Archives for September 2018

What does it take to raise seed funding as an AI-first SaaS startup? (Seed Edition —the 0.9 version ) Sep 30, 2018 At Point Nine, we have been focused on investing in SaaS companies and have been fortunate to work with several generations of successful businesses in this segment over the years. Since joining the firm […]

The retail landscape is rapidly changing as consumers expect more convenience and better service across the entire retail customer journey. Research shows that 98% of retailers think their stores have to remove friction to survive in a new competitive landscape where seamless in-store experiences are expected. In the e-commerce world, companies like Stitch Fix, Warby […]

Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“In a hospital in China, human doctors diagnosed a number of patients in a vegetative state as unlikely to ever wake up — but a second opinion from an algorithm said they would recover in less than a year. In seven cases, the algorithm was right. The AI algorithm, developed by the Chinese Academy of […]

Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“…a recent paper made the case that AI advances could help decrease global health-care discrepancies, particularly for people who live far away from urban centers. Researchers from Georgetown University and the nonprofit Washington Institute for Health Sciences noted that maternal mortality rate (often used as a signal for overall quality of health-care availability), […]