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2016 — Founding Edition

SEUA 1st Edition

The founding edition of the Startup Europe Awards established the programme’s European scope and brought together the first archive of category winners, national winners and institutional recognitions.

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European Winners 2016

Category winners and recognitions

GREEN

Windcity

Country: ITALY

www.windcity.it

Our vision is “Variable Geometry for Variable Wind”, and we pursue it through our patented disruptive energy conversion concept which allows us to maximize production in any variable wind. Thanks to Windcity’s simple mechanics technology, we are able to harvest up to 80% more energy compared to competitors.

We contribute to a shift towards the Circular Economy by recovering and exploiting a relevant yet so far underestimated class of wind, that of variable wind. Our arms are designed to adjust the blades’radius and inclination, allowing our turbine to work in complete autonomy without the need of any additional energy source.

Windcity turbines are particularly suited for urban and suburban areas, where wind streams are disrupted by cities’ orography while, at the same time, being generated by vehicular flows. By recovering such wasted resource into energy, we strive to turn cities into sustainable realities.

FINTECH

INZMO

Country: ESTONIA

www.inzmo.com

INZMO is an insurance app providing fast and easy access to all everyday insurance products – insure your commute or even next trip. INZMO provides you any personal insurance cover in seconds.

ENERGY

Tespack

Country: FINLAND

www.tespack.com

Tespack is a company specialized in the future of wearables, focusing on the most important part of technology: energy generation on-the-go. We have launched our first product line, Tespack Smartpacks, so you would never lose your power again. Simply collect your energy from the sun, store it in one of our powerful mobile chargers and charge all your devices, even laptops, on the move. Our products are currently available in retails stores such Intersports in Finland, Scandinavian Outdoor Store, Microsoft Store and Vodafone online store in the Netherlands. We work closely with bigger brands and companies such as TomTom and our products are currently being used and tested by military special forces and the UN. We also cooperate with universities in Amsterdam, Helsinki and London.

WATER

APSU

Country: SPAIN

www.apsu.es

APSU is the startup winner in WATER Category from Spain. It is a company and a project that develops water technologies, where with just equipment it is possible to warm and to decontaminate water by an efficient way. The challenge of this initiative is to take care of the health by prominent energy efficiency, dissolving also in the process salts and limes of water, doing this use an intelligent application. Nowadays, they work in the development of prototypes of this technology.

APATEQ

http://www.apateq.com/

APATEQ provides oil-water separation systems for oilfield operators as well as compact wastewater treatment plants for special and demanding applications and pre-treatment systems for industrial wastewater. Our technical team gathers members, each with decades of experience in water and wastewater treatment or global product industrial manufacturing and commercialization

SMART CITIES

CityCrop Automated Indoor Farming

Country: Greece

www.citycrop.io

CityCrop is a venture aiming at modernizing and democratizing farming, as key to a healthier and greener living. The team’s vision is to bring fresh and healthy eating in every household by developing the first fully automated indoor garden, based on the technique of hydroponics. The CityCrop device and mobile app allows users to grow fresh and healthy food all year long as well as control and monitor their crop with just a click of a button.

HEALTH

NeuronGuard

Country: ITALY

www.neuronguard.com

Neuron Guard is a life-saving medical device with the aim to revolutionize the treatment of brain damages and improve the life of patients, with also a significant reduction of healthcare costs.

The Acute Brain Damage is one of the most emerging challenges of modern Emergency Medicine. We have to act soon because after just 8 minutes a portion of the brain is irreversibly compromised. Early on-site treatment is the key to protect the brain.

The solution is composed by a cooling/warming collar powered by a smart control unit (the size of a small briefcase). The collar transforms the neck into a natural heat exchanger. It is quicker to act on brain tissue but can also function as total body temperature adjusting device if required. The control unit collects all the data of the treatment and transmits them to the Emergency Response System. We are the only NON-INVASIVE DEVICE capable of both COOLING and WARMING.

