SCRA CEO Podcast

SCRA CEO Podcast

by South Carolina Research Authority

Entrepreneurship Technology

Season 2

SC Launch CEO Podcast: BrightMa Farms

From seed to manufacturing, the Charleston-based AgTech company has built a sustainable circular economy model with Industrial Hemp as the aggregator of change. BrightMa Farms brings together state-of-the-art AI/ML breeding, sustainable AgTech innovation, best farming practices, and unparalleled hemp vertical market integration expertise. Visit company website.

SC Launch CEO Podcast: Vän Robotics

Vän Robotics develops social robots that teach skills-based lessons while collecting data about individual users and leveraging machine learning techniques to develop smart, social robot tutors. Their robots track performance and student behavior, in real-time, to adapt how the robot teaches by personalizing each interaction. Their robots offer a plug-and-play, widely accessible solution for schools, after school programs and parents with students struggling in core subjects. Visit company website.

SC Launch CEO Podcast: Hank AI

Recognizing the need to simplify and improve efficiencies in medical billing, Hank AI built a cognitive automation platform that combines traditional machine learning with crowdsourced knowledge to automate repetitive decision-making tasks. This helps medical coders increase their productivity and accuracy by providing an easy-to-use interface for manual keyword searches against a database of medical codes. The platform also allows coders to transform free-text medical records into a list of the most probable codes. Hank AI’s interface has resulted in up to a 50% cost reduction of the traditional document management process while simultaneously enabling customers to leverage data for better outcomes. Visit company website.

SC Launch CEO Podcast: UASidekick

UASidekick is a software development company that provides services to the aviation industry, in particular the drone or UAV segment. They provide airspace awareness using integrations to display essential data to the drone pilot and facilitate communications for all who interact with the drone industry. UASidekick is connected to Flight Service, FAA LAANC system and Micro Weather data service. Their first integration was to Flight Service which provides air traffic briefings to 80,000 manned aviators every week. UASidekick is developed by aviation pilots for the aviation industry and the general public. Their goal was to first provide quick and easy access to critical components of the regulatory system. Authorization request through UASidekick are streamlined and are the avenue for UAV pilots to fulfill various regulatory requirements mandated by the FAA to operate a drone in National Air Space (NAS). UASidekick quickly expanded their services to enhance flight management by incorporating interactive mapping functions and flight logging. Visit company website.

SC Launch CEO Podcast: Land Intelligence

Land Intelligence provides a suite of comprehensive reporting, analysis, and advisory land development services through its LandSUITE platform. Their mission is to empower clients to research, finance, and trade in record time, enabling smart, cost-effective, data-driven decisions. The land development market is currently served by fragmented sources that focus on narrow segments within the industry. Redundant research for a particular property is performed by many real estate related professionals and local governments which produces many disparate databases. This old model of real estate evaluation has created siloed and disconnected data that is not actionable to the ecosystem of land development. Visit company website.

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SC Launch CEO Podcast: Zylö Therapeutics

Featuring Scott Pancoast, Founder and CEO Zylö Therapeutics, located in Greenville, has developed an innovative sustained-release topical drug delivery system that uses patented xerogel-derived silica particles, called Z-pods™, to sustainably deliver Nitric Oxide, cannabinoids, and other notoriously hard-to-deliver therapeutic agents through topical administration. The game-changing technology enables a Patchless Patch™ concept, which provides long-term delivery to the skin but without the hassles and inconvenience of a patch. Visit company website.

SC Launch CEO Podcast: Citibot

Featuring Bratton Riley, Founder and CEO Citibot connects citizens to their local government by integrating text messaging and messenger apps into an interactive customer service experience. With Citibot, citizens report city issues and get answers to their questions, and the city saves time and money by quickly and efficiently solving problems. Visit Company Website

SC Launch CEO Podcast: Viatec

Featuring Mark Ferri, CEO, and Neeraj Chirmulay, Chief Technology Officer Viatec has developed an affordable, green solution for commercial vehicles in the utility, telephone, construction and delivery industries. Their fully electric product, SmartPTO, is equipped to save fuel, reduce maintenance costs and lower noise while commercial vehicles are idling. Through national partnerships, Viatec delivers these products in a modular, flexible, scalable manner to meet customer needs. Visit Company Website.

SC Launch CEO Podcast: Boyd Cycling

Featuring Boyd and Nicole Johnson, founders of Boyd Cycling Boyd Cycling is a craft wheel manufacturer dedicated to producing the highest quality bicycle wheels. All wheels are hand-built in Greenville, SC to exacting standards. Visit Company Website.

SC Launch CEO Podcast: 6AM City

Featuring Ryan Heafy, COO of 6AM City 6AM City is redefining the future of local media as the fastest growing newsletter-first local media company in the country, delivering the most relevant need-to-know local news and events via a daily email at 6 a.m targeted to its 9 markets and 400,000+ subscribers in the southeast. The newsletters are a 5 min read, conversational in tone and politically unbiased. 6AM is like a distribution center for all local content and specializes in packaging, distribution, performance, convenience, and profitability. With the ability to rapidly deploy new markets, 6AM is doubling the size of the company (audience, markets, and revenue) in 2021. Visit Company Website.

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