Startups From Six Continents Gather in San Francisco May 11 to Meet Tech Leaders and Vie for Startup World Cup $1,000,000 Prize

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May 09, 2018, 10:00 ET

SAN JOSE, Calif. (PRWEB) May 09, 2018 -- Startup World Cup today announced the names of the finalists selected from tech competitions around the world who will contend for a $1,000,000 investment prize and title of ‘Global Champion’ at the Startup World Cup 2018 Grand Finale in San Francisco, to be held at San Francisco’s Marriott Marquis on May 11, 2018, from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. This year’s Startup World Cup began with dozens of regional competitions, starting in Brazil last August, circling the globe, and ending in China in late April.

Startup World Cup is organized by Fenox Venture Capital, a Silicon Valley-based global venture capital firm. The Grand Finale event will bring together the startups plus well-known speakers and judges from the tech community for a full day of insight, networking and competition, with an audience expected to exceed 2,500. The startups are from North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, and represent technologies ranging from AI and IoT to life science and medtech.

The event will kick off with stories and advice from some of Silicon Valley’s most successful tech leaders, and then end with a competition judged by investors from some of the world’s most successful firms. Featured speakers and judges include: Reid Hoffman (Founding CEO of LinkedIn, Partner of Greylock Partners); John Chambers (former CEO of Cisco, Founder of JC2 Ventures); Ashley Carroll (Partner Social Capital); Vinod Khosla (Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems, Founder of Khosla Ventures); Adam Cheyer (Co-Founder of Siri); Ron Conway (Founder of SV Angel); Marc Randolph (Co-Founder of Netflix); Nina Achadjian (Investor at Index Ventures); Jay Vijayan (former CIO of Tesla), and several others.

Register to attend the 2018 Grand Finale on May 11th here.

2018's Regional Finalists are:

Click here for 2018 Regional Finalists competing at the Startup World Cup Grand Finale.

AI/Robotics

  • Automat's (Canada) conversational marketing cloud platform uses AI to help companies better talk to, and understand customers, fans, and followers.
  • Cognigy (Germany) enables enterprises to build self-learning speech control and cognitive abilities into applications and connected devices.
  • Equota’s (China) cloud-based services enable heavy industries to optimize their power consumption, reducing carbon emissions and energy costs.
  • INTELLO LABS (India) uses Artificial Intelligence/Computer Vision to solve Agri problems.
  • ObEN (United Arab Emirates) is a decentralized AI platform for Personal AI (PAI), intelligent 3D avatars that look, sound and behave like the individual.
  • Seven Dreamers Laboratories (Japan) is a maker of personal-use devices, including an AI/robotic household laundry robot.

Medtech

  • Bened Biomedical’s (Taiwan) psychobiotic formulation improves mental and neurological health issues such as depression, autism and Parkinson’s.
  • Coala Life (Sweden) is a Swedish digital health venture on a mission to reduce cardiovascular fatalities.
  • Leuko Lab (US, East Coast) is an MIT project, developing a non-invasive white blood cell level monitor, for home-based screening for high risk of infection in chemotherapy patients.
  • Modius’ (Northern Ireland) neuroscience-based technology helps users get lean and stay lean.
  • Nodexus’ (US, West Coast) hardware platform enables live cell isolation for gene editing, precision agriculture, cancer biology, and more.

Auto

  • Strap’s (Mexico) wearable device for visually impaired people detects obstacles and notifies the user of possible collisions by a vibration in the body.
  • Wallbox (Spain) optimizes the timing and rate of charging electric and hybrid vehicles, reducing charging time and costs.

Agtech/Cleantech & Cryptocurrency

  • BLH Aqua Technology's (Singapore) water efficiency technology increases water absorption in plants to improve agricultural productivity.
  • iGrow’s (Indonesia) platform helps farmers utilize unproductive land to produce scalable and efficient organic commodity funded by urban people around the world.
  • KWHCoin (Kenya) is a blockchain-based community, ecosystem and cryptocurrency backed by units of clean, renewable energy.
  • NAAVA’s (Finland) GREEN WALL creates a healthy work environments through built-in smart technology to circulate and purify indoor air in offices.

Marketplace/Platforms and Other technologies

  • CERA Marketing (Russia) offers key insights from cameras including objective data, online access, and automatic analysis.
  • CHECKBOX’s (Australia) platform digitally transforms regulation into software to automate expert decision making, documentation and analytics.
  • EmptyTrips (South Africa) is an online trip exchange using smart technology to match & connect spare capacity on a truck, train, plane or ship.
  • Flitto (South Korea) is a total translation platform ranging from AI to crowd-sourced translation.
  • LARGOWIND’s (Luxembourg) tool for the nautical industry was developed to ensure safety and avoid issues during moorings/anchoring 24/7.
  • MOVIE MASK (Norway) provides users with a cinema experience on their smartphones without special apps or screens.
  • RUNCLOUD.IO (Malaysia) is a fast, easy, flexible cloud hosting platform to deploy, configure, manage and monitor cloud servers and applications.
  • STORM’s (Philippines) benefits technology platform allows employees to customize their benefits and incentives in a curated online marketplace.
  • Swift Comply (Ireland) is connecting restaurants, grease pumpers and cities through an easy-to-use web platform.
  • TruckPad (Brazil) is an online mobile marketplace where truckers come to get their next truckload using smartphones.

This year’s Startup World Cup winner will be selected by an All-Star panel of investor judges, including Geoff Ralston from Y Combinator, Ashley Carroll from Social Capital, Adeo Ressi from the Founder Institute, Nina Achadjian from Index Ventures, Sanjit Dang from Intel Capital, Rashmi Gopinath from Microsoft Ventures, and Alireza Masrour from Plug and Play among others.

“Startup World Cup plays a significant role in bringing together startup ecosystem players from the U.S. and around the world to connect with Silicon Valley and potential champions in important new global markets,” explains Anis Uzzaman, CEO and General Partner of Fenox Venture Capital, and Chairman of Startup World Cup. “This annual event is also an exciting way for Silicon Valley to witness some truly innovative startups showcasing their technologies for the honor of Startup World Cup global champion, and potential investment well beyond our one million dollar prize.”

Major sponsors for the Startup World Cup Grand Finale include Microsoft, EY, Orrick, Sega-Sammy Holdings, and several others.

Press
Journalists can apply for a media pass to the Startup World Cup Grand Finale, as well as interviews with Fenox partners, startup contestants and featured speakers by contacting:

Startup World Cup
Jeff Lettes
jlettes(at)globalmediastragy.com
+1-408-645-5532

Janice Mok, Startup World Cup, http://www.startupworldcup.io/, +1 (408) 645-5532, [email protected]