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How Amazon’s continued expansion into healthcare could buoy the sector

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The tech behemoth originally entered the health sector after it acquired PillPack , an online pharmacy, in 2018 and later rebranded as Amazon Pharmacy. Amazon just frankly made what I would argue is one of the classic mistakes in innovation,” Aoun said. They’re trying to rebuild the old world.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

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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. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. Tursus Developing innovative back-office solutions for the point-of-sale industry.

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Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in

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In the process, they’re betting that innovative approaches to solving those problems will not just create returns but create disruptions and innovations that spill over into adjacent sectors. What sort of growth are you expecting in the sector? What technology are you excited about that has the most potential to create new markets?

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Mobius Labs nabs $6M to help more sectors tap into computer vision

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” Mobius Labs — which was founded back in 2018 — now has 30 customers using its tools for a range of use cases. “The geospatial sector is something that we are focussing on currently as we have a strong belief that vast amounts of visual data is being produced by them. Currently this is being done manually.

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InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global 

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The bootstrapped company — which didn’t receive outside capital until 2018 — depended on original AI research that Beguir published , which led to the startup being discovered by specialized clients who later became partners and investors, such as DeepMind, Google and its future acquirer BioNTech.

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EnquireLabs aims to pull back the curtain on consumer behavior

TechCrunch

Move over basic customer surveys, EnquireLabs wants to bring speed and scale to zero-party data, which is just a fancy way of saying data that customers give directly to brands. Typeform recently took in $135 million in new funding for its “conversational data collection” approach.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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80 percent of construction firms are having trouble hiring craft workers ( Associated General Contractors of America from August 2018 ).Today, billion into construction tech in 2018. Innovative new startups are continually entering the space. percent of the industry’s workers are between 16 and 19 years old, while fewer than 9.4