Our Collaborative Work
We have created an ecosystem with world-class enterprise partners working together collaboratively to open doors for startups. With true global reach and industry-leading expertise and resources in every field, we help move from point A to point B faster than any other platform that exists.
FLITE
Seamless is the program manager of FLITE, the Ford Launchpad for Innovative Technologies and Entrepreneurship at the Grand Rapids Ford International Airport. FLITE is sponsored by Michigan’s Office of Future Mobility & Electrification and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. This is one of the first airport-based initiatives in the nation that provides funding to encourage the design and development of new products and services in a live airport environment. As the program manager, Seamless identifies the core objectives of FLITE partners, recruits the startups, manages application review process, manages projects & reporting, coordinates demos, manages partner relations.
SENIOR LIVING LONGEVITY LAB
Seamless is working with Beacon Hill, a small community in Michigan to embed a learning lab inside a senior living facility. Seamless is currently engaged in a deep needs finding research project with ethnography and interviews with staff, residents, and families. This research along with the goals of sponsoring organizations will set the agenda for the lab.
MAY MOBILITY
Seamless organized a multi-year pilot of autonomous vehicles in Grand Rapids pulling together a public-private partnership including numerous enterprises and the city of Grand Rapids. The project was set up to test the readiness of self-driving vehicles and understand the implications for the city, riders, and various businesses. At the time, it was the largest deployment of autonomous vehicles accessible to the public. May Mobility has continued to grow it’s business since the project raising over $200M over the course of its life.
JUSTAIR
Seamless initiated a project to assess the technical feasibility of gathering neighborhood level air quality data with a network of gas and particulate sensors. With our enterprise partners we also prototyped several applications for the data.
The project showed promise and was spun out as a venture called JustAir. JustAir has expanded to multiple cities and is focused on environmental justice in the communities they monitor.