Interviews
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Doinn: Impeccable housekeeping for lucrative holiday rentals
With its tech tools, better working conditions and 5-star ratings, the Portuguese startup now wants to expand to Southeast Asia and get Series A funding
Halofina brings wealth management to millennials
Indonesian startup extends service once reserved for the rich to a wider market so the young can invest toward their life goals
Icaria Medical's CardioSense: Cardiovascular pre-diagnosis in less than 60 seconds
Icaria Medical is seeking clinical validation and funding for its AI-based monitor, which measures blood pressure continuously and non-invasively
Fourier Intelligence: Quality rehabilitation robots at affordable prices
The startup has also launched an open-source platform to boost rehabilitation robotics and exoskeleton R&D and collaboration
iOLAND: Farm management technology created for and by farmers
Precision farming startup iOLAND provides farmers recommendations based on data collected by its IoT devices and refined by machine learning
Bound4Blue taps aeronautical technology for sustainable shipping solutions
Bound4Blue's wind-assisted vessel propulsion saves 40% on fuel costs in a €200bn market; eyes European, Asian expansion
Feedect provides nutritional insect protein to feed the future
Feedect farms insects to produce high-quality protein alternatives for animal and human food
Benergy: A new app to track gut health with smart data
The Benergy app allows results to be shared with doctors to facilitate diagnosis and includes swap tests
Bdeo: Using video intelligence to automate, speed up insurance claims handling and payouts
Insurtech SaaS Bdeo lets insurers process 70% of motor and property claims without human staff; targets Series A close by year-end
Smile and Learn: The “Netflix of education” for three to 12 year olds
Smile and Learn lets schools offer AI-enabled personalized learning to every child in every classroom, for the price of a book
HumanITcare: The first real-time symptom tracker for mental illness patients
FollowHealth’s HumanITcare app combines wearables, analytics and AI to monitor and improve outcomes for sufferers of depression, schizophrenia, alcoholism and more
IONIC AI: Human-centric technology that enhances mobile phone performance
Giving new life to old mobile phones and upgrading cheaper ones, IONIC AI's tech also keeps gamers' phones cool for longer usage
Propcrowd lets small investors access high ROI real estate with collective investment platform
Propcrowd disrupts real estate investing with its crowdfunding platform that buys, refurbishes and sells houses, then dividing the returns among small investors
Youcheck by Precept: The fact-checking app fighting misinformation
Youcheck, a Google DNI Fund winner, uses AI to spot fake news on social media, help journalists do better work
UTW: Drones and big data to help farmers get the most out of their land
Analytics startup UTW also harvests real-time farming information using satellites and sensors, to offer crop yield predictions