Seedstars and Sai Srushti Group Open Applications for the Biggest On-Campus Talent Incubator in India

Seedstars and Sai Srushti Group open applications for the biggest on-campus talent incubator in India

Seedstars and Sai Srushti Group partner up to launch Seedstars Academy Bangalore

Seedstars and xMultiplied-advized Sai Srushti Group (SSG) officially announce their partnership to bring Seedstars Academy to India, launching Seedstars Academy Bangalore. The digital and impact incubator is set to train thousands of local talents with digital and entrepreneurial skills that can help people either launch their own startups or become software engineers. Interested startups can now apply here: https://seedstarsacademybangalore.softr.app/bangalore-academy.

With 86% of professionals estimated to look for new jobs in the next 2 years, the Great Indian talent war is indeed on. Coupled with the emergence of metaverse and Web3, the demand for specialized roles is also expected to rise by almost 98% in the next five years, increasing employment opportunities to 12 million specialized jobs.

While data engineers, programmers, and developers continue to be at the forefront of digital transformation, new roles are springing up rapidly. Unfortunately, the disconnect between the world of academia and industry is becoming more evident today. One of the key reasons behind this problem is that while there are a large number of young graduates, the youth are not aware of the required skills that the new industries want. So, there is currently a wide skill development and employment gap.

Seedstars Academy was created to address the skills gap in both founders and talent pool. The talent incubator equips participants with 21st-century digital and entrepreneurial skills. It aims to prepare emerging and frontier market talents for the future of work and increase the number of founders with the skills to build high-growth companies.

The educational journey builds on the expertise of SSG and the implementation capabilities of 01Edu and Seedstars who jointly trained over 140,000 talents across the globe. Graduating software engineers have a 100% success rate of securing employment at high-profile tech firms including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook.

The academy will train 300 talents yearly on-campus and equip them with digital and entrepreneurial skills. It follows an innovative-yet-proven curriculum and pedagogy based on collective intelligence to recode learning and train full-stack developers.

Participants require no previous experience or degrees and can end the Seedstars Academy journey by working as coders for local or international companies or starting their own companies.

The impact that Seedstars Academy would create is job creation through an increase in high-growth companies; increased employment for youth in stable, decent jobs through upskilling from the program; and contribution to SDGs through an increase in innovative ventures focused on tackling them.

“We are thrilled to launch such an impactful partnership with SSG around tertiary education in India. Together, we believe we can unlock the potential of countless talents in the country,” shared Pierre-Alain Masson, Co-Founder of Seedstars.

Seedstars Academy Bangalore invites all interested startups to send in applications here: https://seedstarsacademybangalore.softr.app/bangalore-academy.

ABOUT SEEDSTARS

Seedstars is a Swiss-based private company with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. The group’s activities cover over 90 emerging ecosystems through a variety of initiatives such as the FTxSDG Challenge, previously known as the Seedstars World Competition, which is the largest entrepreneurship competition in emerging markets; Seedstars Programs that are designed to support entrepreneurs in varying stages of growth via training, education, mentoring, and access to resources; Seedstars Academy, a talent incubator providing digital skills and startup-based immersive education for the next generation of changemakers; Seedspace, physical coworking spaces and hubs located in 15 countries; and Seedstars International, a global venture capital fund for seed stage startups.

ABOUT THE SAI SRUSHTI GROUP

The Sai Srushti Group (SSG) is a decent sized organization which has been investing on Social Enterprise initiatives, one such being Seedstars Academy Bangalore. Having invested in and co-created some of Bangalore’s best IT Parks, residential townships, and bespoke educational institutions, SSG is proud to be a part of Seedstars partnership creating leaders for tomorrow. SSG leaders share a commitment to our time-tested approach to investing, hands-on value creation, and practices that have a positive impact on our communities. Leveraging its continuous innovation SSG has successfully invested towards becoming the most ingenious organization in the country bringing together the strengths of a value chain that facilitates the IT sector, Education, Social Enterprise, etc.

With the vision to uplift the life of people in India through education, health care, SSG is planning to lead the change by providing world-class education and tech-driven infrastructure development leveraging the strengths of the founders. Bengaluru Lifesciences Park (BLP), dedicated to supporting life science entrepreneurs; creating net zero environment; and fintech Initiatives, to name a few, are some of the most innovative ventures of SSG that will have an unparallel impact on the bottom of the pyramid.

SSG continuously strives to nurture and empower tomorrow’s people through education and to be an active contributor to Bangalore’s journey to becoming the Silicon Valley of India.

ABOUT 01EDU

O1Edu is the most advanced and innovative approach to teaching software engineering and programming. Learning is 100% project-based and practical, gamified, self-paced and entirely based on a proven peer-to-peer learning approach. Deployed around the world by 01Talent and its Partners, 01Edu is a very scalable high-end solution to unearth new pools of digital talent.

ABOUT XMULTIPLIED

xMultiplied was founded to back entrepreneurs, family enterprises and ultra high net-worth individuals seeking to scale up their businesses. xMultiplied accelerates the growth of entrepreneurs by bringing together capital, relationships and functional skills. We have worked across all five continents, notably in the areas of Banking, Technology, Industrial Manufacturing, Health Care, Consumer Goods and Retail.

Financial Times and Seedstars Announce 6 Global Winners of FTxSDG Challenge

Seedstars Co-CEO Alisée de Tonnac and the winning startups of the FTxSDG Challenge

Financial Times and Seedstars announce this year’s six global winners of the FTxSDG Challenge: Anthem, India (Quality Education); Duhqa, Kenya (Reduced Inequalities); Medl, Trinidad and Tobago (Good Health & Wellbeing); Pinky Promise, India (Gender Equality); Trii, Columbia (Good Jobs & Economic Growth); and SafEarth Clean Technologies, India (Climate Action). The winners will be accelerated to the Seedstars International Fund where they’ll have the chance to secure up to $500K in funding. 

Watch the finale replay here: https://ftxchallenge.com/ftxseedstars-old/agenda.

In a partnership with Seedstars, the Swiss-based private group with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets, and Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organizations, the FTxSDG Challenge was created to empower promising, impact-driven startups and entrepreneurs with learning and funding opportunities. The competition was also made possible with the School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR).

The focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to bring awareness to global problems, while also empowering entrepreneurs who are creating solutions that can address these issues.

