New York Times profiles Ultranauts

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/technology/ultranauts-remote-work.html?referringSource=articleShare

Ultranauts/ Advancing Neurodiversity

Can neurodiversity be a competitive advantage for a huge financial institution that manages $35.2 trillion and has “the largest data set in the financial world “ ?

Six months ago, BNY Mellon’s Enterprise Quality Engineering group started an experiment as part of their ambitious “transformation agenda”.

They wanted to know if autistic quality engineers could accelerate the automation of testing and QA of the hundreds of legacy applications being modernized across the bank. 

BNY Mellon hired Ultranauts, an onshore quality engineering startup powered by cognitively diverse teams.

The results are in : BNY Mellon announced this week that they’ll be “doubling down on neurodiversity.”

“Ultranauts’ quality engineers continue to increase our productivity and ensure we are delivering high quality results. Amazingly, we’ve seen a ~250% increase in the number of new test cases we automated” , BNY Mellon CIO Bridget Engle said on Monday.

Send My Bag 💼

Italy 🇮🇹 has just banned hand luggage on flights due to COVID 19 .

The UK 🇬🇧 government is encouraging airline passengers to avoid having airlines handle their bags 💼 and instead use “delivery services”.

The COVID 19 pandemic prodded government officials to issue the travel advisory this week.

Send My Bag, the “Uber of Airline bags”, has seen a hike in business in Italy 🇮🇹 and especially in the UK 🇬🇧 

UK domestic shipments increased by 126%

UK to Spain shipments up by 119%

UK to Portugal up by 58%

UK to UAE up by 100%

Ireland to UK up by 70%

The Northern Ireland based company shipped 250,000 bags last year.
It operates globally and introduced a USA 🇺🇸 service in 2015.

Here’s a clip on the  UK news :

https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/1296525/luggage-suitcases-coronavirus-travel-uk-advice-boris-johnson-latest/amp

Quadrant Biosciences Launches 🚀 Coronavirus 🦠Test



	Quadrant Biosciences Inc. ⁦‪@QuadBioInc‬⁩ As you may have heard, our team has been working on a rapid #saliva swab for #COVID19! Check out the latest video update from our director of the research lab. pic.twitter.com/f295c1SBBe   4/3/20, 2:53 PM

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The mayor is giving his TV update and said we need “a very aggressive testing approach” .

The solution might be a “Made in NY” test from a Syracuse biotech & SUNY. 

Quadrant Biosciences has launched a Coronavirus 🦠 saliva test .

Coronavirus PR

The last several weeks have been frustrating.  Not having a virus 🦠 related news pitch is like walking 🚶‍♀️ in a media desert 🌵. But, just yesterday, I learned that Quadrant Biosciences, a Syracuse based biotech client, is working with SUNY on a coronavirus test .  BRUNI PR will now be in the thick of virus news coverage, working closely with the leading biotech reporters at all the major news outlets.

Companies To Watch in 2020

Fintech startups got the lion’s share of VC investments during the past year, followed by AI and Cloud startups.  Thus, many of BRUNI PR’s picks are in this space for 2020.  

1) Revolut 

2) TransferWise

3) Satispay

4) Sardex

5) N26

6) MoneyFarm

7) Oval 

8) Lion

9) Stash Invest 

10) Digital Asset Holdings 

11) Betterment 

12) Hedera Hashgraph

13) ErisX

14) Rice Exchange 

15) Robinhood

16) Sempo

17) Novo 

18) Illimity 

19) Soldo

20) Klarna