Poka closes $6.4 million CAD for connected factory worker platform
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The startup also plans to accelerate product development in order to support Poka’s vision to give manufacturers one single hub for “operational knowledge and collaboration” on the factory floor. They told BetaKit, on background, that COVID-19 has led to companies offering these types of rounds at the same valuation as previous investments and called it a way to keep startups from having to lay off employees or go under. Amid COVID-19, Poka, like many businesses has been forced to adapt its work from home policies and all of its implementations are now being done remotely in order to keep employees and customers safe. The startup said the pandemic has also served to “raise the importance of digitally connecting frontline workers in light of physical distancing and work from home measures.” “The pandemic has exposed/highlighted [sic] the shortcomings of the traditional approaches to training, communication and problem solving in factories and as a result, increased the urgency for manufacturers to move to Poka,” the Poka spokesperson told BetaKit. “Our clients have reported (starting as early as January) how Poka is helping them to keep workers safe by giving alternatives to in-person shift changeover meetings, training in classrooms and paper forms and reports.”
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