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Evan Singer shared thisAtman Shah and I are thrilled to present Parasol Med Tech next week! Thanks for having us Polsky Center at the University of Chicago! We are looking forward to seeing you all there! #parasolmedtech #atrialfibrillation #strokepreventionEvan Singer shared thisThe presenter lineup is here! Join us during TechChicago Week by P33 Week for UChicago Deep Tech Demo Day, where 22 ventures will showcase breakthrough innovations across quantum and hardtech, healthcare, and data and AI. The program also features a fireside conversation with Jeremie Bacon and Chris Gladwin, followed by live startup pitches and networking with founders, investors, and industry leaders. View the presenter lineup >> https://lnkd.in/g8_wgGXj Register today >> https://lnkd.in/gv5K2ruS // Thank you to our event sponsors! Gold: Every Silver: IBM and McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd. Bronze: Cooley LLP
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Evan Singer shared thisWell said Atman Shah! A heartfelt thank you to all of our advisors & mentors as well as the Polsky Center at the University of Chicago! And - a huge congratulations to Aaron Esser-Kahn too! What a privilege and honor!Evan Singer shared thisEvan Singer and I are honored to share that Parasol has been selected as a recipient of the George Schultz Innovation Fund (GSIF) Award. This recognition is especially meaningful given the rigorous review process and the outstanding group of innovators and companies participating in this year's program. We are grateful to the GSIF team (Polsky Center at the University of Chicago, Brittani Brown, Ellen Zatkowski), our IFA Team (Gina Washington, Pin-Ruei(Ray) Huang, Peter (Dongbo) Yang, Ph.D., Michaela Ciulla, and Gabriella Coser Rivaldo), judges, mentors (Steven A. Gould, M.D., Jennifer Fried, Jonathan Paul, Osman Ahmed, Ravin Gandhi, Shyama Majumdar, Ph.D, MBA, Alyssa Master, PhD, Ben Cox, Samir Mayekar) and fellow entrepreneurs (congrats to Aaron Esser-Kahn) who challenged our thinking and helped strengthen our vision. At Parasol, we are developing a novel left atrial appendage closure technology designed to address important limitations of current therapies and expand treatment options for patients with atrial fibrillation. The support from GSIF will help accelerate development, further de-risk the technology, and move us closer to bringing this innovation to patients. Thank you to everyone who has supported us on this journey—from our advisors and collaborators to our early supporters and investors. We are excited for what comes next. #MedTech #Innovation #StructuralHeart #Cardiology #MedicalDevices #Entrepreneurship #GSIF #AtrialFibrillation #Polsky #DeepSeed #StrokePrevention https://lnkd.in/gR_YycqFGeorge Shultz Innovation Fund Awards $250K to Parasol Medtech and SignlGeorge Shultz Innovation Fund Awards $250K to Parasol Medtech and Signl
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Evan Singer shared thisWhat a kickoff to my next adventure! Thank you, Atman Shah! I am so honored and privileged to build Parasol Med Tech with you. We are developing a first-of-its-kind catheter & gel-based left atrial appendage closure system for AFib patients, expected to improve clinical outcomes and save lives. The GSIF process was amazing! Thank you to the Polsky Center at the University of Chicago, staff, judges, advisors, supporters, PraanaTech, Morton Labs, Signl Labs, and our amazing IFA team. In Memoriam: George Shultz, one of only two Americans to have held four different federal cabinet posts. #atrialfibrillation #structuralheartdisease #strokeprevention #leftatrialappendageclosure #startupsEvan Singer shared thisCongratulations to all the finalists who pitched yesterday at the George Shultz Innovation Fund! For 15 years, the George Shultz Innovation Fund has helped bridge the gap between research and commercialization, providing critical support to bring promising discoveries out of the lab. Thank you to the judges, mentors, and supporters who continue to help advance its mission. // University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago
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Evan Singer shared thisThank you Veterans for serving our country, protecting us and keeping us safe. We appreciate you so very much. And after your service, we're extremely proud that many of you come to us for loans when you're looking to grow your business. Lots of gratitude! #grateful #veterans #smallbusiness #sbaEvan Singer shared thisThis Veterans Day, we honor the service and the entrepreneurial spirit of our nation’s veterans. SmartBiz is proud to support veteran-owned small businesses across the country. In fact, approximately 10% of our SBA loans go to veterans. From launching new ventures to expanding legacy operations, veterans bring the same leadership, discipline, and determination to business that they brought to their service. To every veteran who continues to serve their community through business ownership: thank you. We’re honored to help power your next chapter.
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Evan Singer shared thisThank you to all who gave their lives in service of our great country. We honor you and your families.Evan Singer shared thisIn honor of Memorial Day, our offices will be closed on Monday, May 26. As we pause to remember and honor those who gave their lives in service to our country, we wish you a safe and meaningful holiday. Online and mobile banking will remain available for your convenience.
