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10/05/2015

Calling food entrepreneurs! Our friends over at Food+City are running their second annual Food+City Challenge Prize, offering $50,000 in prizes and expert mentoring to top entries innovating the local and global food system.

ONE week left to enter: http://www.foodandcity.org/challenge-prize/

09/24/2015

HUGE congratulations to top Verb venture, Eko Devices, on securing approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market their digital stethoscope (basically, "Shazam" for heart sounds and images).

Read more about the amazing team behind Eko Core below.

A tech start-up called Eko Devices is introducing a device that allows a stethoscope to record, amplify and wirelessly send audio and sound wave images to an iPhone app.

09/23/2015

One bear. Many superpowers.

Jerry the Bear (a top Verb venture) just launched a new version of their smart teddy bear, Jerry, to help all children learn about their health and build social intelligence through play.

The new Jerry is $99, and has expansion packs for food allergies and type 1 diabetes education. Watch their video and find out how they're disrupting play: http://www.jerrythebear.com/

We work hand in hand with experts from the medical community to create play patterns and content that enrich children with type 1 diabetes and food allergies.

09/22/2015

Come listen to Verb CEO Suzi Sosa speak this Thursday, September 24th at 5:30 PM at The North Door in Austin, TX. Click on the link below for more info!

Austin is growing and changing. How do we make Austin better while preserving the unique qualities that make it the city we love? Our 2015 line­up of amazing, local thought leaders will share their visions for some brilliant, innovative and exciting ways that Austin can continue to grow and evolve i…

08/05/2015

Jerry the Bear meets President Barack Obama at the first-ever innovation demo day at The White House!

Jerry's creators (Aaron Horowitz and Hannah Chung of Sproutel) won our most recent startup accelerator program with IBM in April.

07/02/2015

Congratulations to Sproutel, the winner of our startup reality web series with IBM Social Business!

Their first product, , transforms the way kids with Type 1 diabetes understand and manage their own healthcare through play.

Learn more: http://goverb.com/work/sproutel

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Read the story behind Jerry the Bear and his creators on the Verb site.

06/29/2015

Only two days left until the LIVE winner reveal for our startup competition with IBM Social Business

What's that? It's an awesome reality-TV style startup challenge for millennial social entrepreneurs that Verb created for IBM, and we'll announce the winner this Thursday, July 1st at 1p EST.

Don't miss out, save your seat now: http://www.purematter.com/newwaytostartup

Watch the Winners Announced LIVE this Wednesday, July 1st at 1p EST

06/18/2015

We're thrilled to announce closure of our $2.3 million Series Seed round, which will fuel our next phase of international growth. Verb's goal is to empower over 1,000,000 social entrepreneurs through our global competitions and prizes.

Read the full release here: http://www.goverb.com/verb-announce-seed-series-funding-close/

We are thrilled to announce the closure of $2.3 million in Series Seed funding; one of the largest rounds ever for an Austin-based social enterprise. This new investment capital will support us in making strategic hires, developing our proprietary technology platform and moving forward with global e…

06/18/2015

New additions to the Verb executive team:

We're pleased to announce that we recently hired Laura Broderick (Chief Operating Officer) to revitalize our strategic partnerships, business development and operational efficiency for long-term growth; and and Tommy Lynn (Chief Creative Officer) to transform the way we tell the Verb story, support our clients and social ventures in telling their own brand stories and help our clients realize the social and business value of doing good.

Read more: http://www.goverb.com/verb-makes-additions-to-executive-team/

We are always seeking the best and brightest in the industry to support our efforts in building the Verb brand, expanding into new regions across the world and grow our thriving community of over 25,000 social entrepreneurs in 100 different countries. Recent strategic hires We are pleased to announc…

05/27/2015

TODAY: Verb is pleased to announce our new partnership with the Everglades Foundation to run their brand-new $10 million science prize sourcing innovations that reduce phosphorous pollution in water.

Read more: http://www.evergladesfoundation.org/2015/05/27/everglades-foundation-announces-partnership-with-verb-inc-to-manage-10-million-science-prize/

Palmetto Bay, Fla. – The Everglades Foundation, Inc. CEO Eric Eikenberg today announced a strategic partnership with Verb, Inc. to develop, produce and execute the Foundation’s $10 million science prize for an innovative solution to reduce phosphorus pollution in water. Verb will run the competition…

05/20/2015

Hear from Verb CEO Suzi Sosa on how design thinking promotes innovation in development.

On the Inter-American Development Bank blog: http://blogs.iadb.org/abierto-al-publico/2015/03/05/can-design-thinking-promote-innovation-development/

Design thinking is a methodology that increases the probability of a breakthrough innovation and can be used to innovate products, services, and business models.

01/27/2015

Today is the final Indiegogo campaign day for Tevido Biodevices, the incredible second-place winner of Verb's 2014 The Big C Competition by Livestrong. TeVido BioDevices is raising funds through this campaign for 3D printing biotechnology to build breast tissue from a woman's own cells.

Support survivors and their loved ones by contributing at http://www.reconstructhope.com!

Time to build a better breast!