Umni in the Focus of the Top LA Podcast Women in Tech for Valentine’s day
Last Autumn the popular tech podcast featuring Women in Tech took interview with our CEO Elitza Stoilova about the Umni journey from an idea to a successful business.
The #womenintech Podcast is hosted by WeAreLATech’s Espree Devora and features inspiring Women in Tech from Engineers, Female Founders, Investors, UX and UI Designers, Journalists all sharing their story how they got to where they are today. The purpose of the show is for every listener to walk away feeling ‘If She Can Do It So Can I’. It is also the 1st podcast focused on LA startups ranked #2 in all of iTunes “New & Noteworthy”. Although the interview about Elitza and Umni was published now – several customers and successful projects, and one investment later, it is about the challenges a startup founder goes through and about the vision and the mindset to succeed that makes you different.
Umni at the BW Startup Summit
On February 1st 2019 Umni participated with its own booth at the BW Start-up Summit in Stuttgart, Germany, as a member of the delegation of countries neighboring Danube river.
Our company was invited by The Accelerator, a European program for developing entrepreneurship in Danube river countries.
The 2nd start-up summit was organized by the Ministry of Economy of Baden-Wurttemberg and supported by L-Bank, and it gathered close to 400 startups from Germany and other countries, angel investors, VC funds, accelerators and other organizations and businesses interested in the startup ecosystem development.
On the air of radio “Varna” (BNR) – “Yes” for the virtual assistants
Umni began the year with several media coverage. Today our CEO Elitza Stoilova was in the studio of the Radio “Varna” for an interview with the tech journalist Dorotea Spasova about virtual assistants, the benefit for the business, the customers and the staff.
Umni Invites You to Meet at the Travel Academy in April
Our CEO Elitza Stoilova will be a speaker at the annual conference Travel Academy. She is going to share on stage her unique experience in hospitality/tourism and technologies. Umni will have also a booth at which you can ask your questions about the virtual assistants.
The annual conference Travel Academy will take place on 5-6 April ’19 in Sofia and will give the participants the opportunity to familiarize with newest trends in tourism, to meet industry colleagues and partners and ask your questions to Bulgarian experts, to establish new useful contacts with new industry colleagues.
Elitza Stoilova: Humans are Not Created to Work Like a Machine
The angel investors’ CEO Club media interviewed our founder Elitza Stoilova about the connection between tourism and technologies, the virtual assistants, the usefulness of a HU.bot in the HR-field and if the automation will eliminate some professions. “The professions that require a human to work instead of a robot shall disappear. Those professions must extinct because the humans were created not to work like a machine. People shall utilize their skills and qualities to their full capacity” – shared Elitza in the interview
Umni Attracts an Investment from Canadian Fund Loyal VC
Umni was featured in the popular Austrian media TrendingTopics featuring a resent development about the company. At the end of 2018 Umni.co received its first investment to further develop its “bot as a service” after the startup was recommended to the Canadian Fund Loyal VC. Here is what the article highlighted:
“There are two interesting moments in this story. First, Stoilova started her venture after 40, leaving a decade long career in hospitality management abroad, and went through a pre-acceleration program in Bulgaria. During the 13 weeks in Founder Institute Sofia she turned upside down her initial idea to create a tool for hotel managers to help them optimize internal processes and came up with a completely new concept. Secondly, Umni.co is the first Bulgarian FI alumni startup to get recognized by Loyal VC – a fund, closely working with Founder Institute that invests based on recommendation from local pre-accelerator leaders.”