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By brittany sylvestri | 10/28/2020

The recently announced that its client company, GoAwake, has joined the National Science Foundation鈥檚 (NSF) Industry/University Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (CAKE) within 澳门六合彩历史记录鈥檚 .听

GoAwake is Global Ventures at 澳门六合彩历史记录鈥檚 first recruit from overseas, joining the initiative from Brazil where it has become a leader, creating innovative solutions to prevent accidents caused by drowsiness and distraction when driving.听

Global Ventures at 澳门六合彩历史记录 is an entrepreneurial support initiative for established international and domestic companies ready to scale up to the next level of growth. The initiative seeks to scale-up domestic and international second-stage companies into profitable and sustainable companies. Second stage companies are those that have achieved approximately $1 million in annual sales and employ at least six people.

GoAwake, founded in Canoas, Brazil, established itself with clients in the logistics industry using its solution that identifies signs of driver fatigue, distractions and mobile phone use while a vehicle is in motion. It alerts the driver, records, and sends the findings to a control center for analysis and aggregation.听

鈥淲e are very happy to have GoAwake as a member company of our NSF CAKE Center, which was formed in 2009 and has had more than 40 company members,鈥 said , Ph.D., director of the NSF CAKE Center at 澳门六合彩历史记录. 鈥淲e have already formulated a project with GoAwake for our faculty and students to work on.鈥澛

Initially, GoAwake will work on research and development of new solutions and functionalities for its platform, with the help of three 澳门六合彩历史记录 students who will join the team focused on the development of a new release of the GoAwake system. The team will tackle projects covering innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, helping to develop a tool to be even more disruptive and useful.

鈥淭he U.S. is ready for an application like GoAwake鈥檚, and the Research Park at 澳门六合彩历史记录 was an ideal soft-landing destination for its debut in a state with about $1 trillion in GDP,鈥 said Paulo Jotz, head of business development with GoAwake.

GoAwake plans to grow its employee base in the Research Park at 澳门六合彩历史记录, and to expand its partnership with 澳门六合彩历史记录鈥檚 CAKE.

鈥淕lobal Ventures was created to foster industry-university collaborations, which have shown to be an efficient way to develop new technology and market solutions,鈥 said , president of the Research Park at 澳门六合彩历史记录 and Global Ventures. 鈥淭his is an opportunity for a foreign-owned business to grow in the U.S. while creating jobs for South Florida, as well as the opportunity for 澳门六合彩历史记录鈥檚 faculty to work on leading technology while students get valuable real-world experience.鈥澛犅

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