Telcare Raises $25.5 from Sequoia and Qualcomm

With Jack Young our featured guest at the upcoming Mobile LAVA Healthcare event next week, we’ve been looking to see what Jack has been up to.  Recently, Mobile Health News published a piece on a cellular enabled glucose monitor, Telcare, that raised $25.5 M  from Sequoia and Qualcomm.  This was a follow-on round for Telcare, a round that Qualcomm also lead.

Here is the article from MHN – Telcare raises $25.5 million from Sequoia, Qualcomm

And from the press release included in the article above:

“Telcare’s solution leverages the broad coverage of mobile networks and the convenience of cellular technology to empower individuals to better manage their conditions through professional supervision and/or family members’ support, said Jack Young, director of Qualcomm Ventures.

Telcare provides a comprehensive diabetes solution consisting of a wireless glucose meter with two-way messaging that transmits to an FDA-cleared care management server, along with a suite of iPhone and Android apps to enable family members to follow the progress of loved ones with diabetes.  Through Sequoia’s investment, the company will seek to aggressively accelerate market share to realize their vision of becoming the global leader in wireless “mHealth” solutions for people with Diabetes and other chronic illnesses. The Telcare platform is currently being implemented by health insurers and employers who currently care for more than 1 million people with Diabetes.

Registration is required for the Mobile LAVA Healthcare event and is now open at:  Mobile LAVA.  The meeting’s format will be highly interactive. Following a few introductory minutes by the moderator, Richard Koffler, the floor will open to questions from the audience.  The event will be held at tiato, 6:30 PM on September 27.  Free parking is available under the building at 2700 Colorado, 90404 after 5:00 PM with validation.

Mobile LAVA and LAVA Healthcare are Strategic Interest Groups of the Los Angeles Venture Association.

Mobile LAVA events and SIG are generously supported by Gumiyo and Ernst & Young.

Things You Should Have Seen – last week

This week’s LAVA calendar has Green LAVA down at ROC on Thursday night – 6:30 PM.  New day, new time, new venue – what’s not to like.  Lachlan McLean (US Renewables Group), Neal Roche (Gridtest), Jordan Ramer (EV Connect) will join moderator Marty Metro (Used Cardboard Boxes).  The following Thursday evening at tiato, LAVA Healthcare and LAVA Mobile will combine forces and feature Jack Young of Qualcomm Ventures and moderator Richard Koffler.  Sure to be a fascinating couple of events – go register at LAVA.org.

So without further delay – here is the stuff you should have been paying attention to last week – Sep 9 – Sep 15, 2012.

iPhone5 Sweepstakes – Fierce Wireless

Another OS joins the wireless fray – Wall Street Journal

The soft underbelly of Android – threatpost

Spectrum Perspectives – the Hill

European Theater of Patent Wars – the Guardian

Locking up by locking down – Wired

Groupon going mobile – Mobile Commerce Daily

Faster please – Computerworld

New brand, same issues – Wirelessweek

Booster shot – Herald Online

HTML5 out, ratings up for iOS FB app – TechCrunch

TweetCon 5 – Mashable Mobile

Really? – Byte

Of Course They Are – GigaOM

Do QR codes have a future? – the eTail blog

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should – All Things D

Is it flattery if you imitate yourself? – Boy Genius

Brick & Mobile – Information Week

This and $1.95 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks – Pew Internet 

#embedtimelines – Twitter

Turning over the Apple Cult – Tech Crunch

That’s it for the week that was.  Come on back next week to see more.

The Stuff You Should Have Seen – last week is a compilation of articles, opinions, stories of interest to the mobile community presented by LAVA Mobile – a Strategic Interest Group of the Los Angeles Venture Association.  LAVA Mobile is generously sponsored by E&Y and Gumiyo.

 

RideShare exhibits at PortTech EXPO

Cleantech Open semi-finalist and friend of LAVA Mobile and Green LAVA will be a featured exhibitor at this week’s PortTech EXPO.  Thomas Pham has worked at improving RideShare 2.0, the mobile app that brings together commuters with empty seats and commuters who need a ride.  The service has a scheduling component but also allows ad hoc functions that fills open seats or provides flexibility for commuters that just need a ride occasionally.

