Recent Geodesic Article by Morgan Livermore
Why Managing Burn is So Important
Most VCs, including us, are recommending that founders slow their burn— focus on survival rather than growth. Morgan developed a 3 scenario model to highlight the importance of acting quickly to slow your company's burn and the consequences of inaction.
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Orbital Insight in the News
Satellites Are Helping to Track Food Supplies in Coronavirus Era
Anuradha Raghu at Bloomberg explores how companies are using systems like Orbital Insight to track supply chain and inventory data to prevent, reduce, and understand shortages of goods during the Coronavirus pandemic.
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A Historic Week for Oil, Enlisting Satellites to Track the Supply Gut, and Bizarre Photos of What Crude Really Looks Like
Orbital Insight is being used to measure the world's supply of oil. As oil prices fall, Business Insider breaks down how Orbital Insights is capturing data and what discoveries have been made with the technology thus far.
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AppZen in the News
Rise in Crisis-related Employee Costs Tracks Coronavirus Outbreak
AppZen analyzed how company expenses are changing amid the current pandemic. Reimbursement policies have seen some of the biggest changes from a surge in cancelled business trips, buying masks and other PPE equipment, and buying equipment for setting up home office spaces.
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Recent UiPath Articles
Global Organizations Turning to Robotic Process Automation to Respond to COVID-19 Pandemic
UiPath is offering healthcare organizations free access to their enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software. "[Our tools] accelerate critical processes and free up strapped employees so they can more rapidly respond to issues arising as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic." Their Automation Hub will also be available at no cost to enterprise customers and prospects for one year.
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UiPath Delivers Lightning Fast Scalability for Banks to Fulfill Historic Surge of SBA Loan Requests
The US government is turning to banks to expedite the release of their small business relief program. Banks are scrambling to scale quickly to ensure audit requirements are met to provide loan relief for their customers. UiPath is working with two top-tier banks to help automate application processing for applicable small business loans.
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Your Safest Investment in Difficult Times: Your Product
Topic: As a part of SaaStr's Bridging the Gap virtual summit, Pendo CEO and Co-founder, Todd Olson, will present on the importance of continuing to invest in your product.

Date: Tomorrow, April 22nd at 3 pm PT

Panelist: Todd Olson of Pendo

Coronavirus: Social and Economic Shifts in the U.S. and Japan
Topic: The U.S.-Japan Council continues their webinar series to engage and connect leaders and change makers around the COVID-19 pandemic. The upcoming conversation centers around the current social and economic shifts in the US and Japan.

Date: Monday, April 27th at 3:30 pm PT

Panelist: Kathy Matsui of Goldman Sachs Japan, Daniel I. Okimoto, Ph.D. of Silicon Valley Japan Platform, and Lori Matsukawa of the U.S.-Japan Council

Axios' Virtual Conversation on the Future of Fintech
Topic: Corporate leaders discussed how businesses and financial institutions are preserving consumer privacy while navigating the transition to digital living amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

Panelist: Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, Kenneth Lin of Credit Karma, and Max Skibinsky of Vault12

Geopolitical Impacts and Imperatives of COVID‑19
Topic: FT Partners hosted a conversation focused around geopolitical analysis of the coronavirus crisis. Panelists discussed the effects that policy, national leadership, and stimulus will have on markets in the coming weeks and months.

Panelist: Steve McLaughlin of FT Partners, Marko Papic of Clocktower Group, and R.P. Eddy of Ergo

Imply Virtual Druid Summit
Topic: Imply postponed their first summit to this fall due to the current Shelter-in-Place order. In anticipation for the event they've shared seven virtual presentations across areas like anti-money laundering for banks and real-time analytics.

Speakers: Gian Merlino of Apache, Shyam Mudambi of Athenahealth, Ramesh Kempanna of Athenahealth, Karthik Urs of Athenahealth, Arpit Dubey of DBS, Pankaj Tiwari of BT, Swapnesh Ganani of Twitter, TJ Giuli of Cisco, Abhishek Balaji Radhakrishnan of Cisco, Druid co-author Fangjin Yang, and Vadim Ogievetsky of Imply

Annual Meeting
Given the ongoing uncertainty related to travel and large gatherings as well as the business challenges every company is facing due to the COVID-19 situation, we have decided to postpone our Annual Meeting that was scheduled to take place July 14-16 in Silicon Valley. We are monitoring the situation both in California and Japan daily and our plan is to evaluate options for organizing a meeting sometime this fall, either in-person or virtually, depending on the circumstances and your preference at that time.