People Digest: JobHopin gets advisory board member; Koinworks appoints CTO
July 28, 2021
KoinWorks has named Jim Geovedi as its chief technology officer while Vietnam-based HR tech startup JobHopin has roped in an angel investor to its advisory board.
KoinWorks names Jim Geovedi as CTO
Indonesian fintech firm KoinWorks has appointed Jim Geovedi as its chief technology officer, who will lead the company’s technology, data, and engineer teams starting July 2021.
“Jim is not an outsider of KoinWorks, he has been overseeing our growth since the beginning and helping us as tech advisor,” Benedicto Haryono, co-founder and CEO of KoinWorks, said in a statement.
ImpriMed, Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based veterinary precision medicine startup, closed a total of $8m in Pre-Series A funding with $7.7m from VCs and the rest as government grant.
The round was led by HG Initiative and other participants include Draper Associates, Draper Dragon, BonAngels, Murex Partners, Translink Investment, Primer Sazze, FuturePlay, and ES Investor.
The company plans to use the new funding to develop additional prediction models for their current target patients in canine blood cancers, scale up their customer network, and expand pipelines to other types of cancers in dogs and cats.
Led by Dr. Sungwon Lim, CEO and Co-Founder, ImpriMed utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to predict which anti-cancer drugs are most likely to be effective for a particular dog’s lymphoma or leukemia using live data generated from chemosensitivity and immunophenotyping assays on the patient’s fresh cancer cells. Its innovative approach to pet cancer care enables veterinary o