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yoona.ai: Digital garment design to minimise production waste
Founded in 2020 by Anna Franziska Michel, an experienced fashion designer, artist and IT scientist, yoona.ai is disrupting the fashion sector with its software that creates infinite designs digitally without the production of physical garments, therefore saving corporate resources and allowing companies to minimise production waste.
Remato: Digitalisation for construction sites
Encompassing about 10% of the economy, construction is one of the largest sectors in the world. Due to the pandemic, the rate of adoption for construction tech has increased 3-fold, but it's still one of the least digitised sectors. A lot of smaller companies rely heavily on manual, time-consuming labour, Excel sheets and messy paperwork.
Wowflow: Real-time building maintenance and aligned teams
Over €220B is spent annually on facility management in Europe, with workforces typically made up of small and medium maintenance teams. After realising how much time and effort these teams were spending on communication and co-ordination, Mikhail Voronko and Drazen Ivanis decided to set up Austrian venture wowflow, a mobile-first collaboration and workflow for facility maintenance.
Yokeru: How London councils stay in contact with vulnerable groups during COVID-19
The average person spends 43 days on hold to customer service in their lifetime. Whether it’s to ask a simple question or resolve a significant issue, studies show that it takes just 1 minute on hold for 60% of customers to hang up.