Thursday, Sept 6, the PortTech EXPO presents a full day of panel discussions, breakout sessions, exhibitor space (indoors and outdoors), a luncheon, keynote address by CEC Commissioner Carla Peterman, the debut of a Class 8 EV, workshops and Award ceremony for the winners of the Sept 5 Pitch Competition.  A single registration allows attendees access to the event both days.  Go to PortTech EXPO Registration and use the promo code LAVA for a significant discount.

Rideshare, Inc. / Rideshare 2.0

Rideshare 2.0 is a web and mobile social network to crowdsource open seats in carpools and vanpools to build an alternative mass transit network for everyday commuters. Rideshare 2.0 takes the stress out of traffic for everyday commuters by having some else drive you to work. Rideshare 2.0 helps passengers save time over public transit’s hub-spoke system with our more efficient point-to-point system. Rideshare 2.0 gives passengers the flexibility with their schedule over traditional vanpools and carpools with our open seats reservation system. Rideshare 2.0’s target market are everyday commuters in Los Angeles and beyond who commutes more than 20 miles to work each way driving alone or taking public transit. We are currently testing our service from Antelope Valley to Glendale/Burbank area with workers at Sony, Warner Bros, and Nestle.

Rideshare 2.0 charges an average fare of $7 per ride for a commuter who travels 20 miles to work each way. We also offer monthly and unlimited ride programs for a discounted fare. Rideshare collects 10% per transaction with 5% service fee from the driver and 5% service fee from the passenger. We aim to profit $1 per open seat per day. Our target for our first year in service is 500 daily commuters to use our service bringing in $1.75 M in revenue.

PortTech EXPO 2012 is hosted by PortTechLA, a 501(c)(3) clean technology commercialization center and incubator program adjacent the Port of Los Angeles. The EXPO draws nearly 100 exhibitors, presenters and sponsors, and more than 300 business, industry, research and community leaders each year.

LAVA Mobile and Healthcare Join Forces – Sept 27, 6:30 PM

LAVA Mobile joins forces this month with our sister interest group LAVA Healthcare to explore the world of mobile health, aka mhealth. 

Registration is now open for this event:  Sept 27, 6:30 – 9:00 PM at tiato in Santa Monica.

The panel will dig into how mobile technologies are expected to change fundamentally the business of healthcare. Mobile solutions ranging from simple smartphone apps to comprehensive clinical management systems are increasingly used to provide medical care in hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices. But perhaps the largest game-changing frontier is how mobile  technologies will help consumers — patients and their caregivers — become intimately involved with the active management of their health and wellness.

The meeting will feature guest speaker Jack Young, managing director of the Qualcomm Life Fund (part of Qualcomm Ventures), a $100M venture-capital fund focused on the emerging wireless and connected-health space, including wellness and fitness, chronic disease care, remote diagnosis and monitoring, healing and aging in place, and health informatics. Jack currently serves as a board observer at Airstrip, AliveCor, Telcare, PixSense, Jana, uCIRRUS, Validity and Visage Mobile. Prior to Qualcomm Ventures, Jack was executive vice president and US Country Manager at ZTE Corporation (SEHK: 0763), the world’s fifth-largest telecom equipment maker headquartered in Shenzhen, China, where he helped establish the company’s US market presence. Previously he was a sales and marketing executive at Nokia following the acquisition of Silicon-Valley based startup Amber Networks for $421M where he was founding AVP of marketing. Early in his career, he held marketing and business development positions at 3Com, GDC, and Nortel. Jack holds an MSEE from the University of Calgary and an MBA from McGill University.

The panel’s moderator will be Richard Koffler, past president of LAVA, current Chair of LAVA Healthcare and a life-sciences entrepreneur currently incubating early-stage ventures VAL9000 and Viderics. He is a member of the Tech Coast Angels, an advisor to the California Emerging Technology Fund, and board vice-chair of El Centro Latino for Literacy. He holds computer science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley.

 The meeting’s format will be highly interactive. Following a few introductory minutes by the moderator, the floor will open to questions from the audience.

LAVA Healthcare is an ongoing conversation about how to fix the healthcare system with innovations in business models, technology and consumer involvement.

LAVA Mobile is a Strategic Interest Group of the Los Angeles Venture Association dedicated to exploring and explaining the rapidly evolving universe of ubiquitous computing.  LAVA Mobile is generously sponsored by Gumiyo and Ernst & Young. 

 

PortTech EXPO Finalist – TREXA, LLC.

