerable. An alternative for last-minute gifts: Crowdfunding medical treatments and safe births. Nyaya Health, a for-purpose organization that exists to realize the right to health by delivering transparent, data-driven health care for Nepal’s rural poor has announced a new health crowdfunding platform. Social… Read More

December 18, 2013 @ 4:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Healthline to help patients’ friends and families crowd fund medical expenses. Crowdfunding-as-a-Service provider FundRazr and Healthline have partnered to offer a new way to raise money online for patients with medical expenses in the U.S. or Internationally. Healthline is a San Francisco based provider of health… Read More

December 12, 2013 @ 10:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Tulane University has just announced a partnership between Tulane’s School of Medicine and crowdfunding platform Microryza. Microryza is an industry leader in crowdfunding for medical research, and the platform will be used by Tulane researchers going forward in an effort to drive funding to medical… Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 8:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

JOBS Act Expected to Transform Medical, Healthcare Crowdfunding. OneMedForum has announced  two panels featuring early entrants in the emerging areas of crowdfunding and online investment banking in healthcare.  Panelists will offer insights on their experiences thus far, along with their outlook on this new approach… Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 8:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Skulpt Aim, a device to measure body fat and muscle quality, has hurdled their $100,000 goal on Indiegogo with more than 30 days remaining in their crowdfunding campaign.   Supporters from 32 different countries supported the unique device.  Expectations are for the first Skulpt’s to… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 9:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hits $100,000 Crowdfunding Goal Immediately. Bill Draper, along with his family, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in support of the Parkinson’s Insitute and Clinical Center.  The fundraising initiative which is part of the #GivingTuesday effort on Indiegogo, has greatly benefited from the promise… Read More

November 29, 2013 @ 9:48 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Argo Medical Technologoies Ltd. raised $1.28 million on OurCrowd in a round that ended earlier this year. The raise was to fund further development of their medical device, the ReWalk, which acts as a mechanized exoskeleton and allows paraplegics to walk again. The health benefits… Read More

November 26, 2013 @ 11:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Could crowdfunding help to provide a better way to treat certain forms of cancer? This is the amazing question at the core of a crowdfunding campaign that aims to raise $500,000 in funding to complete a study aimed at providing a treatment for cancer that… Read More

November 14, 2013 @ 7:15 am By JD Alois  |  

The non-profit donations based crowdfunding site Samahope, has announced a change to their crowdfunding model.  As of today their donation based platform will shift to funding doctors that deliver care as opposed to funding for individual patients. Samahope funds life-altering surgeries and medical treatments for women and… Read More

November 13, 2013 @ 12:01 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The Rolling Jubilee launched last year with hopes of buying and abolishing medical debt for pennies on the dollar. Born from the Occypy Wall Street movement, the organization generated $600,000 in funding through a telethon and variety show, as well as through donations collected through… Read More

November 13, 2013 @ 8:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Medical “tri-corder” device Scanadu raised $1,664,574 on Indiegogo this past July.  Their goal of raising $100,00 was crushed as 8523 backers rushed to support the medical device and their crowdfunding campaign.  Scanadu was Indigogo’s highest grossing campaign at that time. Now with a proven success… Read More

November 1, 2013 @ 11:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

After enjoying a night out with friends in Philadelphia , Christmas week 2011, I hailed a taxi to go home. That was my last recollection before suffering an savage attack where I was left for dead in a city alley. Many facts are unknown but… Read More

October 29, 2013 @ 11:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

FundRazr has provided the following infographic on “US medical crowdfunding at a glance.” The statistics within provide a great overview of the crowdfunding landscape for medical causes in the last could of years, and provides some sense of what to expect from this sector in… Read More

October 22, 2013 @ 1:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

CureCancerStarter, a 501c3 nonprofit, launched today.  The site will connect cancer patients, their friends and family to cancer researchers.  The site features cancer research from the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (Chapel Hill, NC), The Duke Cancer Institute (Durham, NC), Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo, NY) and… Read More

October 6, 2013 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

More than 25 doctors and PhD’s from institutions like Harvard, John’s Hopkins and MD Anderson are raising money for cutting edge cancer research on the Start A Cure platform. Start A Cure launched in March 2013 by the national patient advocacy nonprofit, Malecare, America’s largest men’s… Read More

October 2, 2013 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Set to take place in January 2014, OneMedPlace has announced an expanded program schedule and a new venue for the Seventh Annual OneMedForum: Investing in Healthcare 2014.  The annual event will focus on the new financing strategies made possible by the JOBS Act and on areas of greatest… Read More

September 26, 2013 @ 10:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Perle Bioscience wants to cure diabetes and they need to raise capital to accomplish their goal.  They chose BlazeFund because they specialize in life-sciences and are making a paradigm shift in accessing capital. The statistics on the impact of Type 1 Diabetes is compelling: 26 million patients…. Read More

September 26, 2013 @ 10:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Amulyte, an emerging medical device company, announced today that it has launched an equity-based crowdfunding campaign Wefunder, a crowdfunding platform with offices in Boston and San Francisco. Amulyte has developed an emergency response system that is designed to protect seniors beyond the short broadcast range covered… Read More

September 26, 2013 @ 7:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Launched on August 29th, Applied Integrin Sciences continues to promote their crowdfunding campaign to accelerate the development of their cancer fighting drug. The treatment is being designed to boost survival and quality of life for patients suffering ovarian, breast, prostate and other cancers.  The initiative… Read More

September 19, 2013 @ 10:01 am By JD Alois  |  

The Owlet Smart Baby Monitor was rejected by Kickstarter and decided to go the Selfstarter route to crowdfund their product.  The goal was to raise $100,000 and as of today – with several days left in the campaign – the project stands at over $140,000… Read More