Working late nights or weekends at the office can pose problems if you happen to want HVAC services (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning). Tenants usually have to phone the building manager 24 hours in advance to make a request. Engineers would be dispatched to turn on the equipment. Because of the additional cost, invoices would need to be generated for the tenant. It’s a lot of extra trouble just to make sure you can breathe. 

Michael Wong endeavors to solve that problem with his company, Genea, which offers a cloud-based system that connects with HVAC systems, and generates automatic billing for tenants. 

On this edition of UpTech Report, Michael talks about how this technology works and its implications for commercial real estate.

Most startups feel tremendous pressure to grow fast, get hot, and be the next big thing. But when Matthew Hudelson founded Inertia, he spent years focusing on nothing but the product.   

This is one of the big advantages to bootstrapping, he says. “Through the years, it gave us time to understand teams and problems, and the focus wasn't financially driven. It was solution driven, problem solving and relationship building, and just going and proving something.”   

On this edition of UpTech Report, Matthew talks about his first efforts to solve problems for construction teams, and his steady, gradual approach to building a company around those solutions.

In the United States, healthcare providers spend an enormous amount of time performing administrative tasks—documenting patient care, making referrals, prescribing medication, and updating records.   

To date, most healthcare technology doesn’t address this problem so much as transfering it to new devices and systems. But Harjinder Sandhu set out to find a technology solution that would enable practitioners to spend less time on computers and tablets, and more time helping patients.   

The answer was Saykara, an AI assistant for healthcare providers that monitors patient visits and organizes doctor-patient conversations into key points and action items.   

On this edition of UpTech Report, Harjinder discusses how this technology works and how it could change your next visit to the doctor.

Partha Panda had a long career in business before he co-founded Cysiv, a cloud-based cybersecurity service to help companies manage threat direction and response. He founded and sold a tech company in the 90s, joined another startup, earned his MBA, and launched a venture capital fund.  

And he believes he knows the key to a successful business. A hint: it has to do with the customers. On this edition of UpTech Report, Partha walks us through the long journey he took to co-founding Cysiv, and the important lessons he learned along the way.

In some ways, the Covid-19 pandemic wasn’t so much an economic disruption as it was a propellant. Already, companies across the globe were beginning to transition to agile teams. The pandemic may have merely forced this inevitable change to happen a little faster. But regardless of when or how companies transition, building a cohesive, productive team can be a challenge. 

This was something Jordan Husney foresaw, all the way back in 2016. “I could see the change coming,” he says. So he founded Parabol, a company that offers a free, online retrospective tool that helps agile teams understand what they need to do better. 

In this edition of UpTech Report, Jordan discusses the development of this tool and how companies are using it to assess and improve.

A lot of people gave Mark Fischer-Colbrie chances in his career to do things he might not seem obviously suited for based on his resume. But that’s how you learn what you’re truly capable of.

Now that Mark is the CEO of Strateos, a company bringing cloud technology to life sciences, he applies that philosophy to his own team.

In this edition of UpTech Report, Mark shares some of the lessons he’s learned on building a great team and fostering a positive and productive workplace culture. And as someone who has raised over half a billion dollars in his long career, he also imparts some insights on how to fund that team.

For many companies, the RFP (request for proposal) is the cornerstone to success. A compelling, informative, and professional document can land the contracts you need to thrive. But RFPs are often exhausting, repetitive processes that prevent your teams from completing other important work.

When Ray Meiring founded Qorus, he experienced first hand the very problem he set out to solve. Now Qorus offers proposal management software built on Microsoft365 and assisted by artificial intelligence.

In this episode of UpTech Report, Ray discusses the genesis of this solution and how he leveraged it toward the success of his own company.

Startup founders have unique philosophies on putting a team together. Some value experience above all else, others value creativity. We spoke with dozens of founders in 2020 about their team-building approach. Hear what some of them have to say.

Building a thriving corporate culture is important to most every founder. But for Hemanth Puttaswamy, it’s everything. His team at Malbek doesn’t merely touch base periodically to connect. They sing. They play music. They read poetry. And they do it every Friday. 

On this episode of UpTech Report, Hemanth talks about why encouraging these personal connections is so important to his business, and how it’s affected their product.

Modern construction projects are complicated engineering problems, but unfortunately, construction management has been slow to acclimate to the modern digital world, and many construction projects are still executed much as they were decades ago. 

But for Matthew Hudelson, this posed an opportunity, which eventually became Inertia, a company that offers construction management software, enabling seamless communication and detailed knowledge for real estate developers and construction teams. 

On this edition of UpTech Report, Matthew describes some of the key problems commonly occurring on major construction projects that led him to found the company, and he discusses how he leveraged those problem-solving opportunities into a successful technology startup.