Wednesday evening, the 3rd Annual PortTech EXPO kicks off with a Reception and Pitch Competition at 5:00 PM on Sept 5th at the DoubleTree Hilton in Cabrillo Marina, San Pedro.  Seth Seaberg, CEO of TREXA, will join 10 other founders and CxOs competing with their 5 minute pitch.  These are the final days to register at PortTech EXPO. Use the promotion code ‘LAVA’ for a significant discount. 

TREXA is the developer and manufacturer of Geodrone™, an electric unmanned ground vehicle designed for the $80 billion U.S. private and government security market. Human perimeter security patrols are expensive and inefficient, and the cars they operate on 24-hour patrol are generating CO2 emissions. Geodrone® perimeter security vehicles address these problems. The target markets for these vehicles include the commercial sector – private security contractors (PSCs) and internal security services, as well as government – private military contractors (PMCs), government installations, and law enforcement. Current prospects include the Santa Monica Police Department, U.S. Navy SPAWAR Point Loma, SIS (Silicon Valley tech campus protection), Spaceport America and John Wayne Airport.
TREXA’s patent pending hardware platform enables quick adaptation to changing customer application requirements and serves as a barrier to entry for competitors. The platform also enables lateral expansion into other unmanned categories. Competitive advantages also include our manufacturing partnership with Navistar (NYSE: NAV), agility as an R&D focused company, high performance vehicle design experience, and “co-opetition” approach with emerging tech companies.

PortTech EXPO 2012 is hosted by PortTechLA, a 501(c)(3) clean technology commercialization center and incubator program adjacent the Port of Los Angeles. The EXPO draws nearly 100 exhibitors, presenters and sponsors, and more than 300 business, industry, research and community leaders each year.

Stuff You Should Have Seen – last week

The thing you might have missed last week was an awesome program on Thursday night at tiato with Three Mobile Entrepreneurs (Dave Mathews (NeuAer), Nick Smoot (Here on Biz), Matthias Galica (ShareSquare)) and a VC (Rustic Canyon Partner, David Travers), moderated by Forbes writer Lori Kozlowski.  75+ attendees treated to a great night of  insights, opinions and networking.  Make plans to join us on Sept 27 when LAVA Mobile and LAVA Healthcare hook up for an evening event to examine the intersection of ubiquitous computing and healthcare.

The rest of things you should have seen last week – August 12 – 18

Can You Hear Me Now? – Gizmodo

Get Off the Phone and Eat Your Dinner – Mashable

Three times the charm – Slash Gear

Never Mind – PC World

Step up to the Bar – State Bar of Wisconsin

Higher Calling – Next Gov

Cash, Credit or Smartphone? – LA Times

Fair to Midling – Boston.com

Nope – ClickZ

Take out – PC World

Side Swiped – All Things D

Apple Misunderstood – Seeking Alpha

There’s an App for that – Government Technology

There’s a Cap for that – CNBC

They Don’t Make a Large Kindle – PC World

Poof! – PC Magazine

Spoof! – Boy Genius

Managing BYOD Mess – Byte

Copy That – Mobile Commerce Daily

This Changes Everything – GigaOM

Get a Dog – Media Bistro

Mapping a Response – Social Barrel

Promising to Behave – CNet

 This Changes Everything – GigaOM

Don’t bet on it – Tech Crunch

Hard Landing– Fierce Wireless

Scraping the Surface  – All Things D

Hitching a Ride – Tech Crunch

Connecting with a tablet – ZD Net

Gram Negative – PC World

Actually usable on iPhone – Ars Technica

That’s enough for last week. 

The Stuff You Should Have Seen – last week is a compilation of articles, opinions, stories of interest to the mobile community presented by LAVA Mobile – a Strategic Interest Group of the Los Angeles Venture Association.  LAVA Mobile is generously sponsored by E&Y and Gumiyo.

Stuff You Should Have Seen – last week

There are two great Los Angeles Venture Association events this week. Tuesday evening, 6:00 PM, at the Fairmont, local Venture Capitalists are featured in our Annual VC Panel – the most popular event on the LAVA calendar.  Thursday evening, 6:30 PM, at tiato, a more intimate, convivial conversation with local mobile entrepreneurs Matthias Galica, Nick Smoot and Dave Mathews joined by Rustic Canyon VC David Travers.  This affair will be moderated by Lori Kozlowski.  Join us for both these great local VC/Entrepreneur focused events in Santa Monica.  Details and registration for both events is at the LAVA website.

