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COMPANY TO WATCH
PROMINENT INVESTORS HELP JOBSITECHECK TAP INTO WIDER MARKET Initially conceptualized as a digital Covid-19 safety protocol for construction sites, JobSiteCheck Inc. has since
worker scans a QR code if the worker has a smartphone, answers questions that appear on the smartphone and the screen goes green to indicate the worker has cleared the check and may begin the day. If the screen turns red, that worker is prohibited from working. Workers without a smartphone may answer the questions with a pen and paper. The system automatically integrates local regulations to ensure the job site is in compliance. But Rickel and Matchett envision JobSiteCheck being a key offering for a wider variety of companies as the pandemic-caused habit of checking in to places of business becomes permanent. The startup’s solution is unique because it’s worker-driven, rather than a simple digitization of an existing top-down management process, Matchett said. “There’s a lot of momentum around the behavioral shift we’ve tapped into from a health-screening standpoint,” the president said. Investors seem to agree. Already backed by Dan Graham, JobSiteCheck now counts among its investors: Data. world Inc. co-founder and CEO Brett Hurt; Capital Factory; the Beam Angel
positioned itself as a “system of record” that aims to improve project efficiency, cost-effectiveness, worker productivity and health. With new leaders at the helm, the Austin-based startup also already has begun to expand its market to sectors including education, manufacturing and municipal government. And, JobSiteCheck has raised roughly $600,000 of a planned $750,000 capital raise that CEO Josh Rickel said the business “is close to finishing out.” He and President Tala Matchett formally assumed their positions at the company at the end of June. The two partners at Notley Ventures LLC, an Austin investment firm co-founded by Lisa Graham and Dan Graham that backs social-impact companies, replaced Orion Jensen and Nick Swerdfeger, who launched JobSiteCheck in April. The startup has created a survey for construction workers to answer upon arriving at a job site to help reduce the possibility of coronavirus infection. Each
JobSiteCheck allows workers showing up at a job site — or any kind of workplace — to scan a QR code and take a survey designed to reduce the spread of disease. GETTY IMAGES
Kazana Ventures LLC investment firms; Kevin Dasch, partner at San Francisco- headquartered venture capital firm Social Starts; and Jim Young, managing partner of Austin commercial real estate firm Sabot Development Ltd. For more: https://bizj.us/1q85yw
Network, an angel investing network launched in August that funds female- founded startups headquartered in the Lone Star State; Supply Drop Online Inc. co-founder and CEO Andrew Busey; Saurabh Khetrapal, founder and managing partner of the Khetrapal Family Office and
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