The Virginia Innovation Partnership Corp. has awarded Richmond software company EDai a $75,000 Commonwealth Commercialization Fund grant to help bring a software-as-a-service product to market.
EDai, which provides data and economic development information, is set to launch its platform in July — right at the start of the fiscal year for state and local governments. Sean Brazier founded EDai two years ago after working as a lead strategist for the Virginia Economic Development Partnership and helping lure Amazon’s HQ2 to Northern Virginia. He saw that data was historically presented to economic development officials in PowerPoint presentations in giant proposals and knew there had to be a more dynamic way of using and presenting the information.
Brazier left state economic development and started a consulting practice. Over the last two years, Brazier has run his business and built out the EDai platform. Several of his clients have used the tool, but Brazier believes the product…
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