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The Startups and Investors Bringing Voice Tech to Healthcare

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For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020. In 2017, Medscape surveyed more than 14,000 physicians and found that 51% of them reported burnout, up from the 40% in 2013.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S., Robotics that have the ability to automate and bring productivity to this vertical are attractive for the following reasons: 1. Labor shortage/understaffed: The labor shortage in construction is a rapidly growing problem that isn’t going away.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. All the outputs that investors want are in the monthly financial data that funds collect, normalize, analyze and report. See their blog post on multiples.).

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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. All the outputs that investors want are in the monthly financial data that funds collect, normalize, analyze and report. See their blog post on multiples.).

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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. 2017 Relativity6 AI for Insurance Advisers, Brokers and Agents helps enable your sales and accounts teams to service and retain clients smarter.

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Meet the mobile therapy startup backed by Christian Angermayer’s re:Mind Capital

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It’s a move informed by two trends: passive data collection, and a burgeoning mental health crisis in teens and young adults. . Instead of funneling that data to a clinical trial, the data will be accessible to a patient’s therapist. . to 13.1%) between 2009 and 2017.

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

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Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti , an economist; Bode Ogunlana , a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim , a data scientist; and Preston Ideh , a corporate lawyer — and in 2017, they launched a media startup to address the dearth of information and data-driven insights in the West African country. .

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