• A major breakthrough for AI-powered doctor voice assistants, Saykara actively listens to physician-patient encounters and auto-generates clinical notation and records entry

• Kara is now the only AI-powered healthcare voice assistant that can be used during a physician-patient encounter without any voice commands, promising to eliminate up to 100% of after-hours charting and records entry

• Saykara looks to build on its active install base of 20 healthcare organizations across 10 healthcare specialties, including Providence Swedish Health, Providence Kadlec, Hancock Hospital, Multicare Healthsystem and OrthoIndy Hospital

VentureBeat- Jun 27, 2019
Degreed, a learning and skills tracking platform for workers, has raised $35 million in an equity round of funding from Owl Ventures, Jump Capital, Signal Peak Ventures, GSV Accelerate, and Alliance Bernstein. The company also raised $40 million in debt financing from Alliance Bernstein Growth Stage Capital...

Yahoo Finance- Jun 27, 2019
Ocrolus, a New York startup that taps AI and machine learning to parse financial documents, today announced it has raised $24 million in a series B round led by venture growth equity firm Oak HC/FT. Ocrolus cofounder and CEO Sam Bobley said the fresh capital, which follows a $4 million series A in April 2018 and brings the company’s total raised to about $30 million, will fuel expansion into verticals like consumer and auto lending and advance development of the company’s underwriting solutions for banks...

Yahoo Finance- Jun 27, 2019
Offline consumer intelligence and measurement company, Cuebiq, today announced the launch of its Cuebiq Consent Management and Data Provenance (CMDP) solution, which will enable publishers and advertisers to provide verifiable proof of their compliance with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) in relation to the Cuebiq products and services they use...

SquareFoot (www.squarefoot.com), a technology-powered commercial real estate company, today announced the launch of FLEX by SquareFoot, an offering that allows growing companies to select office spaces that are more aligned with their business needs. SquareFoot's clients will now be able to expand their search for flexible term office space beyond coworking and shared solutions. Clients can move into the private office space they envision without being burdened by a rigid, long-term lease. FLEX is designed and structured to bend the traditional office leasing norms to better serve growing companies that don't have the luxury of knowing their needs far into the future...

NEW YORK: Youplus, a cutting-edge technology innovation company providing AI-based video solutions, won the eminent Webit Award 2019 for 'Best Use of AI' at the Webit Festival, the leading Digital and Innovation event of the distinguished Webit Foundation...

Sound-based payments services provider ToneTag on Tuesday announced its collaboration with Japan’s GMO Payment Gateway, Inc. This strategic partnership will provide ToneTag with avenues to expand its sound-based network in Japan and other geographies in Asia-Pacific, while strengthening the value-proposition of GMO through facilitation of an advanced contactless services...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 23, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Hootsuite, the global leader in social media management, trusted by more than 18 million customers and employees at more than 80% of the Fortune 1000, announced today the launch of a Google My Business app integration in the Hootsuite platform and its new Google Preferred Partner status. This is Hootsuite’s second major Google integration launch in less than a year and is a testament to Hootsuite’s commitment to deepen their product integrations and alliance with Google...

The SquareFoot CEO does things a little differently compared to typical CEOs. He doesn't enjoy the corner office's idyllic views or gets the presumed privacy, nor does he want to. He likes sitting in the thick of things.... Wasserstrum has always sat in the middle of SquareFoot, a 50-person commercial real estate company founded in 2011 that helps companies find their next office space. He’s situated between multiple departments and benefits from hearing the chatter between the marketing and sales teams. It allows him to be more accessible and closer to the office conversation that he doesn’t feel he would get sitting in a corner, walled-off space...

As the FinTech industry matures, it is becoming increasingly apparent that FinTech companies are enablers, rather than disruptors. Enablers offer solutions that enhance and improve the offering of existing businesses, collaborating rather than competing. Fintech and software as a service (SaaS) companies are increasingly adopting the fintech facilitator model to feed the demand to coordinate amidst multiple regulators. With a vision to empower the entire financial ecosystem for various disruptors, the following fintech facilitators are aiming to take the leadership position in the payments space in India and have already changed financial services in profound ways: ToneTag: ToneTag is a global technology solution provider, harnessing the power of ‘Sound’ for contactless payments. It is a secured sound wave technology platform which enables payments and proximity customer engagement services on any device, independent of the instrument or infrastructure. Backed by Amazon, Reliance Capital, Mastercard & Amansa; ToneTag was founded by Mr. Kumar Abhishek & Mr. Vivek Kumar Singh in 2013. ToneTag’s sound wave technology is on a mission to truly democratize digital payments ecosystem with the idea of supplying the entire Nation a mechanism to use digital payments. ToneTag has the largest sound wave based network on the planet with 3.1 lakh merchant base & 55 million user base...

Ocrolus, the industry leader in data verification and cash-flow analytics, today announced a partnership with inFactor, the innovative financing platform that brings clarity and security to small business financing. This partnership combines two powerful technology solutions to drive end-to-end underwriting automation for Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) lenders...

IoT can be of great assistance in refurbishing how businesses operate. The technology is assisting payments to get streamlined as these online transactions can be electronically monitored and managed. The data-driven decision making helps to make an informed decision in the time-saving timeframe... ToneTag, a Bangalore based Fintech and Retail Solutions company, which made headlines for using crypted sound waves to make offline, proximity-based contactless payments on any device, believes in the strength of IoT in the payments domain. Its co-founder Vivek Kumar Singh says, “The Internet of things (IOT)  can be a game-changer for India as it has democratized the usage of technology. ToneTag as a technology company has believed in enabling people to use the technology across all segments irrespective of social strata or infrastructural dependencies.”

Transcribing audio can be extremely tedious, and often require an enormous amount of labor. If you are looking for a simpler solution to turn an audio file into organized text quickly, audio to text converter online startups are the option for you. They will allow you to transcribe virtually all audio files online, in a short period of time... Saykara is a thriving startup that aims to aid physicians in daily medical practices, predominantly surgery. The startup went live online through the domain saykara.com in early 2015 in Seattle, Washington. The startup quickly managed to raise $2.5 million in capital and assembled a team of engineers and other experts from Amazon and Nuance to establish a formidable organization.

Degreed, the world’s first career-long skills-building platform, was recognized as one of the 50 Highest Rated Private Cloud Computing Companies To Work For in a list released by Battery Ventures, a global investment firm and cloud investor, with data specifically provided by Glassdoor*, one of the world’s largest job and recruiting sites. The list highlights 50 privately held companies—all business-to-business, cloud-computing companies--where employees report the highest levels of satisfaction at work, according to employee feedback shared on Glassdoor...

Shaukat Shamim, the mind behind the Yahoo Messenger, is the CEO & Founder of Youplus, a technology company that has built the world’s first video opinion search engine. Shaukat is a successful serial entrepreneur and technologist with a long track record of driving breakthrough tech innovations. I spoke to Shaukat on his inspiring entrepreneurial journey and how he is steering a never-before-seen innovation in video with his startup Youplus...