Hello Alfred, a New York-based service technology company building an in-home assistant service, closed a $40 million Series B funding round led by real estate developers Divco West and Invesco. Early investors, including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Spark Capital, also participated in the round. According
Conversational commerce technology provider StorePower, Inc., announced today that grocers can now offer their customers the ability to shop for their entire grocery orders using Google Assistant. "Google has made it easy for users to access the Google Assistant; we've made it easy to use
Orderly Health has created a personal AI healthcare assistant named Louie to connect users with doctors, find discounts on prescriptions, and source healthcare plans. Companies can also deploy Louie to help answer employee’s healthcare questions by combining multiple sources of data, so these employees can
Fin is a virtual assistant app that uses a combination of human and machine intelligence to provide users with on-demand assistance handling such nuanced requests as email, texting, scheduling, research, booking, and purchasing. The app understands context and learns users preferences with every request. Users
Software startup Botanic Technologies completed a new round of financing led by Outlier Ventures. Botanic Technologies builds multi-modal conversational interfaces and avatars, such as text-only chatbots and voice-only assistants, that use speech and animation to provide contextually and emotionally appropriate responses to human input.
Social media’s prevalence has lead to the build up of social “echo chambers” around different communities where outside opinions are no longer tolerated. Sometimes, just getting a new idea outside of the bubble is valuable in itself. AskDonna is a virtual assistant that anonymously provides
Lily is a fashion artificial intelligence product that helps people discover and buy clothes that make them look and feel their best. According to the company, Lily does more than two hours’ worth of analysis for every selection -- including looking at price, similar items