The Traction Stage

Abartys Health is a startup from Puerto Rico. It has created a system that allows seamless data flow and communication between insurers, doctors, and patients. Today, it has more than 1 million patients registered, 700,000 providers enrolled and $11 million in Annual Recurring Revenue. In our 21st episode, Dolmarie Mendez tells us Abartys traction story […] The post Abartys Health: Saving Lives by Providing Accurate Patients’ Data – with Dolmarie Mendez [Ep#21] appeared first on The Traction Stage.

Cityfurnish is a startup from India that offers online furniture rental. It was founded in 2015 by Neerav Jain and Saurabh Gupta and today it has more than 10 thousand subscribers, $3MM in Anual Recurring Revenue. In our 20th episode, Neerav tells us about the beginning of the journey, the idea validation process, the marketing […] The post Cityfurnish: An Indian Startup That Provides Online Furniture Rental – with Neerav Jain [Ep#20] appeared first on The Traction Stage.

To feel safe is a basic need of human beings. Unfortunately, in today’s world security issues are present in everyone’s lives. But, how can we prevent something from threatening our security? Gustavo Caleffi believes the answer relies on bonding community connections and making people aware of the dangers, so they can avoid being harmed. And […] The post BeOn: Connecting Community To Improve Security – with Gustavo Caleffi [Ep#19] appeared first on The Traction Stage.

Do you think games and businesses are part of two separate worlds? Do you consider every ad boring and invasive? It’s time to update your brain with the story of Anzu. In our 18th episode, you’ll know the story of Anzu.io, a startup that connects game studios to advertisers, by providing them a platform to […] The post Anzu.io: A Startup That Brings Real-World Ads To In-Game Experience – with Itamar Benedy [Ep#18] appeared first on The Traction Stage.

We all want our roads in good conditions. Don’t we? But, the definition of a ‘good’ and a ‘bad’ road may vary a lot. This is the challenge that governments and companies run through in the process of road maintenance: assessment subjectivity. RoadBotics was born to solve this and other problems regarding road inspections. Through […] The post RoadBotics: The Early Days Of An American Startup That Provides Smart Road Assessments – with Mark DeSantis [Ep#17] appeared first on The Traction Stage.

Receiving correspondences in Kenya might be a real challenge. That’s because addresses (street, number, etc) are not available for every one. For many years, people have been counting on PO boxes—rented post office lockable boxes—many times shared with other people, in a centralized way. The problems naturally arise, once your packages might be accessed by […] The post MPost: The Traction Story of a Kenyan Startup that is solving addressing problem – with Twahir Mohamed [Ep#16] appeared first on The Traction Stage.

How exciting it is to think about all the solutions being developed for the healthcare industry! The use of technology for measuring patients’ health, setting appointments, setting medication and improving patient’s overall experience are just a few examples of that. However, to make all these improvements come true, healthcare vendors (technology developers) and healthcare providers […] The post Redox: A Platform For Healthcare Vendors And Providers To Integrate Their Data – with Niko Skievaski [Ep#15] appeared first on The Traction Stage.

Imagine yourself as a smallholder farmer in Kenya. To grow your crop, you need to buy some inputs. Since you don’t have much money to pay for them, you ask for a loan to a local bank. Due to seasons timing, you have only 4 weeks to plant. However, the bank takes more than that […] The post Tulaa: A Platform That Helps Smallholder Farmers To Thrive In Kenya – with Hillary Miller-Wise [Ep#14] appeared first on The Traction Stage.

In 2013, Faizan took his wife to the movies in a distant city, once the city they lived in didn’t have a cinema. However, when they got there, there were no available seats left, which made them got back home frustrated. With a background in technology, Faizan had an idea: to build a platform in […] The post Bookme: A Pakistani E-ticketing Platform And Its Traction Story – with Faizan Aslam [Ep#13] appeared first on The Traction Stage.

Claudia King worked for many years as a lawyer, but she became really stressed out about the so called billable-hour model. As in any service that depends on the time of the people working in the company, the scalability of the business is restrained by the number of hour people are able to perform. With […] The post Automio: A Platform For Lawyers to Automate and Market Their Services – with Claudia King [Ep#12] appeared first on The Traction Stage.

