Press release -
Best start-up ideas in the field of Future Cloud announced
Eight start-ups have been shortlisted out of 65 applicants in the category Future Cloud. The finalists will pitch their ideas on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 October in Rennes, France at the Inria Convention Centre, in front of an expert jury consisting of industry experts, investors, entrepreneurs and business accelerators.
The final is embedded into the Future Cloud Symposium, an international symposium organised by EIT Digital on the future of cloud computing. It examines how the latest advances in cloud technology and research can be turned into sustainable businesses. The focus is on big data and data analytics. For these two days, Rennes will be the place to be for the cloud computing community providing a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs, industry representatives, decision makers, VCs, academics and researchers to get together.
The finalists are:
Carbon Analytics Cloud Footprinting (UK):
Automated, full-scope environmental assessment for small businesses utilising innovative data and cloud infrastructure.
Julie Desk (France):
Julie Desk is an AI based scheduling assistant that schedules meetings and appointments by email like a real assistant.
ReSnap (Netherlands):
A unique image selection technology: A user can upload all pictures from any datasource or cloud storage and their best moments are selected within 1 minute.
TANKER (France):
Tanker edits a strong endpoint cyber-security solution to secure small businesses' data and communications.
Linkurious (France):
Linkurious helps organizations use their data to uncover relationships among people, places, things, and entities.
WeTransform (Germany):
WeTransform is a platform where professionals develop and share data transformation processes.
Media Distillery (Netherlands):
Media Distillery lets you search in all that was said or shown in audio and video, both on- and off-line.
re2you (Germany):
re2you is a cloud-based ecosystem of all your devices, allowing you to drag & drop content across devices and apps without up/downloads.
Please register here if you would like to attend the Future Cloud Symposium and the final pitch event in Rennes.
Topics
- Science, technology
Categories
- innovation
- entrepreneur
- start-ups
- entrepreneurship
- cloud
- startups
About EIT Digital
EIT Digital* is a leading European open innovation organisation. Our mission is to foster digital technology innovation and entrepreneurial talent for economic growth and quality of life in Europe. We bring together entrepreneurs from a partnership of over 130 top European corporations, SMEs, start-ups, universities and research institutes.
EIT Digital invests in strategic areas to accelerate the market uptake of research-based digital technologies and to bring entrepreneurial talent and leadership to Europe. Our innovation and education activities are organised in and around our co-location centres, where students, researchers, engineers, business developers and entrepreneurs come together to drive the digitalisation of society.
EIT Digital is a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Since 2010, EIT Digital is consistently mobilising talents, ideas, technologies, investments and business across Europe and beyond to stimulate disruptive digital innovation. The headquarter is in Brussels with co-location centres in Berlin, Eindhoven, Helsinki, London, Paris, Stockholm, Trento, as well as in Budapest and Madrid.
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About the Idea Challenge
Idea Challenge is EIT Digital’s Europe wide contest to identify and support the best European start-ups in digital technology. The competition aims to help the most innovative start-ups to succeed in world markets by providing access to EIT Digital’s pan-European innovation network with more than 130 partners and supporting international growth through the EIT Digital Accelerator.
Established in 2014 the Idea Challenge received in its first two years more than 1,200 submissions from 27 countries. It focuses on the eight most important trends in digital technology: Health & Wellbeing, Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart Spaces, Future Cloud, Smart Energy Systems, Internet of Things, Cyber Security & Privacy, Urban Life and Mobility.
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