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Apricity raises €17m Series B from MTIP and Iris Ventures

September 5, 2022

Apricity, the UK's leading virtual fertility clinic, has raised €17 million in series B round led by MTIP, the Swiss healthtech investor, with participation from Barcelona based specialist consumer fund Iris Ventures.

Akur8 named as #2 InsureTechs in leading global disruption in insurance

July 14, 2022

We are proud to say that AKUR8 has been named by InsurTech Digital as #2 InsureTechs leading global disruption in insurance.

Birdie raises $30M in Series B fundraise

June 29, 2022

Congratulations to Birdie on its $30M Series B fundraise! ‍When co-founder and CEO Max Parmentier first joined Kamet in 2016, we worked together and identified the desperate need foato step in to address the rising. Not too long after that, Birdie was born.

Kamet Ventures and Korian form a partnership to design solutions for better chronic diseases management - Press release

June 16, 2022

Korian, a leading European services Group for elderly and fragile people, has formed a strategic partnership with Kamet Ventures, aimed at inventing and co-building solutions for better management of chronic diseases.

These are Europe’s top startups tackling menopause

October 25, 2021

Investors are beginning to recognise the $600bn market opportunity that lies in menopause tech. And companies themselves are recognising the role they should be playing in creating access to menopause treatments, in order to keep women in the workforce. Our venture Bia Care is featured in Sifted alongside the amazing companies looking to help grow awareness and offer new solutions to menopause.

EUVC #26, Stephane Guinet & Michaël Niddam, Kamet Ventures

September 29, 2021

Stephane Guinet and Michael Niddam star in The European VC podcast and do a deep dive into the phenomenon of venture builders who have taken Europe by storm. Venture Builders are becoming an ever more used entry path into VC for emerging managers & thus also a more common co-investor for early stage VCs to work with, so there's lots of reason to stay peeled for this episode.

Get to know Carla – Kamet’s newly promoted Head of Design

September 20, 2021

One of Kamet Ventures’s biggest sweethearts has just been promoted to Head of Design and we are sooo excited to introduce you to the vivacious, multi-talented, superMOM, design guru Carla Ruiz Entrecanales!

14 corporate seed-stage investors you need to know

September 7, 2021

Most big corporations don't invest in startup seed rounds. Here are the ones that do and what you can expect from the relationship. Check out the full list including Kamet Ventures

The HealthTech Podcast #219: The Story of Kamet Ventures with Co-Founder Michael Niddam

August 8, 2021

The Healthtech Podcast covers the latest in health and technology through interviews with disruptive healthtech startups and leaders. Whether you’re a patient, founder, investor or simply interested in healthtech, The Healthtech Podcast has it covered. This week James is joined by Michael Niddam a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Kamet Ventures, a venture builder and investor focused on disrupting the HealthTech and InsurTech sectors.

Two of Kamet's ventures named to the list of the UK’s most innovative health technology creators for 2021

July 19, 2021

Congratulations to Medloop and Birdie on being named to BusinessCloud's Healthtech 50!The HealthTech 50 focuses on companies creating tech for personal and preventative healthcare, as well as GP practice management and messaging platforms.BusinessCloud called on its readers to vote for companies from the 110-strong (MedTech 50) and 90-strong (HealthTech 50) shortlists and saw approximately 1,300 votes pour in on each. A combination of these votes and choices from an independent judging panel determined the top 50s.

Meet UK femtech Bia Care, a virtual clinic transforming menopause care

July 16, 2021

Menopause care has been an under-researched and under-financed market to date, despite the fact that half the population could benefit from improved treatments in this area. By 2025, 1.1 billion women are expected to be postmenopausal. According to Crunchbase, the space represents $600 billion of spending opportunity but is still largely untapped by startups that could be creating new products and services for these women.‍

Travel Insurance Gets More Innovative With This Startup Merger

July 15, 2021

Kamet Ventures's Setoo agreed to a merger with Pattern Insurance Services, an insurtech founded in 2020. The joint company will be based in Palo Alto, California, and operate across Europe and the U.S. under the name of Pattern.