 
Since 2013, the Seedstars World Competition has grown to be the largest startup competition in emerging markets, but the pandemic has led to the online adaptation of the competition for the past two years.

Opening the FTxSDG Challenge call for applications to all startups and innovative entrepreneurs around the globe, over 4,500 applications were received. Narrowing that down, the Seedstars and Financial Times team have selected 30 finalists to compete for the six global winners spots for each SDG. The full list of finalists can be found here.

From there, the startup finalists got to pitch their ideas to experts in their respective SDG categories. You can view the full list of the jury members here. The results of the deliberations for this year’s global winners are the following:

1. Quality Education Winner
   Anthem, India - Anthem is a simple, but very powerful SaaS tool built to keep the needs of mid-sized educational institutions in mind. It helps automate their four fundamental functions – fee collection, expense management, admissions, and communication.
2. Reduced Inequalities Winner
3. Duhqa, Kenya - For a small shop selling consumer products, they struggle to get a one-stop shop for their procurement needs, financing, and logistics. Duhqa is solving this problem and provides a tech solution that enables them to shop from manufacturers, get financing, and have all items delivered to their shop in under 6 hours.
4. Good Health & Wellbeing Winner
   Medl, Trinidad and Tobago - There are millions of premature deaths by non-communicable diseases. Most premature deaths can be avoided by medications but 1 in 2 prescriptions are never filled: medication is confusing, time-consuming, inaccessible, and expensive. Medl's end-to-end prescription platform, to-your-door delivery, and continuing patient management scraps the traditional pharmacy model to transform the patient experience for the $75bn LatAm pharmaceutical market.
5. Gender Equality Winner
   Pinky Promise, India - Pinky Promise provides high-quality, automated reproductive healthcare to every woman in the world. Their gynecologist-verified chatbot walks a woman from her symptom, all the way to an answer for that symptom. Issue-specific chatrooms on our app help women connect with each other anonymously so they can ask follow-up questions and find support.
6. Good Jobs & Economic Growth Winner
   Trii, Columbia - Local brokers make it difficult for 99% of the population to access the stock market and small investors were banned from the game. Trii is a Colombian Fintech partnered with the Colombian Stock Exchange to develop the first trading app in the country. They can serve millions and make the local stock market accessible and empower small investors.
7. Climate Action Winner
   SafEarth Clean Technologies, India - Renewable energy is today the cheapest source of energy around the world, yet 9 out of 10 people don’t end up making this decision. As well as 67% of all distributed solar plants are not able to meet basic quality checks. From the end-user perspective, the transition to renewable energy is very complicated and prone to errors. Safearth helps in getting these users the right solar plants at the lowest possible price with zero errors.

Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Seedstars Alisée de Tonnac shared -

We’ve been doing these competitions for years now but I am always in awe of the vision and impact that the startups are making. I’m proud to announce this year’s winners who are helping push forward progress in the different sustainable development goals.

Financial Times Business Development Associate​​ Noor Hafez also expressed excitement for the winners, “We're so delighted with how well the FTxSDG challenge has gone! This first collaboration with Seedstars allowed us to reach so many people around the world and open up our challenge to startups for the first time ever. We were also able to focus our challenge on just emerging markets for the first time. We heard so many insightful and innovative ideas in the space of 5 days.”

The FTxSDG Challenge finale included public sessions “SDGs in emerging markets: can entrepreneurship be the solution?” with Seedstars Co-CEOs Alisée de Tonnac and Pierre-Alain Masson and Head of Business Development & FT Talent Director Virginia Stagni as well as the live session on “Race for Tomorrow: the global fight to respond to climate change” with Financial Times Moral Money Editor, Simon Mundy.

To rewatch the finale, visit https://ftxchallenge.com/ftxseedstars-old/agenda.

 

Financial Times and Seedstars Announce Finalists of FTxSDG Challenge’s $500k Funding Prize

Financial Times and Seedstars announce the startup finalists advancing to the FTxSDG Challenge finale for a chance to win $500K in funding among other prizes. Winners will be announced through a live broadcast on December 17, 1PM CET. Watch the finale by signing up here: http://FTtalent.ft.com/ftxseedstars/

The FTxSDG Challenge was launched to find impact-driven entrepreneurs and ventures creating innovative solutions from over 90 markets around the world. A new dimension of the startup competition is the alignment with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

The focus on the SDGs aims to bring awareness to global problems, while also empowering entrepreneurs who are creating solutions that can address these issues. The event brings together early-stage startups from emerging markets and individual entrepreneurs working in groups to solve real challenges for the different themes.

From over 4,500 applications, there were 2000 selected candidates who had the opportunity to access Investment Readiness Sessions and Seedstars’ tech perks. From there, only 30 startups will have the chance to pitch their solutions for one of the following six SDGs:

• SDG 4: Quality Education (supported by the School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR))
• SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
• SDG 5: Gender Equality
• SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing
• SDG 8: Good Jobs & Economic Growth
• SDG 13: Climate Action

The FTxSDG Challenge brings a five-day event beginning on the 13th of December that will lead up to the winner announcement on the 17th.

Viewers can tune in to catch two days of expert panel discussions on each of the SDGs in focus. Each panel will include expert speakers including global thought-leaders and impact creation experts who’ll discuss how innovation and technology can solve the most critical issues around the world. The full list of all of the speakers can be found here.

