Author: Glen Watson

Agulus accepted as SCRA client company

~ Glen Watson

Our agtech startup Agulus is excited to announce that we have been accepted as a South Carolina Research Authority client company. SCRA is a tremendous resource for South Carolina startups like Agulus. We’re looking forward to a long and fruitful relationship. Our mission is to expand the market access of American farms by leveraging innovative, cloud-based solutions and deep industry knowledge. With SCRA on our side, we can more rapidly provide benefits to farms, rural communities, and the greater agricultural ecosystem.

SCRA Announces July Funded and Accepted Companies

Patrick O’Neil – Information Security & Data Privacy Advisor

~ Glen Watson

Patrick O’Neil has been a champion of smart, sensible information security throughout his career as an Information Security Engineer. Patrick has helped major e-commerce companies such as Amazon and Zulily provide secure online platforms for their customers. Building and maintaining trust with customers is important to Patrick, and he applies the lens of customer impact to all of his decisions. Mr. O’Neil has signed on to help Agulus make intelligent security decisions from the ground up, so that their customers may participate in the digital marketplace with confidence.

Kevin Nadeau – Agulus Logistics & Transportation Advisor

~ Glen Watson

Kevin Nadeau of True Load Time is our Logistics & Transportation advisor here at Agulus. Kevin is an upstate SC native with 24 years of operational experience in air freight, final mile, and truckload operations. He founded True Load Time (TLT) in 2018 to combat the costly and deadly effects of excessive truckload detention. TLT’s patent-pending cloud-based technology provides users with access to the industry’s first comprehensive wait time database for shipping and receiving locations across the country.

Prior to founding TLT, Kevin served in senior management roles within the overnight small-parcel industry, manufacturing supply chain logistics, and for-hire truckload transportation sector. In his roles, he worked directly with customers, including BMW, Michelin, Caterpillar, and WestRock. Kevin also serves on the advisory boards of the South Carolina Research Authority – BSAB, Industry 4.0, and the Upstate Mobility Alliance – Technology and Innovation Task Force. In his spare time, he is an automotive racing enthusiast, personal fitness advocate and is passionate about volunteering, mentoring, and networking to help create opportunity within his local community.

Agulus Joins Greenville’s NEXT

~ Glen Watson

Agulus is excited to announce that we are now a member of the NEXT ecosystem. NEXT is a Greenville-based program dedicated to promoting economic development in upstate South Carolina.

“NEXT provides entrepreneur services and infrastructure to all types of high-growth ventures that are reinventing the global marketplace and strengthening the Greenville/Upstate region’s economy by creating quality jobs, attracting outside capital, and creating wealth through company ownership”.

Learn more about NEXT at https://nextsc.org and see https://nextsc.org/companies/ for info about other businesses in the NEXT ecosystem.