EKuore

https://www.ekuore.com/

eKuore is a technologic company that designs, develops and markets medical devices (mhealth), that connects health to new mobile technologies. Since company´s foundation, in 2012, have been developed the first wireless electronic stethoscope eKuore Pro for medical field and the stethoscope eKuore Vet for Veterinary field. eKuore´s purpose is to continue developing mHealth devices that revolutionize the sanitary teleassistance field, which allow of the patient to be controlled and monitored in quick and easy way and a low cost. Other future Project of eKuore is developed a Negative Pre-Diagnosis Platform, which will allow to help health professionals to detect when the patient has a cardiac anomalies.

BEST MUSIC AWARD

Brainiac Beats

http://www.brainiacbeats.com/

CREATIVE

Robocamp

Country: POLAND

www.robocamp.eu

RoboCAMP enhances STEM education using LEGO robot building and visual programming. RoboCAMP Lesson plans, developed by psychologists and engineers, are an innovative way of developing children’s creativity using LEGO bricks and science. We encourage children to observe the world and to work together to find novel solutions to problems encountered in everyday life. The course consists of a series of small projects that use mathematics, physics, mechanics and basic programming.

SOCIAL

TempBuddy

Country: Ireland

www.tempbuddy.com

TempBuddy’s award-winning real-time workforce software enables staffing companies get their best people to the right place at the right time.

TempBuddy’s multi-award winning workforce management software is designed to get the best people to the right place at the right time, paid promptly and accurately using smart mobile technology. Our revolutionary SaaS recruitment software integrates real-time availability, scheduling, deployment, time capture, pay and bill and compliance into one intuitive tool. The US patent-pending mobile worker app and recruiter platform have been developed to simplify the entire process and experience, helping improve productivity, achieve growth and cut costs. Our game-changing platform and worker app have already been adopted by users in over 310 cities across 3 continents, and by over 30 UK recruitment companies.

Human Surge

http://www.humansurge.org/en

HumanSurge seeks to improve the quality and timeliness of humanitarian response through enhanced surge capacity of humanitarian responders, professionals and organizations, to the ultimate benefit of affected populations. HumanSurge is driven by social impact, not by profit.

HumanSurge will bring together experienced humanitarian professionals from various disciplines on a single platform where they can signal their immediate availability for deployment in emergencies, thereby enabling organizations to complete specialized response teams overnight. HumanSurge is created by individuals committed to social causes, dedicating their time and resources to develop new solutions that will unite and empower humanitarian professionals, in order to improve the way in which humanitarian aid is delivered in the future.

TOURISM

Waynabox

Country: SPAIN

www.waynabox.com

Waynabox is the startup winner in TOURISM Category from Spain that has revolutionized the tourism industry through a new experience focalized on the emotions. To begin, you must go to the website, indicate the number of travellers, and choose the leaving airport and the number of days of your trip. Also, you have the possibility of deleting the cities that you do not want to visit. Two days before flying, they will reveal your destination, flights and housing and they will deliver an exclusive trip guide.

Our desire is to offer emotions and we realized that the best way to do so is through surprise trips. That’s why our mission is to revolutionize the traditional way of travelling and offer to all you young spirits a new and surprising plan to break your routines and live a great experience.

ICT

vyzVoice

Country: LUXEMBOURG

www.vyzvoice.com

vyzVoice mission is to revolutionize the relationship between people and their connected device data by providing a highly secured cloud-based application infrastructure to manage their connected things. Our infrastructure is based on powerful analytics and real-time data empowering our customers to make thoughtful and smart decisions.

vyzVoice provides flexible and intuitive solutions suitable for any user in any market. We, as a team, work together with our customers to define the best applications enabling them to take out the most valuable and actionable insights from their data. vyzVoice is committed to provide high quality standards, first class services and embedded security to its customers.

BEST EUROPEAN NEIGHBOUR STARTUP

Audified Reality

Country: FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA (FYROM)

A project for creating special glasses that will enable the visually impaired people to recognize objects that are located around them.

BEST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FOR STARTUPS AWARDS

Municipality:

Lisbon City Council

PORTUGAL

www.cm-lisboa.pt

LISBON MICRO-ENTREPRENEURSHIP is an important part of a global strategy of supporting local entrepreneurship as a dynamic engine of the city´s economy. We found that there were offers for a younger target, but lacked social responses to other public who wanted to have new professional opportunities and install a small business.

