Community Update | 5 July

Hi, we're so glad you're here!

This is your weekly update highlighting the biggest events that happened in our community.

A warm welcome to the 81 new members who joined our community recently.

We had another banger of a week as we welcomed 8 more teams to the community, published another memo, and kicked off the first company preview this past Friday.

The company preview is a fortnightly event where we review the latest teams that have listed on the platform, discuss, and provide the founders feedback. Great vibes were had, ideas discussed, and a surge of feedback was sent to the founders.

In case you missed it, here’s the event page listing all the teams we reviewed, and a highlight reel of the event. See details below or sign up to join the next one.

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👀 The Latest 👀

Highlighting the latest news from our teams throughout their memo process. We can't do them justice with the space we have here, so please head over to each of their linked pages to learn more.

Paul & Karen from GeoNadir

The most intuitive Earth observation analytics tools for environmental teams.

📢New memo alert 📢

This week was a big moment in GeoNadir’s journey as their memo was published and is now live on our platform. We are proud of the progress Paul and Karen have made and can’t wait for what’s next

View the full memo here

We also got a beaut progress update from the team where they:

• Completed a major stage of their product roadmap.
• Revealed that they’re about to hit a massive revenue milestone.
• Announced the beginning of their seed round.

Check out the full update for all the details!

Community expert highlight:

“We currently have more sources of remote sensing Earth observation data than ever before, but if we don’t have the right people, and or if the right people don’t have access to being able to ask the question of things like what if, what if I could do this, what if I could do that, then we’re really limiting ourselves as a global community.”

- Dr Kate Fickas – ESRI Director, Imagery and Remote Sensing Solutions; U.S. State Department Speaker; Ladies of Landsat Founder

A huge shout out and thank you to our other community experts who contributed to the memo, including:

• Romeo Durscher – Former Senior VP @ Auterion, and Senior Director @ DJI
• Chris Saad – Product & Startup Builder. Co-Host @ The Startup Podcast. Former Head of Product @ Uber Dev Platform

Shawn, Justin & Craig from UAMTEC

Creating advanced subsea and underground imaging and mapping technologies.

What is one of the most highly sought after and reliable indicators of a startup’s traction? Sales. 

The team’s progress update is chock-full of milestones, including those tasty sales:

• Signed a LoI for a trial of the ROGER rover system with a US robotics player.
• Sold multiple BarrelEye dive units to a European marine services company.
• Collaborating with their master distributor in the US to fulfil multiple BarrelEye orders.
• Launching new audio features, completing projects, and booking a new pilot.

Check out the full update for all the details!

Charlie & Liam from VOLI

Bringing the world’s impact in a single platform.

Demonstrating consistent progress toward your team’s goals is a critical measure of traction amongst startups. For their progress update, team VOLI show they have consistency in spades:

• Acquired nearly 80% of paying customer goal.
• Onboarded a third of their team goal.
• Achieved progress on new programs, and more.

Check out the full update for all the details!

Josh, Ross & Johnny from Trove

Revolutionising wealth accumulation by offering seamless access to listed and unlisted assets for diversified, risk-adjusted returns.

Some of the significant and costly barriers to entry surrounding the financial industry and any technology attempting to disrupt it are the often complicated legal agreements and regulatory requirements that form the industry’s bedrock.

The team have been hard at work hammering out these critical agreements, and some:

• Drafted agreement with half their vendors.
• Advancing the app acquisition.
• Starting the due diligence process with investors.

The founders have a couple of funding asks of the community this week, so hit the link below for a chance to jump in and help out.

Check out the full update for all the details!

🔍Member Spotlight 🔍

A community’s strength is a function of its individual members. We’re grateful that we have incredibly talented and deeply experienced supporters. 

Advisor

Sophia Moscovis - experienced in biotech, digital health, and academia, Sophie jumped in to help Auric this week and provided the team some actionable feedback on their deck, commercial model, including a focus on COGS, pricing, and tapping Auric’s data to help unlock new markets. This kind of detailed guidance for founders is what makes Sophia a model for the community to follow.

Investor

Jason Ming - co-founder of Trampoline, a startup investor and strategy advisor, Jason has been providing founder introductions, actively provides feedback on our internal updates such as our new deck offering, our progression towards the platform, notifications, and UX preferences. As a consistent follower and supporter of companies in the community, we couldn’t be more grateful to have Jason around.

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