Shapewear company brings swimsuit shopping into the home and offers versatile, waist trimming suits that go beyond the beach BURLINGAME, Calif., April 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Ruby Ribbon, the Silicon Valley-based apparel company known for its revolutionary bra-replacement shapewear, has announced its 2018 swimwear line. RRSwim 2018 features InvisiShape™ construction that shapes, smooths and supports without the […]
by Katherine Barr, General Partner | MDV One of our portfolio companies, FIGS, announced a great round of financing by Tulco Holdings last week. FIGS, the medical apparel company that is shaking up the world of scrubs — creating high-quality and flattering scrubs in a market that used to completely lack style and utility […]
ROBOTIC Process Automation (RPA) is the technology that lets you assign manual and repetitive tasks to a software. It is as simple as that. The technology exists to help you do less of the low-value tactical repetitive stuff so you can spend more time doing the high-level strategic stuff. Today, enterprises big and small, […]
Heather Hasson was animated on our phone call as she described the fan mail she and her cofounder Trina Spear receive. As co-CEOs, they’re constantly getting letters from nurses and doctors about how their company has changed lives. “They wear their scrubs seven days a week, 14 hours a day,” says Hasson. “And they’re boxy […]
Additional Funds Drive Increased Investment In Technology For The Disruptive Direct-To-Consumer Brand LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Female-founded medical apparel company FIGS raises $65 million in most recent investment round from Tulco, bringing total funding to date to $75 million. Founded in 2013 by Heather Hasson and Trina Spear, FIGS is transforming the healthcare experience by creating the highest quality […]
NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — WorkFusion, the leading Intelligent Automation software provider, today announced the launch of a Smart Application for email processing in the development of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions for customer support centers. The project is a collaboration with IBA Group, one of the largest providers of IT solutions and services in Eastern […]
NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — WorkFusion today announced that it was a winner of MetLife’s collab 2.0, an open innovation platform designed to match new technology with business challenges within MetLife Japan. The initiative was run by LumenLab, MetLife Asia’s Singapore-based innovation center. WorkFusion was selected along with Moneytree and Montoux as winners of a contract with […]
A few weeks ago, I spoke with Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, Katherine Barr, about ideas that disrupt markets. Katherine is a board member for WorkFusion, an automation platform that uses artificial intelligence as a superpower to reduce time and costs spent on rote and repetitive enterprise tasks and elevate people to complete more advanced, creative work […]
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — WorkFusion today announced it placed 143 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America, including such firms as Tableau, Twitter and Workday. WorkFusion, which was the only RPA and Intelligent Automation vendor to make the list, grew 770% between 2013 and 2016. […]
We cut out all the intros and other small talks from our podcasts but I should begin by thanking Max Yankelevich for his time. Max is the founder, CEO and Chief Architect of WorkFusion and one of the pioneers in applying Artificial Intelligence to enterprise processes. Though I had a very high-level idea of cognitive […]
