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The Startups and Investors Bringing Voice Tech to Healthcare

Dream It

Its initial use cases target pharma companies to enable the creation of voice and chatbot products to improve sales reps’ performance, complement their medical science liaisons, and support clinical trial sites and investigators. The Echo-integrated product enables them to alert staff in a hands-free way if they fall or have an emergency.

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How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Experimentation enables you to transform a promising idea into a workable solution that addresses a real need. million in DeepMind, and recouped over 80 times that amount when Google bought the company in 2014. You illustrate the pitfalls of experimentation through the examples of Segway and renowned architect Frank Gehry.

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Niio announces $15M Series A following strategic partnership with Samsung Displays

TechCrunch

Niio will use its capital to grow its artist community and scale its app-enabled subscription and purchase platform, which is blockchain – based and will include a trading-enabled marketplace for NFTs and other digital art assets. The NFT market is just getting started, but where is it headed?

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Drone imagery firm DroneBase rebrands to Zeitview, lands $55M investment

TechCrunch

Zeitview was founded in 2014 with the goal of bringing a new resource to businesses: the sky. After serving in the military, Burton did a short stint at Goldman Sachs and made the leap in 2014 to launch Zeitview. He claims to have personally flown the company’s first 100 or so drone missions.

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Nigerian fintech Appzone raises $10M for expansion and proprietary technology

TechCrunch

One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. “The focus was to leverage our ability as an enabler to create proprietary technology for both segments.” Appzone clearly plays a different game from other African fintechs.

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WJR Business Beat: Hot Regional Startups To Watch In 2022 (Episode 338)

StartupNation

Now this company raised over $40 million in funding since they launched in 2014. Their software platform enables investment firms to operate more effectively and provide greater transparency to their investors. And they’re on their way. Really cool app, now with growing coverage across the U.S. 2, Guardhat.

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FreshBooks reaches $1B+ valuation with $130.75M for its SMB-focused accounting platform

TechCrunch

The company was self-funded until 2014, when McDerment decided to bring on outside investors and raised $30 million from Oak Investment Partners, Accomplice and Georgian Partners. For example, he said, more business owners are working to become digitally enabled to meet local tax and invoice compliance systems. .

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