2019年4月13日
SafetyCulture is the workplace startup that has global ambitions
SafetyCulture, an Australian startup, is seeing success with its checklist and incident reporting apps.In 2018, the company also released Spotlight, an incident reporting app.
SafetyCulture’s two big products, iAuditor and Spotlight, have thousands of business users and the company isvalued at $440 million after raising $60 millionin a Series C funding round in 2018.
They're looking at a decade of upward rapid growth just because of the sheer volume of opportunity in front of the road. The plans are also afoot to combine iAuditor and Spotlight into one app, improving the combined user experience for their customers. The apps have a shared user base so it makes sense to bring the two together.
The CEO noticed that thousands of fridges are checked everyday, several times a day, in supermarkets to make sure they’re cold enough – and someone has to do it. It started sending out sensors that can be put in those fridges, which automatically check the temperature of the fridge and send the information to the platform to create a record.
Incredible Facts About The Global Coffee Industry
Coffee exporting alone is a$20 billion dollar industry, mostly consumed by industrialized nations while being produced by the world’s underclass.
Worldwide, we drink over 500 billion cups of coffee every year. Over half of Americans over the age of 18 drink coffee daily. Out of that number,14 billion are Italian espresso coffees. Coffee is the source of 75 per cent of America's caffeine, more than any tea, soda or energy drink.
Coffee farms are the economic livelihood of over 25 million people.Despite the different flavours and varieties, there are really only two types of coffee: Arabica and robusta are the two main commercially grown and sold coffee beans.
Coffee shops are the fastest growing niche in the restaurant business. 90 per cent of the world's coffee production takes place in developing countries. Finland drinks the most coffee per capita in the world.
Under fair trade rules, the coffee importer has a direct relationship with the grower, and pays more to maintain that relationship. Prices fluctuate, but most recently coffee farmers in fair trade cooperatives got$1.26/pound for their Arabica coffee, while regular coffee prices were around $0.70 to $0.90.
New York's $25 billion Hudson Yards development claimed funding from a year's worth of immigrant visas
Less than a month after its grand opening, New York City’s 28-acre Hudson Yards mega development is still having to contend with a controversy over its financing methods. The $US25 billion complex, relied on a pool of funds generated by foreign visa seekers – a practice that, while entirely legal.
The public has been made aware that at least $US1.2 billion in funding for the development comes from an immigrant investor program called EB-5, which gives visas to foreign investors who put as much as $US1 million into a business that employs American workers.
Hudson Yards was too wealthy on its own to qualify for the EB-5 program. To solve the problem, the state included a few census tracts from Harlem as part of the overarching TEA. 'By utilising the EB-5 program we were able to finance the critical infrastructure for the project, the platform, where traditional financing is all but non-existent.' As the most expensive real-estate development in US history, Hudson Yards is unlikely to be affordable to the unemployed citizens that EB-5 is designed to serve.