Province: Consorcio Zona Franca de Vigo

SPAIN

www.viavigo.es

BUSINESS ACCELERATION PROGRAMS VIAGALICIA. This Program allows identify and channel all the resources and tools of the ecosystem (public and private), with the objective of making them available to the goals of the entrepreneurs, to

accompany them in their validation, implementation, financing and maturation.

Region: Central Denmark Region

http://www.centraldenmark.eu/english/centraldenmarkandmidjutland/

The Game Hub Scandinavia project is the successor of Scandinavian Game Developers that won the Regio Star Awards 2015 in the Smart Growth category. The project created 53 new companies and more than 200 jobs in the partnership. Besides, in Denmark alone, it attracted around 60 million DKK in external investments, as a municipal guarantee convinced a local building society and local developers, that the infrastructure around the incubator would be a worthwhile investment opportunity. The Game Hub Scandinavia project has set an even more ambitious goal: from delivering actual change to becoming “the pebble that starts the avalanche”. One of the indicators of success in the project has been to create 398 new jobs, 100 new companies as well as establishing business and educational business relationships with China to open up the Chinese market to the game developers of the project incubators.

BEST MEDIA PARTNER AWARD

Emprende TVE

SPAIN

www.rtve.es/emprende

Emprende TVE helps entrepeneurs to improve their business and get presence in the media.

National Winners 2016

Country-by-country national winners

BELGIUM

On September 22, during the

DAW Conference closing ceremony at the European Parliament, Bogdan Ceobanu, Policy Officer at European Commission representing Startup Europe, presented the winners of the StartUp Europe Awards 2016 for Belgium.

Belgian brand which designs chic business bags for modern and active women.

The simpler, safer way to authenticate artworks, luxury goods and collectibles and verify their provenance.

Nappytalia is the first and only community in Italy where black women can exchange advices and tips on how to grow and care for their afro natural hair (no relaxing) and it is also an afroitalian owned business that sells products for afro/african natural hair.

CROATIA

Terrible Creations: Immersive, interactive, engaging and fun stories for collaborative storytelling that enable you to shape your own unique adventure.

TINJA: An online platform for simple and efficient matching of solar panel installers and interested users who want to install solar panels at their property.

Studio Rebus/Meridda: The mobile application Meridda will enable users to track their own stress level, providing them with customized actionable feedback.

Juvo – Home Friend: IoT home alarm system for reporting child’s movement towards less safe areas in home. Smart sensors placed on key areas in home, parent’s bracelet for receiving notifications about child’s movement, plush toy with speaker for distracting a child while parents appear and a mobile application for controlling the system.

eter. io: The smart lighting solution that harvests free sunlight and puts an end to wasteful illumination of unoccupied space. eter.io improves energy efficiency in commercial and public areas, solution pays it self off through reduced energy bills.

Braille Riddles: Braille Riddles aims to develop a series of accessible learning tools and educational toys for the visually impaired persons, by means of 3D technology.

LovePranks are witty interventions in space which encourage people to change their behavior positively, aimed to enhance the user experience of contemporary travelers via design, originality and humour.

ESTONIA

SPRAYPRINTER: Creating a core technology that enables free movement printing at any scale. Our product is a smart handprinter that works with spray paint and is controlled with a smartphone.

SMART LOAD SOLUTIONS: SLS software platform will decrease electricity cost up to 60% and it actively reduces the CO2 emissions that are emitted into the atmosphere when electricity is produced for heaters.

INZMO: is a mobile-first insurance broker enabling consumers to purchase personal insurance policies in seconds – i.e. for travel, cars, motorcycles, bikes, electronics, household, cars, pets, etc. In addition to providing best prices and creating an excellent user experience, the solution helps to prevent insurance fraud, enabling its insurance partners earn higher margins.

NORDIC AUTOMATION SYSTEMS: Industrial automation development company, specialising in sensor technologies, data analysis and monitoring solutions.

DERMTEST: is a software platform service, connecting family doctors with dermatology clinics for providing access to a dermatologist consultation at a patient’s local primary care office.

