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☆ Exclusive: AI startup Attention just raised $14 million to bring its natural language processing tech to sales calls
  + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Samantha Stokes | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
AI startup Attention raised a $14 million Series A funding round from Alven, Eniac, and Frst. The startup uses AI and natural language processing to glean data and next steps from sales calls. AdvertisementNew York-based AI startup Attention, which uses natural language processing to fill out customer relationship management (CRM) programs and generate action items from sales calls, just raised a fresh round of funding. Late-stage startup Gong, which also records sales calls, raised $250 million in Series E funding in 2021 at a $7.25 billion valuation. And 11x.ai, which is building AI sales reps, raised a $50 million Series B last month from a16z, TechCrunch reported.
Persons: —, Anis Bennaceur, Matthias Wickenburg, Bennaceur, Wickenburg, Swipecast Organizations: Service, French VC, Eniac, Liquid2 Ventures, Ventures, TechCrunch Locations: Alven, New York, a16z
☆ How VC Stephen Hays scraped his life off rock bottom after addiction and a bipolar diagnosis to tackle mental health stigma
  + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
Some parents had voiced concerns about Hays' "background," he told Business Insider. In 2020, he started What If Ventures, a venture firm focused on investing in mental health startups. Hays's new public persona as a staunch mental health advocate also puts a certain pressure on him to perform his recovery — "and I hate that," he said. He wants to show people struggling with their own mental health that working to get well is good enough. Advertisement"I don't just want to destigmatize addiction and mental health issues — I want to destigmatize the journey of getting better," he said.
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☆ Voting machine problems in battleground Arizona seized on by Trump, election deniers
  + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Tim Reid | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Richer called the malfunctions "disappointing" and correctly predicted that election deniers and conspiracists such as Trump would "exploit" the issue. The state's Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who has echoed Trump's false claims of a stolen 2020 election, also seized on the machine problems, issuing a "voter alert" on her Twitter account. Trump, Lake and other election deniers have been calling for the end of electronic voting machines, Election Day-only voting, and the use of just paper ballots and hand counts, a process that is time-consuming, costly and far less accurate than machine counting. The machine malfunctions fueled distrust among many Republican voters in Arizona that fraud was involved, especially after Trump issued a statement on his Truth Social platform. "Reports are coming in from Arizona that the Voting Machines are not properly working in predominately Republican/Conservative areas," Trump said, adding: "Here we go again?
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