Understanding how people’s brains work is the key to designing products people can’t live without

July 8, 2021

Henry Ford once said that if he’d asked people to tell him what they wanted, they’d just say they wanted faster horses. In any conversation, it’s simply not enough to just listen to what someone says, you need to read between the lines to pick up on and truly understand what they really mean. The same wisdom holds true on the long road to creating a good product.

Bia Care launches virtual clinic to provide menopause care

July 7, 2021

A new virtual clinic that was incubated by Zinc VC and Kamet Ventures that delivers menopause care via video calls has been launched. Bia Care provides remote care and personalised treatments, giving women a confidential setting to share their experiences.

5 areas of tech to watch, according to investors

July 1, 2021

5 areas From remote working solutions to health-tech innovations, here are some areas that could be ripe for investment. Throughout our Start-up Advice series on Silicon Republic, we ask investors, mentors and advisers to give us some insights for entrepreneurs. One question we regularly put to these experts is, which areas of science and technology hold the greatest scope for opportunities? Here are just some of the answers we’ve gotten recently from investors.

10 coolest UK healthech startups in 2021

June 28, 2021

UK Tech News presents a list of the coolest UK healthtech startups that deserve your attention in 2021. The list includes Kamet's own Apricity, Birdie, and Medloop.

Insurtech AI startup Akur8 closes $30M Series B

June 17, 2021

Automating insurance pricing is a big business, and the world of AI is coming at it “full pelt.” The latest is Akur8, an insurtech automating insurance platform whose “Transparent AI” product is trying to eat into the incumbent large business of Willis Towers Watson, among others.

Insurtalk with Kamet’s Stéphane Guinet: How to get your insurtech noticed by VCs

June 14, 2021

This week Stéphane Guinet, founder and CEO at Kamet Ventures discussed the key attributes of startups that can rise above the rest and attract major funding.

Fraud protection startup nSure AI raises $6.8M in seed funding

June 14, 2021

Fraud protection startup nSure AI has raised $6.8 million in seed funding, led by DisruptiveAI, Phoenix Insurance, AXA-backed venture builder Kamet, Moneta Seeds and private investors.

Tech.eu Podcast: Venture builder as a marketplace of ideas, with Michaël Niddam of Kamet Ventures

June 10, 2021

In today’s show, we talk with Michaël Niddam, co-founder and managing partner of the venture builder Kamet Ventures. In this conversation, we tried to get a better understanding of how a venture builder actually works, how much equity it takes in startups it launches, what the competitive landscape is like, and much more.

If you want to grow, be sure to get an awesome CTO

June 7, 2021

The evolution of technology startups in the past few decades has been immense. A mere 30 years ago hardware was relatively easy to innovate in, as companies had not set up their digital infrastructure, and the pace of overall innovation was slower. Nowadays the focus has shifted completely onto software, where it is easier to implement incremental updates and integrate into existing infrastructure. Within this ever changing environment, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) plays a pivotal role, with skills that are increasingly valuable within strategic decision making, not just execution.

London-based automated life insurance advice platform Anorak raises £5 million

June 3, 2021

London’s fully automated life insurance advice platform Anorak has raised £5 million in a funding round led by Outward VC. Triple Point Ventures and existing investor Kamet Ventures also participated in the raise, as did a number of Angel Investors including Nic Kohler, Paul Evans, Charlie Delingpole, and Will Neale. The fresh funding is expected to accelerate Anorak’s distribution and partner networks as well as continue development of its offering.

A flood of investors into healthtech companies risks creating confusion for hospitals and care homes

May 27, 2021

Increased consciousness around public health and the pandemic-driven demand for innovation saw the healthtech sector get a major cash injection of $750 million between 2019 and 2020. Traditional investors in healthtech have been joined by new entrants into the sector who rightly expect that the digitisation of the healthcare industry, which was accelerated by the pandemic, will create a generation of high-value startups. However, the presence of new investors brings challenges as well as opportunities.

“We’ve got to serve the older generation better”: caretech platform Birdie raises $11.5m

May 17, 2021

It’s estimated that by 2050 the number of people over 65 will be double today’s figure. And with people living longer and the population ageing, there’s increasing pressure on already strained care systems. Birdie, a London-based startup, thinks it can help. The platform, which helps care providers to plan, monitor and assess patients digitally, has just raised $11.5m in a round led by Index Ventures.

