• Embr Labs

  Led · Debt Financing · May 2023

  Embr Labs makes the Embr Wave® wristband, a patented wearable that delivers precisely calibrated cooling or warming sensations to provide instant, discreet control over hot flashes and related menopause symptoms. Led by CEO Elizabeth Gazda and based in Boston, MA, the company markets the device through major retail and distribution partners. Embr Wave is available at Costco, Sam’s Club, Walmart, FSA Store and HSA Store, BestBuy, and Target, and the company plans to launch in additional retailers in the US and UK by year-end. The company raised $35m in an intellectual property‑based debt financing to support its consumer growth strategy. Embr intends to use the funds to accelerate retail and geographic expansion. The round was led by GT Investment Partners in collaboration with Aon plc. Embr Labs makes the Wave bracelet, a wearable that delivers algorithmically-designed, patented thermal waveforms to cool or warm temperature-sensitive nerves. Founded by three engineers in a cold lab at MIT and led by CEO Elizabeth Gazda, the company launched the Wave in September 2017 and has sold tens of thousands of devices since. Embr plans to grow its presence in wellness and digital therapeutics, accelerate development of the next generation of its core technology platform, and validate new use cases in thermal wellness. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. Financially, Embr raised $6M in a Series B to support those efforts.

• Anonos

  Led · Equity · Oct 2022

  Anonos develops the Data Embassy software platform that combines patented statutory pseudonymization, synthetic data and other privacy-enhancing computation techniques to enable secure processing of cleartext-accurate data in untrusted environments. Its technology produces Variant Twins—statutorily pseudonymized, 100% accurate data assets with embedded, technologically enforced privacy and security controls that can travel across departments and borders. The platform is designed to ensure compliance with GDPR, Schrems II and other global data-privacy requirements while accelerating approvals and workflows so more data can be used for analytics and ML. Anonos highlights 10 years of R&D, 26 granted international patents and more than 70 additional patent assets as the backbone of its approach. The company plans to use the new growth funding to scale customer success and expand partnerships, sales and marketing for Data Embassy. Anonos is recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators Community. Anonos provides Privacy Rights Management® solutions and patented Variant Twins® technology that enable lawful use, sharing and analysis of personal data. Its dynamic pseudonymisation technology enforces dynamic, fine‑grained privacy, security and data‑protection policies. The platform is designed to reconcile individual privacy rights with business and societal objectives for data use. Anonos says the solution enables compliance with the GDPR and other evolving data privacy regulations. The company plans to use the funds to expand its solutions. Leadership includes CEO Gary LaFever and President Ted Myerson.

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