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Evan Singer shared thisProud to share the results of our first-ever State of Small Business: Industry Pulse in time for National Small Business Week. These insights come straight from the source: Over 200 small business owners who are navigating today’s challenges and shaping tomorrow’s economy. Their feedback is invaluable, and it reinforces why we do what we do. When we listen closely to business owners, we build better solutions. Take a look at what matters most to small businesses in 2025: https://lnkd.in/g7PMFrRA #smallbusiness #smartbizbankEvan Singer shared thisReleased for National Small Business Week to celebrate the vital role of small businesses, our State of Small Business: Industry Pulse highlights the real challenges and opportunities entrepreneurs face today. More than 200 business owners have spoken to us about everything from financing trends to what matters most when choosing a business bank account. Explore what’s shaping small business decision making this year: https://hubs.ly/Q03l2t8d0 #NationalSmallBusinessWeek #NSBW2025 #SmartBizBank #StateofSmallBusiness
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Evan Singer shared thisI am so grateful and honored to partner with an expert board filled with the most thoughtful, insightful, passionate and generous people. Thank you Brian Ascher, Tim Bogan, Gerard Buccino, Lori Igleski, Hope Mehlman, Ann Marie Mehlum, Sean OMalley, and Noah Walley. #smartbizbank. #smallbusinessEvan Singer shared thisWe’ve added new independent Board of Directors and management leaders to the SmartBiz Bank℠ team. These seasoned executives are committed to empowering entrepreneurs nationwide and will help us to develop innovative, tailored financial solutions designed specifically for small businesses. Meet the distinguished leaders shaping the future of small business banking: https://lnkd.in/gii-7NCD #SmartBizBank #SmallBusinessBanking #Leadership Member FDIC
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Evan Singer shared thisThank you, John Gaffney! We're excited for our future as a bank and to be in a better position to help small businesses grow and thrive. #smallbusiness #smartbizbankEvan Singer shared thisOver 10 years ago, Evan Singer launched SmartBiz® with a clear mission: Help banks better serve small businesses. Now, after more than a decade, he's continuing that mission as CEO of SmartBiz Bank℠. Evan recently joined John Gaffney on PYMNTS TV to share why SmartBiz Bank is uniquely positioned to bring banks back to the small business market through the power of technology. Give the episode a listen, and drop a comment to share the biggest banking challenges you think small businesses face today: https://lnkd.in/gj_XpBRp #SmartBizBank #smallbusinessbanking MemberFDICSmartBiz Makes Transition from Lender to Full-Service BankSmartBiz Makes Transition from Lender to Full-Service Bank
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Evan Singer shared thisWe are very thankful for the thoughtful regulatory process and are looking forward to our next chapter as SmartBiz Bank. #smartbizbank #smallbusiness https://lnkd.in/gW38mWzHOCC Conditionally Approves Fintech Business Model for a National BankOCC Conditionally Approves Fintech Business Model for a National Bank
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Evan Singer liked thisEvan Singer liked thisA Palette of Ketchup & Mayonnaise: Designing a '60s Diner from Scratch Tasty Delicious, our San Anselmo restaurant in the former Hilda's space, is now about 80% done. Finishes are in, and fixtures and power are next. Full video here: https://lnkd.in/g_fBhw9Y 🎥 Culture Digital Media Builder: Cookline #annlowengart #sananselmo #tastydelicious #restaurantremodel #marindiner
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Evan Singer liked thisEvan Singer liked thisWe opened Priya Living's India headquarters at One BKC in Mumbai this week. We began the way you begin anything that matters here. With a puja to Lord Ganesh, the remover of obstacles. I was asked to crack the coconut. It took me ten tries. In front of the whole team. 🙈 Building a company is a lot like that. Most things do not work the first time. You have to keep swinging. Priya Living started in the Bay Area, serving Indian families across generations. Mumbai is now our home base, closer to the residents, families, and teams we serve across Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, and Vadodara. Thank you to our team for their patience. And to Lord Ganesh for clearing the way. Some obstacles take a few more swings. #PriyaLiving #Mumbai #NewBeginnings #Hospitality #OneBKC
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Evan Singer liked thisEvan Singer liked thisMoxie Money has arrived — and we’re just getting started. We’ve raised $5.5 million from Fin Capital, Core VC, and Vera Equity, partners who share our conviction that small business owners deserve better access to capital and better tools to build stronger businesses. We’ve also forged a partnership with WebBank, a leader in digital lending and a team I know well. Together, we’ve successfully built and scaled multiple billion-dollar lending programs, and I couldn’t ask for a better partner as we build Moxie. We now have the foundation — the capital, the partnerships, and most importantly, the people — to build something meaningful for entrepreneurs and small business owners. A huge THANK YOU to the partners who believed in our vision and empowered us to get here. Now the real work begins. We’re building Moxie for the builders and doers, the small business owners who are the backbone of the American economy. And we’re just getting started. Logan Allin, Ren Riley, Fan Wen, Susan Ehrlich, Arjan Schütte, David Roos, Michael Vaughan, Todd Fitzpatrick, Jonathan Pomeranz, Jason Lloyd, Scott Cowley, Erik Cannon, Aaron Blankenstein, James Petersen, Matt Morris, Al Tolentino, MBA, Trevor Hansen, Jim Jackson, Parris Sanz, Luiza F., Kelsey Hardy, Justin Jensen, Janean Lambert, Cade Sorensen, Riley Anderson, Wiley Willden
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Evan Singer liked thisEvan Singer liked thisExcited to be at the JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes for #FLAGGL to talk to Florida lenders about how Pioneer Financial Technology can bring efficiency to their loan process. Pioneer is a fully customizable LOS that adapts to your loan process, is end-to-end, and provides a seamless customer, broker, and banker experience. Let's talk!
