Articles about Naveen Jain

Microbiome and diagnostics startup Viome lands $25M and hires former Amazon leader as COO

Viome, a company selling microbiome products and health diagnostics, announced Tuesday that it raised $25 million from investors and hired… Read More

Naveen Jain’s microbiome and diagnostics startup Viome is raising more cash

Seattle-area microbiome and diagnostics startup Viome Life Sciences is raising more cash, according to a new regulatory filing. The filing… Read More

Gut health startup Viome raises $54M to develop cancer diagnostics and sell microbiome kits

Viome Life Sciences has raised $54 million. The funding will bolster the company’s efforts to develop cancer diagnostics and support… Read More

Gut check at Nordstrom: Retail giant to sell microbiome test from Seattle-area startup Viome

Nordstrom has paired up with Seattle-area startup Viome Life Sciences to sell kits that analyze the microbiome, the collection of… Read More

These biotech and life sciences CEOs made the leap from software startups — here’s how they did it

In the past several years the barriers between tech and the life sciences have begun to dissolve. AI and machine… Read More

Naveen Jain’s microbiome startup Viome splits into consumer and research divisions

Bellevue, Wash.-based microbiome and RNA analysis company Viome, now called Viome Life Sciences, has split into two divisions: one focused… Read More

Marc Benioff-backed microbiome startup Viome says it expects $100M in revenue next year

The news: Viome, the Seattle-area wellness startup that analyzes microbiomes, told GeekWire that it has more than 200,000 customers and expects… Read More

Naveen Jain’s microbiome startup Viome is raising more cash

New funding: Seattle-area wellness startup Viome is raising more cash. A new SEC filing indicates that the company raised $36.4… Read More

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff invests in $25M round for Naveen Jain’s microbiome startup Viome

Viome, a wellness startup from entrepreneur Naveen Jain, has raised $25 million in funding from a crop of investors that… Read More

Naveen Jain’s wellness startup Viome to acquire Habit nutrition service from Campbell Soup Co.

Viome, a health startup from Seattle-based entrepreneur Naveen Jain, has reached an agreement to acquire personalized nutrition service Habit from… Read More

Naveen Jain explores the entrepreneurial frontier in ‘Moonshots’ book and business

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Seattle-area entrepreneur Naveen Jain is a big fan of moonshots — in part because one of his ventures,… Read More

Moon Express brings in $12.5M in backing for its lunar lander and Florida facilities

Moon Express, which aims to start missions to the moon within the next couple of years, says it has raised… Read More

Indian startup Leaf Wearables takes first place in $1M Women’s Safety XPRIZE competition

After multiple rounds of judging, a field test in Mumbai and months of competition, Indian startup Leaf Wearables has scored… Read More

Team Saffron enters the home stretch in competition for Women’s Safety XPRIZE

Students representing the Global Innovation Exchange are nearing the finish line in a competition to create wearable sensors that can… Read More

Khosla Ventures leads $15M round in Naveen Jain’s Viome wellness startup, gets board seat

Khosla Ventures, the prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm whose interests range from biofuels to spaceflight, was revealed today as… Read More

Naveen Jain’s biotech startup Viome raises millions for personal wellness monitoring

Viome, the wellness monitoring service founded by Seattle-area tech entrepreneur Naveen Jain, has raised $15 million this month in an… Read More

Entrepreneur Naveen Jain offers a gut check with Viome wellness tracking service

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Seattle-area entrepreneur Naveen Jain is ramping up Viome, a wellness monitoring service that’s the first venture brought to… Read More

Seattle entrepreneur Naveen Jain sponsors XPRIZE for alert system to report sexual violence

Naveen Jain — a Seattle area tech entrepreneur who co-founded lunar exploration startup Moon Express, innovation lab Blue Dot and Internet search engine… Read More

Naveen Jain’s BlueDot innovation factory fills out $10.1 million funding round

BELLEVUE, Wash. – BlueDot, the “innovation factory” founded by serial tech entrepreneur Naveen Jain, says it has completed a $10.1… Read More

Tech entrepreneur Naveen Jain fleshes out plans for BlueDot innovation factory

Naveen Jain’s Moon Express is well along in its plans for a lunar mission next year, but the Seattle dot-com… Read More

Moon Express asks FAA to review its plans for Google Lunar X Prize landing in 2017

Moon Express, the lunar exploration venture backed by Seattle tech entrepreneur Naveen Jain, says it’s asking the Federal Aviation Administration… Read More

Background check powerhouse Talentwise sells to SterlingBackcheck in ‘significant’ exit

Talentwise, the Seattle area company that helps employers complete background checks on potential recruits, has been acquired SterlingBackcheck. Terms of… Read More

Moon Express wins thumbs-up from XPRIZE for multimillion-dollar lunar launch

Moon Express, the lunar exploration venture co-founded by Seattle entrepreneur Naveen Jain, has gotten the “all systems go” signal for… Read More

InfoSpace founder Naveen Jain launches BlueDot, his next moonshot venture aiming for society’s big issues

Dot-com era tech executive Naveen Jain is getting ready to launch his next startup, an innovation factory that hopes to… Read More

Exclusive: Intelius sold to private equity firm, Naveen Jain leaving to launch health tech startup

Background check provider Intelius and its Bellevue-based parent company, Inome Inc., have been sold to private equity firm H.I.G. in… Read More

Intelius cuts jobs as Naveen Jain urges company to ‘think like a new startup’

Intelius cut an undisclosed number of employees today as the Bellevue Internet company makes a series of changes in its… Read More

Meet Inome: The latest thing to sprout from Naveen Jain

Naveen Jain has built some of the Seattle’s best known Internet companies, founding InfoSpace in 1996 and Intelius in 2003.… Read More

Naveen Jain looks to spark innovative ideas at Intelius with the iPrize

Intelius founder Naveen Jain has never been one to celebrate venture capitalists, choosing some less than savory words to describe… Read More

Intelius CEO Naveen Jain: IPO could be in the cards in 2012

Bellevue-based Intelius, an online identity company that specializes in background checks of individuals, may consider going public next year if… Read More

Naveen Jain: Innovation can solve the world’s problems

Naveen Jain has spent the bulk of his entrepreneurial career developing Internet search technologies, from the early days at InfoSpace… Read More