Flying towards the future

• 500-backed drone startup Aerodyne Group announced a collaboration that will develop and improve the entire technology industry of the state of Sarawak in Malaysia.
• Partnering with Petrosar Academy, a certified Technical Vocational and Education Training (TVET) center, the two firms will provide cutting-edge drone technology, data technology, and digital transformation (DT3) solutions in the Sarawak and Borneo markets.
• Founder and CEO Kamarul A Muhamed said, “This will create a huge opportunity for local stakeholders to reinvent their business process and achieve their goal. At the same time, both parties are also looking to create towards the creation of ‘jobs of the future’ in Sarawak – transforming Malaysia into a technology-driven country.”
• Aerodyne and Petrosar will focus on several key areas, including critical infrastructure asset inspection, security and aerial surveillance, and advanced drone delivery.
• Read the full article here.

Going the distance for sustainability

• 500-backed e-scooter startup Neuron Mobility celebrated its first year anniversary of operating in three locations across England, with one million miles traveled.
• A recent survey by the startup revealed that:
  • 88% of riders believe that its e-scooters have created a positive impact in their city
  • 35% of trips have directly replaced car journeys, eliminating an estimated 85 tonnes of CO2 emissions
  • 55% of trips resulted in a purchase at a local business, providing a boost to local economies as cities gradually came out of lockdown
• This comes alongside news that the e-scooter trials in the three cities have been extended to November 2022.
• Congratulations to the Neuron Mobility team on this achievement!
• Read the full story here.

Working smarter & faster with data

• Having worked in manufacturing, Surbhi K Singh saw first-hand the difficulty that factories face in handling enormous volumes of data and how useful information was getting lost. “That’s how I saw the need for looking beyond existing automation,” she said.
• This led to the founding of 500-backed FireVisor, a platform for cognitive automation. The goal? Bringing data science to the manufacturing floor and into the hands of engineers.
• The startup provides a central platform that interconnects to individual machines in a factory for data collection, and through machine learning help process engineers  make better, data-driven decisions.
• “To give you an example, one of our customers is now able to fix their machine issues every hour…This saves them 37% of their time, which they would otherwise spend on manually sieving through terabytes of data,” Surbhi shared.
• Read the full story by Surbhi here.