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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. 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

Dream It

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S., 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. On Deck focuses on connecting talent in transition with opportunities in the venture universe. Earnest Research * mines proprietary data sets (e.g., 8) Monitor .

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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. On Deck focuses on connecting talent in transition with opportunities in the venture universe. Earnest Research * and Drop Technologies * mine proprietary data sets (e.g.,

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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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Why India Leads in Digital Payments

Andreessen Horowitz

But around 2017, we began to develop an interest in India. It was shockingly difficult for a low income person to access consumer credit at the time, which presented an opportunity for fintech companies like Branch to extend availability to digital lending. Initially, we were focused on Africa—mainly Kenya, Tanzania, and Nigeria.

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New Zealand-based customer due diligence platform First AML gets $21M Series B

TechCrunch

Founded in 2017, First AML entered Australia this year and will use part of its Series B to expand into international markets, starting with the United Kingdom. The KYC process is so cumbersome and it was not a good customer experience trying to onboard, so we saw an opportunity to streamline it and remove friction.”.