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Microsoft’s Strategy for Finding What’s Next in Healthcare A.I.

Xconomy

Microsoft is applying the same model it used to launch its quantum computing and chatbot efforts to innovation in healthcare, signaling the company’s ambition and optimism about the transformative potential of artificial intelligence technologies in this enormous endeavor.

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Esperanto Reaps $58M To Speed Development of Its 7nm AI Chip

Xconomy

Esperanto Technologies , a startup AI chip developer that has operated mostly below the radar since its founding in 2014, announced this week that it raised $58 million in a Series B fundraising round. The field includes big semiconductor companies like Nvidia and tech giants like Google and Facebook, as well as other startups.

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Freenome Snags $160M to Boost Blood Test for Early Cancer Detection

Xconomy

It’s a boon for the South San Francisco startup founded in 2014, but not an unusual haul for competitors in the same field, where the tantalizing promise of a simple test to find cancer sooner, when it is much easier to treat, has emerged from advances in DNA sequencing, sophisticated data crunching, and the understanding of cancer biology.

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Microsoft Venture Fund Aims to Harness Early Stage Innovation

Xconomy

Microsoft plans to invest more in early stage startup companies through a new corporate venture fund, headed by former Qualcomm executives. Microsoft Ventures now fills a gap we’ve had somewhere in the middle of that range.”. Microsoft aims to get in front of technology trends earlier with the new investment vehicle.

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Girls In Tech Showcases Women Founders In SF Pitch Competition

Xconomy

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

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Biotech Roundup: CRISPR’s 1st Trial, IPO Insiders, Zika & More

Xconomy

—IBM’s Watson Health group said that a commercial product could arrive in 2017 that uses machine learning to digest patient scans, medical records, and other information to help doctors with care decisions. Biostage cut ties with the surgeon in 2014.

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Announcing Xconomy’s Agtech and Food Channel

Xconomy

billion last year , roughly double the 2014 total. The annual AgTech Investment Report from AgFunderNews found that investment in agriculture and food-related technology startups alone hit $4.6