Forget the myth of the lonely visionary — venture building is the saner way to entrepreneurship

May 5, 2021

Successful entrepreneur Ben Prouty says that joining venture builder Kamet was unlike any other way he had worked before — but a far saner way to create a business. Here's why.

Building something for everyone: the unique challenges of building a healthtech startup

May 4, 2021

Starting and growing a company is a huge undertaking on its own but building a company in the healthcare space brings an additional set of unique challenges. Healthtech startups require an extensive amount of research and a solid regulatory plan almost from the get-go. This comes with the additional need of finding the right business models for the various healthcare and incentive systems in different markets, navigating the national regulations and health ecosystems, and striking the tricky balance between serving the largest market possible while still providing an effective solution for every individual.

Tel Aviv’s start-ups have the cash — now they need talent

April 28, 2021

The success of Tel Aviv’s start-up scene has created a tight market for tech talent

Secret sauce: demystifying the venture builder approach to company creation

April 19, 2021

Like VCs, venture builders look for ideas with the potential to have a transformational impact at large scale. Unlike VCs, rather than scouting for the entrepreneurs that are already turning those ideas into businesses, venture builders identify ideas and incubate businesses around them themselves — only then bringing in entrepreneurs and “founding” teams. How do we do that at Kamet?

Grandes manœuvres dans la téléconsultation

April 16, 2021

Le français Qare est racheté par le groupe HealthHero qui veut devenir le leader européen.

European healthtech consolidates as HealthHero buys Qare

April 16, 2021

The London-based company is raising a “megaround” to buy more healthtech companies as it seeks to become Europe’s telemedicine leader.

Why venture building is the most successful way for big corporates to innovate

April 6, 2021

Venture building — where companies create a startup to fit a particular business need — is gaining popularity. That may be because survival rates of companies created this way are far higher than you would get through conventional VC investing or through other types of corporate programmes.

Ibex Medical Analytics raises $38M for its AI-powered cancer diagnostic platform

March 9, 2021

Israel-based Ibex Medical Analytics, which has an AI-driven imaging technology to detect cancer cells in biopsies more efficiently, has raised a $38 million Series B

Insurtech european vcs name the top 26 startups to watch in 2021

February 22, 2021

We asked Europe's biggest tech investors to pick the disruptive insurance startups they think will blow up in 2021.

Building the health tech giants of tomorrow

February 5, 2021

Investment group Kamet Ventures professes to “build disruptive businesses from the ground up” in the health tech sector, as well as in ‘insure-tech’ and mobility

Sifted readers predict what’s in store for 2021

January 8, 2021

Earlier this week Sifted made some predictions for what will be happening in the world of European tech startups in 2021.

The future of telehealth depends on its quality

January 3, 2021

Michael Niddam, Co-founder and MD of Kamet Ventures, says questions over quality leave the long-term future of telehealth on a knife-edge

Healthtech and the pandemic: bigger appetite, but smaller stomachs are stifling innovation

December 23, 2020

Michael Niddam, managing partner Kamet Ventures, examines the disconnect between the growing demand for innovation in healthcare and the capacity of institutions, organisations, and systems to adopt and integrate that innovation.

Term Sheet readers predict which markets will boom in 2021

December 18, 2020

Each year, we poll Term Sheet readers for what they believe will happen in the upcoming twelve months. And boy do y'all have thoughts.

Interview with Ben Prouty, Co-founder at Child Education App Poncho

December 17, 2020

Poncho is a platform that supports working parents. Even before the pandemic, parents were having a really hard time juggling work and childcare challenges and with the advent of increased working from home...

COVID-19 exposed the UK’s childcare crisis. Poncho has launched in the UK to address this

December 10, 2020

Average annual childcare costs reached £6,800 in 2020. New digital startup Poncho, backed by Kamet Ventures, will help businesses support working parents and their kids.

Smart ambulances and wearables offer route to speedier treatments

November 24, 2020

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

Making lemonade out of lemons: How Kamet's ventures thrived throughout lockdown

October 27, 2020

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

‘To become an entrepreneur, you need to have a little dose of craziness’

October 20, 2020

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.

Amadeus partners with Setoo to offer personalised insurance to travellers

October 16, 2020

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

La téléconsultation se met aux objets connectés pour faire entrer le médecin chez vous

October 14, 2020

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.