The startup finalists for this year’s FTxSDF Challenge per SDG are the following:

• Gender Equality: Babybliss, Mujer Financiera, SHEROES, Pinky Promise, and Momby
• Climate Action: Kudoti, Ualabee, SafEarth, Ghoom.bike, and ePioneers
• Quality Education: Mohirdev, AlGooru, Anthem, Unschool, and Edu2Review
• Good Jobs and Economic Growth: ChapChap, trii, Metabeta, mBolsa, and HintEd
• Reduced Inequalities: abela.app, Tulix App, duhqa, Evolve Credit, TiendAPP
• Good Health and Wellbeing: 360Moms, medl, Sila Health, InstaCare, and Cogni

Each company will have the opportunity to pitch to a panel of experts, namely:

• Gender Equality: Seedstars, Partnerships for the SDGs, Romulo Navarette; Global Ventures, Principal, Sacha Haider; and IDB Invest Consultant in Gender Equity and Women's Empowerment Jimena Serrano.
• Climate Action: Seedstars, Head Of Partnerships (Asia-Pacific), Anurag Maloo; CTCN, Director at UN Climate Technology Centre and Network, Rose Mwebaza; DFC, Deputy Chief Climate Officer at U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, Aparna Shrivastava; and Prosus, Investor, Ting Ting Liu.
• Quality Education: Seedstars, Investment Manager, Konstantin Hapkemeyer; UNICEF, Adolescent Development Manager, Marcy Levy; and GSV Ventures, Partner, Luben Pampoulov.
• Good Jobs and Economic Growth: Seedstars, Chief Investment Officer, Charlie Graham-Brown; GIZ, Director Economic and Social Development, Digitalisation, Dr. Axel Klaphake; Click Ventures, Founder and Managing Partner, Carman Chan; and BFA Global, Senior Venture Builder, Maxime Bayen.
• Reduced Inequalities: Seedstars, Growth & Acceleration Program Manager, Eugenia Shevchenko; DOB EquityImpact Investors, Shawn Pantophlet; and Bethnal Green Ventures, Partner, Dama Sathianathan.
• Good Health and Wellbeing: Seedstars, Investment Manager, Sebastian Molina Gasman; IFC, Sr. Operations Officer - Global Lead, Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Business, Heather Kipnis; and Ataraxia VC, Chief Operating Partner, Neha Tanna M.D.

Only six startups will be announced as the FTxSDG Challenge Global Winners. They will be accelerated to the Seedstars International Fund where they’ll have the chance to secure up to $500K in funding, as well as receive access to the Seedstars Growth Program, and a visibility package from the Financial Times.

To watch the FTxSDG Challenge Finale week, you can register for the event for free here: http://FTtalent.ft.com/ftxseedstars/.

UN Women Showcase Asia-Pacific Care Industry Startups in Online Demo Day

Meet the most promising startups that are transforming care work into inclusive opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region

The UN Women Care Accelerator programme concluded with an online demo day, showcasing 13 Asia-Pacific startups with a focus on developing solutions for the Care-Economy. For more information about the startups, visit careaccelrator.seedstars.com.

Women in the Asia-Pacific are seen as the center of the family, responsible for taking care of the household and taking on a disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work responsibilities. Research shows that unpaid care also emerges as a critical reason why women do not participate in paid work. This is especially prevalent in the Asia-Pacific region, which is the only region globally in which women’s participation in the labour force has been declining the past 10 years.

The accelerator aimed to identify and support entrepreneurs who are creating innovative solutions that help to make care services more accessible, affordable and increase the quality of child and elderly care services provided. In turn, these solutions have the potential to create decent work opportunities for caregivers and provide an opportunity for many women and their families to have a caregiving solution allowing them to fully take part in the workforce.

The UN Women Care Accelerator provided enterprises with a 4-month intensive training programme to build more sustainable and gender-inclusive business strategies. At the demo day, all participating startups had the opportunity to present their business strategies to potential investors and care ecosystem stakeholders such as mentors, investors, speakers, NGOs and international organizations.

“The Care Accelerator has really opened our eyes to the possibilities that ‘Care Entrepreneurship’ can offer to create decent employment opportunities and also improve affordability, access and quality of care services. However it will require strong collaboration with policymakers and corporates alike to create an inclusive care economy.” said Katja Freiwald Regional Programme Manager WeEmpowerAsia UN Women.

The demo day is the official culmination of the UN Women Care Accelerator program, presented by UN Women, WeEmpowerAsia, European Union, Bopinc and co-organized by Seedstars, where each startup got to pitch their product and share their progress. After the pitching, all the companies also participated in 1:1 meetings with investors and partners.

Demo day featured the following startups from the UN Women Care Accelerator programme:

• LoveCare saves clients time by matching them with the perfect carer that fits their needs and preferences in less than 5 minutes.
• Kiddocare gives the tools to millions of freelance caregivers and nurses throughout Asia to better care for their clients while helping them grow their businesses through technology.
• Pillar Health develops highly scalable tools that help independent care providers work more efficiently and operate their care services more effectively.
• Nannyz matches nannies and babysitters with families in the area.
• Kiidu is a care platform to find the most suitable nannies and caregivers in Thailand.
• Aseana Caregivers connects parents with trained, vetted and certified Malaysian babysitters, for personalized on-demand childcare.
• Carer provides caregivers the most comprehensive in-home nursing help and guidance.
• Ayat Care facilitates empowerment without boundaries by providing care and coaching exactly where it is needed and beneficial.
• Bihani Social Venture provides age inclusive services with a focus on mental and physical well-being for older people in Nepal.
• Mobiva empowers older people to live independently longer, healthier and safer while providing peace of mind to their families.
• JobNukkad is an online portal in India that helps families connect with caregivers in their locality without paying commission to an agency: it is cheap and fast.
• TiTLi unlocks livelihood opportunities for millions of women by helping them become skilled early childhood educators and caregivers.
• Angels & I provides a proprietary educational curriculum and certification for nannies to take care and educate children at home.

"We’ve been working with the founders on a weekly basis for the past four months and it’s so rewarding to see this clear business growth as well as their progress in becoming more gender inclusive, as reflected in their pitches. A special thank you goes to our mentors, who have been supporting the founders through this intense, but extremely valuable journey," said Seedstars Acceleration Program Manager Eugenia Schevchenko.

After two pitching sessions the jury, consisting of: Christina Teo, Chief Builder at she1K; Konstantin Hapkemeyer, Investment Manager Africa & Asia at Seedstars; Katja Freiwald Regional Programme Manager at WeEmpowerAsia; and Paul Ark, Partner & Head of ESG at Gobi Partners, decided on two grant winners. Kiddocare and Lovecare will receive USD 5,000 each to support the building of a more inclusive care industry in Asia-Pacific. The grant was provided by WeEmpowerAsia and Seedstars.

In case you missed the demo day and want to see the pitches or request a meeting with one of the founders, visit careaccelrator.seedstars.com.

WeEmpowerAsia is a UN Women programme funded by and in partnership with the European Union that seeks to increase the number of women who lead and participate in business in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. For more information, visit http://weempowerasia.org.

