Leanne Bonner Cooke is the founder and CEO of e-Bate, a financial startup from UK which aims to help businesses world wide with rebate management solutions. They help businesses to manage contracts with buyers and suppliers digitally to keep a centralized solution, process commercial transactions in real time, manage payments and claims and analyze agreements and providing visibility for better negotiations.
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Leanne Bonner Cooke has been able to raise €1 million euro and have been able to keep looking for investors in the middle of lockdown. And while they started in the UK they’re looking to expand to other countries and start working with clients in the US.
Bryan Lopez is the Founder and the CEO of Brytemap, the first and only tech company on the US East Coast focused exclusively on supporting the regulated cannabis industry. Bryan Lopez is a corporate IT sales and consulting industry veteran with over 20 years of experience, he specialized in remarketing the largest technology companies in the world, he worked with companies like IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, VMware and many more. He developed a good sense on marrying emerging technologies and strategic partnerships for small businesses and Fortune 500 clients. In doing so he was able to generated over $100 million in sales during his career.
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Bryan Lopez did a lot of traveling in his tech years and through those trips he started hearing many times from Cannabis dispensary owners and growers that there was no decent software for dispensaries or cultivators, that retailers needed a POS / ERP platforms and growers needed ERP / MRP platforms and both needed regulation compliancy reporting capabilities. There were a few platforms at the time but everything required a lot of integrations and still does so he created Brytemap to help the cannabis industry with these issues.
Bryan Lopez has many awards in sales though his career, some of them include:
2012 $1M Sales Revenue Million Dollar Club
2013 $1M Gross Margin Sales
2014 $1.8M Gross Margin Sales
2014 Gross Margin Super Star
2015 Million Dollar Club
Some of his current projects include:
Brytemap GreenR
Brytemap GreenR is the most integrated and complete retail software platform in the cannabis industry, GreenR unifies everything needed to run a successful cannabis retail operation. Manage and support your POS, pre-orders, e-commerce, texting and emailing, loyalty and promotions, inventory management and automated Metrc compliance reporting. We’ve taken the time to build and support a single platform to reduce training time, integration of disparate systems and overall subscription costs.
Brytemap Scout (FOCUS)
Scout is designed to give you the ability to audit your facility in real-time and help cannabis growers leverage RFID for instant inventory audits and reconciliation. Scout allows cannabis growers to run inventory counts and guaranteed compliance in minutes, not hours!
Brytemap PlanTR (Coming Soon)
PlanTR (Plan, Track, Report) provides growers with a unique and revolutionary seed-to-sale suite of tools designated to increase operational efficiency. Our state-of-the-art software helps you efficiently streamline your resources, optimize your costs, and maximize your cannabis or hemp crop yields. We give you the power to focus on growing your best product.
Gary Saarenvirta is the founder and CEO of Daisy Intelligence, a Canadian based startup looking to become the biggest artificial intelligence company in the world. They use AI to help retail businesses to analyze all their data and make better promotional and pricing decisions and insurance companies to quickly and accurately discover fraud and manage risk. Recently they raised $10 Million CAD in a series A funding to keep growing their company and develop new features to their software.
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Daisy Intelligence uses a branch of AI called reinforcement learning and their patent-pending Theory of Retail to be truly different in the marketplace and on the cutting edge of the category management revolution. Their unique approach is the first of its kind in the marketplace and will significantly help businesses grow in the competitive retail landscape.
Gary Saarenvirta is the former head of IBM Canada’s data mining and data warehouse practices, he’s very passionate about AI and its ability to transform how retailers grow their businesses and establish an edge in an increasingly challenging and competitive environment.
Erin Kathleen Rothman is the founder and CEO of StormSensor IO, a startup that’s the equivalent of Google Traffic Maps for sewers and stormwater. StormSensor IO started as a simple tracking tool that would message people when it started raining and ended up evolving into a complex system that uses empirical data to track flooding and other similar issues, allowing cities to create better plans to upgrade the sewer system where it’s most needed. The plans are to integrate this into cities to expand the range of what smart cities are capable of doing.
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Erin Rothman has a BA in Technical & Scientific Communication and a Master in Natural Resources / Wetland Ecology. She was an environmental consultant for many years and a VP at SoundEarth Strategies and a Managing Principal at her own consulting company called Rothman & Associates. They have raised an overall amount of $2.6 Million USD and just closed another round of funding in the middle of a pandemic to include new features like tidal sea level risa data capture and analysis / insights and they’re planning to expand to many cities in the US and Latin America in the coming years.