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Evan Singer liked thisEvan Singer liked thisJeff Clavier raised a $15 million venture fund in just 8 weeks. His next fund took almost 2 years. After one of the fastest first institutional fundraises you could ask for, Jeff thought he had fundraising figured out. Then he tried to raise a much larger $50 million fund. Jeff on the hardest part of his journey: “I raised my first fund from institutionals in eight weeks, which never happens. And so I was like, ‘Well, you know, I'm good at this.’” “And then I tried to sort of raise a much larger fund, $50 million, and it took me almost two years to actually raise it.” “I made all the stupid mistakes that emerging managers sort of typically make when they raise their first fund” Jeff Clavier: How to Raise Your First Venture Fund via Trailblazers Podcast
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Evan Singer liked thisEvan Singer liked thisI'm excited to share that I'm starting a new role with Smartbiz Bank in Business Development/ Partner Success! Prior to working with Smartbiz, I was a broker myself and then spent the last 5 years at Smartbiz helping the clients of our brokers/partners successfully get SBA funding. I'm really excited to start working closer with our partner relationships and grow our broker network. If you have any deals you want to review or see if your institution is a good fit to send deals to Smartbiz Bank, don't hesitate to reach out.
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Evan Singer liked thisEvan Singer liked thisOfficially launching at OnePay this week: banking built for families & teens. One of our core beliefs at OnePay is that access to better money should start before you're an adult, not after. Most teenagers learn about money from an allowance jar. We want them to have access to real tools of their own — tools that can help them build credit, earn cash back, and actually feel like theirs while making sure parents keep control. My favorite part of this launch has been watching dozens of OnePay parents build this product with their own kids in mind (myself included now that my 14-year-old son is finally eligible to be a OnePay product tester). There's something to be said for designing a product as a parent who's about to hand their teen the card — something Harsh captured well in the blog below and that speaks to how we approached this product overall: "When you design a product around someone's children, you stop designing just features and start designing for the most emotional relationship most of us will ever have." https://lnkd.in/d-V6yARv
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Evan Singer liked thisEvan Singer liked thisClimate Week NYC 2026 is officially underway, and the energy at the 2nd annual PlanetHAUS was electric. ⚡Hosted at Chief’s Flatiron clubhouse, an uplifting, optimistic energy pervaded the space, with each floor showcasing unique companies. The power of design to reshape processes, ingredients, and systems was central, touching on a theme I’ve talked about in the past regarding the importance of imagination for true futurist innovation. High performance coach Dena Crowder, delivering the opening kickoff speech right after Planet Haus founder Julia Collins' introduction, put it beautifully: “Imagination is not adversarial to prosperity.” Across food, fashion, art, and culture, two powerful themes stood out—proving that we have the collective power to design a sustainable future and combat climate change: 1. What can we ADD to the world? (New & Improved) ▸ Commercializing Nature's Science: The Two Frontiers Project and Seed Health are collaborating to use extreme-temperature microbes for carbon removal and bioremediation. ▸ Regenerative Options: Brands like Wild Orchard (whole-leaf matcha) and Buena Vida Specialty Coffee prove that shifting away from mono-cropping lowers emissions and restores soil health—while delivering higher quality products better for human health. ▸ AI-Driven Culinary Innovation: Chefs at The Culinary Institute of America work with Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, using AI software to guide what ingredients to change and why to find great-tasting, appealing meat substitutes. ▸ Bringing Nature In ("Wilderkind"): Yin Mei of Moss Path Labs brought this cultural trend to life with a sensory activation, handing out bouquets of aromatics and flowers to hang in your steam shower. 2. What can we TAKE AWAY from the world? (Mitigating the Negative) ▸Carbon Offset: CNaught helps companies easily offset their footprints with access to verified carbon credits. ▸Microfiber removal: CiCLO®Textiles is embedding tech into synthetic fibers for brands like Champion and Billabong to make them biodegradable so they don't hang around forever in our air and oceans. Meanwhile, Regen is tackling the damage already done by selling specialized filters to remove existing microfibers currently floating in the air. ▸Food & Fashion Upcycling: Artefact demonstrated how almond shells can replace wood in furniture and eyewear, while sungwoo roh with brand Cobbler Bushwick uses old shoes to make new shoes. ❓ My biggest open question: What was notably missing were alternative proteins—particularly cultivated meat, seafood, and cell-based plant innovations. Given their massive climate impact potential, could this be a space showcased in the future here? Huge kudos to Julia Collins for an incredible, packed “haus”! The future is something we are actively designing. #ClimateWeekNYC #PlanetHaus #Sustainability #Innovation #AlternativeProtein #Startups
