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accelerated pacing from investors
Alas, this meant switching up its plan for each company to have a recorded pitch on the Demo Day website; instead, each company pitched via
hardware, AI, and consumer) here.Alude: Property tech in Brazil is a hot market, with startups like Loft and unicorn QuintoAndar raising
Alude wants to control the distribution channel with its simplified home leasing/buying process
Its system automates the process of background checks, document collection, insurance purchasing and online signing
This modernized tech is free for brokers, and the company plans to monetize by selling mortgage and insurance to customers.Vori: Vori wants
to be the operating system for the American grocery supply chain
Even in 2020, supermarkets still have an old school paper and pen ordering process with wholesale distributors
Vori acts as a B2B marketplace for supermarkets and distributors, helping stores produce inventory from vendors in a more efficient way
It says it has 24 active stores using its tech, and is also supporting over 150 distributors in Northern California
Vori acts also as a product discovery engine for supermarkets, helping them stay competitive with Whole Foods and Amazon.Linkana: Linkana is
compliance-driven procurement software in Latin America
There are 40,000 companies in Latin America that spend $60,000 yearly in procurement solutions, creating a $2.5 billion market opportunity
The four-person co-founding team has members who have worked together for nearly a decade.Weav: Interviewing new candidates at work can be a
Weav records and transcribes interviews for hiring teams so that companies can reach decisions faster and conduct fewer interviews
modeling and entity recognition.ElectroNeek RPA: Everyone agrees that robots are the future of automation, but actually deploying the
technology often requires a great deal of expertise
ElectroNeek is building a desktop and cloud-based interface designed to help streamline the automation process for IT employees and business
professionals without a robotics background.Reaktive: Aimed at creative professionals like animators, video editors and engineers, Reaktive
is designed to replace desktop hardware with cloud-based solutions
The company claims its offering is 100x faster than traditional solutions, greatly reducing things like an eight-hour rendering job down to
The company has already closed $2.2 million in purchase orders from studios.Eze: Eze is building a used smartphone market that functions
like a commodities exchange
The system will update in real time with the fluctuating price of a wide range of different mobile devices
Devices will be sold to wholesalers in bulk, who turn around and sell them to retailers.Oda: Aggregates real estate data from listing
services and government records into a unified API
engineering managers a dashboard to better understand how their teams are working and improve efficiency (by, for example, reducing meetings
that might break up productivity)
Charges $350 per manager.Tajir: A marketplace to help small stores in Pakistan get inventory
mobile app with free next day delivery.GuruHotel: A website and property management/booking system for hotels
The base plan provides a basic hosting/booking engine in exchange for a 5% booking commission, while premium plans introduce other features,
such as property management tools, for $350 to $499 a month in addition to commission.Riot Security: An anti-phishing tool that
automatically tests your employees with faux-phishing emails based on the most recently discovered phishing techniques
It starts at $200 a month for companies with under 50 employees, with the price shifting to custom scaling after that
The tool is currently in pilot tests with six companies, with an MRR of $1,000
automatically reduce monthly costs by flagging anomalies and hunting for potential savings on recurring expenses (such as forgotten
It automatically sends customized emails and registered letters to unpaid accounts, updates designated team members when account status
changes, and handles payments
They charge $50 per month for companies with fewer than 30 invoices per month, scaling it up to $225 per month for companies doing less than
Find our previous coverage of Upflow here.Explo: Explo is meant to let non-technical employees analyze large amounts of data without having
to know how to write/run SQL queries, instead providing them with a point/click interface for generating reports
The team says it has over 400 companies on its waitlist.Workbench: Workbench is developing a platform purpose-built for hardware companies
for sourcing suppliers and storing information/specs about the components they use.Jet Admin: A drag-and-drop tool for building internal
tools without code, hopefully freeing up dev team resources
Connects to databases and services like Stripe/Google Analytics/Salesforce and allows teams to piece together tools by way of pre-built
Free for indie developers, or $19 per user for teams with up to 10 members.Battlecard: Trains your sales team on what to say to unhappy
customers through simulation (complete with synthesized unhappy customer voice)
Roughly a month after launching, the company says it has already booked over $35k in annual recurring revenue.SnackThis: Is a collaborative,
browser-based tool for motion design
Imagine a remote team fine-tuning moving typography in a video, or the way an app moves from screen to screen
One of the co-founders previously sold his motion design-heavy company to GoPro for $80M.Zeo Auto: Fleet management and tracking for
companies with automative fleets in India, allowing them to do things like view current vehicle position, replay past trips, calculate fuel
Compatible with over 50 different GPS devices
The company says it has onboarded 2,000 fleet owners, bringing 30,000 vehicles onto the platform.Savvy: Built for companies unable to offer
group insurance plans, Savvy lets them instead give employees a tax-free stipend to put toward an individual health plan of their choosing
moderating user-flagged content
Flowdash helps human-in-the-loop teams build new tools with minimal coding, allowing them to integrate them into services like Slack or
Their base plan starts at $25 per user per month, increasing if you need things like analytics or on-prem deployment.Dropee: Dropee helps
independent retailers in Southeast Asia buy things in bulk from large brands, charging said brands $8 per store for insight on what is or
handling the challenges involved with freight and customs
Currently in a pilot program with Carrefour, which they expect to account for over $500K per year in sales.Pilot: Pilot handles payroll,
benefits and compliance for hiring remote contractors
Companies pay $60 per contractor per month for Pilot to help treat contractors like full-time employees by offering benefits, stock options
and expense reimbursements
With COVID-19 quarantines familiarizing more companies with remote work, there could be a big market for ensuring their retention and