DEEKIT: is a freemium whiteboard where users can draw, write and work with other content together, in real-time. No matter what device they use or how poor their connectivity is.

REBELROAM: Internet Service Provider for the global transportation and travel industries, incl public city transport.

TRAFFEL: monitors more than a hundred different channels – blogs, forums, ticketing systems – in more than 20 different languages for the best travel deals and then sells this information. It´s a ‘real-time-offer` platform where customers can set alerts for their preferred destinations and travel times.

TEBO: is the marketplace for education content. With TEBO the teacher can build a lesson (add their files and create interactive exercises for smart devices), find and use the content already made and published by other teachers, can grow their impact and enhance income by publishing their own content on TEBO to be used by other teachers.

FINLAND

PromoRepublic: A Finnish SaaS that helps Small Businesses and Marketers create amazing social media posts based on the context of the day: holidays, trends, events and more.

Tespack: Specialized in providing a complete mobile energy experience by combining latest technology and renewables with a focus on generation of energy on-the-go.

Heimo: The anonymous & safe online community for untellable stories.

Duara: A platform for communities in low-income countries to offer home stay experiences to impact-minded travelers.

Bryom: Medical wearable enabling user to their improve quality of life.

GREECE

Convert Art manufactures handmade products with high design, aesthetics and quality, made exclusively from recycled inner tubes, tires, electrical equipment, wood and aluminium.

PHEE: Innovative products made of dried sea grass Posidonia Oceanica from the Greek shores.

Nursify is an application that connects people who need First Aid Help with volunteers trained to provide First Aid Help.

CityCrop is an intelligent indoor garden that lets you grow pesticide-free food all year round.

Hopwave is the first booking app to help you discover and move around Greek islands by providing you a personalized way of travelling.

IRELAND

As a member of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance, the gold winners in the Bank of Ireland Startup Awards –announced on the 26thof May in the final ceremony held in the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin –are now candidates for the final phase of the StartUp Europe Awards 2016.

TRUZZES: is all about giving you the opportunity to create, celebrate and cherish the baby to toddler milestones and memories.

URBANVOLT: is an Irish company which carries out LED retrofits at no upfront cost to our clients. We were named Bank of Ireland Startup of the Year in 2016 because our unique offering makes it so easy to reduce your energy costs and improve your productivity.

CYC-LOK: is an Irish company created to develop a Europe-wide and, later, global network of secure bicycle parking facilities in response to the dramatic surge in cycling for recreation and especially for transport in urban commuter zones.

Pip & Pear is the best alternative to home cooking, fresh, organic and natural different flavour dishes for babys from 5 months to more than 10 months.

SURF ACCOUNTS is an Irish owned cloud based bookkeeping package for SME’s. Surf is designed to take the stigma out of doing accounts for your business. A crisp clean interface that boasts a multitude of features, a powerful accounts tool with a clear layout meaning the functionality isn’t too overbearing, Surf Accounts is ‘Invoicing & Accounts made easy.

THE HUB CONTROLLER: is a software that allows people knowing how much they are spending on heating, electricity, etc.

TEMPBUDDY: is a temporary recruitment software that provides contingency recruiters a cloud based real-time workface management platform. Remove many time-consuming admin tasks, improve productivity and revenues, whilst reducing operational costs.

WHELEHANS WINE: is the culmination of three generations experience of working and of promoting wines in Ireland where the philosophy from day one has been to unreservedly focus on seeking out producers who are unequivocally terroir focused.

ITALY

DIS – Design Italian Shoes, is a winning solution for those who want to stand out and express their personality designing and wearing classic customised shoes for men – 100% Made in Italy.

WaterView – Our solution enables the release of more accurate and realiable weather – related services and improves citizens’ awareness towards weather events.

Neuron Guard – We offer an integrated, effective and simple solution for the emergency and hospital treatment of Acute Brain Damage (ABD) based on a portable device delivering quick and stable controlled brain hypothermia.

Veranu is a project that since 2012, has been working towards the creation of a new product that generates alternative energy, and has since become a reality. Incorporated in 2016, Veranu has created an innovative technology applicable to any type of flooring by creating clean electricity by simply walking over them.

