Friendsurance: Friends with Benefits?
Friendsurance has the ambitious goal of disrupting the multi-trillion dollar insurance industry.
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Apple ResearchKit – Crowdsourcing Medical Research
Apple ResearchKit – Crowdsourcing Medical Research. Is it a good idea by Apple? Why is Apple well positioned to deliver such a framework? Has it been successful?
Patreon: Modernizing and crowdsourcing patronage of the arts
Patreon allows creators of all stripes to crowdsource funding on a subscription basis.
GasBuddy: A Platform for Crowdsourced Gas Price Data
How the largest gas discovery platform in North America utilizes crowdsourced data to drive a sustainable platform business model
Psious – Using VR exposure therapy to overcome fears & anxiety disorders
Psious is a behavioral health technology company. Founded in 2013, it provides a virtual reality platform – Psious Toolsuite – aimed at improving mental health treatment through SAAS offering.
Julep: Going After Big Beauty With Crowdsourced Products
Julep is taping into the social nature of the beauty market to crowdsource new product design so consumers have the products they want to buy in a much faster timeline than traditional big beauty brands.
Iodine: the ‘Yelp of Medicine’
Iodine is the ‘Yelp of Medicine,’ creating tremendous value by crowdsourcing reviews of pharmaceuticals to help patients make better-informed choices about their medications. But the question remains: can they capture any of that value?
23andMe: Healing the World through Crowdsourcing
Biotech firm 23andMe used crowdsourcing to collect vast body of data and fuel first-of-a-kind depression study
Solving Crime the Crowdsourced Way
Could the wisdom of crowds help to solve crimes?
Ancestry.com: Crowdsourcing Genealogy
Ancestry.com uses a combination of technology, historical archives, DNA testing and the contributions of members to help amateur genealogists trace their family histories. Ancestry has over 2.5M paying subscribers and over 20Bn records dating back to the 13th century that […]