Navish Jain

TheFounderVC has a truly compelling team - entrepreneurs and operators that have scaled from 0-1 and to exits across a variety of markets - some of whom are fellow classmates. They have built strong founder and VC networks over the last 25 years in tech and are now leveraging that access and experience on behalf of their portfolio. It clearly resonates with founders, as their early portfolio is truly compelling.

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FANTASTIC news at Ubiquity Ventures-backed Ketryx! Co-founders Erez Kaminski and Jan Pöschko have just closed a new $39 million Series B financing round. Ketryx offers an AI-powered compliance platform that lets people all over the world design, develop, test and deploy highly-regulated products at a fraction of today's time and cost. It's an AI-native platform that lets you interconnect different IT systems with AI agents to accelerate the rate of safety-critical product development. Three of the world's top five MedTech companies already trust Ketryx to build safer software faster—and we're just getting started. Glad to have partnered with Ketryx from the very beginning on behalf of Ubiquity Ventures alongside E14 Fund (Calvin Chin & Habib Haddad) and bring on Lightspeed (Guru Chahal) and 53 Stations (Kevin King) at our Series A 18 months ago. Watch more below!

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Calling all Healthcare Founders & Investors - Why Structuring Human Factors Engineering (HFE) Early Pays Dividends HFE refers to designing systems that align with how humans perceive, interact, and make decisions. It is mandated under MDR and IEC 62366-1 for safety-critical devices. For AI-enabled solutions, this includes explainability, feedback loops, error handling, and decision transparency. Benefits of early integration: 1. Avoids costly rework later. If usability failures emerge during clinical evaluation, it may delay CE marking. 2- Accelerates regulatory approval. Devices that incorporate HFE from the start produce cleaner, more acceptable usability engineering files for Notified Bodies. 3. Improves real-world adoption. Clinical partners increasingly demand evidence of user-centered design, especially when integrating AI into clinical workflows. - and from R3I CAPITAL perspective It de-risks your venture funding. Clear attention to HFE is a marker of market readiness and regulatory maturity, both essential in due diligence. TLDR: Embedding HFE from day one doesn't just check a regulatory box—it builds trust with users, regulators, customers, patients, and investors alike. Join the beta - https://lnkd.in/eAgTmr4U #healthcare #euaiactcompliance #artificialintelligence #digitalhealth #europe

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AI and Health Tech in Focus   AI Tool Used to Help Predict Postpartum Depression Researchers at Harvard University’s Massachusetts General Hospital have developed an AI tool that helps predict the risk of postpartum depression (PPD) before discharge from the hospital. Approximately 15% of women suffer from PPD which is responsible for suicide and self-harm and about 10% of all pregnancy related deaths. The researchers trained the algorithm based on about 29,000 mothers using electronic health records data including medical history, medication data, age, race, ethnicity, education, marital status, insurance type, number of births, mode of delivery, number of prenatal visits, length of delivery stay as well as an existing but more modest predictability score for PPD called EPDS. Incorporating this data resulted in an ability to predict more than three times the baseline risk of PPD. Using this model can help care teams identify those at risk for PPD and provide resources and support services such as referral to social workers, psychotherapy, psychiatry or medical therapy before they have an impact on the mother, child and their families. VC Investors are always adjusting their "Play Book" with a variety of options for investing. Mikal Ventures is one of those alternatives, offering curated solutions to real world problems. Reach out if you have questions on how we can be of assistance and bookmark https://mikalventures.com/ for additional insights and information.

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Wow! Fascinating article Andrew Antos & Nischal Nadhamuni about how the Klarity platform does knowledge capture! A total disruptor indeed for how consultants traditionally did this work! Capturing not just what happens but why it happens has always been the missing link in enterprise AI, and Klarity ’s approach to surfacing human reasoning through its intelligent platform is a real step forward. The #AI Advisor’s ability to traverse vast context graphs, uncover cross-team patterns, and turn knowledge into actionable insights shows how innovation in knowledge capture can truly transform enterprise decision-making.

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