Business as usual at Centrality
COVID-19 has impacted our world for sure but as a digital business who's used to working in virtual environments, we are keeping things moving along.
In New Zealand, our home base, we are now in a national lockdown and our priority is ensuring the safety and well-being of our team, so we're working from home and continue to BUIDL. We stay connected and are still tracking well against our tech roadmap, powering ahead with our plan to deliver the Mainnet V1.0 release.
Events Go Virtual
It's our priority now to keep our community safe, so we're bringing our events online.
Centrality is organising the Rust meetup on 6 April where we will show you how to easily wrap C libraries using bindgen to give you access to all of the power of the C ecosystem from the safety and convenience of the Rust programming environment. Everyone is welcome to join us on Zoom at 6 pm — 8 pm UTC +13.
Working from home has been no problem for our ventures and many of them have made great progress and partnerships:
Iomob
Iomob was profiled in Intelligent Transport as an innovator with respect to how the mobility sector is responding to COVID19 by factoring in the social distance into their Mobility as a Service algorithms.
The company decided to support intermodal journey options in 'lockdown' areas for users who must move around for essential or emergency purposes during pandemics. The project includes:
- Introduction of a new social distance filter
- Delivery of services where a user can discover, book and pay for the service inside the MaaS app without having to interact with a machine or driver for payment
- Introduction of a new crowdsourcing feature so that users can provide real-time updates on the crowd levels in mass transit vehicles so that algorithms can filter out those services which threaten social distance recommendations.
They anticipate deploying these features in the coming months for up to five governments in Europe and beyond.
Yabble
Yabble is delighted to announce they're working with Rob Vickery at Hillfarrance Venture Capitalas lead investor for their first $2m capital raise. In speaking to NBR this week, Vickery said "we still want to do the same size round though it may take a bit longer to close. The company has all the right things going on with it."
Vickery said the research was remarkably resilient in downturns and recessions because businesses still needed to make decisions. "This is a different type of downturn and one where you can't do focus groups and big group customer sentiment analyses so Yabble becomes even more indispensable as it is all done digitally." To find out more about Yabble's raise speak with Mark David, Chief Commercial Officer at Yabble.
Sylo
Sylo look and feel has evolved across their social presences and website. There are now two clear distinctions — the dApp you know and love, the Sylo Smart Wallet, and Sylo, the network and protocol, also known as 'mothership', or the key values from where Sylo inspiration stems.
In other news, now you can access the first phase of Sylo rewards download Sylo Smart Wallet add friends and earn SYLO tokens! Keeping your messages and calls private while earning rewards couldn't be easier.
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