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Start your free trial today EmailHi there,Last month, we released our quarterly AI in Numbers report.

This quarter’s report highlights AI investment activity, partnerships, and M&A in 2019. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1581705006.1978753/This-Week-In-AI:-Facebook-Acquires-Scape-Technologies,-Square-Acquires-Dessa,-Carbon-Relay-Raises-$63M?ref=audio_experience

Today is Valentine’s Day.

Upgrade Appearance both Online and OfflineThere are some people that can’t wait for Valentine’s day to come.

This data shows that Valentine’s day is a good day to think outside the box and see the love in various forms.

Anti-Valentine’s SpecialsWhen thinking about Valentine’s day, don’t forget those who can’t take it.

And finally, show some empathy for those who hate Valentine’s day by suggesting goods that would help to escape the celebration. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1581703210.36387/How-To-Boost-Sales-On-This-Valentine’s-Day?ref=audio_experience

To celebrate India’s rising startups, Inc42 is profiling a new soonicorn every Friday in the Inc42 UpNext: Unicorns Of Tomorrow series.

This time, we take a look at health and fitness startup Cure.fit.

More importantly, having an array of services (Cult.fit, Eat.fit, Mind.fit, Whole.fit and Care.fit) has only increased the customer’s engagement with Cure.fit.

Further, Cure.fit has also integrated fitness trackers such as Google Fit, sleep monitoring, and Fitbit into its mobile app.

The company’s flagship fitness centres Cult.fit also have a PULSE workouts option, which maps user heart rate to provide real-time workout-tracking, in-class competition, and a detailed workout report. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1581701405.5913343/Inc42-UpNext:-Cure.fit-Builds-A-Full-Stack-Fitness-Empire-One-Piece-At-A-Time?ref=audio_experience

Toast, a Boston, MA-Based restaurant management platform provider, raised $400M in Series F funding.

The round, which valued the company at $4.9 Billion, was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, TPG, Greenoaks Capital, and Tiger Global Management with participation from Durable Capital Partners LP, TCV, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, G Squared, Light Street Capital, Alta Park Capital, and others.

Led by Chris Comparato, CEO, Toast provides a restaurant management platform to entrepreneurs opening their first avenue to enterprise brands scaling across hundreds of locations.

Tens of thousands of restaurants partner with the company to increase revenue, streamline operations, retain employees, and create fans.

FinSMEs14/02/2020 | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1581699609.1275935/Toast-Secures-$400M-in-Series-F-Funding;-Valued-at-$4.9-Billion?ref=audio_experience

A dilemma most business owners face, especially new entrepreneurs, is the issue of protecting their personal and business assets from lawsuits and liability.

A limited partnership, limited liability company, and corporation provide the business owner with personal asset protection from the business’s lawsuits and liabilities.

Are Your Business Assets at Risk from Business Lawsuits?

3) Keep Personal and Business Finances SeparateEven when you set your business as a separate entity, you could lose the right to limited liability if you misuse the business funds.

If the litigator can prove that you used business funds for personal needs or mixed business and personal funds, you lose your protection. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1581697809.81143/How-to-Protect-Your-Business-from-Lawsuits-and-Liability?ref=audio_experience

Jen Horonjeff, founder and CEO of healthcare startup Savvy, knows this first hand and is trying to change that by applying a cooperative model to her business.

“I’ve just always been somebody who’s been a patient,” Horonjeff tells TechCrunch.

Horonjeff’s experience in the health system led her to become a human factors engineer focused on human-centered design, she says.

“So what matters to patients and what affects their health and health behaviors outside of just the traditional things [are what] we’ve been looking at,” she says.

And what they were talking about were not the same priorities as the patient communities that I was part of. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1581696007.7364664/This-co-op-wants-to-put-money-back-into-patients’-hands-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience

Cuppa will primarily be operating under three brand names - Cuppa Cafe, Cuppa Redefined and Cuppa Go.

Cuppa Redefined will primarily focus on leisure food experiences, bringing back the joy of Bistro to Bengaluru.

Visakh ViswambharanSpeaking on the expansion plans, Director Mr. Visakh Viswambharan said,“When we bought over Cuppa, it was known for its chai and basic food.

So Cuppa caters to both with Cuppa Redefined and CuppaGo.

For instance, the Cuppa Redefined in HSR Layout is made entirely out of refurbished furniture. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1581694208.0413945/Cuppa-in-Expansion-Mode-under-New-Management?ref=audio_experience

Implementing techniques to improve engagement helps you find that ideal customer.

Ideal Customer EngagementIf you are an owner of a business or a company, it is imperative that you create a space with your online presence where you can directly connect with your ideal customer and really listen to them.

Using digital marketing as a way to find your ideal audience is not only free, but necessary.

Alternatively, if they purchase something from your business, you should also find ways of expressing to them how much you appreciate them as an ideal customer.

Digital marketing has, in some ways, combined the requirements of a customer service team with a marketing strategy. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1581692407.528898/The-Startup-Magazine-Market-to-Your-Ideal-Customer?ref=audio_experience

Gosselies-based OncoDNA, the healthtech making precision medicine a reality, today announced that it has completed a €19 million Series B equity financing.

The new funding will support rapid international growth, accelerate software development and hiring initiatives.

The company is in the process of launching its oncology clinical decision support software, OncoKDM, with the objective of further supporting molecular laboratories, healthcare professionals and the pharma industry in their daily research and clinical practice.

Guy Geldhof, Partner at Vesalius Biocapital III said: “We are excited about co-leading the Series B investment in OncoDNA.

We are delighted to partner with OncoDNA as we firmly believe the company contributes to both a more sustainable healthcare system and improved patient health outcomes.” | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1581690608.479564/Belgian-OncoDNA-closes-€19-million-Series-B-to-expand-its-oncology-software?ref=audio_experience

Carevive Systems, a North Miami, Fla.-based oncology-focused health technology company, received a Series C funding round.

Backers included new investors Philips Health Technology Ventures and Debiopharm Innovation Fund, and existing investors Cerner Capital, HLM Venture Partners, LRVHealth, and Co-Founder/CEO Madelyn Trupkin Herzfeld.

Founded in 2013, Carevive Systems is an oncology-focused health technology company focused on understanding and improving the cancer patient experience.

Oncology care providers use the software embedded within their EMR workflows to generate personalized patient care plans and to remotely monitor and manage patient symptoms at home.

The company’s current customer base includes dozens of leading community and academic health systems across the U.S.FinSMEs14/02/2020 | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1581688808.6619022/Carevive-Systems-Raises-Series-C-Financing?ref=audio_experience