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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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Landbot closes $8M Series A for its ‘no code’ chatbot builder

TechCrunch

Barcelona-based Landbot , a “no-code” chatbot builder, has bagged an $8 million Series A led by the Spanish-Israeli VC firm Swanlaab, alongside support from Spain’s innovation-focused public agency, CDTI. The team has had a remarkable 2020, and we’re excited to support them in helping more businesses this year.”.

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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. Going forward, RBI has shown an intent to support fintech innovation within well-defined guardrails.

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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., Of the sub-verticals in construction that tend to cost the most (structural support like concrete and steel or mechanical and plumbing), not many can be automated because of the complexity of the task.

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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. These typically have a larger support ecosystem and greater assurance of long-term stability than the custom vendors. Skype and Zoom are useful for video/audio conferences.

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Cribl raises $150M to beat back rival observability tools

TechCrunch

Clint Sharp says he foresaw the observability tool market’s growth while working at Splunk, where he and colleagues Dritan Bitincka and Ledion Bitincka had to deal with moving data across different IT tools without a central point of control.