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Written By Leniece Flowers
3 Days Ago (Aug 24)

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  • Founder Nash Ahmed, a Nigerian-American, built Undock an all-in-one video meeting interface
  • $1.6 million in a funding round led by Lightship Capital
  • The virtual office/learning environment will continue to create critical demands on software companies 

The two-year old startup has slowly been gaining traction and quietly building an interface that connects scheduling, meetings, and video conferencing.

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Everyone is middle class until they lose their job,” says Sheena Allen, CEO of CapWay, on a late Friday afternoon while she works from her Atlanta office.

Her observation falls in line with that of researchers who project that as the pandemic drastically hollows out America’s middle earners via more job cuts, poverty rates could reach levels on par with those of the Great Depression.

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Dawn Dickson is raising her latest round of funding on the grounds that self-service and automation are the future of retail in a socially-distanced environment.
May 21, 20

As some states reopened for business in the last few weeks and several others are slated to open this week, one would expect shoppers to flock back to their favorite stores ready to spend cash after nearly two months of habitation.  

Getting back to “normal” will look different in the weeks and months ahead, partly because human-to-human contact is still risky business for shoppers and retail workers on the front line. 

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