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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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8 Steps to Making Better Business Decisions

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Whether you’re a leader in a small, midsized or larger organization, whether business or nonprofit, these eight steps will enable you to make better decisions and avoid potential disaster by overcoming cognitive biases. Use the data collected from those varying perspectives to accomplish this step.

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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.

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Why India Leads in Digital Payments

Andreessen Horowitz

But around 2017, we began to develop an interest in India. The groundwork was Aadhaar (“foundation” in Hindi), a nationwide database established by the government in 2009 to enable digital identity verification. This helped with fraud and enabled smooth KYC compliance. billion Indians, over 90% of the population.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S., Travis Connors, Building Ventures At Building Ventures, we see enormous opportunities developing for the use of robotics in construction over the next 20 years. according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ( Recode ).

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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. Apprentiscope ApprentiScope is transforming workforce development in the United States by making modern Registered Apprenticeships scalable. management.

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