In this edition of the UpTech Report, Co-founder of HomeZada, Elizabeth Dodson, joins us to talk about her software company and its suite of home management apps. At its core, HomeZada is a digital home management tool that will keep track of your estimated home value, equity, and expenses, as well as show you financial forecasts for the future. Got a DIY project to tackle? Plan and budget all of your home improvement projects with their home renovation project planner. Plus, you can verify...

Is it possible to automate lending for equipment and automotive financing? In this edition of the UpTech Report, we meet with founder & CEO of Inovatec Systems, Vladimir Kovacevic, to learn how his loan origination technology company is helping lenders simplify lending processes. To start, Kovacevic discusses his early days growing up in Serbia and how it set him on a unique entrepreneurial path. He talks about doing business in the United States and Canada, pursuing the American Dream,...

In this edition of the UpTech Report, we meet with Rebecca Clyde, Co-Founder & CEO of Botco.ai Botco to discuss how adding an AI chat bot to your site can help your company to increase revenue and win over new clients. Sometimes, AI conversations can feel just as authentic as real ones. Clyde talks about her journey growing her own tech company and some of the challenges that she has faced along the way. Plus, how was she able to differentiate her company from other AI chat tools on the...

Which communication messages are trending within your organization and who’s clicking on what? In this edition of the UpTech Report, we meet with Tarek Kamil, CEO of Cerkl, to learn how managers can make smarter, data-driven decisions with Cerkl’s internal communication suite, Cerkl Broadcast. With Broadcast, you can create beautiful emails and content for your targeted employee audiences. Kamil explains how not everyone responds to the same type of message in the same way. Why not vary it...

What if you could automate almost all of your social media and content marketing? Would that make your life as a business owner and content creator simpler? In this edition of the UpTech Report, we meet with KD Deshpande, the CEO of Simplified to discuss how his company is helping marketing teams to design and collaborate more effectively by using AI technology. Simplified offers “all the content-creation tools you'll ever need, in one app”. Instead of logging onto all of the various...

In this edition of the UpTech report, we meet with Brian Sierakowski, CEO of Baremetrics, to pick his brain on everything he knows about growth. His entrepreneurship story began when he had a novel idea for a shared password manager a little over a decade ago, and shortly after, his first company Team Password was born. From startup to exit, he helped the company to expand at an incredible rate until they were ultimately acquired. His experience makes him an expert in growing a SaaS business...

In the latest Uptech Report, CEO of Prospr.work Erika Wasser introduces us to her new app Prospr and explains how it is increasing productivity for businesses around the world. Her suite of employee management tools allows companies to access all employee information in the same place. Prospr is known as “the one employee app to replace the rest”, and if one thing’s for sure, it’s that Wasser is definitely an expert on managing people. She is empowering both companies and their hourly...

In this UpTech Report, CEO Pedro Góes of InEvent explains how his company offers everything you need to host a successful virtual event online using video technology. It started with some creative virtual event ideas, a talent for app development, and a dream. Now, they are one of the top event management software companies in the world. Want to build a beautiful landing page for your event with online registration, meeting scheduling, plus many other important features? InEvent has you...

Are you thinking about buying a home for the first time? Record numbers of people began their search for a new property online in 2021, but sorting through the thousands of new listings that go up daily can be a huge challenge. Traditionally, real estate has been a heavily human-intensive industry. You need agents to track down properties and set up tours, and inspectors to dive deep and dig up all the hidden info about a property. But going into 2022 and the future, is there a better way for...

In commercial real estate investing, less than 10% of all deals ultimately end up getting approved after due diligence is done. This means that for CRE underwriters, approximately 90% of their time is wasted. However, in this interview from the UpTech report, CEO of Blooma, Shayne Skaff, explains how his company’s underwriting platform is helping CRE lenders to evaluate deals using the power of AI instead. Perhaps the creditworthiness of the potential buyer isn’t up to par, the property has...

Smart split tests can help drive tremendous growth for companies looking to increase sales and conversions. But how do marketing teams know what to test? CEO Andres Glusman of Do What Works gives us some expert guidance on marketing funnel strategies in this interview from the UpTech Report. Is your marketing funnel optimized or is there still room for improvement? Do What Works recommends that instead of going down this road alone, you draw inspiration from industry giants. They’re helping...

In this UpTech Report, CEO Alexander Fernandez of Streamline Media Group meets with us to talk about Metaverse games and the future of virtual reality. At its core, Streamline Media Group is in the business of Metaverse video game development, building beautiful interactive worlds and Metaverse games for entertainment companies. However, calling them just video game developers is only scratching the surface. For starters, Fernandez talks us through how his company recently helped a top...

