Start-ups selected for EPFL Alumni Seed Night 2016

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11.04.2016

The EPFL Alumni Seed Night, an annual start-up presentation, brings together the most promising entrepreneurs from EPFL and beyond, angel investors, mentors, industry leaders and scientists. Selected start-ups will have the opportunity to pitch before the audience.

At the EPFL Alumni Seed Night start-ups looking for support or business angels have an ideal opportunity to catch attention to themselves. At the same time Alumni get a first-hand impression of the plans and achievements of start-ups and of the experiences of investors.

This year’s program of the Seed Night will include:

  • A 2-round Start-up pitch contest with 10 selected entrepreneurs from various industries and the audience selecting the winners (see list of participants below)
  • The Isabelle Musy Prize that will be awarded to a woman with an innovative entrepreneurial project
  • A start-up exhibit with over 20 start-ups companies and local corporate representatives interested in open innovation.
  • A panel discussion about risks and opportunities of venture investment with industry speakers.

Start-ups selected for the Seed Night
From e-heath to biotech, from connected sport technologies to neurosciences, the Seed Night will showcase start-ups from very diverse industries. The following start-ups have been selected to pitch.

TasteHit: Represented by Alexei Kounine.
TasteHit helps online shops increase conversion and loyalty using data science. TasteHit personalizes the experience of each individual visitor, helping him discover and remember products he likes on-site, as well as across his favourite shops.

Insolight: Represented by Laurent Coulot.
Insolight is building solar panels with double efficiency compared to conventional silicon panels. Its innovative technology, called optical micro-tracking, allows concentrating the sunlight throughout the year in a flat panel assembly.

bNovate: Represented by Simon Kuenzi.
Founded in early 2011, bNovate is the first company to create an instrument for fast, automated, and continuous monitoring of bacteria in drinking water. It now possesses a fully validated technology that answers the needs of waterworks and the bottled water industry.

Technis: Represented by Wiktor Bourée.
Technis provides entertaining, immediate and precise data generation in sports by making the floor tactile and smart. The Pad feeds provide users information to enable them keep track of their evolution whilst growing a sport-oriented community.

Qloudlab: Represented by Arthur Queval.
QloudLab has developed a remote blood monitoring platform for the prevention of heart diseases, a leading cause of death in developed countries. Its intelligent solution allows high-risk patients to perform blood tests at home and instantly communicate their results to their doctor.

Morphodyne: Represented by Andrea Negro.
Morphodyne produces made-to-measure 3D-printed tissue models for pharmaceutical development. Adopting their tailorable models, major and small firms will record remarkable R&D cost savings and reduced time-to-market.

Advanced Sport Instrument (ASI): Represented by Julien Moix.
Product of the company Advanced Sport Instrument, FieldWiz is the first standalone affordable GPS performance tracking systems for outdoor field sports. It is a standalone device worn on a player’s back to collect physical and strategic statistics synchronized after a game or practice.

SensArs Neuroprosthetics: Represented by Francesco Petrini.
SensArs Neuroprosthetics has developed “SENSY”, a unique device, which allows amputees, unlike current available prostheses, to feel again from missing limbs. It is a neuroprosthetic device to be implanted within the residual nerves, or healthy part of the nerves, aimed at restoring the natural-like flow of the neural sensory information.

Pryv SA: Represented by Evelina Georgieva.
Pryv developed and sold licenses of a trusted eHealth Data Middleware, pryv.io, which enables effortless collection, storage and segregation of patients’ heterogeneous data while ensuring medical-grade security, data interoperability, legal and compliance adaptability.

The winner of this year's Isabelle Musy Prize will pitch too.

In addition the following start-ups will also join the start-up exhibitions. The list will be updated by the time of the event.

Intento: Represented by Andrea Maesani.
Intento develops wearable neuroprostheses that promote brain reorganization and functional recovery in paralyzed stroke patients.

SalesWings: Represented by Philip Schweizer.
SalesWings helps small sales and marketing teams sell better, by showing them which leads are the most sales-ready.

Gait Up: Represented by Alex Russel.
Gait Up is a technology company that makes wearable devices for professional grade motion analysis in the healthcare and sports industries.

Konduko: Represented by Matt Harris.
Konduko focuses on proximity technologies in order to deliver great consumer experiences and analytics on people’s preferences and behaviours in crowded environments.

SThAR: Represented by Alberto Hernando de Castro.
The platform of SThAR uses Big Data algorithms and sociothermodynamic models on virality and collective human behaviour for designing the best roadmap for an out-of-home marketing campaign according to the desired target.

More details and registration on the website of the EPFL Alumni.

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