UN Women is a global champion for gender equality, working to develop and uphold standards and create an environment in which every woman and girl can exercise her human rights and live up to her full potential. UN Women is a trusted partner of advocates and decision-makers from all walks of life, and it is a leader in the effort to achieve gender equality.

The European Union is made up of 27 Member States that have decided to gradually link together their know-how, resources and destinies. Together, during a 50-year period of enlargement, they have built a zone of stability, democracy and sustainable development while maintaining cultural diversity, tolerance and individual freedoms.

Seedstars is a private company based in Switzerland with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. The group’s activities cover emerging ecosystems in more than 90 cities through a variety of initiatives: the FTxSDG Challenge, previously known as the Seedstars World Competition, the largest entrepreneurship competition in emerging markets; Seedstars programmes designed to support entrepreneurs in varying stages of growth via training, education, mentoring and access to resources; Seedstars 01 talent incubator providing digital skills and startup-based immersive education for the next generation of changemakers; Seedspace coworking spaces and hubs located in 15 countries; and Seedstars International, a global venture capital fund for seed stage startups. For more information, visit www.seedstars.com.

Financial Times and Seedstars Launch Global FT x SDG Challenge for Startups

The Financial Times is partnering with Seedstars, a Swiss-based company that invests and supports startups from emerging markets, to host the first FTxSDG Challenge. The competition has been launched to empower promising, impact-driven startups and entrepreneurs with learning and funding opportunities. The call for applications is now live.

The focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to bring awareness to global problems, while also empowering entrepreneurs who are creating solutions that can address these issues. The event will bring together early-stage startups from emerging markets and individual entrepreneurs to take part in the FTxSDG Challenge competition.

150 participants will be invited to solve real business challenges and present innovative strategies with a focus on the SDGs. The selected themes are: Gender equality, Climate Action, Quality Education - supported by the School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR), Good Jobs and Economic Growth, Reduced Inequalities and Good Health and Wellbeing.

The event programme includes one-month’s access to the Investment Readiness Sessions by Seedstars and a five-day event filled with workshops, masterclasses, talks, mentoring and networking hosted by FT and Seedstars experts. Winning startups will be fast-tracked to the Seedstars Investments Fund and have the opportunity to secure up to $500,000 in funding.

Alisee De Tonnac, CEO, Seedstars, said: "Seedstars is very excited to launch the FTxSDG Challenge. Since 2013, our team has been organizing the Seedstars World Competition created to support and invest in impact-driven entrepreneurs from emerging markets. Working with Financial Times, we’re confident that this mission can be amplified together in the FTxSDG Challenge. Looking forward to seeing our combined efforts provide the entrepreneurs with even more resources and a larger global community of expert mentors and investors."

Jon Slade, FT’s Chief Commercial Officer, said: “We're excited to see FT Talent grow to include supporting early startups, as well as young professionals who are passionate about technology and entrepreneurship. Partnering with Seedstars is a game-changing opportunity to collaborate together and make a positive impact towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals."

Virginia Stagni, Business Development Manager & FT Talent Director, Financial Times added: “This partnership with Seedstars is our first startup challenge and supports the SDG’s critical agenda. Involving enterprises, and not just individuals, is a new step for the FT Talent project."

The deadline for applications is 1 November, 6pm GMT.

For more information, please visit the FTxSDG Challenge site: fttalent.ft.com/ftxseedstars/

Seedstars World Competition Announces Malaysian FinTech Startup Finology as Global Winner of $500K Funding

After almost a year-long virtual run, the Seedstars World Competition 2020/21 announced this year’s Global Winner, Malaysian FinTech startup Finology, a startup that enables seamless access to financial products via the use of proprietary technology and digital distribution channels. Finology will receive the grand prize of $500K in equity investment. Watch the Grand Finale replay here: seedsta.rs/SSW20GrandFinale

Hosted by Seedstars, the Swiss-based private group with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets, and The Next Web, one of the most important media and event creators in the startup world, the event gathered 25K registrations of viewers who wanted to tune in.

Seedstars Co-Founders and Co-CEOs Alisée de Tonnac and Pierre-Alain Masson host the online event

Since 2013, the Seedstars World Competition has grown to be the largest startup competition in emerging markets, but the unique pandemic situation led to the online transformation of this year’s edition.

Virtually traveling to 94 startup ecosystems across Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Eastern and Central Europe and Asia, the Seedstars team had narrowed down over 5,000 startup applications to the top five startup finalists in the running for the grand prize of up to $500,000 USD in investment.

Each startup took turns pitching to jury members Salman T. Jaffrey, CIO of Wa’ed Ventures, Shannon Kala-yana-mitr, CEO of 5G Catalyst Technologies and Advisor at Gobi partners, and Charlie Graham-Brown, CIO of Seedstars. The five finalists of this year’s competition included startups from five regions:

• Fulfillment Bridge (Tunisia)- A cloud based global e-commerce logistics platform offering warehousing in 4 continents, fulfillment, shipping, return management and more.
• Finology (Malaysia)- Finology enables seamless access to financial products via the use of our technology & ready digital distribution channels.
• Pegasi (Venezuela)- Makes healthcare information accessible, clear and useful for patients, physicians and service providers in the developing world.
• IMAN (Uzbekistan)- A marketplace that brings together merchants, shoppers, and investors at the point of sale using the principles of Islamic finance.
• Ladda (Nigeria)- A startup democratizing access to investment for retail investors backed up by financial literacy.

After deliberation, Finology emerged as this year’s Global Winner. Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Seedstars Alisée de Tonnac shared, “Finology showed us a lot of promise in their mission to bridge together financial institutions and individuals by making financial products accessible for everyone. The Seedstars team believes that they will effectively help lead the way forward in the ever increasing digitization of the financial sector. A big congratulations from Seedstars to the Finology team!”

Alisée de Tonnac addresses the five Seedstars World finalists: Fulfillment Bridge (Tunisia), Pegasi (Venezuela), Finology (Malaysia), IMAN (Uzbekistan), and Ladda (Nigeria)

Finology CEO Jared Lim expressed his excitement on their team’s win, “We’re all about using technology to deliver financial services to people in ways that are more meaningful to their lives. We look forward to rolling out more product offerings in Emerging Asia that have been designed around a seamless delivery experience.”

