The TOP 20 startups of this year's PODIM Challenge are known! The jury, consisting of the representatives of Slovenian Business Angels Club, RSG Kapital, Start:up Slovenia initiative, CorpoHub, DsgFwd Accelarator and Mr. Julien Coustary has reviewed 96 applications and chosen 20 top startups for the semi-finals of PODIM Challenge.
This year’s main prize for the PODIM Challenge winner is an all-inclusive one-week business trip to the Silicon Valley with a networking programme, organized by the ABC Accelerator in the total value of 10,000 EUR.
These are the semi-finalists of this year's PODIM Challenge:
This year’s main prize for the PODIM Challenge winner is an all-inclusive one-week business trip to the Silicon Valley with a networking programme, organized by the ABC Accelerator in the total value of 10,000 EUR.
These are the semi-finalists of this year's PODIM Challenge:
- 3D Survey (Modri Planet), (Slovenia, 3dsurvey.si): Company Modri planet has developed a comprehensive system for gathering geospatial information from air and analyzing it as well as converting it into exact 3D models.
- Agitron (Slovenia, www.agitron.io): Agitron provides retailers with insights into customer purchasing habits, enables product layout optimizations, employee management, and allows improved advertising.
- AOX | Development Studio (BiH, aox.ba): AOX | Development Studio created a complete solution in wireless remote monitoring for irrigation and crop management from the convenience of your computer, smartphone or tablet.
- Apon (Serbia, apon.com): Apon enables anybody to create amazing and cost-effective apps in no time with an intuitive user interface and powerful drag and drop components.
- Coinhab (Slovenia, coinhab.si): Coinhab is a platform for collective housing projects, which links potential buyers around suitable real estate.
- Crosscloud (Austria, crosscloud.me): Crosscloud enables every company to use multiple modern cloud storage solutions to communicate with customers and partners in a secured and controlled way.
- Datafy.it (SmartPA) (Slovenia, datafy.it): Datafy.it collects unstructured, publicly available data from more than 1000 data sources on the internet and delivers structured B2B people and company data in a way that can instantly be implemented in their sales and marketing processes.
- Diab Trend (Ép Gép Ép Test) (Hungary, diabtrend,com): The company is developing an application called DiabTrend - a "smart" diary application for diabetic people, which can analyze the data recorded in the application with modern big data tools and help diabetic people manage their diabetes.
- FastCast (Slovenia, fastcast.me): Fastcast is going to build the strongest network / marketplace for commercial film production - a marketplace for recruitment of talent and hiring filming locations worldwide.
- Feelif (Slovenia, feelif.com): Feelif is a multimedia tool for blind and visually impaired people that enables them to feel shapes on a standard touchscreen.
- Genialis (Slovenia, genialis.com): Genialis builds software that empowers scientists to autonomously interact with biological data through Real-Time Interactive Visualization technology, which provides an unprecedented level of life scientist user engagement with data.
- Home Friend (Juvo) (Croatia, juvohomefriend.com): Juvo - Home Friend is an alarm system for sneaky toddlers. It's a home alarm system for reporting a child's movement towards less safe areas in the home.
- Hushme (Ukraine, gethushme.com): Hushme is a personal acoustic device protecting speech privacy when speaking on the phone in open space offices and public places.
- Invoice Exchange (Borza terjatev) (Slovenia, borzaterjatev.si): Invoice Exchange is an online peer-to-peer marketplace that enables companies to easily sell their outstanding B2B invoices to financial investors through a secure, auction-based exchange.
- Keeply (Kamino) (Slovenia, keeplyapp.io): Keeply is a digital vault for sensitive data on all digital platforms.
- Koola CRM (Koola) (BiH, koola.io): Koola is a connected car CRM platform that connects car dealerships with its customers, shows service opportunities (service due, crash reports, engine faults, revenue opportunity) and increases customer retention, satisfaction and dealership revenues.
- Roivenue (Cross Masters) (Czech Republic, roivenue.com): Roivenue helps marketers measure, analyze, and improve ROI of their marketing activities.
- Teodoor (Bitnot) (Slovenia, teodoor.com): The prosperous young company Teodoor from Slovenia is set to please its customers with the most advanced smart lock for front doors of apartments or houses.
- Unigraph & Ingen.io (Ingeniosity) (Slovakia, unigraph.io): Ingeniosity is creating an Artificial Intelligence layer for text analysis and understanding based on an internal knowledge graph that stores information about every object in the world we live in.
- Viberate (Slovenia, viberate.com): Viberate is a live music marketplace, matching musicians with event organizers.
