Scandit wins start-up competition in Silicon Valley

The G-Startup competition is part Global Mobile Internet Conference – Silicon Valley. The competition is broken into two tracks, for early-stage and growth-stage startups. Scandit has participated in the growth-stage track, with CEO Samuel Müller pitching the judges and participating in Q&A. He was competing against 9 other startups.
 
As the winner Scandit got a pitch on the main stage, opportunities to join incubators and other perks. Twenty percent of the score has come from online voters.
 
The Global Mobile Internet Conference was running October 20^th and 21^st at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. The weekend featured keynotes by executives from Facebook, Electronic Arts, Evernote, Box, and Xiaomi, as well as a developer’s track, app competitions and more.
 
Scandit is a leading platform to connect consumers with everyday products through mobile phones. With its best-in-class barcode scanning technology, product data and analytics services, Scandit enables developers to build quality mobile commerce, payment and enterprise solutions. Endorsed by the global barcode standardization organization as its preferred technology and used by hundreds of companies worldwide, Scandit is the choice for millions of users around the globe.
 
Mirasense, the company behind Scandit, was founded in 2009 by entrepreneurs and former researchers at MIT and ETH Zurich. Mirasense is privately funded and has won several national and international entrepreneurship accolades such as the CTI Start-up label in 2011.