StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 71 PlatformChase 2.0  is an advanced version of digital communications app PlatformChase which integrates with other social media platforms and allows sending urgent messages to a recipient using all social media channels on which the recipient is registered. This ensures that an urgent message will be seen on crowded smartphone screens that host dozens of social media and online communication apps and platforms. The most commonly used social media with which PlatformChase 2.0 integrates are: WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, FaceTime, Teams, Skype, iMessage, WeChat, Viber, Twitter, Hangouts, Zoom and Linkedin. CEO QUOTE "Imagine your car breaks down on the motorway on a Saturday and you message for help. Can you wait for four hours until the intended recipient sees your message? With PlatformChase 2.0 the message will be seen in 10 minutes," said company founder and CEO Priti Chatel. Smartphone screen (image source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 52 CommunityEnergizer  is a communications company that helps neighbours engage in community/neighbourhood groups on social media. The company's activities are particularly relevant during the Covid-19 pandemic as the WhatsApp groups it creates for every street allow maintaining contact and engaging with vulnerable people during the 2020 coronavirus lockdown. CEO QUOTE "Social media networks emerged and thrived for more than a decade as virtual networks. You could keep in touch with friends across oceans and continents and keep within reach acquaintances that you only met once in real life. But social media never bothered to bring together people who share physical spaces, such as the neighbours in a street or a block. CommunityEnergizer has changed all this: now everybody knows that there is a group out there with the name of their street and all they need to do is join the group. We appoint responsible volunteers from the community as group administr...

StartupRealities No 50 PlatformChase is a digital communications app that shows you which online platform you should use in order to have the smoothest communication with any given friend or contact. On a crowded smartphone screen there are a dozen social media and online communication apps and platforms to choose from. Most people have their preferred one or two platforms depending on the country they live in, their professional and personal networks, age and individual preferences: WhatsApp, WeChat, Messenger, Teams, Skype, iMessage, Instagram, Viber, FaceTime, Twitter, Linkedin, Hangouts, Zoom, plus several email platforms. PlatformChase assesses the frequency of use of all platforms by all contacts and guides the user towards the platform that a certain contact uses most often, in order to ensure that a sent messages will get read and will receive a response as quickly as possible. CEO QUOTE "We've all had this experience when a message notification flicks across your...