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Having a balanced number of men and women on leadership teams allows for a diversified set of opinions and perspectives that impact a company's bottom line.

At the end of 2019, the situation will look different with 110 million people using fitness wearables, and 130 million - smartwatches.

In sharp contrast, Android Wear shipments comprised less than 10% of sales for the year; consumers are having hard time imagining use cases for smartwatches.

Among the top investors were Y Combinator, DreamIt, Rock Health, Qualcomm Ventures, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Rockstart, TechStars and Google Ventures.

The failure to align mobile apps to the services consumers' demand could cost each of these hospitals, on average, more than $100M in lost annual revenue.

Also, more than 50% of smartphone or tablet users look up food, diet, and nutrition info via an app at least once a month, according to Parks Associates.

In 2015, we saw fewer deals (477) than in 2014 (561), but companies that are raising are able to do so faster than in 2014.

Next year, the research firm forecasts, wearable device shipments will reach 111.1 million units, for a 44 percent increase over 2015.

Also, almost half (49%) now want their doctors to use data from their fitness tracker and/or from health apps as part of their care.

Smartwatch sales have picked up considerably during 2015 and shipments are on the track to reach 19.5 million units by the end of the year.