Holiday warning: Medical expert shares what to do if you get ill abroad this winter

October 3, 2020

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

Giving back Covid-19 and beyond

September 22, 2020

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.

Birdie is helping address a $3.2 billion crisis in social care. Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck it used to get AXA to back its Series A round.

September 20, 2020

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

NHSx unveils first winners of £50m AI in Health and Care Award

September 8, 2020

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

Israel’s Ibex Medical Analytics Deploys in Puerto Rico, establishing a foothold in the Americas

September 1, 2020

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

Tips on how to land funding during the pandemic, from Europe’s VCs

August 11, 2020

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?

Following the science: the role of venture builders after Covid-19

July 27, 2020

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 […]

Small is the next big thing : by Michael Niddam

July 10, 2020

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

Maddyness profiles Kamet Ventures

July 6, 2020

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

Survey suggests that real recovery will take a year or more

June 26, 2020

`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...

Disruptive Opportunities with Genuine Relevance to Insurance

June 18, 2020

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

Startup government support measures: Rated by Michael Niddam

June 11, 2020

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...

QFLF: Maddyness on Kamet Ventures

June 8, 2020

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

Beyond telemedicine — how healthcare gets personal

June 8, 2020

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

The Future of Venture Building in a post-Covid World

June 4, 2020

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

Coronavirus Shines a Spotlight on Telemedicine

April 17, 2020

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

Entrepreneurs: Apricity's Caroline Noublanche on providing fertility health support the digital way

March 30, 2020

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

Air Doctor scores $7.8M to connect travellers with local doctors

March 30, 2020

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

“Femtech” moves beyond the fertility app

March 18, 2020

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.

What the future holds for insurance and healthcare

March 15, 2020

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...

Insurtech startup Akur8 raises $8.9M from BlackFin and MTech Capital

March 12, 2020

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.

Budget 2020: What does the Red Box mean for UK tech firms?

March 11, 2020

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.

Israeli start-up Ibex helps detect cancer using AI

March 1, 2020

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

Meet Kamet's Newest Entrepreneur in Residence: Ben Prouty

February 26, 2020

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!

Medloop secures €6M from Kamet Ventures and AXA for self-service patient app

January 30, 2020

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

The best product is no product

January 16, 2020

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

Are Entrepreneurs Born Or Made? -An Insurtech Venture Makes The Case For Startup Studios

January 2, 2020

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

Go left — great acquisition and onboarding beats a great product

November 27, 2019

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

AXA-Backed Kamet Taps Israeli Health Ministry Exec for Insurtech Incubator

October 31, 2019

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

A weekend spent talking about the ‘Future of Health’ in the land of fire and ice

October 27, 2019

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

Creating a high performing product organisation

October 17, 2019

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 […]

Wanted: entrepreneurs to run multimillion-pound tech startups

October 9, 2019

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...

The red alert approach to product development

August 27, 2019

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

Behind Kamet Ventures' people-centric approach to building startups

August 22, 2019

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

Omio chooses Setoo to transform its travel insurance offering in the UK

July 9, 2019

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

Albany Park partners with Anorak to offer online advice

July 4, 2019

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

London 'Virtual Fertility Clinic' Apricity raises €6M

June 13, 2019

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, […]

Anorak ranked among the top 10 hottest fintech startups in the world by Business Insider

April 23, 2019

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.

La startup Qare lève 20 millions d’euros

April 12, 2019

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

Insurtech Setoo takes off with Invia Flights Germany

January 25, 2019

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

Padoa, l'outil numérique qui reforme la santé au travail

December 6, 2018

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.

Birdie Raises €7M To Keep The Elderly Living At Home

November 26, 2018

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.

Anorak appoints Paul Evans as non-exec director

November 24, 2018

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

Anorak raises £5M Series A for its life insurance advice platform

November 13, 2018

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.

Anorak is awarded Most Innovative Life / Health Insurance Firm of the Year.

November 8, 2018

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

Padoa lève 20 millions d'euros

November 6, 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.

Insurtech startup Setoo closes $9.3M Series A

September 18, 2018

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.

New key partnership for Anorak

September 13, 2018

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

Starling Bank and Anorak have joined forces

September 3, 2018

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.