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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

Set up or leverage a digital communications platform that helps small businesses connect with resources, a community of support, and a storytelling platform that can personalize and amplify the work, products, and needs of small businesses; .

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How AI Will Shift Customer Experience to the Next Level

Startup Grind

Its disrupting nature has given it an enormous potential with countless applications. As per a prediction made by IDC (International Data Corporation), by 2019, 40% of digital transformation initiatives will be supported by some sort of cognitive computing or AI effort.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Of the sub-verticals in construction that tend to cost the most (structural support like concrete and steel or mechanical and plumbing), not many can be automated because of the complexity of the task. Something in both the masonry and bricklayer arena as well as framing would be interesting.

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Seraphim Capital’s space tech accelerator releases details of its newest Space Camp cohort

TechCrunch

Description: “4pi Lab is developing a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation providing real-time, wildfire detection, monitoring and reporting. Kinnami has created a unique storage and security system, ‘AmiShare’, which fragments and encrypts data. ” Clutch Space Systems. ” Kinnami.

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Credit Suisse leads $20M Series A in data extraction startup Daloopa

TechCrunch

Daloopa closed on a $20 million Series A round, led by Credit Suisse Asset Management’s NEXT Investors, to continue developing its data extraction technology for financial institutions, which is now being expanded globally. Customers can request data sets with a couple of clicks of a button and have it delivered the next day.

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Singapore-based retail analytics company Trax raises $640M Series E led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and BlackRock

TechCrunch

Finally, we see many opportunities to help retailers along their digitization journey and will be expanding into new use cases with products we develop internally and via potential acquisitions,” Behar said. Early in the pandemic, retailers had to cope with surge buying, as customers emptied shelves of stock while preparing to stay at home.

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WHAT IF AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS THE CURE?

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

With funding support and business mentoring from Ben Franklin Technology Partners, a former teacher and school counselor, Linsey Covert, started Teamology. This culture encourages bystanders to support and defend others, increases a child’s sense of value, and promotes the concept of “connectedness”. They’re called bystanders.