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AssistGuide rounds up $900,000
AssistGuide announced that it raised $900,000 in its first round of funding, which adds to the seed round of nearly $1 million that the company received from angel investors in September 2000. Ron Higgins, the founder, former chairman and CEO of Digital Island, led the round, and Silicon Valley Bank Chairman John Dean also was an investor.
AssistGuide announced that it raised $900,000 in its first round of funding, which adds to the seed round of nearly $1 million that the company received from angel investors in September 2000. Ron Higgins, the founder, former chairman and CEO of Digital Island, led the round, and Silicon Valley Bank Chairman John Dean also was an investor.
The company provides information about assisted living for the elderly and the disabled to physicians, patients, family members, and the long-term health care industry. The company also said that Higgins and Clifton Kagawa, CEO of Broadband Travel and Venture Capital Communications, will join its board as new members. Hawaii-based AssistGuide started in 1998, and has expanded to Dallas, Houston and St. Louis. --Sam Ames, Special to ZDNet News