The Tech Talks Daily Podcast

CINEMOOD is the maker of innovative, portable mini-cinema projector devices with a content platform for kids. CINEMOOD’s Storyteller is the first cloud-connected mini cinema for families that displays immersive content onto any surface. The Storyteller is also pre-loaded with a parent-curated library of 150+ stories to give kids an alternative to TV, tablets and smartphones experience. Project onto any light surface cartoons, films, digital books, films, listen to music, audiobooks.

Reverb LP is an online marketplace for buying and selling records. The site provides record stores, collectors, fans, and more with an easier and more cost-efficient option for buying and selling records and other physical music formats online. Created by the same team that grew Reverb.com into the world’s most popular music gear website, Reverb LP provides the vinyl community with a painless selling experience, tailored tools and services, an easy-to-use interface, and the lowest fees.

GoSpotCheck is a simple, integrated SaaS platform for companies with large field operations looking for real-time field data and improved execution from their field teams. Its data-driven technologies allow for efficiency in the field and advanced reporting that makes getting more product displayed easier. Working with companies like Under Armor, PepsiCo, Dannon and Anheuser-Busch, GoSpotCheck were seen maximizing performance in the field during the holiday season.

429: How This Boston Company is Redefining Online Success for Businesses

In March 2016, the company launched Cubetto, a coding toy famous for introducing computer programming to children ages three and up without the use of screens, with a record-breaking $1.6 million Kickstarter campaign, becoming the most funded ed tech brand in Kickstarter history. On June 20, 2017, returning to Kickstarter with a new ecosystem of play maps and activity books that expand play and STEM learning around multi-award winning Cubetto, Primo Toys achieved its goal in record time.

The Village School in Houston has mandatory coding for every single one of its middle school students and introduces coding concepts as early as preschool. At most schools, coding is an elective, but Village’s Head of School made a deliberate decision to put everyone through the course. They have adopted a forward-thinking approach that truly prepares kids to succeed in today’s world of AI and machine learning and for jobs that don’t even exist yet.

Bluzelle fills a key gap in decentralized infrastructure, offering a database for applications that are built on blockchain technology — the data needs to be stored and organized somehow, and there’s no point using dated technology to do so. Bluzelle's technology has already been used to streamline the otherwise-painful Know Your Customer process for a consortium of global banks, including HSBC and are now preparing for their ICO.

Having cut his teeth as a trader at Citigroup, Kumesh saw firsthand the inefficiencies that traders face daily without forward-thinking technology. Between switching from three screens fixated on Bloomberg Terminal, Dow Jones and Thompson Reuters and still missing key stories. Kumesh realized there was a better way for traders to receive actionable news alerts. His mission to provide a competent media analytics platform for the financial services industry was born out of those frustrations.

TSO Logic is the third tech startup that Aaron Rallo, CEO has been part of. Prior to that, he held positions at Microsoft and Fujifilm, and spent 16 years building and operating online platforms for large retailers including Walmart, Costco and Tesco. TSO Logic serves Fortune 500 companies and partners with AWS, Azure and other major cloud providers to help enterprises right-size their multiple clouds for their major migration and storage decisions.

Only 5% of companies with 250 or more employees have moved communications to the cloud. Global Market Insights forecasts the unified communications market to reach $96 billion by 2023. Big tech players are scrambling to get their piece of the pie - Amazon announcing Chime, Microsoft introducing Teams, etc. I invited Fuze CEO Colin Doherty onto the show to share his thoughts on why the unified communications (UC) market is so hot right now.

Crestron creates automation and control solutions for homes and buildings. They let people control entire environments with the push of a button, integrating systems such as AV, lighting, shading, security, BMS and HVAC to provide greater comfort, convenience and security. Crestron has now joined forces with Amazon to make meetings more productive by bringing voice control to conference rooms. Get ready to say Alexa, launch meeting.

Imagine waking up one morning to find your previously unknown tech start-up all over the news. After years of hard work and unsuccessful investor pitches, your valuation has increased tenfold overnight and investors are suddenly acknowledging your success and banging down your door to throw money at you. Cliff Lerner shares the inspiration and his story behind his book Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million.

LifeWhere is trying to solve home utility problems before they become problems. The company is transforming the home service provider market by introducing predictive analytics for home utilities. The breakthrough LifePulse technology attaches to machines in the home, constantly monitoring utility health. Homeowners have a home health dashboard, efficiency advice and warning system to schedule repairs before problems arise via cloud analytics to help service providers to act quickly.

Sapho empowers the enterprise workforce with a modern portal experience that triples productivity and accelerates the speed of business. Using micro apps that surface personalized and relevant tasks from existing systems to any device, intranet, or messenger, Sapho gives employees a single view into the important information they need to complete work faster and make better decisions. Gartner’s recent recognition as a Cool Vendor is confirmation of their mission to triple productivity.

TradeIX is rewiring trade finance by providing the most connected and secured platform infrastructure for banks, asset managers, corporates and value-added service providers. The team behind the success at TradeIX are driving a paradigm shift in the way they facilitate the flow of goods, assets, and credit in global and domestic trade. Built on Blockchain - distributed ledger technology, the platform’s applications, developer tools, and core protocol represent the dawn of the internet of trade.