Sente Presents its Second Cohort of Mobility Startups

Sente Foundry, together with its partners New Mobility Lab, Autonomy and Hatcher+, kicks off its 2018 program for promising Mobility startups from 9 different countries.

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Oct 15, 2018, 06:00 ET

PARIS, Oct. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, Chicago-based Sente Foundry, LLC (Sente), a startup accelerator and innovation scouting platform, announces the participants of the first phase of its 2018-2019 New Mobility Program.

These startups will begin the program in Paris, France with an intense series of workshops to help them build a business model that can scale globally. They will then be showcased at Autonomy in Paris, where the "world's mobility makers meet."

Participating startups include:

  • Dox (Beirut, Lebanon) – Predictive analytics for batteries
  • Navigato (Sofia, Bulgaria) – A decentralized marketplace and SaaS platform for electric vehicle charging
  • Moja Ride (Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire) – A mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) and payment platform for emerging markets
  • Pepbus (Ankara, Turkey) – A shared mobility platform for employers and their workers
  • Tensegrity (Paris, France) – Intelligent vehicle monitoring
  • Drive Buddy (Ankara, Turkey) – Driver monitoring and accident detection
  • NiveauUp (Taipei, Taiwan) – eXtreme Fast Charging for batteries
  • Powerplace (Berlin, Germany) – Improving urban mobility with data
  • ChargeSplit (Milan, Italy) - P2P sharing of charging stations
  • (Stealth) (Amsterdam, Netherlands) – Password-free multi-factor authentication for the new mobility world

"Following up on our success of last year's Mobility program, we're excited to start working with this batch, representing 9 countries and a cross-section of technologies that can have a big impact on how people move in urban environments," said Sente COO, Gerod Carfantan. "Partnering with Autonomy in Paris, connecting with the mobility ecosystem in London, and bringing the top 5 startups to the US will give them a great opportunity to prepare them to become global players in mobility."

After a hands-on, structured 6-week program that concludes in London on November 22, the top 5 startups will then be selected to spend a month in the US in January. This will include opportunities to gain exposure and customer traction at events such as the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as well as a "soft landing" at Chicago's innovation hub, 1871 and the Connectory.

SOURCE Sente Foundry, LLC