Equity
Lightspeed taps private equity playbook as it eyes $1bn asset sale
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture capital firms, Lightspeed Venture Partners, is seeking to use a private equity-style structure to sell $1bn worth of start-up stakes and free up cash to return to investors. …
Ask HN: Have you heard of a private equity firm focused on cutting cloud costs?
Every once in a while I see posts discussing how ridiculously overpriced cloud providers are (e.g. the recent “How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud” https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-saved-us-400m-in-3-years-by-not-going-to-the-cloud-8939dd930af8) As someone who works with AWS/Azure/GCP a lot I’ve always found these articles to be mostly overblown PR-seeking pieces, but self-hosting IS much …
How technology can add value to a private equity fundraising cycle
Over the years, the blistering pace of private equity funds is growing manifold as high returns and perceived low volatility continue to drive inflows from both existing and new institutional investors. Even during the pandemic, the PE-VC investments reached approximately $70 billion and were buzzing with frenetic deal activity and a complementary acceleration in exit …
LSU Health New Orleans receives $3 million to improve health equity and care in rural, medically underserved communities
LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing has been awarded nearly $3 million to create a program to improve health equity and care in rural and medically underserved communities in Region 6 (Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.) It is one of only ten such awards granted by the Health Resources and Services Administration …
A key step on the road to health equity: improving patient flow
Earlier this year, the National Academies reported that more than 20 percent of all donated organs are wasted, despite the fact that “on average, 17 people die every day from the lack of available organs for transplant.” The major cause of this waste was a lack of available surgeons to perform surgery at the time needed to …
Biden Names Adrian Shanker as Senior Adviser on LGBTQI+ Health Equity
Adrian Shanker, executive director of the Spahr Center in California, has been appointed senior adviser on LGBTQI+ health equity in the office of the assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Shanker has been serving in a voluntary capacity in the Biden-Harris administration as a member of the Presidential …
Why equity in healthcare matters and how technology can reduce the gap?
What is equity in healthcare and why does it matter?The World Health Organisation defines equity in healthcare as the ability of everyone, regardless of sex, gender, ethnicity, disability, or religion, to attain their full potential for health and wellbeing. In other words, an equitable healthcare system ensures the absence of unfair, avoidable, or remediable differences …
University of Minnesota to examine media portrayals of race and health equity
The University of Minnesota and two other universities will be researching how the media portrays health equity and how frequently it covers the topic. Cornell University, Wesleyan University, and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health have been awarded a grant to track media content and examine its impact on attitudes, values and behavior. …
NYU School of Global Public Health Joins Global Initiative to Improve Heart Health Equity in New York City
The NYU School of Global Public Health (NYU GPH) has joined a global initiative to reimagine how cities tackle heart health inequities using artificial intelligence—starting in New York City. The AI4HealthyCities Health Equity Network—created by the Novartis Foundation in partnership with Microsoft AI for Health—aims to use innovative data science techniques to provide health authorities, …
High school students promote health equity at TV Broadcast summer camp – Twin Cities
At TV Broadcast Camp, everyone is on deadline. This July, ThreeSixty Journalism students scrambled to write scripts, film interviews and edit the final cut of their stories about health equity before the weeklong camp ended. ThreeSixty Journalism, a nonprofit journalism training program for marginalized youth, has been running TV Broadcast Camp for five years. In …
