

DNA-testing startup Prenetics gets $10m series A to ensure the meds won’t kill you
“Now the drugs don’t work, they just make you worse,” sang the British band The Verve. That probably wasn’t a reference to prescribed meds. But medication is often ineffective for some people – and in many cases it can prove fatal rather than curative. That’s what DNA-testing startup Prenetics is working to beat. Prenetics today revealed it has scored another major chunk of funding just four months after its previous round. The firm has secured US$10 million series A led by t
Prenetics Raises US$10M Strategic Investment Led by Ping An
Prenetics, a precision medicine life sciences company focused on personalized, predictive and preventive treatments announced a US$10 MillionSeries A strategic investment led by Ping An Ventures, the venture capital arm of Ping An Insurance Group, one of the largest insurance companies in China and in the World. Other investors include Indonesian Lippo Group backed Venturra Capital, Capital Union Investments and existing investors 500 Startups, COENT Venture Partners. The str


How This Startup Uses Data to Always Stay on Trend
Finding impactful ways to improve the customer experience is on every entrepreneur's mind and top experts agree that the best way to achieve nirvana is to become friends with data. As IBM's CEO, Ginny Rometty put it, "Big data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual..." In years past, we got to know customers over time - if we were lucky enough to get their attention in the first place. Gone are the gol