Startup Success: Hyderabad based startup Arvi has built AI thermal kiosks for contactless COVID-19 screening

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Hyderabad-based healthtech startup arvi has reinvented itself and developed #AI thermal kiosks for COVID-19 screening

Founded in July 2019 by Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay alumni Sushant Reddy and his friend Avinash Lavangal, the startup initially came up with a platform to help senior citizens with its smart medical alert system. It enabled senior citizens to access emergency and non-emergency medical assistance at their doorstep at the push of a button.

However, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a new opportunity for the startup. It has developed an unmanned contactless thermal scanning kiosk using AI technology with deep learning to combine facial recognition and thermal screening. It can detect people with high temperatures as well as those violating requirements to wear masks.

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Pivot and Persist: this startup has built AI thermal kiosks for contactless COVID-19 screening

The coronavirus pandemic has posed challenges as well as opportunities for healthcare startups in India. According to IBEF, the healthcare sector in India is one of the largest and fastest growing sectors, and has seen rapid transformation on the backdrop of technological advancements in the recent past.

Startup Funding Alert: SevenRooms Raises Another $50M for its Hospitality Management Platform

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SevenRooms raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Providence Strategic Growth.

Two Credit Suisse bankers came together in 2011 and noticed they were having a difficult time securing, flexible reservations at top NYC restaurants with their hectic schedules. This led them to look further into the restaurant industry’s guest experience operations at a holistic level.

Today, SevenRooms is a complete guest experience management platform that allows restaurant, hotels, and entertainment venues to manage their forward-facing operations from a single CRM that’s built and designed from the ground up for the hospitality industry. The platform handles reservations, waitlist and table management, ordering, and marketing. As the hospitality industry has been severely impacted by COVID-19, SevenRooms quickly introduced contactless solutions and is offering a number of their platform features for free through the end of the year to help the industry recover. Clients include Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, MGM Resorts International, Wolfgang Puck, and Topgolf.

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SevenRooms Raises Another $50M for its Hospitality Management Platform

Two Credit Suisse bankers came together in 2011 and noticed they were having a difficult time securing, flexible reservations at top NYC restaurants with their hectic schedules. This led them to look further into the restaurant industry's guest experience operations at a holistic level.

Forbes: How The Health Crisis Has Changed The Digital World Permanently

Forbes: How The Health Crisis Has Changed The Digital World Permanently?

1. Payments Technology Is Going Touchless:

We're now likely to see digital wallet solutions grow further, including things like digital IDs, transaction monitoring and even location tracking. We could soon be living in a world where your smartphone could tell you which stores were too crowded or which parts of the mall to avoid.

2. Health Care Is Leveraging Telehealth And IOT For Remote Patient Care:

Telehealth, coupled with wearable data or biosensor technology, will change the health care landscape at a rapid pace. A handful of companies have recently begun development of new ingestible sensors that can be swallowed by patients. These "smart pills" could be used to track gut health or monitor medicine ingestion, and could eventually be mounted with miniscule cameras to help doctors monitor or diagnose a range of conditions.

3. Opti-Channel Services Are Becoming More Crucial:

An opti-channel strategy requires businesses to not only find the best channel to reach each type of customer, but to use that channel to its fullest potential in order to maximize engagement at each and every point along that customer's journey while ensuring continuity of experience and personalization.

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Council Post: How The Health Crisis Has Changed The Digital World Permanently

Experienced technologist and CEO of Infostretch , a digital engineering services company that helps enterprises prosper in digital age. Payments Technology Is Going Touchless If the digital customer experience wasn't a boardroom issue before, the global health crisis has certainly brought it to the foreground.

Fireside Ventures - The case for Digital-first Consumer Brands in India post covid era

A recent Deloitte study discovering consumer intent to use digital services states that they are on the rise in India. 44% said they were very likely to use it for groceries, 27% for virtual doctor appointments, 36% for exercise programmes, 52% for video conferencing with family and friends, 47% for streaming entertainment, and 53% for payment apps or services.

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Clear, Convenient, and Contactless: The Case for Digital-first Consumer Brands - Fireside Ventures

It was January that we first heard about the coronavirus, and in the months since, this microscopic organism has completely transformed the world around us. One of the results has been that that our thesis of investing in digital-first consumer brands has grown in relevance.