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The Startups and Investors Bringing Voice Tech to Healthcare

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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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8 Steps to Making Better Business Decisions

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Use the data collected from those varying perspectives to accomplish this step. He’s an EO speaker , a recent EO 360° podcast guest and author of Never Go With Your Gut (2019) , The Blindspots Between Us (2020) and The Truth Seeker’s Handbook (2017). Determine your goals and envision the desired outcome.

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Meet the mobile therapy startup backed by Christian Angermayer’s re:Mind Capital

TechCrunch

It’s a move informed by two trends: passive data collection, and a burgeoning mental health crisis in teens and young adults. . Instead of funneling that data to a clinical trial, the data will be accessible to a patient’s therapist. . to 13.1%) between 2009 and 2017.

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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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Why India Leads in Digital Payments

Andreessen Horowitz

But around 2017, we began to develop an interest in India. The guidelines put requirements in place to protect customers’ interests and established rules around fees, the use of digital signatures, data collection, and more. 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. Blackbird Ventures (which is also one of First AML’s users) and Headline led a $21 million (about $29.2 This brings First AML’s total raised to about $30.1

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S., Robotics that have the ability to automate and bring productivity to this vertical are attractive for the following reasons: 1. Labor shortage/understaffed: The labor shortage in construction is a rapidly growing problem that isn’t going away.