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Evan Singer liked this3 years already??Evan Singer liked thisStartup #2, Year 3 ✅ It feels like both yesterday and forever ago that I met Jonathan Paul and Osman Ahmed for the first time, and after several months of doing my own diligence, decided to break all three (!) of my rules to accept their offer to join Flow Medical as Co-Founder and CEO. Startup life is a little like life with kids: the days can be long (and some days really, really long), but the years are short. And somehow, it has been three years. After three years - and even longer for JP and Os - of benchwork, R&D, preclinical studies, regulatory work, fundraising, manufacturing, testing, retesting, problem-solving, and more problem-solving, we are preparing to begin our first clinical work. That milestone is not something we take lightly. Our team is incredibly excited, but we also feel the weight of the responsibility on our shoulders as we prepare to treat our first patients. At my last startup, I was fortunate to see technology we built become part of the care of thousands of patients. But this will be different. This will be the first time that, as CEO, I am preparing to put a device we built inside a sick patient. This is exhilarating and humbling. Along the way, we’ve also managed to have a lot of fun. We’ve multiplied not only the size of our team, but also the number of babies on the team. We’ve traveled together internationally (and learned that I sleep the hardest), spent an unreasonable amount of time together in labs, celebrated wins, worked through plenty of things that did not go according to plan, and eaten just about everything in sight. Three years in, I’m incredibly grateful for the people who took the leap with us: our team, investors, advisors, partners, physicians, friends and families, and especially for JP and Os, who started this journey before I ever knew Flow existed and trusted me to help build what came next. The next chapter is the one we’ve been working toward all along: patients. Year four, here we come. ❤️
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ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION TEST DELIVERY SYSTEM
US 6,730,494
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COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING HAIR BUNS
US 10,117,490
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NON-SETTLING FRUIT BEVERAGES AND METHODS OF MAKING NON-SETTLING FRUIT BEVERAGES
US 8,173,190
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Allison Baum Gates
Our fundamental thesis is that AI is a powerful tool for filling critical workforce shortages. Radiology is a growing need with complex and often misaligned incentives, leading to an increasing gap between imaging volumes and the people who can tell patients what they mean. This translates to increased time and $$ between seeing a doctor and getting the care you need. That is why we are excited to be backing Epsilon Health $28M Series A at SemperVirens VC along with some good friends like Alexi Nazem and Tripp Jones! Congratulations to Rustin Rassoli and the whole team! My partner Colin Tobias shares more here 👇
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Dave Lu
I’m so proud that Hyphen Capital has been a backer of Tim Hwang and Jonathan Chen since the beginning of Nitra. They had big ambitions to modernize the archaic back office of healthcare practices from fax machines to AI. It’s been amazing to see their growth from processing zero transactions to over a billion dollars and they’re just getting started.
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Ken Nelson
Matt Holt, former New Mountain Capital executive, is exploring a $30 billion deal to combine five health tech startups into a single platform called Thoreau. The venture would set out to simplify and integrate services across payers, providers and data — and if completed, it would rank among the largest private equity-backed health tech companies ever. Time will tell if this massive consolidation ever gets completed or translates into real value — or if it's just another bet on scale.
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SC Moatti
I’m excited to share that Angle Health, founded by former Palantir Technologies execs Tylon (Ty) W. and Anirban Gangopadhyay, has announced an oversubscribed Series B bringing total funding to nearly $200M. I’m proud to be an early investor and to have led this competitive round with the amazing team at Portage. Why we keep leaning in: - 26x revenue growth since the Series A - Serving 3,000+ employers across 44 states - 80%+ renewal rates Angle Health is rebuilding the healthcare benefits infrastructure for SMBs, who employ nearly half of America’s workforce but have historically been shut out of enterprise-grade coverage. Their AI-native platform helps predict risk and deliver better care at a sustainable cost. This is exactly the kind of product-driven, AI-native company we’re proud to support at Mighty Capital.
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