Emerge.MD and Avizia unite to provide optimal telemedicine platform

Co-written with Ashley Garcia Imagine being able to securely interact with your doctor or refill a prescription without having to wait on hold or drive to the doctor’s office. In the near future, virtual care will be ubiquitous and a common extension of a healthcare provider’s core business. Emerge.MD, a telemedicine software provider which enables enterprise telehealth with cloud … Read more

Genetic sequencing startup raises $20M in growth equity capital

Genetic sequencing startup Tesis Labs has announced a $20 million of growth equity financing, marking the company’s first external raise since it was founded in early 2020.  This financing put the company at a post-money valuation of $520 million. The round began and ended in September of this year and it was led by Xcellerant … Read more

Mesa startup Desert Valley Tech awarded NSF SBIR grant for mobile blood banking system

SBIR grant

Mesa-based Desert Valley Tech was awarded a competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to fund research and development of a smart container for use in cold blood storage and transport in extreme environments. The company, founded in 2018, began after a chance meeting between co-founders Travis Witzke and Burt Skiba. … Read more

UArizona-led team receives $3M grant to use your Apple Watch to change healthcare forever

A multi-institution team led by faculty of the University of Arizona School of Engineering has received a $3 million grant to dramatically transform the healthcare system as we know it.  The effort is led by Janet Roveda, UArizona electrical and computer engineering professor who has done research in a number of areas and is also … Read more

New genetic testing facility coming to Scottsdale

Tesis Labs, a Phoenix-based biotech company that provides genetic sequencing to healthcare providers, has announced plans to expand to Scottsdale.  The new Scottsdale lab will expand the company’s presence in the Valley as Tesis headquarters are located in Phoenix. The company has three other testing labs in Denver, Lafayette, Colo. and Houston.  The Scottsdale facility … Read more

DynoSafe to be featured on Shark Tank to pitch solution to porch pirates

Arizona-based DynoSafe will be featured on Shark Tank to pitch a solution to limit the increasing number of porch pirates and ruined packages.  On April 2, East Valley entrepreneurs Rebecca Romanucci, DynoSafe CEO and Founder, and her husband Eric Romanucci will stand in front of the infamous Shark Tank panel in the hopes of securing … Read more

HealthiestYou raises $30M led by Frontier Capital – interview CEO Jim Prendergast

After going through an entire box of tissues, again, you head to the closest urgent care. The problem is you find out it’s not in-network and will be stuck with a large bill-what now? One Valley telemedicine startup is helping company employees gain access to doctors anytime day or night from the comfort of their … Read more

ASU professor awarded Bioscience Researcher of the Year

ASU professor Wayne D. Frasch, Ph.D. was named the 2015 Arizona Bioscience Researcher of the Year for his DNA profiling technology. “The Arizona Bioscience Researcher of the Year Award is our industry’s way of recognizing the amazing work happening here in Arizona,” President and CEO of AZBio Joan Koerber-Walker said. “Nominations are collected statewide from … Read more

ACA announces Spring 2015 Innovation Challenge Winners

These passionate and innovative companies dedicated to their niche took home the win. Today the Arizona Commerce Authority announced the winners of the Spring 2015 Arizona Innovation Challenge where companies from around the country compete for a piece of the pot and build their business in Arizona. The envelope please… Learn more about the companies … Read more

Tempe's American Green acquires leading RFID co. TrackX

Tempe, Arizona’s American Green Inc., announced today that it has completed an acquisition agreement with Denver-based TrackX, LLC, one of the country’s leading providers of complete Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tracking and cloud-based physical asset management systems. American Green anticipates that TrackX is positioned to be the premiere RFID-enabled asset tracking and supply chain solutions … Read more