productivity by making them feel like part of the team.SEND: SEND is a digital freight forwarder and customs broker for Africa that manages
cargo shipping by air, truck, and sea
SEND optimizes routing for faster, more reliable deliveries by bringing documentation online and letting clients just deal with the one
company instead of up to a dozen shipping vendors
valuation startup can reach the continent.Brokrete: Brokrete, a delivery marketplace app, was developed to connect contractors with
available concrete suppliers with the most competitive price
The company began in the Canadian marketplace and is expanding to Houston this spring.Paneau: The founders of Paneau are aiming to create a
new way for businesses to advertise to ride-hailing customers by placing interactive tablets inside Uber and Lyft vehicles
The tablet can be used by riders to make purchases and even re-route the car
Latam market that uses machine learning to predict future locations of cargo delivery and helps match truckers to customers in an effort to
moved.99minutos: This Latam startup is focused on last-mile delivery for e-commerce purchases
99Minutos is now launching delivery with electric vehicles and in Mexico is the last-mile delivery partner for Amazon, MercadoLibre and
delivers the produce directly to restaurants in India
The vegetable delivery service says it can save restaurants up to 30%.HYPHY: As advertising matures alongside user-generated social media
content, HYPHY is aiming to create a market for consumers to sell their photos and videos directly to brands
The marketplace is a way for brands to source media more quickly for advertising or marketing campaigns.Zaam: Zaam is building a platform to
simplify B2B onboarding, reducing complexity and pushing customers through the tiring process of data and document requests through
automating as much as possible
The startup says they have hit $120M ARR in the past two months.HireSweet: HireSweet is building a hiring platform that pushes recruiters
towards ideal candidates that may not explicitly be looking for a new job
The platform analyzes behavior like who is updating their LinkedIn, adding to open source projects on Github, or nearing a vesting cliff
The team earned $150K in MRR last month
Find our previous coverage of HireSweet here.Stryve: Stryve wants the hiring process to pivot to video, replacing phone screeners with video
platform that lets organizations make their static datasets more dynamic and usefulCadence: Cadence is a platform for meetings that should
The early access platform is focused on eliminating meetings related to sharing project updates
efficiently across the board
their offices too quickly.Castodia: Castodia hooks your databases into Google Sheets, ensuring that the information there is always up to
startups to subscribe and save, paying for a single subscription while using a variety of vendors to meet their needs
The company hopes its platform can boost discoverability of new SaaS tools and simplify the lives of founders who are having to manage so
many subscription services.Dashworks: Dashworks is aiming to build a search tool that bring together all of the information from your
various collaboration tools and databases
The platform relies on deep integrations across a wide variety of apps and boasts customers including Zapier, Stanford and
Armory.Laserfocus: Laserfocus is creating an app that layers onto your CRM and allows salespeople to quickly work their way through calls,
emails and meetings with potential clients
The app wants to re-bundle the tasks currently separated across a handful of apps and cut down on distractions for salespeople who are eager
to gather information about potential clients.TrueNorth: To help fix inefficiencies in the fragmented trucking industry, TrueNorth offers a
software solution for independent truckers
Think of it as an operating system, but for trucks, to help with everything from fuel and maintenance, to route optimization and load
tracking.Taiv: Taiv wants to help your local neighborhood sports bar better monetize the commercials you see on those in-bar TVs
Charging $4,200 a year per location, Taiv lets businesses replace live commercials with business advertisements about specials or deals
Find our previous coverage of Taiv here.Humanly: Humanly wants to automate job candidate screening for companies that typically receive a
high volume of applications
The company says its tech helps keep screening consistent, while removing bias
Customers include Farmers Insurance, Feather and Grin.BuildPlane: BuildPlane has designed a next generation toolkit for commercial
generation software platform that lets organizations plan their carbon emissions strategy: it tracks different departments and processes
within a company and then gives recommendations on where to reduce carbon emissions to meet internal and external goals
Find our previous coverage of SINAI here.Logarithm Labs: Logarithm Labs is a project management service for chip designers covering data
pipelines, scripting interfaces, and portals and dashboards to parse, structure, and analyze data generated in chip design workSnapboard:
Snapboard provides software tools to create dashboards, visualizations, and applications without code
Find our previous coverage of Snapboard here.Slingshow: Slingshow is a download-free video recording and delivery application for customer
service and complaint resolution
All a customer has to do is take a video of their problem with an explanation and send it off via Slingshow to explain a problem and get
help.Pulley: Pulley is a next generation cap table management tool
Private companies can use it to issue employee - investor equity and maintain ownership records as a company scales
Like Carta, it has a free tier for smaller startups
Unlike Carta, its focus is first (and currently only) on serving founders rather than investors
The founder is a repeat entrepreneur who sold a previous company to Microsoft.Rosebud AI: Welcome to the dystopian future of corporate
Rosebud.ai creates digital avatars and models for any occasion
Companies can filter by demographic, age, and style.Termii: Termii is a multi-channel marketing and communications service, providing APIs
for SMS and user verification for African businesses.Able Jobs: Able Jobs trains candidates in India on the skillsets companies need most so
that businesses can hire better candidates more quickly
They did 130 placements in FebruarySkypher: Skypher automates the security questionnaire development-and-response process.Terusama: Taking
logistics management all the way to the dockside, Terusama provides scheduling software for freight pickup and digital sign ins for
haulers.Mistro: Mistro lets employers provide benefits and perks to remote teams in over 200 countries
They can offer health insurance, co-working space, development classes, food, IT equipment and more that workers pay for through a Mistro
Teams around the world are embracing remote work due to coronavirus
That trend could last, creating a big market for whoever can help companies attract the best work-from-homers.
