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Service that improves treatment for patients on way to hospital to be introduced across UK after successful trial.

Making lemonade out of lemons has become our unofficial motto over the past few months.

Kamet Ventures’ Michael Niddam gives his advice for start-ups, from opportunities for innovation to why it’s important for entrepreneurs to take time away from the hot seat.

Setoo’s AI-powered solution integration will allow travel agents using the Amadeus Travel Platform to provide travellers with the most relevant protection

Préconisée pendant le confinement, la téléconsultation a enfin réussi à pénétrer dans le quotidien des Français. Malgré cette croissance soudaine, cette pratique possède encore de nombreux freins qui empêchent son développement.

HOLIDAYS abroad have always come with their fair share of risks, but the pandemic makes travelling that bit trickier.

When Kamet was founded almost 5 years ago, our mission was simple: to help solve people’s #painpoints through creative and #disruptive ingenuity. Since then we have built 19 ventures focused on everything from #fertility and #aging to #fleetsafety and access to #lifeinsurance.

COVID-19 has highlighted the underlying fractures in the UK’s care sector.

The developers of more than forty AI-powered healthcare products are set to take a cut of a new £50m NHS innovation fund.

Its Galen Prostate solution helps pathologists with more accurate diagnoses and improves lab efficiency

Back in April, in the eye of the pandemic storm, we asked European VCs and angel investors How is coronavirus impacting the funding landscape for startups?

As Published in UKTN By Michael Niddam, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Kamet Ventures As startups and investors face uncertain times, venture builders offer […]

As we eagerly await updates about potential vaccines for COVID-19 that could enable a return to ‘normal’ life…

Dans le paysage foisonnant de l’investissement, les fonds se multiplient… et ne se ressemblent pas.

`The startup ecosystem will take a year or more to fully recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with economic and political risk…

GCV spoke with Michaël Niddam, co-founder and managing director of Kamet Ventures about the intersection of health care and insurance tech.

The pandemic has hit the startup world hard. With even well-established later-stage companies struggling to keep on an even keel during the crisis, government support packages…

We invent. We incubate. We scale. We build. These are the four pillars that form the foundations of Kamet Ventures…

As more doctors switch to video consultations, a slew of new diagnostics and monitoring technologies are making healthcare more personal.

Covid-19 is impacting the world of venture creation, with ripple effects on the wider entrepreneurship ecosystem…

Digital medicine is making strides towards the mainstream as people seek remote healthcare in an effort to avoid hospitals and clinics

Air Doctor, the health tech startup that connects travellers with local doctors, has raised $7.8 million in Series A funding.

e global spread of coronavirus has forced us all indoors and seeking digital alternatives to face-to-face interactions…

It was the popularity of fertility tracking apps like Clue and Ava Health that first peaked the interest of global investors in femtech startups catering for overlooked women’s issues.

Making data smart can lead to a number of advantages including better insights into risk and pricing, a more streamlined sales process to avoid repetitive form filling, improved understanding of…

Far from replacing humans, Artificial Intelligence is actually coming to the aid of a very old profession that has fallen out of fashion to such an extent that people are increasingly not joining it. I speak of the rarified world of the Actuary.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak today unveiled a raft of new fiscal measures as he vowed to deliver on the government’s promise of “levelling up” the UK.

Ibex offers an important contribution in facing two challenges, the shortage of pathologists and the occurrence of human errors

Following a whirlwind career building three of the most exciting ventures in the London start-up scene, Ben Prouty has joined Kamet Ventures as our latest entrepreneur in residence!

As featured on TechCrunch Medloop, which allows patients to manage healthcare needs and providers, has secured €6 million from Kamet Ventures and AXA. […]

By David Adams, Product Development Lead The best UX is no UX. The best code is no code. Pretty much everything I, and […]

The entrepreneur of popular mythology is a buccaneering character – ambitious, independent, just a little arrogant and brimming with disruptive ideas. And if […]

By David Adams, Product Development Lead Source: Nick Fewings via Unsplash   Last year, I was fortunate enough to attend a Design Sprint […]

Until recently, Ravit Warsha Dor served as head of innovation at the Israeli health ministry’s digital health department.

Earlier this month I participated in a truly unique conference – an outdoor weekend-adventure in Iceland…

By David Adams, Product Development Lead When you’re building a product, it’s tough to avoid the distractions and stay focused. Getting your entire […]

Kamet turns the traditional seed capital model on its head by developing disruptive ideas itself and then finding entrepreneurs to lead them. Oh, and they’re backed with…

By David Adams, Product Development Lead Launching new products is really hard. Each year around 30,000 new products are introduced, of these, 95% […]

The AXA-backed startup incubator supports talented founders before they have a business idea, leading to such success stories as the virtual fertility clinic Apricity

Setoo will enable Omio to easily create, distribute and test personalised, transparent insurance offerings according to […]

Protection and mortgage advice firm Albany Park has announced that it has joined forces with Anorak Technologies.

The firm’s latest round brings the total raised by the AI-powered fertility tech to €8.8m Billed as the world’s first virtual fertility clinic, […]

It graduated from Accenture’s fintech innovation lab earlier this year, and is present on Starling’s and Yolt’s marketplace, where it will likely be able to gain more traction.

