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The Startups and Investors Bringing Voice Tech to Healthcare

Dream It

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. Insurers, pharma companies, CROs, and academic medical centers have developed applications with Orbita.

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

TechCrunch

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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8 Steps to Making Better Business Decisions

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Use the data collected from those varying perspectives to accomplish this step. Develop clear decision making criteria to evaluate your options. Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is on a mission to protect leaders from dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases by developing the most effective decision-making strategies.

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Cribl raises $150M to beat back rival observability tools

TechCrunch

In software development, observability refers to keeping watch over all of an app’s components, from mobile and web clients to backend infrastructure. “By expanding our portfolio with both Cribl Edge and now Cribl Search, we are shifting from the leading observability pipeline company into a full observability suite.”

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Astronomer ready for its next mission after Datakin acquisition, $213M Series C

TechCrunch

Astronomer has grown quite a lot since we briefly profiled the company back in 2017. At that time, the scrappy data analytics company had scooped up $3.5 million in funding to develop its tool for what happens after you’ve collected a bunch of data, namely assembling and organizing it so the data can be analyzed.

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Parallel Domain says autonomous driving won’t scale without synthetic data

TechCrunch

Most self-driving vehicle companies, like Cruise, Waymo and Waabi, use synthetic data for training and testing perception models with speed and a level of control that’s impossible with data collected from the real world. A sample of Parallel Domain’s synthetic data. Virtual world building.

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Why India Leads in Digital Payments

Andreessen Horowitz

But around 2017, we began to develop an interest in India. In particular, we’ve seen several relevant developments: Co-lending lowers the cost of capital for digital lenders The introduction of co-lending regulations in 2018, and subsequent amendments to it, have materially lowered the cost of funds for digital lenders.