The Grand Finale broadcast was hosted by Seedstars Co-CEOs Alisée de Tonnac and Pierre-Alain Masson as well as Editor of Growth Quarters by TNW, Már Másson Maack. The event also included a panel discussion on 21st Century Education for 21st Century Skills featuring insights from Nicolas Sadirac, co-founder of 01-Edu, Sunita Grote from UNICEF Ventures and Seedstars’ Pierre-Alain Masson.

Other prizes were awarded to the innovative startups tackling different sectors:

• The EdTech Award by HEG Fribourg was won by Hossam Taher and his team at Orcas
• The ICT Accessibility Prize by the ​Qatar Assistive Technology Center ​(​MADA​) has been awarded to Tinkerbell Labs and their founders Sanskriti Dawle and Aman Srivastava
• The Women Entrepreneur Prize has been awarded to Olga Kitaina, CEO and founder of the Russian based startup Alter
• The Climate Action Prize was won by David Blazevski, CEO of MayMy Apple
• The Childhood Development Prize went to the Syrian startup Alphazed and their founder Mohammed Shaker

The Seedstars World Competition 2020/21 was made possible with the Canton of VAUD and the support of the School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR), Presence Switzerland as well as the Qatar Assistive Technology Center (MADA), who staunch supporters and believers in the power of innovation and entrepreneurship.

To rewatch the Grand Finale broadcast, visit: http://seedsta.rs/SSW20GrandFinale.

Twenty Finalists Compete for $500,000 In World’s Largest Emerging Markets Competition

The 20 winners advancing to the final stage of the Online Seedstars World Competition 2020/21 (SSW) have been announced. From 94 startups, only 20 are moving on to the Regional Finals for a chance to secure a spot at the Grand Finale, the final round of competition. In the Finale, only one startup will emerge as the Global winner, receiving the grand prize of $500K in funding. Save the date and tune in to the broadcast here: https://seedsta.rs/3tSSg55

“With how hard and unexpected 2020 was to each one of us, it was really amazing to see our finalists grow over the competition while going through the Online Seedstars Academy as well as the 1 month Investment Readiness Program. It’s going to be an exciting Regional Finals!” said Eugenia Shevchenko, lead of the competition.


Seedstars, the Swiss-based investment holding with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets, annually holds the Seedstars World Competition to scout for the most promising startups around the Asia, Africa, CEE, MENA, and LATAM regions.

Each startup now has a spot at the Regional Finals with a chance to pitch at the Grand Finale and win a grand prize of USD 500K in equity investment. The startup finalists moving on to the Grand Finale are as follows:

 
MENA Global Finalists for Seedstars World Competition 2020/21

• Fulfillment Bridge (Tunisia) - Cloud-based global e-commerce logistic platform offering warehousing in 4 continents, fulfillment, shipping, return management and more.

• BiomWeb (Lebanon) - A startup that harnesses the power of nature and a suite of internet-connected devices to revolutionize the wastewater sector.

• Al-Mawwan (Egypt) - The first and biggest digital platform for construction materials in Egypt.

• Droobi (Qatar) - The world’s first suite of bilingual (Arabic & English) digital therapeutic programs, using a host of best-in-class technologies. 

LATAM Global Finalists for Seedstars World Competition 2020/21

• Pegasi (Venezuela) - A startup that makes healthcare information accessible, clear and useful for patients, physicians and service providers in the developing world.

• Alfi (Peru) - A marketplace for financial products based on financial education. They educate and include people through a single digital channel.

• Klouser (Argentina) - A platform that helps thought leaders to digitize their business, retain and engage their customers through their own membership business.

Asia Global Finalists for Seedstars World Competition 2020/21

 

• ODESH (Papua New Guinea) - Port Moresby city's ridesharing system that provides a cheap, safe and convenient taxi and chauffeur services. 

• Smartfuture (Singapore) - Offers integrated IoT and AI enabled white label platform for telemedicine to healthcare providers.

• Finology (Malaysia) - Enables seamless access to financial products via the use of our technology & ready digital distribution channels.

• ELN (Pakistan) - Provides 100% online, globally accredited vocational training to over 25 countries in education, quality assurance & health and safety.

CEE Global Finalists for Seedstars World 2020

• IMAN (Uzbekistan) - A marketplace that brings together merchants, shoppers, and investors at the point of sale using the principles of Islamic finance. 

• Alter (Russia) - A science-based service helping people to find a right and professional psychotherapist with proper method and specialization.

• Payze (Georgia) - Payment gateway platform allowing online marketplaces to automatically split any number of transactions between any number of actors.

• Noomee (Armenia) - Highlights solutions to the main problems that face children with ASD and also guides their parents and therapists.

Africa Global Finalists for Seedstars World 2020

• Flamingoo Foods (Tanzania) - Using cutting-edge climate tech, Flamingo Foods forecasts food deficit and surplus areas before they are known and proactively react to food insecurity.

• Ladda (Nigeria) - Democratizes access to investment for retail investors backed up by financial literacy.

• Rohobot home-based healthcare services (Ethiopia) - Provides quality home-based healthcare services for chronic illness and aged peoples with skilled health professionals at affordable prices.

• Sparco (Zambia) - Provides tools to allow businesses to collect money from their customers anywhere and also have access to a pool of delivery companies.

• CAPTURE Solutions (Ivory Coast) - Provides the best ICT operational agri-supply management system in Africa.

The regional finals to be aired on April, 12-16 will feature the startups battling it out for their spots in the Grand Finale. Tune in to check out the participants pitch, watch the Ecosystem Insights presentation, and listen to the panel discussions where speakers from UN Women, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, Palladium, and CAF Development Bank and other organizations will be discussing Women Empowerment and Gender Equality. 

To join in the regional finals broadcast, you may add the events to your calendar here: https://seedsta.rs/3tSSg55

India's iSchoolConnect Among Selected 94 Tech Startups to Advance to Regionals of Seedstars World Competition 2020

The local winners of the Seedstars World Competition (SSW) 2020 have been announced. From over 5,000 applicants, 94 tech startups from emerging markets were selected to advance to the regional stage of the competition. The local winners are set to represent their respective countries as they compete for a spot at the Global Finale, where the grand prize is $500K in funding. For more information about the competition, visit the Seedstars website: https://seedsta.rs/2HrNglF



“During this unusual year for everyone, I am proud to say that we managed to identify the most promising startups in 94 emerging markets. The online format of the competition allowed us to dream and go bigger as we reached a larger audience and invited more startups from all the cities of each country to apply. Now, we can’t wait for our local winners to represent their countries in the webisodes of the regional stage of the competition. I’d like to invite everyone to follow their journey and root for their favorite startup from the different corners of the world,” shares Eugenia Shevchenko, Lead of the Seedstars World Competition 2020/21.

