Swiss Startup Innovation Pitch Competition and Happy Hour at Northside Festival 2016
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Brooklyn Brewery
79 North 11th Street New York, NY 11249Description
Join us at the Brooklyn Brewery to learn about cutting-edge tech startups from one of the world’s most innovative countries, and stick around for food compliments of Mable's Smokehouse and beers on us!
This lightning-round pitch competition moderated by Peter Sinkevich, the Director of Fuckup Nights NYC, will feature Switzerland’s 2016 National Startup Team (the Venture Leaders), a competitively selected group of ten young entrepreneurs.
For the past 15 years, successive Venture Leaders teams have traveled to the East Coast to learn from their US peers, and meet with future customers and backers. 2016 marks the Venture Leaders’ Northside Innovation debut!
Hosted by the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, swissnex Boston New York Outpost and venturelab, this pitch competition will be followed by a happy hour at the Brooklyn Brewery.
Switzerland’s 2016 National Startup Team:
Fun and interactive flying solutions to boost the attention and coverage of brands and products. Applications range from advertisement and entertainment to live streams of events from the air.
A unique digitizing service setting new standards in the way Fine Art can be experienced and promoted on screen, via a web browser, accessible from any mobile device.
Software that transforms the way to build and design optimal decision making systems such as autonomous machines. This reduces development costs, and increases productivity and reliability of anything from dishwashers to complex air traffic control systems, in fields such as automotive, robotics, and even healthcare.
FieldWiz is a strategy and physical performance tracking system for outdoor team sports players. It is a standalone device worn on a player’s back to collect statistics, which are synchronized at the end of the game or practice.
Haelixa provides intelligent DNA-based tracing solutions allowing fluid/item tracking and parameter monitoring (temperature, light, pH, oxidants) to support the energy industry (underground exploration and monitoring), and ensure product authentication and quality control as well as liability management.
A high-quality, powerful and easy solution to showcase images beautifully. With Prodibi, brands can directly use their images online without costly optimization.
ShoeSize.Me offers data-driven business intelligence solutions to footwear retailers and brands. Their core solution enables online shops to provide their customers with precise shoe size recommendations for every shoe model they want to buy.
Algorithms that draw on large quantities of telecommunications data to identify where and when to deliver a message most effectively. The software product could be useful in both electoral and advertising campaigns.
Uepaa is a quickly growing «peer-to-peer» software company (SaaS) based in Zurich Switzerland that enables developers to integrate proximity features into their apps. Internationally awarded for its disruptive p2p safety app in 2013, the company launched its Software Development Kit (SDK called www.p2pkit.io) in October 2015
Wingtra develops a convertible aerial robot that takes off and lands like a helicopter, but flies like a plane. Thanks to the combination of range and flexibility, the fully autonomous Wingtra 1 is best suited for various civil applications, i.e. for the inspection of farmland, mining or even for parcel delivery.
Peter Sinkevich is a career serial entrepreneur, mentor, formal advisor, angel investor and public speaker, born from a multi-million dollar exit in his early 20’s before the dot com boom of the nineties. Peter currently sits on the Board of Advisor panels of a half dozen New York City startups, including KeySupreme, a startup that promises to solve the global data breach epidemic. He is also the Director of Fuckup Nights NYC, a global community of 150+ cities in 50+ countries that centers the conversation around failure and the lessons learned from those experiences. Learn more about him by visiting ilovestartup.com or follow him on Twitter @petersinkevich
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