Monthly Archives - May 2021

Legally blind Titusville woman uses high-tech camera goggles to see the world

Elledge, 66, who had polio as a child and is legally blind, suffers from optic atrophy. There is no effective treatment, and she can no longer see from her right eye. Elledge's husband, Mike, served as “the gatherer” and “the gopher” who did all the shopping while she stayed with the cart. Distraught and frustrated, she asked Mike to try to find something to help her see. He searched online and found eSight. Read more >>
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Elizabeth Banks Wants To Change The Way You Drink Wine

Elizabeth Banks has a story to tell. Actually, she has quite a few. The ever-busy actress, screenwriter and director holds over 250 television and movie credits in her resume. They didn’t come easy, of course. Earlier in her career, feeling as though women weren’t afforded enough influence in Hollywood, she started her own production company. Brownstone was founded in 2002, with an emphasis on championing female voices. Now she wants to do the same thing in the world of wine. This...
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Wasabi Raises Additional $25M in Funding, Led by Prosperity7 Ventures, and Extends Series C to $137M in Financing

Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company, today announced $25 million in additional funding led by Prosperity7 Ventures, the diversified growth fund of Aramco Ventures. Western Digital Capital, the investment arm of storage device manufacturer Western Digital, also participated in the round. This round is an extension of Wasabi’s Series C financing announced in April, expanding the total funding raised for the round to $137 million and the company’s total equity financing to $244 million. Read more >>
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Aramco Venture Arm Investing in U.S. Startup Wasabi

The venture capital arm of Saudi Arabia’s state-owned energy producer Aramco is investing in Boston-area cloud-storage startup Wasabi Technologies. One of Aramco’s funds, Prosperity7 Ventures, is contributing to a $25 million follow-on investment, alongside the venture capital arm of disk-drive maker Western Digital Corp., Wasabi Chief Executive Officer David Friend said exclusively in a Bloomberg Radio interview Wednesday. Read more >>
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Zylö and Amifar Laboratorios Forge Broad-Ranging Partnership

Zylö Therapeutics Inc., developer of the transformational Z-pod™ topical delivery platform, announced that it has entered into a broad-ranging agreement with Amifar Laboratorios Spain to supply Z-pods to further enhance Amifar’s new line of advanced cosmetics. Amifar and Zylö have initiated a product development collaboration beginning with two actives and have plans to expand the list of actives over time. Read more >>
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