Seedstars, the Swiss-based private company with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets, annually holds the Seedstars World Competition to continuously scout for the most promising startups around the Asia, Africa, CEE, MENA, and LATAM regions. This year, 94 ecosystems were included in the online open call for applications. From there, 1,200 startups participated in the Online Seedstars Academy, a training program for entrepreneurs to accelerate their growth and receive mentorship from industry experts around the world.

The next phase of the competition takes the local winners to the regional stage. From the regionals, 10 startups will receive USD 50K in growth program investment as well as the chance to compete at the Grand Finale for a shot at the Global Winner prize of USD 500K in equity investment.

Seedstars has selected 94 startups moving on to the regional stage with upcoming online events lined up for the remaining winner announcements:

Asia Local Winners for Seedstars World 2020

The competition rounded up tech startups in Asia from various industries. Along with the effects of the pandemic come the rise of FoodTech and e-commerce platforms, such as One Click Shop Bhutan (Bhutan), TukangSayur (Indonesia), and KloudKitchen (Thailand) that make it easy to shop for groceries as well as optimize logistics for food production and delivery. The HealthTech industry is also booming with opportunity. Regional finalists smartfuture (Singapore) and Healthnet (Sri Lanka) offer solutions addressing both the need for accessible healthcare.

EdTech startups iSchoolConnect (India), providing optimized admissions systems, and ELN Limited (Pakistan), offering online vocational training, serve as timely solutions for today’s online educational shift. Startups offering FinTech solutions for payments, access to financial products, and loans were also selected to move on to the next round - shurjoMukhi Limited (Bangladesh), Finology (Malaysia), and Kiu Myanmar (Myanmar), respectively. Enterprise software startups have also made it to the mix: PlasGate (Cambodia) as an SMS gateway and BOXS (HK/China) as a platform for modular software services.

A few more interesting startups who made it to the regionals are Diyalo Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Nepal), focused on water sanitation as well as SMS platform MessageOWL (Maldives) and messaging-commerce platform, Chatbot Vietnam (Vietnam).

The local winners for Philippines and the Pacific Islands (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Samoa) are to be announced at the end of November: 27th for the Philippines; 25th for Fiji; 26th for Papua New Guinea; and 27th for Samoa. You can sign up to the online pitch events by following the Seedstars Facebook events page here: https://seedsta.rs/395Atk3.


CEE Local Winners for Seedstars World 2020

The CEE regionals will have a lot of interesting startups participating. A majority of the local winners are focused on HealthTech: Alter (Russia), SanoPass (Romania), PharmBonus (Belarus), Noomee (Armenia), and Elomia (Ukraine). Three edtech platforms ABC Planet (Azerbaijan), Okoo (Kazakhstan), and Tomyo (Mongolia) are also joining the regionals.


Fintech startups offering solutions for payments, payroll, investment needs are Payze (Georgia), IMAN (Uzbekistan), Flipful (Latvia), and BrikkApp (Czech Republic). There are also HR tech startups, Zelos (Estonia) and HR Kit (Bulgaria), that are also moving to the next round of the competition.


AgriTech MapMy Apple (Serbia) and retail solution startup Scan and Buy (Poland) complete the current list of local CEE winners. The local winner for Moldova is set to be announced on November 26, 4PM Moldova time. Tune in to the online broadcast by saving the date: https://seedsta.rs/38PTNlb.

MENA Local Winners for Seedstars World 2020

More promising startups are moving on to the MENA regionals. Fintech platforms Policyhouse (UAE) and FinFirst Capital (Kuwait) are helping make insurance and banking needs accessible, respectively. HealthTech startups StafMedic (Algeria), Droobi Health Technology (Qatar), Tanfees (Oman), Speetar (Libya) focused on telemedicine solutions to help promote accessibility for the local health and medical needs are among the local winners.


With a mission to improve water sanitation, Akyas (Jordan) and Mruna (Lebanon) were picked to advance to the regionals. EdTech platforms AlRawi Media (Bahrain), Oriigami (Morocco), Alphazed (Syria), and Twin Science & Robotics (Turkey) that focus on supporting students by providing gamified learning platforms and connecting them to tutors claimed their spots at the next stage and other solutions. Startups offering on-demand consumer services in their respective verticals are also part of the regionals: Fix-it (Iraq) specialized in maintenance; Amal (Palestine) for construction; and Paklean (Iran) for laundry.

There is also the supply chain logistics startup Esky Pro (Tunisia) and e-commerce platform IFF (Saudi Arabia) that are advancing to the next phase, along with Al-Mawwan (Egypt), another e-commerce platform specializing in construction materials.

LATAM Local Winners for Seedstars World 2020

Rounding off the complete list of local winners for this year’s SSW2020 are the LATAM regional finalists. Four enterprise tech startups are solving a variety of enterprise grade issues utilizing, AI, IoT, automation, and digitization: Cuantix (Chile), EDNA (Costa Rica), Cognitiva (Ecuador), and SIA (Panama). Fintech Alfi (Peru) is also infusing financial education with their marketplace for financial products.


Making up the HealthTech startups joining the LATAM regionals are Creotec (Bolivia), a startup producing accessible prosthetics; Bitmec (Guatemala), a digital healthcare platform empowering the underserved rural communities; and PEGASI (Venezuela), a company that helps make healthcare information accessible. Online EdTech platforms Boki (Uruguay) and EduSynch (Brazil) are delivering fun educational tools for students and effective online assessment tools for institutions.


Retail-focused startups helping local businesses increase their sales and digitize their offerings are TiendApp (Colombia) and Aumenta (Paraguay). Through their AI technology, Own The Trip (Dominican Republic) offers travel solutions to travelers and aiwifi (Mexico) brings wifi as a marketing and CI tool businesses. Lastly, Klouser (Argentina), a service provider for digitizing businesses, is also advancing to the next stage.


