The clinical trial process was ready to be disrupted. In 2014, TrialSpark noticed there was a gap in how clinical trials were performed and how they could be improved with the help of modern tech. The company began building a tool to help patients and healthcare professionals navigate through the clinical trials process.
In a small, nondescript office in the Flatiron District, some of the brightest minds in the world are teaching computers how to understand what they see. It is, perhaps, an unlikely place for the cutting edge of artificial intelligence to be built, but the technology they're creating will change the way you interact with the world.
Bokksu is the latest of many e-grocers to garner investor attention, and will use the funding to expand its product line of authentic Asian goods, as well as grow its team.
The startup has nearly doubled its valuation in less than a year thanks to a recent $510 million investment, which it will use to double its New York team.
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