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Risk Robot from Spin Analytics revolutionizes how banks assess risk

RiskRobot helps banks make lending decisions and risk assessments more quickly and easily. The software from Spin Analytics provides process automation for all the tasks of credit model development, including data cleansing and database integration, model development, validation and documentation. It also creates an uniform platform for all modelling projects so that files, data, code, and decisions are stored consistently. This makes it easier for management, senior, and credit risk experts to review the decisions made and allows one analyst to easily and quickly take over a project begun by another.

 

Founder and CEO Panos Skliamis sits down with the Angel Nest to discuss the revolutionary fintech software. 

 

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App for Trucking Owner Operators Aims to Streamline Business

Trucking owner operators who haul freight around the country can now manage more of their routine reporting and bookkeeping from the road so they can spend less time doing paperwork when they get home. The Smart Trucker App allows owner-operators and small trucking fleets the ability to scan, email, invoice, and organize their business. And the market potential is huge with nearly 800,000 private carriers in the U.S. The app is already available for Apple and Android phones and tablets.

 

Company president Jaswinder Singh and Izzy Lozada, investor, coach, and CEO of Fidelity Equity Partners talk with the Angel Nest about the app and plans for growth.

 

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UPDATE on BrandVerge, an online marketplace for ad buyers and sellers

In this episode, we get an update from BrandVerge. It’s been a very busy year for the company since we met them in Episode 3.

Founders Lynn Browne and Mollie Kehoe and BrandVerge advisor Scott Schiller from the Engine Group talk about the start-up’s growth and some of the lessons learned along the way toward profitability.

ALPE Audio makes your smartphone a classroom for modern learning

ALPE is an audio platform that is doing for academic and professional courses what Audible has done for books and podcasts. It’s no secret that audio is exploding as a bigger part of people’s everyday lives. ALPE is capitalizing on that trend by providing complete college-level courses in an audio format, perfect for learning on the go. Professors come from well known schools like CUNY, Fordham and Imperial College. And, they offer content on a wide range of topics, including finance, product marketing, and how to start a new venture.

ALPE founder Yehoshua Zlotogorski and the company’s first outside investor Jeremy Pressman talk about how learning is changing and what that means for audio learning via ALPE.

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Launch413 funds and coaches startups to their first $10 million

Startups often lack the experience to avoid preventable mistakes. The angel investor Invest413 is turning passive investing on its head in favor of a closer partnerships with entrepreneurs. The firm’s advisors coach new entrepreneurs, help them make critical connections and advise on a host of issues as the new companies scale to their first $10 million. Founder and general partner Paul Silva says the model benefits both parties and often leads to funding decisions within just 7 days!

RocketStar: Invention set to take flight with seed funding?

We are sending more satellites and gear into space than ever before (there will even be missions to collect old space junk!) and RocketStar has the technology to make that practical and affordable with fully reusable rockets. With advisors from NASA, Co-Founder Christopher Craddock says that the advancement of 3D printing has allowed Rocket Star to  reinvigorate the potential of a nearly 60-year-old concept in rocket design called the aero spike. 

Mobile Ads: Turning rideshare vehicle fleets into rolling billboards

Mobile Ads is tapping into the gig economy to create a new kind of out of home advertising-Ride-share vehicles and scooters wrapped with promotional messages-for American Express, T Mobile, Amazon and other blue chip advertisers.

BrandVerge: An online marketplace to bring advertising buyers and sellers together

BrandVerge is a digital marketing service that is swiftly shifting the media partnership ecosystem. As the first two-sided marketplace for premium advertisers, BrandVerge acts as a matchmaking platform that connects media properties and advertisers to significantly cut the time of the traditional partnership process, increase transparency and creativity, and provide the best experiences for their clients.

UberDoc: Platform Boosts Access to Private Pay Physicians

UBERDOC is an online marketplace to connect patients with their choice of direct-pay doctors for high-quality, specialty care for a single, transparent price. They believe that when patients are free to choose their doctor, it puts the control back where it belongs, and no patient should ever have to be denied access to the care they need because of insurance restrictions or cost.

Combinico: Bringing sustainable, plant-based foods to fast-casual dining

Take innovative fast style Asian cuisine and place it in a college town hungry for options outside the dining hall,  and success is on the menu! Combinico has already attracted a loyal following in their home market of St. Andrews Scotland, but they now have ambitious expansion plans to grow within the UK and Europe, and eventually the US. Co founder Juno Lee and angel investor Alex Rowe talk about the how Combinico started, and where they go from here.