Profiles

ROAR: This Company’s Panic Button Technology Helps Create Safer Organizations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 18, 2023

ROAR has a goal of empowering people through technology to help create safer organizations. And its unique panic button technology solutions provide continuous coverage, even in dead-spot areas. Since the solution works independently of the facilities network, it is always on to ensure staff has a lifeline when they need it most. ROAR has chosen major hotel chains and healthcare providers because of its redundancies, ease of use, effortless implementation, and hassle-free maintenance. Pulse 2.0 interviewed ROAR co-founder and CEO Yasmine Mustafa to learn more.

Fuelfinance: How This Ukraine-Based Company Helps Startup Manage Funds

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 18, 2023

Fuelfinance is a company that makes software for financial management and planning in startups. And the company offers a suite of tools and a personal touch of its financial success managers that can replace an ERP system and a financial department. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Fuelfinance CEO Alyona Mysko to learn more.

PowerToFly: How This Company Helps Diverse Professionals Advance Their Careers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2023

PowerToFly is a company that is helping diverse professionals advance their careers and helping companies become places where they can thrive. Pulse 2.0 interviewed PowerToFly CEO and co-founder Milena Berry to learn more.

Mark43: This Public Safety RMS Company Is Disrupting A Massive $7 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2023

Mark43 is a company that builds the world’s most powerful cloud-native public safety computer-aided dispatch (CAD), records management system (RMS), analytics, and property and evidence platform. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Mark43 co-founder and Head of External Affairs Matt Polega.

Smart: A Global Savings and Investments Tech Provider That Is Delivering Customized Retirement Savings And Income Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2023

Smart is a global savings and investments technology provider. And the company’s mission is to transform retirement, savings, and financial well-being across all generations worldwide. Smart partners with financial institutions, including broker-dealers, RIAs, retirement providers, insurers, asset managers, banks, and financial advisers, to deliver digital, customized, and cost-efficient retirement savings and income solutions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Smart’s US CEO Jodan Ledford to learn more.

Arrive: How This Mailbox-As-A-Service Company Is Disrupting A $5+ Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2023

Arrive (formerly @dronedek) is a mailbox-as-a-service (MaaS) pioneer that provides secure, seamless delivery and pickup infrastructure for the last mile. The company’s solutions are designed to work with autonomous delivery networks (ADNs) comprised of drones and robots, and it can be used by businesses of all sizes. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Arrive CEO Dan O’Toole to learn more.

Techstars: Sarah Bain On The Farm To Fork Accelerator And Entrepreneurship

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2023

Techstars is an accelerator firm that has invested in over 3,700 early-stage startups. As one of the largest pre-seed investors in the world, the firm’s portfolio is as diversified as their 8,600 founders are unique - ranging from HealthTech and FinTech to Web3 and CleanTech, from Miami and Silicon Valley to Lagos and London. The firm supports many of the world’s best entrepreneurs with access to capital, mentoring, hiring talent, finding customers, setting up infrastructure, etc. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Techstars Managing Director Sarah Bain - who is overseeing the national accelerator programs in the Minneapolis area, which include selecting, mentoring, incubating, and assisting with funding for over 24 startups in the Techstars ecosystem. And this also includes the Minnesota Twins accelerator program, which amplifies sports technology startups, and the Farm to Fork Accelerator aimed at food technology.

Cyera: This Company Is Disrupting The Massive Next-Generation Data Security Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2023

Cyera is a security company that gives businesses context and control over their most valuable asset: data. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cyera CEO and co-founder Yotam Segev.

Skai: Empowering Brands And Agencies To Manage Enterprise-Level Digital Campaigns Across Walled Garden Media

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 13, 2023

Skai is a company that empowers leading brands and agencies around the world to manage enterprise-level, omnichannel digital campaigns across all walled garden media. Backed by nearly two decades of innovation, the company supports marketers with insights they can use, data they can trust, and the impact they can measure on the media that matters. The company’s marketing platform includes solutions for retail media, paid search, paid social, and app marketing. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Skai CEO Yoav Izhar-Prato to learn more.

Esusu: This Company Is Becoming A One-Stop Shop For Renter Financial Health

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 12, 2023

Esusu is a company that reports rental data to the credit bureaus to help renters build creditand to help owners maximize property performance. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Esusu co-founder Samir Goel to learn more.

Clio: This Company Develops Legal Solutions And Also Invests In Next-Gen Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 12, 2023

Clio is a leader in cloud-based legal technology, offering software for lawyers ranging from practice management to payments to client intake. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Clio’s VP of Corporate Development, Shubham Datta, to learn more.

Inspirit: Combining Education With Powerful XR Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 11, 2023

Inspirit is the first and only education solution to combine powerful virtual and augmented reality technology (together as XR technology) with Stanford research-based instructional practices. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Inspirit CEO and co-founder Aditya Vishwanath to learn more.

CallTrackingMetrics: Disrupting The Contact Center Automation Market In Over A $4 Billion Industry

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 11, 2023

Michigan Office Of Future Mobility And Electrification: Building An Advanced Ecosystem Of Environmentally-Conscious Transportation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 8, 2023

Michigan’s Office Of Future Mobility And Electrification (OFME) is building a stronger state economy through safer, more equitable, and environmentally conscious transportation for all Michigan residents. This office works across state government, academia, and private industry to enhance Michigan’s mobility ecosystem, including developing dynamic mobility and electrification policies and supporting the startup and scale-up of emerging technologies and businesses. Michigan's competitive advantages make this state a place where advanced mobility solutions are born, and companies find long-term success and support. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Charlie Tyson, Technology Activation Director at OFME, to learn more.

