"What our unique proprietary technology is able to do is take the poor quality on-camera audio from fan videos, and we analyse that and can see the patterns, eventhough it's very weak and distorted, " explains Cathal Furey, co-founder of the firm, 45sound.
Although drugs are routinely subjected to testing by clinical trials before they are approved and recommended, diets typically have very weak evidence behind them eventhough they likely have a strong influence on health and disease.
Inflation was a problem then, it is today, and eventhough capital gains rates are historically low, the weak dollar has made the cost of investing very high on the way to a depressed market for startups.