But so much for the present, let’s spend a little time navigating around the past week – Aug 4 – Aug 11.  Here is what caught our attention, made us consider or simply wasted synaptic excitation.  Enjoy!

Great, kid. Don’t get cocky. – Ars Technica

Speaking of Game Consoles – WebProNews

Hearty – Mashable

Wireless Tech Space opens in Brooklyn – WSJ

L7 Latte – New York Times

Don’t Leave Home without It – the brainyard

Faster Please – Keynote Systems

What Women Like – Tech Crunch

Count Me In! – Engadget

Count Me Out! – Technology Review

Fruit Loops – ReadWriteWeb

Intel Jumps on Wireless Charging Bandwagon – DigiTimes

Cloudy with a Chance of Pain – Wired

Number Crunching Visible Mass of Liquid Droplets – CBS

Facebook readies Mobile Ad Server – Social Barrel

Fast $50 K – ZDNet

Healthcare Scheduling App – Information Week

Apple pulls plug on YouTube in iOS6 – Computer World

Coalition of Transaction Processors – VentureBeat

Roadkill – Boy Genius

Uncivil Wars – Gizmodo

Android OTA ROM Updates – GigaOM

High Time for HTML5 – The Droid Guy

That’s enough for last week. 

The Stuff You Should Have Seen – last week is a compilation of articles, opinions, stories of interest to the mobile community presented by LAVA Mobile – a Strategic Interest Group of the Los Angeles Venture Association.  LAVA Mobile is generously sponsored by E&Y and Gumiyo.

Matthias Galica – LAVA Mobile Panelist – August 16, 6:30 PM, tiato

Matthias Galica – Founder @ShareSquare & co-curator @StartupDigest LA. 

Formerly Product & Performance Marketing Manager @WooMe; BizIntel @Nike. 

Photogenic headliner @EntrepreneurMag 2011’s “100 Brilliant Companies”. 

ShareSquare – One of the first end-to-end campaign management tools serving offline-to-mobile marketing QR code campaigns in the US, for about a year.  Then realized that leading with QR codes was “selling vitamins” even though we had a mobile web “painkiller” sitting on the shelf.

That’s the sum of the bio and company description he sent along with his headshot.  A guy of few words?  Not really.  Quality over quantity.  Absolutely.  Check out his twitter account.  Subscribe to the StartupDigest LA.  See his wall on FB.  Or this interview on socaltech:  Interview with Matthias Galica, ShareSquare.

My last role was as a product manager for another local startup, Woome.com, an online dating site. I was there for a year and a half, and the thing that influenced me about the startup was I was able to cut my teeth in performance marketing. Online dating is all about acquisition, and maximizing the ROI for people coming in, and figuring out how that corresponds to their lifetime value. Me and my co-founder went through the Founder’s Institute here, while we were still in our day jobs, and one of the markets we studied was the huge, out-of-home advertising market. In that market, there are literally no ROI metrics.

 

About:

LAVA Mobile – August 16, 2012, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM, tiato, Santa Monica

This event requires Pre-registration.

The Los Angeles Venture Association Mobile Strategic Interest Group presents:

Los Angeles Mobile Entrepreneurs (Nick Smoot, Matthias Galica & Dave Mathews) and an experienced VC (David Travers) talking about what’s hot in the community right now.  And helping us understand, moderator Lori Kozlowski – who contributed the Forbes profile referenced above.  The critical questions the panel will address include: How do you start one? What are the challenges? How do you pay for / get the tech? Is the app space too crowded to be starting? What are VCs looking for in a mobile startup? What’s the future of mobile startups? What are the hardware challenges — ie. scaling for each device?

LAVA Mobile is a Strategic Interest Group of the Los Angeles Venture Association.  LAVA Mobile events and SIG are generously supported by Gumiyo and Ernst & Young.

LAVA Mobile Events are produced by Michael Utvich and John Dmohowski, Co-Chairs of LAVA Mobile.

David Travers, Rustic Canyon – August 16, LAVA Mobile Event

 

David Travers grew up working every odd job in his family’s business. His admiration for business creators began with his Dad and has grown into a passion for providing entrepreneurs with the capital and support to help them succeed. David’s technology and media experience are instrumental to his investment and advisory work at Rustic Canyon.

