40 de startup-uri au fost selectate anul acesta pentru a participa în programul și competiția Startup Spotlight Online 2020, organizate de How to Web. Lansat în 2011, Startup Spotlight se poziţionează drept cea mai populară competiție din România adresată startup-urilor de tehnologie la început de drum.
Programul începe pe 5 octombrie și se va încheia pe 4 decembrie 2020, prin evenimentul privat de pitching Pitch Day la care se anunţa câștigătorul programului Startup Spotlight și al premiului-investiție de 225.000 de euro. Premiul este sindicalizat de către un grup de investitori locali – platforma de equity crowdfunding Seedblink, rețeaua de angel investors TechAngels, fondul de investiții Gapminder Venture Partners, vehiculul de investiții private Simple Capital și rețeaua de investitori Transylvania Angels Network. Suma este oferită ca aport la o viitoare investiție în startup, sub forma unui convertible note.
Lista celor 40 de startup-uri selectate din România, Polonia, Croația, Ungaria, Bulgaria, Estonia și Lituania:
Acertivo (https://acertivo.com)
The Mindset Fitness Gym for emotional wellbeing in the workplace and beyond.
Agora Robotics (http://www.modulab.com)
The most powerful autonomous robots in the world.
Alkubot (https://www.alkubot.com)
Gamified sales chatbot for webshops.
ATLAS – Corporate & Personal Health (https://atlas.app)
End-to-end health solution for individuals, companies (employers) and insurers.
bedrock.farm (http://bedrock.farm)
Decentralized indoor farm network serving restaurants and chefs with locally produced, high quality and safe ingredients.
Breed XY (http://www.breedxy.com)
Bringing performance in breed societies and breeders’ life.
CardioMedive (http://www.cardiomedive.eu)
Medical-grade smart-patch for remote patient monitoring.
Cartloop (https://cartloop.io)
Bringing the in-store shopping experience online through conversational text messaging.
CBNagro.tech (http://www.cbnagro.tech)
Silos management solution.
CorrectNetworks
Edge computing for cloud operators.
Cyscale (https://www.cyscale.com)
Helps you visualize assets and protect your data across multi-cloud environments.
Ecotree (https://ecotree.ro)
Marketplace for recycling materials & waste services.
Forefront Supply Chain (http://www.forefrontsoft.com)
Helping companies to take control of their supply chain.
GoTeleport (http://goteleport.ro)
Electric cars by the minute, delivered to you.
Hedge Lab (http://www.iskamimot.com)
Unifying the world’s real estate data and giving developers a platform on which to write seamlessly interoperable software for any buyer, broker or bank.
IziBac (http://izibac.ro)
Game-based educational mobile app bringing back the joy of learning.
Jeff App (https://www.jeff-app.com)
Loan broker for the unbanked in South-East Asia.
LEDD
Lung cancer diagnosis.
Licenseware (https://licenseware.io)
Reducing software licensing cost and liability.
matchpoint. (https://matchpointai.com)
Transforming the future of tennis training.
Medicai (https://www.medicai.io)
Patient centric medical imaging platform for interdisciplinary case management.
OGOR (https://ogor.ro)
With OGOR, farmers understand the impact of the farming practices on their soil.
Oraroo (https://oraroo.ro)
Simplified tracking and coherent repository for HR related activities.
Parking Spotter (https://parking-spotter.com)
The solution to your daily struggles such as finding a parking spot, reserving a working desk or a meeting room.
Plant an App (https://plantanapp.com)
Speed of low-code without compromising the ability to code.
Pluria (http://www.pluria.co)
Access to a curated network of alternative workspaces, driving productive freedom.
PriceFlux (http://www.priceflux.net)
PriceFlux helps online retailers better use data and technology to enable real-time pricing.
Rungutan (https://rungutan.com)
Full stress testing & load testing with only 5 code lines.
SanoPass (http://www.sanopass.ro)
Provides medical benefits amplified by technology.
Scan & Eggs (https://scanandeggs.com)
One-click solution for photorealistic characters for video game developers.
SensiX (https://sensix.io)
IoT-based facility management solution.
Sharewell (https://sharewell.eu)
Real-world user testing with your target audience.
StartGDPR (https://startgdpr.com)
Fully digital, fast and convenient solution for GDPR compliance at a fraction of the industry’s costs.
SWIP.WORK (https://swip.work)
Future of employment on blockchain technology using PWA and Ethereum blockchain.
Tailent (http://www.tailent.com)
Skilled bots created with the next generation of RPA.
Teamway.eco (https://teamway.eco)
Corporate carpooling.
TokWise (http://tokwise.com)
TokWise accelerates the digital transition in the energy industry.
Umni.co (http://umni.bg/en)
Leveraging the power of conversational chatbots through the use of AI.
VOXI KIDS – Easy Speech (http://voxikids.com)
Digitized speech therapy for speech-language pathology and children with speech delay.
Webcube
Generating clean-code for creating or revamping websites by customising and assembling the design, themes and components from any websites deconstructed using AI.
Echipele vor beneficia pe parcursul celor 2 luni ale programului de până la 30 de întâlniri private și sesiuni de ask-me-anything, pitch coaching, introduceri la mentori și investitori din rețeaua extinsă a How to Web, totul fără a-și aglomera excesiv programul pe parcursul celor două luni de Startup Spotlight Online. Programul startup-urilor este personalizat în funcție obiectivele de business ale fiecăruia dintre ele, fără a exista activități obligatorii pe parcursul acestuia.
Printre ei se vor afla Des Traynor (co-fondator al Intercom), Marius Tîrcă (co-fondator al UiPath), Mada Seghete (co-fondator Branch.io), Marvin Liao (consultant și investitor, ex-500 Startups San Francisco), Raluca Panțiru (Product Manager la Fitbit), Bogdan Axinia (Head of eMAG Explore) și Raul Popa (co-fondator și CEO al TypingDNA), alți experți ce au contribuit la dezvoltarea unor companii ca Shopify, Dropbox, Booking.com, Omniconvert, dar și specialiști din zona corporate care colaborează cu startup-urile precum Monica Obogeanu (Orange Fab), René Schöb (KPMG Startup Grow Pad), Ionuț Stanimir (BCR-InnovX), Dan Oros (Google for Startups), Mihai Frențiu (Tech’n Trade by METRO SYSTEMS România), Sergiu Pop (Microsoft for Startups) sau Laura Ștefan (Mastercard România).
Participanții pot intra în legătură cu investitori din Europa precum Irina Haivas (Atomico), Carlos Espinal (Seedcamp), Andrei Brașoveanu (Accel), Ondrej Bartos (Credo Ventures), Dan Lupu (Earlybird Venture Capital), Dan Mihăescu (Gapminder Venture Partners), Jon Bradford (Dynamo VC), Mălin Ștefănescu (TechAngels) și reprezentanți ai unor fonduri de investiții ca Notion Capital, 500 Startups Istanbul, LAUNCHub Ventures, Early Game Ventures, Smok Ventures, Gecad Ventures, Simple Capital, cărora li se alătură platforma regională de equity crowdfunding Seedblink.
Programul Startup Spotlight este realizat în parteneriat cu Orange România, KPMG România, Banca Comercială Română, Google România, și cu suportul Fitbit, Microsoft for Startups, METRO SYSTEMS România, eMAG, Mastercard România și 2Checkout.
