In recent years, Relay Ventures, a nine-year-old, early-stage venture firm that once operated as BlackBerry Partners Fund, has been organizing one of the more thought-provoking events for investors: a half-day, invite-only affair in Mountain View, Ca., called Strictly Mobile. The event, like Relay Ventures itself, focuses solely on mobile software and services, and though we […]
Scanadu
Diagnosing What’s Wrong, With Your Smartphone
Last week, Slate reported on a brilliant UCLA professor who is “changing the field of medical testing by turning smartphones into portable laboratories.” But there are a growing number of entrepreneurs finding ways to transform our phones into diagnostic tools. Among the latest is Walter de Brouwer, the founder of Scanadu, a three-year-old, Mountain View, Calif.-based company that […]