Premoney List 5
Enterprise, Wellness, & words from Taylor Neiman (Founder of Toucan)!
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An interview with Taylor Neiman, CEO of Toucan.
Last week I mentioned that Toucan (featured in the Premoney List 2) announced a $3.3M seed raise to expand their learning platform. Toucan CEO, Taylor Neiman, and I jumped on the phone to talk about the 0-1, their new approach to education & the long vision of Toucan. See highlights on that conversation below.
On this weeks’ list:
10 Companies
60% female or bipoc founders
An (already) beloved no-code platform
Unique takes on wellness & enterprise value
If you’d like to contact any of these companies directly, reply to me and I’ll put you in touch with the founders.
This weeks Highlights:
Pory: Is a mainstay in the NoCode movement, but is expanding their reach. The founders Samantha Wong & Luannie Dang built Pory to enable people to build a dynamic CMS-driven website for their business in less than 15 minutes. If you have data in Airtable, you can use Pory’s templates to build a fully functioning website with Airtable as your backend.
OnlyTweets: Riding the tailwinds of the passion & creator economy, OnlyTweets has a goal of enabling popular microbloggers on Twitter to monetize their worth. OnlyTweets is the latest drop from Stir, who’s founders believe that creators who spend time crafting and developing their brand deserve to realize that value.
Notes from an interview with Taylor Neiman:
Taylor and her cofounders Brandon & Shaun, launched Toucan only a few months ago with the goal of helping people learn in a new way. They’ve grown to 20K+ active users since launching. Toucan is a browser extension, which picks out specific words whatever site you’re on, and translates those words to the language of your choice so you can read & learn in context.
Why a browser extension?
Every thing you use is competing for your time. The Toucan team opted not to compete against Netflix, the New York Times or Facebook for minutes, but rather to meet people where they already are. Integrating “micro-moments of learning” into your everyday activity is an easy habit to form while providing powerful context for learning.
Why start with language?
Taylor (who has learned 4 languages and counting), & her team are all avid travelers & care about building something that can have a widespread cultural impact. They understand that language is the foundation for culture & is something that impacts peoples everyday lives.
What is next?
Language made sense to start, but Toucan plans to expand to building micro-moments of learning for any avocation that people want to learn: History, Math, Physics, Art etc.
Please try Toucan out, and email Taylor (Taylor.Neiman@jointoucan.com) with your thoughts & feedback. #FeedbackisaGift
Jobs:
Naya Studio is hiring a Design & Fabrication Ecosystem Manager to further build out their network of makers, fabricators, and designers, and improve their platforms efficiency. More details here, and reach out to Saad@naya.studio if interested.
Shypyard is hiring a Growth & Marketing intern to help build upon current momentum (released an MVP last week & acquired their first paying customer). For more info, reach out to Dan: Dan@shypyard.io
Help grow the list!
Launching a company or product soon? Let me know and we’ll feature you in an upcoming Premoney List! Jake@oursimplefuture.com
All for now,
Jake