From AI and wearables to telehealth and genomics, technology is rapidly evolving how we prevent, diagnose, and treat illnesses. The healthtech sector encompasses a wide range of innovative companies leveraging modern hardware, software, and data science to tackle major challenges in the healthcare system. We...
From artificial intelligence and data analytics to cloud computing and digital services, emerging technologies have the potential to dramatically improve how governments operate and serve constituents. The growing category of govtech companies and solutions is tackling numerous domains across federal, state, and municipal agencies. We...
When people think of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin is the first one that comes to mind as the original and most established virtual currency. But there is a rapidly expanding universe of alternative cryptocurrencies or altcoins that have emerged with unique traits and use cases. Let’s do...
Decentralized finance, or DeFi, refers to the shift towards building modern financial services on top of blockchain networks like Ethereum instead of going through traditional banks and institutions. By encoding transactions, lending, trading and other activities in open source software and smart contracts, DeFi applications...
The term fintech has become a catch-all for technologies aimed at automating, enhancing, or disrupting traditional financial services. But fintech is a vast arena spanning numerous specialized domains. Let’s examine a few categories of fintech companies making waves:Payments/Digital WalletsStartups like Stripe, Square, PayPal, and Venmo...
As buzz around the idea of Web3 grows louder, it's important to understand the building block innovations that could enable this proposed new decentralized iteration of the internet. While still evolving concepts with varying definitions, here are some of the core technologies underpinning Web3:BlockchainAt the...
