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MedWhat is an intelligent personal medical and health assistant that can automatically provide a contextual answer to questions posed in natural language.
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Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Investors 1
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| Feb 4, 2016 | Microsoft Taps 10 Machine Learning Startups for Seattle Accelerator | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Ten nascent businesses applying machine learning to everything from answering medical questions to recruiting university students were tapped for Microsoft Ventures’ latest ac... |
| Feb 4, 2016 | Meet the 10 machine learning and data science startups in Microsoft’s Seattle Accelerator | Photo via Microsoft. Microsoft Ventures today announced its third batch of Seattle Accelerator startups that are focusing on machine learning and data science. Microsoft’s accelerator in Seattle first launched in 2014 with a cohort of home ... |
| Feb 19, 2014 | Health Q&A app Medwhat raises $560K | Medwhat, maker of a health question and answer app, has raised $560,000 in seed funding from Stanford University, Stanford Hospital, Startcaps Ventures and a couple of angel investors. Medwhat recently graduated from Stanford's StartX accel... |
| Feb 18, 2014 | Mobile health news: MedWhat raises seed capital for app to process detailed medical questions | The company uses Nuance software which powers the voice technology behind Apple’s Siri and Android solutions such as Samsung’s S Voice. M*Modal, IBM’s Watson and Health Fidelity have also helped health IT companies advance electronic health... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | Is the doctor in? MedWhat’s ‘personal medical assistant’ is always on call | On a cold and wintery evening several years ago, I poured warm garlic oil into my ear because the Internet said it would make me feel better. MedWhat wants to prevent this from happening, or at least provide a better way to find legitimate ... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | DC to VC’s batch of health startups: semen analysis, wearables & more | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! It has been a big month for health care startups.... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | DC to VC’s batch of health startups: semen analysis, wearables & more | It has been a big month for health care startups. Last week, the FDA released its final guidance on smartphone applications, removing roadblocks to innovation and investment. Tomorrow, elements of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act are s... |
| Sep 13, 2013 | Merck and J&J back StartX; “clinical-trial-in-a-dish” biotech wows at Demo Day | Two StartX Med companies presented at demo day last night – one new company and one graduated company that returned with some exciting updates. Stem Cell Theranostics has developed what it calls “clinical trials in a dish,” with the goal of... |
| Jul 24, 2013 | Physicians and hospitals are warming up to symptom checkers as communication tool | “Now more health-care providers are turning the tables, steering patients to new and improved computerized symptom-checkers that make it easier for them to get reliable information about possible diagnoses, research their condition and even... |
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FAQ about MedWhat
What has the press written about MedWhat?
Parsers VC has collected 14 articles mentioning MedWhat, among them “Microsoft Taps 10 Machine Learning Startups for Seattle Accelerator” (Feb 4, 2016) and “Meet the 10 machine learning and data science startups in Microsoft’s Seattle Accelerator” (Feb 4, 2016).
Is MedWhat still active?
Yes, MedWhat is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 13, 2017.