Briareo project was born from the collaboration of two industrial companies, Arken SpA and Gymnotus sas, and focuses on the research, design and industrial development of an innovative vertical axis micro-wind turbine which can produce power even at low wind speeds with high power efficiency. Created within the incubator of innovative enterprises of the Politecnico di Torino,

LMSC is an innovative startup with a social vocation against food waste. Its mission is to engage people to improve the health of the planet through the digital management of food waste.

Credimi is the innovative product that allows people to cash invoices in 48 hours, with no fixed costs, bureaucracy or paperworks, directly from their PC. Credimi is on the market with a supply chain finance product enabling our partners, typically medium-sized enterprises, to easily finance their suppliers’ invoices.

X-next is a startup bringing to the market revolutionary advanced inspection technology detectors. Bu using XSpectra®, the state-of-the-art of the X-ray spectroscopic technology available today, X-next is capable of a real-time, precise identification of the chemical-physical composition of the materials under analysis.

Windicity vision can be summarised in “Variable Geometry for Variable Wind”, pursuing it through its patented disruptive energy conversion concept which allows to maximize production in any variable wind. Thanks to Windcity’s simple mechanics technology, the system is able to harvest up to 80% more energy compared to competitors.

Tooteko is a wearable that combines touch and hearing to help the visually impaired to visualise objects that they couldn’t experience otherwise. Tooteko devices is specifically made for cultural heritage touristic itineraries, due to its focus on museum paths.

LATVIA

Mozello is the easiest way of building stylish, minimalistic websites, blogs and online stores. It is much faster and easier to use than any other website builder. Mozello uses cloud storage, content delivery networks and mirrored infrastructure.

Nordigen: Transaction categorization for better credit scoring. Nordigen uses machine learning to analyze context of transaction data to decrease bad credit loses by 6-23% and improve manual transaction analysis speed by 30x and precision by 15x.

Conelum: We are focused on development of rapid microbiological diagnostic tests for food and drink industry companies. Diagnostic test, based on EloKIT™ technology by Conelum, are proven to reduce test time to total of 30 minutes without any compromise on the results in comparison to conventional methods.

Anatomy Next: We are building an augmented reality mobile app (a real time x-ray) for medical students to explore human anatomy in real time on real people in fun, engaging and interactive way.

Notakey: is smartphone based solution for strong & smooth authentication and authorisation. We give money back guarantee that we will improve employee productivity and increase customer engagement.

Rention: Excluding possibility to find property (for tenants) and let own premises (for landlords), we will provide extended information exchange system, where both parties will be able to sign agreements, control and pay utility services and other services.

LUXEMBOURG

Digicash: is a bank account-linked mobile payment solution. It is issued by banks to their customers and connected directly to the customer’s current account.

Job Today: is the easy-to-use app that connects employers and jobseekers.

APATEQ: provides oil-water separation systems for oilfield operators as well as compact wastewater treatment plants and systems for industrial wastewater.

OUNI: allows customers to do their grocery and household shopping while avoiding packaging waste. The first packaging-free organic grocery store in Luxembourg.

vyzVoice: provides a highly secured cloud-based application infrastructure to manage your connected things.

SWIRL: a company which provides leading edge smart wind turbine solutions for grid edge and off-grid applications.

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)

This startup has created a prototype of glasses with built-in micro cameras that capture the ambiente around the user, helping visually impaired people to orient in their daily activities.

SYSTEMS FOR ENTERPRISE: ORM based on the input parameters builds future predictions then based on the risk preferences to assist the Insurance Companies to make better decisions on which Reinsurance Treaties are most appropriate.

ESENSO: Topnotch technology in IoT solutions with sensors, microprocessors, loggers, cloud, PV solar, biomass which will obtain icro climate implemented into smart greenhouses for yearly production of fresh and healthy food without dangerous residual pesticides and heavy metals.

Gordian is a company specialized in IT services and products.

Enigma Macedonia is an association for research and development of treatments for multi-sensory integration.

Claxi is a mobile application that helps passengers and drivers to connect directly on a unique bidding platform.