Advantus Health Partners: This Healthcare Solutions Company Is Making Supply Chains Easier For Customers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 8, 2023

Advantus Health Partners is a healthcare solutions company that makes the supply chain easier for its clients through streamlined management, organizational purchasing, operations, and cost-savings efficiencies. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Advantus Health Partners president Dan Hurry to learn more.

Pixxel: Building A Constellation Of The Highest-Resolution Hyperspectral Earth Imaging Satellites In Over A $3 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 7, 2023

Pixxel is a space data company building a constellation of the world’s highest-resolution hyperspectral earth imaging satellites and the analytical tools to mine insights from the data. The images gathered by Pixxel's satellites will provide global coverage every 24 hours and help detect, monitor, and predict global phenomena across agriculture, mining, environment, and energy use cases. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pixxel CEO and co-founder Awais Ahmed to learn more.

IndustrialNext: How This Company Is Driving Autonomous Manufacturing For Every Automaker

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 7, 2023

IndustrialNext is a company that is building an autonomous manufacturing ecosystem. The system’s foundations are smart cameras that allow more precise vision-based tasks, which opens the door to a more modular and flexible approach to manufacturing automation. These smart cameras don’t need extensive programming to set up and can handle both classical and deep learning-based computer vision work. Pulse 2.0 interviewed IndustrialNext co-founder and CEO Lukas Pankau to learn more.

Medcrypt: Providing Data Security To Medical Device OEMs In Over A $30 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2023

Medcrypt is a proactive cybersecurity solution provider for medical device manufacturers. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Medcrypt co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) Eric Pancoast to learn more.

Deal Box: How This Company Helps Early-Stage Companies Raise Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2023

Deal Box is a blockchain-enabled tokenized funding platform democratizing private equity, venture capital, and investing in early rounds of businesses in frontier industries. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Deal Box CEO Thomas Carter to learn more.

Quiq: Making It Easy For Companies To Have Conversations With Their Customers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2023

Quiq is a leading technology company based in Bozeman, Montana, that makes it easy for people to have a conversation with a company. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Quiq CEO and founder Mike Myer to learn more.

C2i Genomics: Building A Comprehensive Whole-Genome Cancer Monitoring Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2023

Zeus Living: VP Of Finance Abhinav Swarup Discusses Evolution Of Property Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2023

Zeus Living is a company that designs and manages modern homes that can be rented for 30 days or longer across over 125 destinations in the U.S. Through a leading technology platform and the expertise of dedicated hospitality professionals around the country, the company strives to help people live well, and on their terms. Zeus Living drives revenue for owners while taking care of their properties and delivering support to residents, ensuring memorable experiences wherever they choose to stay. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Zeus Living Vice President of Finance Abhinav Swarup, to learn more.

SugarCRM: Enabling Sales Teams To Get A Better Picture Of Customer Pathways In A $98 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 28, 2023

SugarCRM is a company that makes the hard things easier for marketing, sales, and service teams to get a clear picture of each customer’s journey without getting all the headaches and hassles that come with using traditional customer relationship management (CRM) tools. Pulse 2.0 interviewed SugarCRM’s co-founder and chief strategy officer Clint Oram to learn more.

Ocient: How This Company Helps Organizations Interact With Hyperscale Data Sets Quickly

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 28, 2023

Ocient is a company that enables organizations to explore and interact with hyperscale data sets quickly, cost-effectively, and in previously infeasible ways to deliver meaningful insights and drive customer innovation. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Dylan Murphy, VP of product at Ocient, to learn more.

Hyro: This Adaptive Communications Platform Helps Enterprises Automate Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 25, 2023

Hyro is a leading Adaptive Communications Platform that enables enterprises to automate workflows and conversations across their most valuable platforms, services, and channels, including call centers, websites, SMS, and mobile apps. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Hyro CEO and co-founder Israel Krush to learn more.

Propeller Bonds: This Underwriting Platform Company Offers Access To Over 7,000 Surety Bonds

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 25, 2023

Propeller Bonds is a fully automated end-to-end underwriting platform company. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Propeller Bonds co-founder and co-CEO Aaron Steffey.

Cinchy: This Company Liberates Data From Apps, Making Data Integration Obsolete

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 23, 2023

Cinchy provides a Data Collaboration Platform that makes data integration obsolete. And organizations 'change how they deliver change' using Cinchy to make things simpler by liberating and productizing their data with secure real-time integration-free collaboration. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cinchy co-founder and CEO Dan DeMers to learn more.

Entro Security: Revolutionizing End-to-End Secrets Security In A $16+ Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 23, 2023

Entro Security is a revolutionary cyber holistic security platform that offers end-to-end protection for secrets and programmatic access to cloud services and data. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Entro co-founder and CEO Itzik Alvas.

Pear VC: This Firm Runs An Early-Stage Bootcamp And Invests Over $800 Million Across 4 Funds

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 23, 2023

Pear VC is a venture firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed rounds. And the firm partners with founders at the earliest stages to turn great ideas into category-defining companies. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pear partner Ajay Kamat to learn more.

Mutare: Communication Solutions That Are Creating A Better Way To Connect In A $1.2 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 22, 2023

Mutare is a company empowering organizations to re-imagine a better way to connect. Through the company’s transformative voice security, digital voice, and text messaging solutions, the company makes communications with colleagues, customers, and prospects simple, secure, and effective. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Mutare Vice President and Product Manager Rich Quattrocchi to learn more.