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Re:New Startup Raises $100M for Portable Ultrasound by ceejayoz on Monday November 03, 2014 @07:33AM (#8550466)
> 10 minutes of ultrasound to diagnose a serious illness can cost several hundred dollars in the USA

Chances are only a small portion of that is the cost of the ultrasound machine.

Re:New Startup Raises $100M for Portable Ultrasound by logicallee on Monday November 03, 2014 @10:59AM (#8551436)
Yes you would think they expect to make their $100M back, and you don't do that 'destroying an industry'.

Also their raise ($100M) is an astronomical seed round, 100x what most companies would raise pre-product and pre-revenue in a first round. They clearly expect to deliver at volume on existing very high price points, or would not have raised this much money.

This isn't a few University kids disrupting an industry raising a few hundred k, this is an industry regular opening a division in it with $100M of his own money and that of a few investors.