{"id":56993,"date":"2017-04-29T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T21:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/investors-backed-an-ai-startup-that-puts-a-doctor-on-your-smartphone-with-60-million"},"modified":"2017-04-29T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T21:08:11","slug":"investors-backed-an-ai-startup-that-puts-a-doctor-on-your-smartphone-with-60-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/investors-backed-an-ai-startup-that-puts-a-doctor-on-your-smartphone-with-60-million","title":{"rendered":"Investors backed an AI startup that puts a doctor on your smartphone with $60 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/investors-backed-an-ai-startup-that-puts-a-doctor-on-your-smartphone-with-60-million.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK artificial intelligence (AI) startup Babylon has raised $60 million (\u00a347 million) for its smartphone app which aims to put a doctor in your pocket.<\/p>\n<p>The latest funding round, which comes just over a year after the startup\u2019s last fundraise, means that the three-year-old London startup now has a valuation in excess of $200 million (\u00a3156 million), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1f56997a-290f-11e7-bc4b-5528796fe35c\" target=\"_blank\">according to The Financial Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Babylon\u2019s app has been downloaded over a million times and it allows people in UK, Ireland, and Rwanda to ask a chatbot a series of questions about their condition without having to visit a GP.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/babylon-raises-60-million-for-its-doctor-in-your-pocket-app-2017-4\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/babylon-raises-60-million-for...2017&#45;4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK artificial intelligence (AI) startup Babylon has raised $60 million (\u00a347 million) for its smartphone app which aims to put a doctor in your pocket. The latest funding round, which comes just over a year after the startup\u2019s last fundraise, means that the three-year-old London startup now has a valuation in excess of $200 million [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}