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• Cvent Expands its Field Marketing Product Suite with Strategic Acquisition of Splash

  September 4th, 2024

  Cvent, an industry-leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider, today announced that it has acquired Splash, an event marketing technology company. Splash’s easy-to-use platform empowers marketers to create on-brand, measurable, and repeatable event programs that drive pipeline and sales. 500+ leading organizations, including over 60 Fortune 1000 companies, rely on Splash for their event marketing needs. Together, the companies plan to continue investing in their products and serving their customers to accelerate event success.

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• Edra US Acquires RxData, Integrated Solution for Access, Pricing and Reimbursement of Therapies

  July 19th, 2022

  Combining sustainability and innovation in therapies globally is essential to finding a balance between public and private. In this perspective, Edra acquires RxData , a global and integrated system for market access, pricing and reimbursement of drugs. Edra thus integrates the offer of consultancy and vertical solutions for negotiation strategies for drugs.  “The synergy with RxData strengthens the group’s US presence and radically expands the offering of solutions and products for life sciences companies” declares Tommaso Albonetti, General Manager Edra US “The excellent skills and solutions of the new US company become an important resource for all the other companies of the Group” .

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• Nomi Health buys Artemis Health for $200M

  January 6th, 2022

  Payment startup Nomi Health has acquired Artemis Health, which uses data to help U.S. employers fine-tune health offerings, in a $200 million deal.

  Why it matters: The pairing of the two payment-minded startups is part of an ongoing consolidation wave in digital health where small, like-minded upstarts combine their assets to round out their offering.

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• Flower Startup Tops $100 Million Valuation After Latest Funding

  May 5th, 2021

  The series C values the company at more than $100 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. The firm, founded in 2014, has now raised a total of $48 million. “Our brand growth has been particularly strong throughout the years, with the pandemic further spiking our sales,” UrbanStems CEO Seth Goldman said in an email. The new capital will be used to add more workers, boost a fast-growing subscription service and add a loyalty program.

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Portfolio

Splash is a project management platform that empowers event planners to execute professional events from start to finish. By offering useful tips, suggestions, reliable resources along with powerful management tools, splash enables users to learn what needs to get done, and then do it.

Vadio turns listeners into viewers by evolving audio streams into rich media viewing experiences for both established and emerging media companies.

RxData is a live data platform that collects, aggregates and analyzes past and current global market access events to help life sciences companies make faster and better market access decisions.

TRAVO is the easiest way to plan and book business travel.  TRAVO scientifically creates an end-to-end itinerary inclusive of air, lodging, and ground recommendations custom tailored to the way you travel specifically for the meeting or event you're attending.

Skipper is an online travel agency that provides group hotel booking services. Skipper simplifies and streamlines the group hotel booking process making it easier to book rooms at the right hotels with the best rates.   

UrbanStems makes it easy to order stunning bouquets and gifts on-demand in under an hour.   

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Viewfinder is a platform that enables users to organize, share, and relive their memories with the people who matter most. With Viewfinder, users can meaningfully connect and selectively share their life’s moments in photos and messages

Init.ai is a developer platform to build, train, and deploy intelligent conversational apps. Init.ai enables companies to easily create AI and natural language conversational apps through their developer platform. The company offers a comprehensive solution that handles messaging, machine learning, and business logic, including integration with third-party APIs. Init.ai is the simplest way to build, train and deploy intelligent conversational apps. 

iMedicare provides dynamic software solutions that empower pharmacists to make better decisions every day. The company’s proprietary technology analyzes patient and clinical data to provide actionable opportunities to promote patient engagement, clinical interventions, and efficient pharmacy workflows.

Notion is an all-in-one sensor for simplified home awareness. The company's single sensor can detect doors and windows opening, water leaks, smoke alarms sounding, lights being left on, temperature of a room, gun safes or liquor cabinets being accessed, and even how full a propane tank is.

Artemis Health is an analytics platform that helps self-insured employers save money on healthcare by analyzing their health data, visualizing hotspots where they can save money, and allowing them to create and track cost saving initiatives.

FocusMotion creates data-driven orthopedic recovery solutions to automatically assess and monitor pre- and post-operative patients, building the deep learning and diagnostic AI that will transform human recovery.

Team

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  Ian Judson

  Managing Partner
  Managing Partner

  Ian Judson

  Ian is the founder and Managing Partner of Valence Ventures. He brings over 15 years of experience in technology and healthcare as an operator and an investor. Prior to starting Valence, Ian was a part of the investment team at Aisling Capital and Head of Healthcare and Technology at Gravitas Capital. Ian has also held operating and finance roles at Dynova Laboratories, ImClone Systems and Judson Realty. When he’s not out meeting with new start-ups, he’s serving it up on the tennis court. He is an avid snowboarder, tennis player, supporter of the arts and lover of B-movies.   

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  Robert Gehorsam

  Venture Partner
  Venture Partner

  Robert Gehorsam

  Robert’s experience as a start-up co-founder (Forterra Systems), public company CEO (Image Metrics) and senior executive at Sony, Viacom and Scholastic augments his previous roles as a venture partner (Jerusalem Venture Partners) and angel investor (IoT start-up flowthings.io and biofabrication company Modern Meadow) to give him a unique perspective and talent for helping young companies achieve their potential. His initial work in the computer games industry led to his belief that the consumerization of software and hardware would fundamentally change not just the nature of how individuals work but how businesses organize, adapt and thrive in the 21^st century. He is an active alumnus of tiny Grinnell College, which helped found Intel, inspired the @ for Twitter and the MIME e-mail format, and he remains pleased that he’s not the only literature and religion major from the college who has immersed himself in the tech world.

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