Today, VoiceBase, a provider of speech analytics for the cloud and a member of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), announced an integration for Amazon Connect customers. The VoiceBase integration is designed to ingest call recordings from Amazon Connect, transcribe and analyze the content and publish the results on AWS. This integration makes it easy for Amazon Connect users to surface valuable insights from calls and make better decisions using data from their contact center. VoiceBase was one of the initial APN Partners to support Amazon Connect to deliver advanced speech analytics to a growing cloud contact center customer base.
Band of Angels Energy SiG meeting with MIT Professor Peter Hagelstein on Cold Fusion
The Energy SiG met with MIT Professor Peter Hagelstein over breakfast on November 17th. This was a wonderful opportunity to have an in-depth discussion on the cold fusion and low energy nuclear reactions (LENR) technology and on potential commercialization opportunities.
Portfolio News: RealKey Launches New Mortgage App
RealKey has launched its universal mortgage and real estate automation software, designed to bring mortgage processing and homebuying into the modern era. RealKey Founder and CEO Christopher Hussain and Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Will Hanson have teamed up to offer mortgage and real estate professionals the technology tools they need to more efficiently work through the buying and lending process.
Portfolio News: Kiana Engage Leverages Breakthrough AI Algorithms to Deliver Most Precise Location Calibration to High-Traffic Venues
Band portfolio company Kiana Analytics, the location-based analytics company that delivers proximity solutions to businesses worldwide, today announced a new release of Kiana Engage for large retailers, shopping centers, stadiums, conference centers, universities, and airports, seeking greater visitor insights for operations and marketing. The new solution delivers the first “fine-grain calibration” for advanced mapping of a venue, a Location API for Navigation Applications, and an Executive Dashboard for making more profitable decisions and extending useful analytics to tenants, exhibitors, or other customers.
Portfolio News: Peloton - Are those 80,000 pound trucks tailgating each other? Soon it may be perfectly normal — and safe
If you look to the next lane and see two 18-wheelers roar past at 70 mph with just 10 yards between them, you’ll probably think they are dangerously close. In this high-tech age, that may no longer be true. In fact, it might be just the opposite, and it might even end up saving you money. A wave of new technology intended to make trucks safer — using radar, cameras and reflective light scanning — is sweeping the industry. By next year, much of it may be combined to put pairs of trucks on the road at a distance that before would not have been possible or safe.
Read full article by Ashley Halsey III in the Washington Post