PLUGLESS
Plugless is still the only company on the market offering wireless electric vehicle charging. Find out how they got to where they are today.
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Business Wire
NRV portfolio company, Envera Health, is partnering with Evariant to offer a streamlined platform based around data, analytics and services to make the lives of both patients and caregivers easier. This solution enters the market just as health systems face operating on smaller budgets and rapidly increasing consumer demands.
Fast Company
"What creates a successful company culture? Encouraging your employees to treat each other as family."
Green Car Reports
"Evatran has previously said its Plugless wireless charging system will soon be compatible with 80 percent of the electric cars on North American roads by the end of 2017," suggesting that wireless charging is the perfect complement to automated parking. Evatran's system, as part of an agreement with 500 Walnut's luxury Philadelphia apartments, will complete the first residence where drivers can park and charge electric cars without any human intervention.
Next Juggernaut
"On Demand Services offer the customer an exciting new world of lifestyle convenience, but is often explained as "the uberification" of services, only describing one of the many models emerging now. While product designers focus on the characteristics buyers will value, service designers focus on the experiences customers want to have again and again"
Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Zhejiang VIE Science and Technology Co., a Chinese tier 1 manufacturer of automotive parts, invested $2.3 million in Evatran this week and signed a joint venture agreement. This tees up Evatran to be a leading solution for direct automotive manufacturing production, as well as direct after-market sales for EV wireless charging."
DG South
With investors having poured over $23 Billion into financial technology (or fintech) start-ups around the world, and estimated market revenues of at least $4.7 Trillion, all eyes are turning to fintech. Richmond's own WealthForge is listed among nine Southern fintech start-ups to bet on this year.
Richmond BizSense
A local start-up that's caught the eye of local and global investors is taking over more space in Shockoe Bottom, moving into part of the former Wolf Fording building. The space will likely be used for operations and manufacturing.
McKinsey&Company
We estimate there are today more than 2,000 start-ups offering traditional and new financial services. Here's how banks should respond.
Appalachian Miners are Learning to Code
Bloomberg
Jim Ratliff worked for 14 years in the mines of eastern Kentucky, drilling holes and blasting dynamite to expose the coal that has powered Appalachian life for more than a century.
Today, he rolls into an office at 8 a.m., settles into a small metal desk and does something that, until last year, was completely foreign to him: computer coding.
TechRadar
While Tesla has yet to introduce its own wireless charging solutions for its electric fleet, Evatran is readying a Plugless Power solution for Tesla's most popular electric vehicle (EV), the Model S.