You’re a high school student, who wants to enter in some of the best universities. Or maybe you are already studying in the university, but wants to get an awesome job in a great company. Goodwall is a platform with the purpose to connect high school students with universities and college students with companies they … Continue reading Goodwall: Generating Traction for a Platform that Connects Students, Universities and Employers – with Taha Bawa [Ep#11] The post Goodwall: Generating...

Undoubtedly, Augmented Reality (AR) has an enormous potential to change several industries in the next years. Trax, the startup of our 10th episode, is focusing its efforts on using AR to change the way retail companies manage their on shelf products. To retailers, that means being able to better visualize, in real-time, their products in-store … Continue reading Trax: A Platform That Digitizes The Physical World Of Retail – with Joel Bar-El [Ep#10] The post Trax: A Platform That...

Waiting for something to be delivered makes you anxious. Right? Well, there are some businesses that get more than just anxious by late deliveries. An airline company that is waiting for a part to one of its planes may lose up to U$ 150,000 per hour if its aircraft stays on the ground. A patient … Continue reading Airspace: Traction Of A Platform For Time-Critical Deliveries – with Nicholas Bulcao [Ep#9] The post Airspace: Traction Of A Platform For Time-Critical Deliveries – with...

Here we go to Africa, where we find many people who work hard but have difficulties in earning a good income as well as in saving for their futures. And these are exactly the issues that our next guest, Abolore Salami, is addressing through his startup: Riby. Riby provides cooperatives a platform to organize their … Continue reading Riby: How a Fintech Got Traction By Helping People On Accessing Financial Services In Africa – with Abolore Salami [Ep#8] The post Riby: How a Fintech Got...

Undoubtedly, personal financial planning is at the core of all significant financial achievements we have in our lives. Considering that our biggest financial goals are achieved only through the right balance between long-term and short-term spending decisions, it is important to have a good discipline to achieve them. Bambu developed a digital solution that provides … Continue reading Bambu: How a Robo-Advisory Platform For Financial Institutions Generated B2B Traction – with Ned...

A patient who needs to communicate with her doctor in another language. An accused person that needs to speak in foreign country court. A deal going on between two negotiators of different native languages. What all these cases have in common? The need for an interpreter. Today, we’ll know the story of Boostlingo, an unified … Continue reading Boostlingo: Traction Of A Platform That Connects Interpreters To The World – with Dieter Runge [Ep#6] The post Boostlingo: Traction Of A Platform...

After being diagnosed with cancer in 2006, Steven Novick was decided to adopt healthier eating habits in his life. However, as everyone that has taken that decision, he noticed how difficult it was to find healthy food for affordable prices. To solve this problem, he decided to found Farmstand. In our fifth episode, Steven Novick … Continue reading Farmstand: How a Sustainable, Ethical And Healthy Food Startup Found Traction – with Steven Novick [Ep#5] The post Farmstand: How a...

In episode 4, I interviewed Roy Stein, co-founder of BabelBark—an american startup that connects dog trainers, walkers, groomers, shelters and veterinaries directly with pet parents via a mobile enabled platform. Roy brings into the conversions very insightful elements as: the idea generation, solving the chicken-egg dilemma, prototype development, beta testers communities and the platform monetization strategy. Today, the BabelBark has … Continue reading BabelBark: Traction In a...

In this episode, I interviewed Dam Mulhem, co-founder of XXII—a french startup that designs solutions based on Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Dam brings to the conversation important elements that have helped XXII to get in the traction stage as: economies of scope, B2B vs. B2C, culture evolution … Continue reading XXII: Finding Traction in Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence Technologies – with Damien Mulhem [Ep#3]

Today, my guest is Alexander Varvarenko, founder of ShipNext. Based on his strong knowledge and experience in the transport industry, he’s been focused on developing a solution to tackle supply chain inefficiencies. ShipNext’s platform is strongly based on processes digitization and automation and aims to improve transparency as well as lower supply chain participant costs. … Continue reading ShipNext: Traction in Ships-Cargoes Platform, through Expertise and Technology – with Alexander...