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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. India today: Regulation enables innovation At present, the revolution is in full swing. Going forward, RBI has shown an intent to support fintech innovation within well-defined guardrails.

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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. Tursus Developing innovative back-office solutions for the point-of-sale industry. Jaia Robotics Inc. Jaia Robotics Inc.

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China’s work automation startup Laiye raises $160M, acquires France’s Mindsay

TechCrunch

To fill the gap, he started Laiye in 2015. The two met through the startup’s investor Cathay Innovation , and the acqui-hire will pave the way for Laiye’s entry into the Europe market, said Wang. In Paris, Laiye is slated to assemble a product and engineering force, building on top of Mindsay’s 30-people team.

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The Startups and Investors Bringing Voice Tech to Healthcare

Dream It

NeuroLex offers a voice data collection platform, an API that researchers can use to clean and model voice files, and voice datasets for conditions like fatigue, depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. Leveraging Voice Tech to Give Elders More Independence As of July 2015, there were 47.8

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6 Leadership Lessons Learned from the Founder of EO

Entrepreneurs' Organization

What better acknowledgement of World Entrepreneurs’ Day (WED) —a day devoted to celebrating the leadership and innovation that entrepreneurs bring—than by sharing lessons learned from the founder of EO, Verne Harnish? And that’s the short list.). We stayed in touch, and Verne recently invited us to attend a CEO workshop.