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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

Use the data collected from those varying perspectives to accomplish this step. Develop clear decision making criteria to evaluate your options. Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is on a mission to protect leaders from dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases by developing the most effective decision-making strategies.

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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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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. On site pre-fab capabilities is an area of focus we’re excited to see develop further.

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Why India Leads in Digital Payments

Andreessen Horowitz

But around 2017, we began to develop an interest in India. In particular, we’ve seen several relevant developments: Co-lending lowers the cost of capital for digital lenders The introduction of co-lending regulations in 2018, and subsequent amendments to it, have materially lowered the cost of funds for digital lenders.

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Cribl raises $150M to beat back rival observability tools

TechCrunch

In software development, observability refers to keeping watch over all of an app’s components, from mobile and web clients to backend infrastructure. “By expanding our portfolio with both Cribl Edge and now Cribl Search, we are shifting from the leading observability pipeline company into a full observability suite.”

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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. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. Tribe Capital has developed A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit. .