Prior to joining Rustic Canyon in 2005, David served as Executive Assistant to the National Security Advisor in the White House and was awarded the Secretary of Defense’s Award for Outstanding Public Service. Previously, David worked on corporate strategy at The Walt Disney Company and helped launch Disney’s credit card business.

David loves sports and his favorite activities include going to yoga class with his wife, playing at the park with his kids and working to support his favorite after school program, LA’s BEST.

David earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Stanford University.

 

About:

LAVA Mobile – August 16, 2012, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM, tiato, Santa Monica

This event requires Pre-registration.

The Los Angeles Venture Association Mobile Strategic Interest Group presents:

Los Angeles Mobile Entrepreneurs (Nick Smoot, Matthias Galica & Dave Mathews) and an experienced VC (David Travers) talking about what’s hot in the community right now.  And helping us understand, moderator Lori Kozlowski – who contributed the Forbes profile referenced above.  The critical questions the panel will address include: How do you start one? What are the challenges? How do you pay for / get the tech? Is the app space too crowded to be starting? What are VCs looking for in a mobile startup? What’s the future of mobile startups? What are the hardware challenges — ie. scaling for each device?

LAVA Mobile is a Strategic Interest Group of the Los Angeles Venture Association.  LAVA Mobile events and SIG are generously supported by Gumiyo and Ernst & Young.

LAVA Mobile Events are produced by Michael Utvich and John Dmohowski, Co-Chairs of LAVA Mobile.

LAVA Mobile Event features Nick Smoot, Here on Biz

Forbes – 6 Jul 12 – Here on Biz: Real Time Networking for Execs

After traveling to 40 states over the course of a year while working on another startup, founder Nick Smoot and business partner Allen Hartwig realized how much down, dead time they were spending in airports.

“We kept realizing we were bastardizing social network platforms just to keep in touch with business professionals. There was nothing real time. Nothing geo-aware,” said Smoot.

Nick Smoot is cofounder and CMO of Here On Biz, the instant business networking app. Here On Biz, after eight weeks of being available to the public, had downloads from business professionals in over 23 countries, received press from Forbes, Inc Magazine, TechCrunch, and entrepreneur magazine, and the co-founder of LinkedIn uses it actively. In 2010 Smoot successfully built, launched and sold toor.me, a mobile software services for the real estate industry, over the course of eight months.  Toor.me was known as the leading mobile engagement tool for single properties.  The Acquisition of Toor.me landed him in the seat of executive director of business development and the task of building key relationships with Bank of America, Ally bank, Hearst Corporation, Realogy, and Brookfield.  Prior to Toor.me, Smoot spent eight years consulting in both the profit and non-profit worlds focusing on answers to complex business development problems for both small and large organizations – corporations including Subaru, Tom’s Shoes, ASPPB, PREIT, and many others. Besides cementing himself as a leading expert in the social/mobile and mobile/professional arenas, Nick is a dedicated husband and father.

About:  Here on Biz

Here On Biz is the leading Instant Business Networking app. A little over a year ago, Allen Hartwig and Nick Smoot began thinking of ways to make business networking more geo aware and real time. The result is their iOS app. The company was founded in February of 2012 here in LA and since going live 9 weeks ago, they have seen the app downloaded in over 24 countries.

About:

LAVA Mobile – August 16, 2012, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM, tiato, Santa Monica

This event requires Pre-registration.   

The Los Angeles Venture Association Mobile Strategic Interest Group presents:

Los Angeles Mobile Entrepreneurs (Nick Smoot, Matthias Galica & Dave Mathews) and an experienced VC (David Travers) talking about what’s hot in the community right now.  And helping us understand, moderator Lori Kozlowski – who contributed the Forbes profile referenced above.  The critical questions the panel will address include:
How do you start one?
What are the challenges?
How do you pay for / get the tech?
Is the app space too crowded to be starting?
What are VCs looking for in a mobile startup?
What’s the future of mobile startups?
What are the hardware challenges — ie. scaling for each device?

LAVA Mobile is a Strategic Interest Group of the Los Angeles Venture Association.  LAVA Mobile events and SIG are generously supported by Gumiyo and Ernst & Young. 

LAVA Mobile Events are produced by Michael Utvich and John Dmohowski, Co-Chairs of LAVA Mobile.