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Startups Step Up with Free Resources and Virtual Technology
Startups are known to be adaptive, innovative, and agile. When there’s a crisis or disruption, these up-and-coming business are quick with a solution, and this situation is no different.
Despite being hit hard themselves, startups are stepping up to help by offering their virtual technologies and resources for free. Among them, we are proud to share, are several cloud startups from the Oracle for Startups community.
Here is a running list of some of the startups who are putting their ingenuity and inspiration into action.
Keep your storytelling fresh – even while working from home
Sauce
Video is paramount to brand storytelling, but creating great, engaging content when you can’t send out video crews or get face-to-face is a problem.
Sauce's platform allows businesses to keep engaging with their audience, by transforming every organization's community into a video creation team. The London-based startup enables video creation leveraging smartphone cameras, so anyone can become part of the film crew. The result is authentic user-generated content.
With features for editing, subtitling, and music – the platform is collaborative, fast, and robust.
“We’ve received an uptick in organizations needing advice and direction around video creation,” said Sauce cofounder Priya Shah. “We want to meet their needs with advice and technology resources so they can keep their video content and storytelling fresh and constant—even while we are all working from home.”
Contact Priya at priya@sauce.video for advice on capturing great video, even when your whole team is at home.
Chatbots triage customer service calls
BotSupply
BotSupply is a conversational AI company that helps organizations create engaging and relevant customer experiences using their bot platform. Today, the cutting-edge startup is providing its AI platform for free to public and non-profit healthcare organizations so they can do what they do best: save lives.
Triage and response teams across industries are being overloaded with customer calls. As call volume increases, so do wait times. Chatbots help these organizations provide information in a timely manner, automating the most repetitive queries and routing only the most critical ones to human agents.
"The beauty of chatbots is that they are so flexible and easy to implement that you can respond to any crisis in a matter of hours, not weeks. This is something other communication tools simply can't do,” said BotSupply cofounder Francesco Stasi. “We are happy to offer these resources free while many are in need.”
To get started, contact Francesco at francesco@botsupply.ai
Mapping services for governments, healthcare, startups
TravelTime
TravelTime’s platform processes maps and data from across the globe and delivers optimized travel time mapping, so you know what’s reachable in minutes, not miles.
Today, TravelTime is offering its data and mapping services to governments, charities, health services, and NGOs for free. The startup is also covering mapping and data costs for other startups and small businesses.
“Although the current situation is disrupting our personal lives, our technology remains as solid and stable as always and so it is business as (un)usual for us,” said TravelTime cofounder Charlie Davies. “There is no time limit on this, there is no contract, there is no assumption for future use. We want to repurpose our data and services to help. Lots of people have helped us along our way, now it's our turn to try and do the same for others.”
Any government, charity, health service, or NGO that is actively helping to address the crisis can get unlimited free access to data to help them plan their responses, including:
• Arranging visits to vulnerable patients
• Mapping the right locations for testing centers
• Communicating to the public which test centers are right for them
Small businesses and startups can also take advantage of these services. Access the request form here.
With virtual-AI platform, HR recruiting keeps pace
Jobecam
Brazilian-based Jobecam is offering free access to its virtual recruitment platform so human resource teams can continue recruiting. Jobecam is a 100% digital recruiting experience that brings agility, accessibility, and diversity through AI-driven video technology. A pioneer in video blind interviews, Jobecam’s solution improves the recruiting experience and makes it virtual in a time when face-to-face meetings aren’t possible.
“In this moment of uncertainty and social isolation, we all need to come together and help,” said Jobecam COO Thereza Bukow. “By making our solution free, we enable businesses to be more agile in their recruitment process and deliver a better experience that is secure and modern.”
Jobecam’s solution offers:
• Registration of unlimited job posts
• Automatic screening of candidates
• Recorded video interviews
• AI-based intelligent rankings
• Live interview room, cultural matching, and video curriculum
Contact Jobecam by emailing cammila@jobecam.com or thereza.bukow@jobecam.com.
Real-time employee feedback that’s simple and meaningful
Holler Live
Dutch startup Holler Live is offering their real-time feedback solution free to human resource managers, so employees can provide their opinions and feedback on various topics, including how they are adapting during this time.
“Employees across the world are working from home—many for the first time. Holler provides an easy way for employees to voice their opinions and feedback—allowing human resource managers to better understand how staff are handling the changes and challenges of remote working during this difficult time,” said CEO Rado Raykov.
With one swipe, Holler Live allows people to express their opinion in an easy and universally understandable way. Holler Live partners get specific and user-permissioned alerts, permitting them to promptly respond in real-time to the opinions of their target audience, whether it’s employees, customers, or other stakeholders.
To access Holler Live’s free solution, please email rado@holler.live or sign up here. Watch a video of the mobile employee engagement solution.
Keeping media rolling with AI-powered content tools
aiconix
German startup aiconix is offering its multilingual transcription and subtitling solutions for free and discounted rates. An AI-powered media and content creation platform, the technology enables media and entertainment professionals to produce better content more efficiently by automating routine workflows and creating new content from large amounts of unstructured audio-visual data.
“In these days, where everybody communicates online, it should be essential to reach also those who need barrier-free access, and provide searchability in audio and video files,” said CEO and cofounder Eugen L. Gross. “We want to provide our live transcription and live subtitling feature for free for the next three months to those who need it like hospitals, authorities and NGOs.”
From press conferences to media content, aiconix’s transcription and subtitle services can plug into any data stream in multiple languages allowing organizations to quickly repurpose and disseminate valuable content. The platform enables automated subtitling of videos, semantic text analysis, transcription of audio, automated recognition of faces and local celebrities, label detection, and much more.
Contact aiconix to access your discount and get started: Live@aiconix.ai or contact form.
Startups are also reducing operating costs by taking advantage of free and discounted cloud with Oracle for Startups. Learn more and join them at oracle.com/startup
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