The regional stage of the competition will include a 1 month long Investment Readiness Program, modernized and personalized program helping startups get investment ready. It will consist of: action-driven webinars on key business metrics; online office hours, where startups can discuss challenges they are facing; domain groups and 1-on-1 mentoring sessions; investor meetings for potential funding opportunities; and peer-to-peer learning and networking sessions.


Online episodes for the regional stage of the competition will be aired at the end of January 2021. Viewers will get to see each local winner pitch in front of the juries and learn more about each of the teams’ startup stories. At the end of each episode, the regional winners moving on to the Global Finale in March 2021 will be announced.


To follow the competition, you may visit the Seedstars World Competition 2020 page here: https://seedsta.rs/2HrNglF
ABOUT SEEDSTARS

Seedstars is a Swiss-based private company with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. The groups’ activities cover over 90 emerging ecosystems through a variety of initiatives such as the Online Seedstars World Competition, acceleration programs, physical hubs called Seedspace, venture capital investments and company building activities. Seedstars The Documentary is a feature film featuring the company’s vision to give a voice to the game changers of the developing world.

Probus Smart Things wins Best Startup in India at Seedstars Delhi 2019

Seedstars World, the largest seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, brought its India round to a successful close during Seedstars Delhi. The event took place this Monday 3rd of June, at Amazon Web Services, and 8 selected startups were invited to present their companies in front of the local jury panel.

The local winner, Probus Smart Things, digitizing distribution grid and improving 2-3% annual efficiency of their network through an integrated IoT platform based service, was named “Best Startup in India” for its innovative sustainable solution. “It was very exciting to take part in the competition. It was very well organized and only curated startups were selected. Thank you for giving me this opportunity as we will get the exposure to meet potential international partners, investors that would help us scale up geographically. Thank you Seedstars.”, explains Rahul Mishra, Co-founder & COO at Probus Smart Things.

As a part of the prize,Probus Smart Things will be participating at the Seedstars Asia Summit and get a chance to go to the Seedstars Summit, which takes place in Switzerland, in April 2020. It is a week-long training program, with the opportunity to meet the 65+ winners from other fast growing economies, as well as investors and mentors from around the world. The final day of the Summit is dedicated to pitching in front of an audience of more than 1000 attendees, with the possibility of winning up to USD 500,000 in equity investment and other prizes.



The 8 startups pitched in front of a prestigious jury, including Bipin Shah, Ankur Warikoo, Aparna Dua, Ashish Taneja, Sandro Stephen and Satwik Govindarajula.

Remedo, with its patient engagement platform that grows doctor practices and changes clinical outcomes for chronic conditions, came second and Agrowave, with its solution to optimize fruits & vegetables supply chain by connecting farmers directly to business using data driven technology, grabbed the last spot in the top 3.

The other startups invited to pitch were The Knotty Tales, Farmton Agro Services, Cogniable, Sensegrass and FitPhilia. They all win 1-month access to the Investment Readiness Program, a non-time bound and data-driven acceleration program focused in boosting tech startups looking to get ready for fundraising.

After this stop at India, Martin Courtinat, Associate for Asia at Seedstars, says “We were looking forward to coming back to India to find promising startups after Wobot won the innovation prize last April at the Seedstars Summit and we were not disappointed! The selected candidates all had high quality, impact focus projects and we are happy to continue to support them with the Investment Readiness Program and take them to the next level.”

Continuing on its world tour of fast-growing startup scenes in emerging markets, Seedstars World’s next stop is Seedstars Manilla 2019 organised in partnership with IGNITE, to select the best startup in the Philippines. Seedstars World is looking for smart startups that solve regional issues and/or develop profitable products for the global market. Startups are invited to apply here: https://www.ignite.ph/, until Friday 7th.

The event was also supported by AWS, Ingenious Faces, StartupsClub, Chatur Ideas and Nexus and CoWorkin.

ABOUT SEEDSTARS

"They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds." - Mexican proverb
Seedstars is a Swiss-based private group of companies with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. The groups’ activities cover over 80 emerging ecosystems through a variety of events such as the Seedstars World Competition, acceleration programs, physical hubs called Seedspace, venture capital investments and company building activities.

Indian Startup Wobot Wins Innovation Prize at Seedstars Global 2019

Seedstars World, the biggest startup competition focusing on emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, held its grand finale with the sixth edition of the Global Seedstars Summit. Over 1000 people attended the event in Lausanne, Switzerland, together with startups, investors, mentors and corporates, from all over the globe.

14 out of 67 startups invited were from Asia and two were among the 12 finalists on Seedstar Summit day.

Blended, the leading school platform in Latin America, was ccrowned as Winner of the competition.

Besides, an Indian startup Wobot has been selected as winner of Innovation Prize by Tag Heuer, one of the category in the competition. Headquartered in Delhi, Wobot is a Computer Vision solutions startup that automate monitoring of surveillance systems and compliance checks by deploying a layer of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on CCTV infrastructure.

[caption id="attachment_129625" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tanay Dixit, Product Head at WOBOT, receiving the Innovation Prize Award on the Final Summit Day[/caption]

After covering 80+ countries throughout 2018 with local and regional competitions, Seedstars invited all winners to Switzerland. They had the chance to compete for different prizes, including up to $500K in equity investment and the title of Seedstars Global Winner.

The Seedstars Summit is not only a conference but an opportunity for stakeholders active in impact investment, tech and entrepreneurship to network and benefit from a unique hands-on growth experience. During April 2nd and 3rd, startups participated in a two-day bootcamp with more than 60 experts supporting them in achieving their next milestones. During the private Investor Forum on April 4th, 12 finalists were selected to compete on the main stage. On the Summit Day - April 5th - the startups delivered 3-minute pitches on the main stage in front of more than 1,000 hand-picked ecosystem builders, corporates, investors, startup enthusiasts representing some of the most prominent names of tech and entrepreneurship in emerging markets.


“The Seedstars experience, I believe, is very important for entrepreneurs. More than the money, I have received so much and taken in so many great ideas from entrepreneurs all over the world. Seedstars work is fundamental in showcasing that great companies exist everywhere.” says Hernandez, CFO & Founder of  Blended: a mobile communication platform connecting schools with families in Latin America. With a user friendly collaborative interface, they optimize communication, and improve learning results with state-of-the-art technology at an affordable cost.