We offer services for people who want to solve a social problems, offering a mentoring program to develop their idea, find or develop a team, validate their idea on the market and connect them with the right people that can take their solution on the next phase.

WhenInX is online marketplace for secondary touristic services like hiking, biking, paragliding or scuba diving.

MONTENEGRO

BUDOFINDER

: Community market place for martial arts.

POLAND

Pelvifly is a comprehensive, mobile system of prophylaxis and rehabilitation of pelvic floor muscles dysfunction.

Jumbster is an application to save on fuel. You run out of fuel? Looking for station with the lowest prices? – Open the Jumbster application and buy the cheapest fuel in your area.

Ronzo is empowering consumers with delicious cricket-based products with natural ingredients, no artificial chemical substances or semi-processed products. It is completely non-GMO and 100% free of toxic and unnatural!

DeepDoc is a project aimed at early detection of risk of depression and offering professional help. Using machine learning to analyze activity in social media, we diagnose the risk of depression at a very early stage.

Smartbox is a comprehensive Smarthouse system based on cloud computing. We create miniature device, control system and server architecture.

Equally: We are solving problems related to uneasy cashless splitting of joined bills. Our product allows to immediately get repayment from friends as well as automatically reminds of receivables.

Socialgamer works in the computer gaming industry. Is a search engine focused on the rapid and precise searching for partners to create the perfect team.

We produce wireless, mobile and intelligent sensors. We design measuring systems. Teach robotics the fun way! RoboCamp enhances STEM education using LEGO robot building and visual programming.

SLOVENIA

The AroMax system is a disruptive technological innovation that allows winemakers to fully use the aromatic potential of the wine in a completely natural way. It also enables wine production with higher fermentation temperatures, ensuring richer and more intense aromatic production. By using AroMax, the winemaker benefits from significantly enriched body, bouquet, quality and final value of their wine.

It helps surgeons, medical experts and healthcare providers to become more efficient, reduce waiting lines and provide a safer patient’s care (reduced anesthesia time, improved quality). It makes healthcare more productive and enable doctors to focus more and only on patients.

Chipolo is an app that helps people to search things, it rings and shows you the last known location on a map.

Blub Blub is a solution with a series of self-help apps and a subscription service connecting a parent and a therapist. A child simply observes and imitates practices performed by their peers. They use mirroring, role-playing, stickers and funny videos to keep them going.

GoAvio (and its other brands Jetmap, Nizkocenovci) makes your browsing for flights a quick and trivial job. It currently includes 120+ lowcost airlines and 10000+ connections from all around the world.

SPAIN

omilibro part of the need to look for and recommend books for those things that really matter when we read. So we have created an application that allows readers to find their perfect book quickly, besides also help other readers find yours. We are both search engine and social network of books.

The idea of this project is the use of mini-reducing turbine power cycle to harness water power as an alternative to others which today are powered by diesel boilers. The small hydroelectric power generators, called Micro-hydro, produce up to 10 kW of energy from rivers and streams.

Conversion of internal combustion vehicles in Electric Vehicles . Electric cars made in Extremadura.

The first smart electronic stethoscope. It allows a join listening, recording the auscultation for the diagnosis follow-up or sharing it easily with other professionals.

Technology platform that helps hotel managers in making business decisions to sell the maximum number of rooms with the largest possible margin through management tools profitability (Revenue Management).

KIEN-MOU CO2 is a unique self-sufficient solution that retains the C02 present in the atmosphere and also clears the air (i.e. harmful solid particles in suspension) via a series of filters. Not only absorbs and eliminated contaminated air generated by 500 citizens and their vehicles, but also contains three luminous publicity panels (i.e. LED screens) which allow the system to be sustainable and profitable.

HumanSurge will bring together experienced humanitarian professionals from various disciplines on a single platform where they can signal their immediate availability for deployment in emergencies, thereby enabling organizations to complete specialized response teams overnight.

The startup organizes travel arrangements, including round-trip flights with two night’s hotel accommodation. The catch is that users have no idea of their destination until 48 hours prior to departure.

APSU has developed an effective, low cost and energy efficient system based on microwave technology to treat wastewater.