{"id":63088,"date":"2015-10-14T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=63088"},"modified":"2015-10-14T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T06:10:13","slug":"figure-1-raises-5-million-series-a","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/figure-1-raises-5-million-series-a","title":{"rendered":"Figure 1 Adds $5 Million to Series A Round from Union Square Ventures, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5689\/22154826962_dc8c460a39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"195\" \/>Figure 1 has added <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/figure-1-instagram-for-doctors-raises-4-million-2014-08-06\" target=\"_blank\">to its Series A round<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>The Toronto startup <a href=\"http:\/\/pevc.dowjones.com\/Article?an=DJFVW00120151014ebaeaujzi&amp;cid=325042&amp;ReturnUrl=http%3a%2f%2fpevc.dowjones.com%2fArticle%3fan%3dDJFVW00120151014ebaeaujzi%26cid%3d325042\" target=\"_blank\">raised $5 million<\/a> from Union Square Ventures as well as existing backers Version One Ventures and Rho Canada Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian company raised a seed round in 2013. It&#8217;s total funding is now at $9 million.<\/p>\n<p>Figure 1, which developed a crowdsourced medical image library for healthcare workers, says the funding will enable an expansion across Asia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RELATED:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/figure1-used-by-a-quarter-of-north-american-medical-students-2015-01-12\">Figure1 Used by a Quarter of North American Medical Students<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Described as an &#8220;Instagram for Doctors,&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/the-techvibes-20-2014-04-14\" target=\"_blank\">former Techvibes 20 company<\/a> is among <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/tech-dominates-list-of-canadas-most-innovative-companies-2015-03-23\" target=\"_blank\">Canada&#8217;s most innovative companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figure 1 has added to its Series A round. The Toronto startup raised $5 million from Union Square Ventures as well as existing backers Version One Ventures and Rho Canada Ventures. The Canadian company raised a seed round in 2013. It&#8217;s total funding is now at $9 million. Figure 1, which developed a crowdsourced medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":63090,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-63088","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/63088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/63088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/63090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63088"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=63088"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=63088"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=63088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}