According to Pierre-Alain Masson co-founder at Seedstars, “We are very proud to be supporting all these entrepreneurs and we’ll continue to expand our activities with the launch of new acceleration and training programs across the world. We’ll also be announcing more funding to these unbelievable entrepreneurs that we have seen on stage all week.”

On top of the $500,000 investment prize for the Seedstars Global Winner, Seedstars and its partners awarded 7 additional prizes:

• Public Prize by Vaud: SPEI allowed the Summit attendees to vote for the best tech start-ups among the Seedstars Global Competition winners. YNMO from Saudi Arabia is a SaaS that allows disabilities service providers including schools, centers & clinics to design and monitor individualized treatment plans.


• Labeskey / Schoolap, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, won the Transforming Education Prize by TRECC and the School of Management Fribourg, winning access to the Seedstars Growth Program worth $50,000. The online platform provides tools to improve the education system with school administration management modules.


• TAG Heuer, Seedstars World official timekeeper, partnered with Seedstars Summit to reward the Innovation Prize to Wobot. The Indian startup allows companies to automate their surveillance systems with Artificial Intelligence.


• Seedstars Vaccine Delivery Challenge was awarded to the South African startup Iyeza, by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. $10,000 will be provided to improve their web platform for the delivery of Human PapillomaVirus (HPV) vaccine to young women.


• Also with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Seedstars Malaria Challenge was awarded to Medsaf, through their platform, the Nigerian startup connects pharmacies and hospitals with safe and cost-effective medication.


• Along with Seedstars, Merck awarded the Life Science Prize to Oxpecker Labs from Hong Kong. They will participate in the Merck Acceleration program and scale up their non-invasive sweat sensor to help prevent dehydration and heat strokes.


• 7keema, the first on-demand home nursing services of its kind from Egypt, won the Rising Tide Foundation Empowerment Prize. They won access to the Seedstars Growth Program as well as an equity investment.

In order to have true impact Seedstars can count on the support of great partners: SPEI, School of Management Fribourg, TRECC, TAG Heuer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rising Tide Foundation, EPFL, CVCI, Lausanne Région and Ville de Lausanne, Nespresso.

Additionally, 8 startups from developed markets looking to expand or solve problems in emerging markets pitched on the Breakout Stage. Tag Heuer crowned DOT Glasses winner and Noisypeak runner-up. hiLyte came out third and was supported by our partner Logitech.

Moreover, Seedstars is proud to announce its partnership with First Growth Ventures' founders Tamim El Zein and Maxime Bouan to launch a $100mn sub-Saharan Africa venture fund. The fund will focus on early stage investments from USD 250 thousand to USD 5 million in the most promising innovative ventures across sectors and countries. The fund is the first of a series of regional funds Seedstars will launch in the coming years to continue the mission of accelerating and supporting entrepreneurs at all stages.

Meet Seedstars' 9 Seed-Stage Indian Startups Selected To Pitch To Investors in Delhi Event

Last week, we reported that Seedstars World, a global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets, has come to India for holding a dynamic pitch event on May 18th at Gurugram.

The shortlisted startups which will pitch on May 18th will have compete for a place in the finals at the Seedstars Summit, that annually takes place in Switzerland.

However, in a what could be called as a 'bonus' to startups in India, Seedstars, instead of shortlisting 8 startups, has selected the 9 seed-stage tech startups from India who will pitch to a jury of investors and successful entrepreneurs.

Below are the chosen ones :

Navia Life Care

New Delhi

Sector: Health / Wellness

Navia is a health tech startup building patient engagement solutions improve health outcomes, through increased compliance, monitoring & engagement. With its app it offers effective monitoring of patients out of clinical setting and digitization of health records.

Love In Store

Gurugram

Sector: Consumer Products

Love In Store is a mobile application to -- manage and track retail loyalty programmes, create, audit in store assets, receive payments and engage customers. The app allows retailers, who are struggling with managing multiple loyalty programmes, visibility assets and payouts, to track and manage their loyalty programmes, self merchandise the store.

Str8bat

Bangalore

Sector: Sports Tech (IoT)

For sports players who have No Instant visual feedback about their performance and if there's its only based on camera which is expensive. To solve this, str8bat has developed an IoT device which gives INSTANT, VISUAL & ACTIONABLE feedback to players & coaches to help them get better everyday.

Act It Out

Ahmedabad

The startup is an online platform to give and take auditions from anytime, anywhere at lowest cost by connecting actors and production houses online from comfort of their home through a smart phone to host and upload auditions. The startup is solving problem of unorganized audition market and current process. Expensive for productions to host auditions and inconvenient for actors to give auditions.

Aether Biomedical

Delhi

Sector: Medtech / Biotech

Aether is a medical device innovation platform with its core focus on medical robotics and rehabilitation developing Zeus - A bionic limb for amputees. eus is a bionic limb for upper limb amputees with multiple grip modes, anthropomorphic design and feedback control under $2000. Notably, the global robotics prosthesis market is worth 790 Million USD and there is no low cost - high efficacy prosthesis for upper limb amputees.

IMPEL LABS

Bangalore

Sector: Advertising and Marketing (Artificial Intelligence [AI])

With exploding content and choices, retail & digital businesses are struggling to engage customers, Impel Labs has a flagship product Recotap, a AI Powered Personalization Technology For Retail(offline) and media(online). Recotap is AI driven audience engagement platform for digital media portals, retail kiosks and displays virtual assistants, web/mobile apps.

Wobot

New Delhi

Sector: Enterprise Products (Artificial Intelligence [AI])

The amount of data that a CCTV generates each second is immense and CCTV footage's analysed by human eye is inaccurate and time consuming. Wobot helps businesses make sense of this CCTV data by implementing a layer of Artificial Intelligence that is taught to do surveillance on behalf of the human eye.

BYKUP

Jaipur

Sector: Travel and Transport

BYKUP is building single marketplace for motorbikes for emerging India’s 600 Mn population. It allows the purchase/sell of asset and also enables buyers to earn back the monthly costs via ride-sharing.

Curie Labs

Delhi

Sector: Energy/ Clean Tech

Curie Labs has built AI driven sensors to reduce power bills by 25%. As inefficiencies in a commercial buildings leading to a lot of wastage, which amounts to 40% in total, Curie Labs automate the entire building and hence do thermal profiling thereby optimizing the HVAC systems.