Pionnière en France depuis 2016, la startup Qare annonce une levée de fonds de 20 millions d’euros pour séduire les praticiens et se faire connaître du grand public

Travel insurtech Setoo has gained its first customer to utilise its platform for personalised offers.

Depuis le mois de mars 2018, les salariés du cher réalisent en autonomie la pré-visite individuelle dispensée par l’apst18 grâce à padoa. Une organisation interne simplifiée pour une performance décuplée de l’analyse des données collectées.

Agetech startup Birdie secures €7 million Series A to help elderly adults live independently. This London-based startup, is building a holistic home care platform to help the older adults live independently in their own homes, using apps and connected devices to track their well-being.

Ex-Group CEO of AXA’s global life, savings and health business, Paul Evans, has been appointed as non-executive director of smart data technology provider Anorak

The U.K. startup building a life insurance advice platform, has raised £5 million in Series A funding. It brings the total raised by Anorak to £9 million. The round is led by Kamet Ventures, the tech incubator.

Great win. Anorak is awarded “Most Innovative Life / Health Insurance Firm of the Year” at Life Insurance International Innovation Awards 2018

Un an après une première levée de fonds de 5 millions d’euros, la startup Padoa lève à nouveau 20 millions d’euros auprès de ses investisseurs historiques.

Setoo announces it has closed a $9.3 million Series A funding round, bringing the total amount raised to date to €10.3million ($12 million). The main investor is Kamet, AXA’s ‘Insurtech’ startup studio.

Anorak on board with Yolt the fintech owned by ING to put people back in control of their money!

The mobile-only bank and the smart life insurance adviser team up to offer Starling customers fast and easy access to personalised, transparent, impartial and regulated life insurance advice.

Stéphane Guinet détaille le mode de fonctionnement de Kamet, la fabrique de start-up lancée par AXA.

M6 présente Qare la solution de télémédecine.

Nouveau partenariat stratégique pour Qare

First AI pathology diagnostic system up and running in clinical setting

Qare veut faciliter l’accès des Français à la télémédecine

La start-up parisienne Qare a déployé en France sa plateforme dédiée à la télémédecine. Un service proposé en plein débat sur le remboursement des vidéo-consultations par la sécurité sociale.

Michael Niddam Executive Partner Kamet Ventures, David Vanek CEO Anorak, French Founders event

La jeune pousse Qare permet au patient de se connecter à distance sur une plateforme de vidéo consultation sécurisée. Chaque consultation donne lieu à un compte rendu écrit.

Stéphane Guinet, Founder and Managing Partner of Kamet Ventures will be speaking at the Paris Fintech Forum on the Main Stage

Anorak has been spotted by Techcrunch as the latest ‘insurtech’ company to pick up funding in the U.K. The London-based startup is on a self-described mission to “build the world’s smartest independent insurance adviser”

Anorak Technologies Limited, the smart data company secures £4 million to make life insurance more accessible in the UK.

Before joining Kamet, David was Chief Financial Officer of Menlook.com, a global online retail destination for men’s style

Créée en novembre 2016, Padoa propose aux entreprises, pour un coût équivalent, d’optimiser l’organisation de la santé du travail.

Europe1 reçoit Cédric Mathorel, CEO de Padoa dans l’émission de Raphaëlle Duchemin, Label Entreprise.

Cédric Mathorel joins Kamet’s ecosystem as the CEO of Padoa, an innovative occupational health platform.

The ambition of Birdie is to help dependent elders live longer, safer and happier in their own home.

Qare raises €6m in Series A round to empower patients wherever they are by offering access to a holistic set of personalized medical services.

Before joining Kamet, Limvirak Chea was CEO of Streetlife, acquired by Nextdoor in a multi-million pound deal in 2017.

Before joining Kamet, Frederic was head of Product at BlaBlaCar.

Before joining Kamet, Tiina was Creative Director at AKQA leading and mentoring multi-disciplinary teams. She’s passionate about making useful and beautiful digital products/ services.

Un peu plus d’un an après sa création, le « start-up studio » d’AXA a vu éclore ses premières jeunes pousses.

A l’occasion du Paris Fintech Forum cette semaine, Kamet a présenté ses trois premières startups

KAMET team will be at Paris Fintech Forum, the main Fintech event in Europe with 2 round tables !

Before joining Kamet, Caroline was Vice-President at Doro AB Group, the global leader in senior telecom market.

Padoa raises €5m in Series A round to reinvent health at work and prevention.

Before joining Kamet, David was Chief Financial Officer at Made.com, the leading UK-based designer furniture e-commerce player in Europe.

Kamet is partnering with VC fund Jerusalem Venture Partners and AXA Strategic Ventures, a venture capital platform backed by AXA to launch the First Insurtech Israel Competition.

Fixter raises €6m in Series A round to make car care simple for customers and more profitable for independent garages by leveraging technology.

Qare is reinventing the access to High-Quality Medical Services for patients.

Ibex is using artificial intelligence and computer vision for improving the efficiency and accuracy of cancer diagnostics.

Empowered by technology, Fixter provides routine car maintenance at the same or lesser cost to an independent garage whilst delivering full peace of mind and the ultimate in service.

VIVA Technology : Rencontre avec l’instigateur du start-up studio Kamet, rattaché au groupe AXA, qui veut créer des nouveaux services et métiers dans le secteur de l’assurance.

Sarah is Head of Marketing and Product design at Kamet.

The digital revolution is transforming the entire insurance value chain.