CEO of LongShot.ai Ankur Pandey joins the UpTech Report for a conversation about long-form content generation using artificial intelligence. We learn that there are numerous AI content generators on the web currently, but very few successful long-form AI writers. Pandey explains how generating well-researched long-form content that is both authentic and natural is a much more difficult problem to solve than simply generating short snippets of text. However, LongShot’s new AI writing tool is...

Companies such as Snowflake and Palantir have been making headlines lately in the tech world as more and more industries catch on to the fact that data is king. Data-driven decision-making is the way of the future, but have you heard of Outlier.ai yet? In this episode of the UpTech Report, data analyst and CEO of Outlier.ai Sean Byrnes joins us to discuss exactly why business data analysis has been getting so much attention recently in the media. Think of it as a Data Analytics 101 crash...

In this interview, the CEO of Correlated Tim Geisenheimer explains to the UpTech Report how his company is helping to simplify the sales process for SaaS businesses. It’s all about managing relationships. Correlated helps maintain data and records on all of your various customer accounts, alerting you to the immediate action steps you need to take to turn free trials into paid subscribers. When you have hundreds or thousands of people in the system, it can be quite challenging to remember...

Is your business’s data secure? How to implement data governance in an organization is one of the most important questions in tech this year. However, collecting, storing, and utilizing data effectively and safely is no easy task, especially when it comes to managing it at scale. In this Uptech Report, we meet with Balaji Ganesan, CEO of Privacera to learn how they are helping companies with the problem of data management. It’s about storing data in a way that allows for usability without...

Machine learning and AI has grown from novelty technology to essential requirement. But unfortunately, most smaller tech companies don’t have the expertise among their staff to implement these solutions—and sometimes don’t even understand how they work.  This is why Tommy Dang co-founded Mage, which offers a collaborative AI development tool to help companies stay on the cutting edge.

The sad reality is that mass shootings have become commonplace in modern America. This new threat poses a special challenge for schools, workplaces, movie theaters, and anywhere the public gathers. But new threats also mean new protections. Learning that no one monitored the security cameras at his daughter’s school, Mike Lahiff realized that new technologies could monitor them automatically.  And ZeroEyes was born—a technology startup that offers an AI weapons detection system that can...

Coming from a family of doctors, Julian Flannery understands the world of medicine. With differing perspectives and needs, primary care physicians and specialists form a complex ecosystem.  Ultimately deciding against becoming a physician himself, Julian entered into the medical space in a different way by helping to manage that ecosystem with his company, Summus, a technology startup that offers a virtual specialist platform, allowing doctors, patients, and employers to connect online to...

Ken Smerz had a brilliant idea for a company. What if you could take highly detailed laser scans of a facility and create a 3D digital twin so that contractors and developers could safely and quickly plan out upgrades and renovations. “And who wouldn't want to do that?” Ken thought. It turned out, nobody wanted to do that.  At least, not at first. Ken learned the hard way that succeeding in business takes so much more than an awesome idea. Eventually, they learned to demonstrate the value of...

Andrew Forman has spent much of his life pondering how to make the biggest positive impact on the world. Becoming a volunteer or funding the volunteers? The quest for an answer led him down many paths that eventually inspired him to found a company aiming to make it easier for people to donate to charity.  But though the ambition was sound, the lift was heavy. It turned out his company, Givz, was only the first step toward a better solution. Now Givz offers Shopify stores donation incentives...

Working on Wall Street in investment banking, Noah Zandan learned a lot about finance and quantitative analysis—and nothing about leadership. The thought of living his life in spreadsheets terrified him, but he found a dearth of guidance on how to be a leader. His searches for a leadership coach turned up questionable characters and outlandishly expensive consultants.  Knowing he wasn’t alone, he realized this was a bigger problem than he originally expected. And he spent years exploring a...

Like many promises of the digital age, online learning has loomed large—but not always lived up to its expectation. It seemed that surely the online medium could be used for learning, training, compliance, and onboarding, but no one quite figured out the right way to do it.   The content was dull, the effectiveness questionable.  Andrew Scivally was attempting to figure this out as an online learning specialist for JP Morgan Chase when an opportunity arose for him to start a company with his...

Social networking has been one of the more significant aspects of 21st century life—and yet, it has largely remained exclusive to individuals. Businesses, though, have a need to connect that is perhaps even greater. The survival of buyers and sellers depends on their ability to find one another.  Conrad Smith has stepped in to fill this void with his company, Graphite Systems. More than just a way to forge B2B connections, his company helps manage these relationships with data integration...

Rumors of the death of American manufacturing have been greatly exaggerated. Factories across the country still churn on—and are growing. In fact, there aren’t enough machists to meet the demand, and compounding the issue, the more experienced machinists have been moving on, replaced by a younger workforce.  To complicate matters further, managers lack the insight tools to gauge productivity and respond to downtime. After extensive research into these issues, John Joseph co-founded...