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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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Why India Leads in Digital Payments

Andreessen Horowitz

When my co-founders and I launched Branch in 2015, our mission was to deliver world class financial services to the mobile generation. The groundwork was Aadhaar (“foundation” in Hindi), a nationwide database established by the government in 2009 to enable digital identity verification. billion Indians, over 90% of the population.

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Canada’s Assent Compliance lands $350M from Vista Equity for supply chain data management

TechCrunch

Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015. Assent’s compliance platform provides centralized access to supply chain data for use by teams across a given company. While half a billion dollars raised in the U.S. is not uncommon, it’s a bit more rare in the Canadian tech scene.

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Deepgram lands new cash to grow its enterprise voice-recognition business

TechCrunch

Deepgram’s speech AI is the core enabling technology behind many of our customers’ applications, and the demand for speech understanding grows as companies seek greater efficiency.” ” Launched in 2015, Deepgram focuses on building custom voice-recognition solutions for customers such as Spotify, Auth0 and even NASA.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

provides aquatic data collection services and aquatic drones that work in pods of 1- 20 to collect data at unprecedented scale at orders of magnitude less cost. Ignitepost IgnitePOST is a service that enables sales & marketing teams to boost conversion rates by 15X. Jaia Robotics Inc. Jaia Robotics Inc.

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CrowdForce raises $3.6M to increase access to cash for underserved communities in Nigeria

TechCrunch

The company was launched in 2015 by Oluwatomi Ayorinde and Damilola Ayorinde as MobileForms, a data collection agent network. The company said it will use part of the capital to expand its team, geographical operations and marketing to increase its 7,000-strong active agent network three-fold this year.

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6 Leadership Lessons Learned from the Founder of EO

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Luckily, my cofounder, Alex Yastrebenetsky, and I met Verne in 2015 when our entire leadership team attended a Scaling Up workshop. Reduce your time spent managing by 80% to enable your people to spend their time on the actual work and mastering their skills. And that’s the short list.). Keep things simple for your team.