Level

By  Dave Muoio 08:19 am February 22, 2018
Vision insurance company and eyewear maker VSP Global today announced the launch of its activity-tracking Level smart glasses. The company’s new eyewear connects to a smartphone app that records daily steps, distance traveled, calories burned, and total activity time, and then compares the wearer’s progress in these metrics against that of their peers. Importantly, stressed Jay Sales, co-director...
By  Jonah Comstock 03:45 pm August 4, 2016
500 Startups, a San Francisco-based accelerator and investor, has announced its 18th cohort, a group of 46 companies total which includes, for the first time, a digital health track of eight startups. Despite the name, 500 startups has more than 1,500 startups in its network that have either been through the accelerator or received Series A funding from the group. This does include some digital...