TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Launched in 1987, the company provides hundreds of transportation and hospitality providers with inventory management and booking services. You may not have heard of Amadeus, but if you’ve taken a trip, you’ve probably interacted with its tech stack. What the Binance bailout of Axie Infinity means for crypto’s future.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Square’s bank arm launches as fintech aims ‘to operate more nimbly’ “We don’t underestimate the challenges that come with scaling a new brand in an area dominated by entrenched banking incumbents, yet the opportunity is incredibly exciting,” said Pfisterer.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

We have seen this play out across several business-to-consumer verticals over the past decade: Airbnb in hospitality, Instacart in grocery, DoorDash in food delivery, and Lyft in transportation. Fragmented supply and demand is a problem for incumbents, but a great opportunity for a digital marketplace.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

In addition, founders have raised capital to transform many of the fundamental industries: transportation, hospitality, lending, health insurance, and banking. Others, like transportation and hospitality, fueled by Uber and AirBnB fundraising efforts, command more than 6% of the billions invested in the last 12 months.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

.” Founders : Henry Mascot started a company in 2017 to help hospitals digitize records. Quick thoughts : In 2019, Curacel started with claims automation and fraud detection in health insurance with hospitals as its target market. It claims to sell medicine wholesale to 1 million pharmacies and hospitals in Africa.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

hospitals declined by more than 2%, according to data from the U.S. A recent analysis of workforce data by Premier found that staffing shortages cost hospitals $24 billion during the pandemic. You have healthcare facilities, like hospitals and nursing homes, that are chronically short-staffed. Will they survive?

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

And then there’s MediShout , a London-based company that proclaims to be a “one stop app” for reporting operational deficiencies in hospitals, allowing staff to track status updates and new orders similar to how one might do with their Uber ride or Amazon order. ServiceNow). and abroad,” Kalraiya said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The fastest traction we’re seeing are those helping the providers–those who interface with the customer like pharmacies, clinics, and hospitals–to digitize distribution to the consumer. Some include mPharma, Lifestores, Shelf Life, and Maisha Meds. As such, their growth has been rapid, Salient says.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

” Several startups — and incumbents , for that matter — are developing AI assistant technologies for clinical settings. For example, there’s Suki , which raised $20 million to create a voice assistant for doctors, and Bot MD , an AI-based chatbot for doctors.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

If there happens to be a large, renowned hospital group in the area, the employer feels compelled to offer coverage that includes this institution, even if that system is highly over-priced ( the largest hospital systems typically have the highest procedural prices ). A large employer benefits plan needs to be “competitive.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption. I had the opportunity to visit my grandmother in the COVID ward at a local hospital before she passed (in full protective gear of course).

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The first one is to really understand how big hospitals and big insurance carriers and big employers are all feeding on one another to make the system worse and worse and worse. Most large hospital systems are getting as big as they possibly can. Bill Gurley : Okay. You say to yourself, “Why are they getting bigger?”

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