2018 laureates - yeifrance.com start in... · will be represented: medtech/biotech (11 laureates),...
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2018 Laureates
The Young Enterprise Initiative - Start in France program, founded in 2005 by the Office for Science
& Technology of the French Embassy in the United States, is a startup accelerator organized by the
French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs in partnership with Business France, Paris & Co, and
Hello Tomorrow. It is meant for young science-based companies interested in developing
partnerships and business in France and in Europe.
YEi - Start in France provides a personalized immersion week in France that includes training
sessions, networking and one-on-one meetings that allow each laureate to benefit from an extensive
customized scientific and business network in France, with connections to the best resources in
Europe.
The 2018 YEi program will gather twenty nine laureates from five different countries: Italy (7), Finland
(3), South Korea (3), Taiwan (6) and the United States of America (10). A large variety of tech sectors
will be represented: Medtech/Biotech (11 laureates), Information Technology and Internet of Things
(10 laureates), Cleantech (5 laureates), Robotics and Aerospace (3 laureates).
The laureates will be in France from November 5 to November 9, 2018. A brief description of each
laureate is provided below.
BENED BIOMEDICAL
Website http://www.benedbiomed.com/en
Country Taïwan – Republic of China
Contact Alain Delpy, International Business Development Manager [email protected]
BENED BIOMEDIACAL is the world’s leading probiotic research and marketing company. We focus on the development of microbiome-based products for neuropsychological, allergic, immunological, metabolic and aging-related disorders. Our flagship psychobiotic strain PS128® is clinical and scientifically proven to be the world’s unique product potentially able to treat mental and neurological diseases such as Autism, Parkinson’s disease, depression…
BRITESEED
Website http://briteseed.com/
Country USA
Contact Jonathan Gunn, CEO and Co-founder [email protected]
BRITESEED’s platform technology provides visual information regarding anatomical structures during surgery. The company’s first product is similar to traditional graspers but incorporates a proprietary algorithm to detect the presence of vulnerable structures such as blood vessels or a ureter existing within tissue grasped between its jaws.
COGENTIS THERAPEUTICS Website http://www.cogentistherapeutics.com/
Country USA
Contact Kent Werner, CEO and Founder [email protected]
COGENTIS THERAPEUTICS is committed to finding cures for a number of neurodegenerative diseases. Our groundbreaking research will lead to treatments for Alzheimer's disease, fronto-temporal dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy and more.
DIAGNOSTIC PHOTONICS
Website http://diagnosticphotonics.com/
Country USA
Contact Andrew Cittadine, President & CEO [email protected]
DIAGNOSTIC PHOTONICS, Inc creates the Foresee Imaging System (TM), the world’s first handheld optical coherence tomography (OCT) probe for cancer surgery. Bulky OCT systems, which have been used for decades in ophthalmology, have been miniaturized by employing patented physics-based algorithms and novel optical hardware.
MEDTECH/BIOTECH COMPANIES
FLUIDIA Website http://fluidiabiotech.com
Country Italy
Contact Massimo Papale, CEO & R&D Manager [email protected]
FLUIDIA is a start-up that develops and commercializes a new generation of molecular tests to diagnose different types of diseases. The new technology that FLUIDIA has developed and patented makes it possible to evaluate the shape of any biomarker protein quickly and economically. The start-up has applied this innovative technology to a biomarker common to the main cancers, thus making it possible to develop an early detection test that will be introduced on the market in 2020.
HUTOM Website http://www.hutom.co.kr/
Country South Korea
Contact Hollis Kim, Technical Director [email protected]
HUTOM is a high-functioning organization oriented toward improving engagement among the world’s preeminent physicians and engineers to establish surgical evolutions including machine and robotic surgery. Our business strives to equip organizations and healthcare professionals with quality training and augmented reality features, generate quality analytical evaluations and bolster care delivery. Hutom was successfully founded from Yonsei Severance Hospital.
MEKONOS
Website https://mekonos.com/
Country USA
Contact Steven Banerjee, CEO [email protected]
MEKONOS Inc is a nanorobotics research and development company whose mission is to use the advancements in nanoscale engineering, robotics and genetics to understand the biology of cells and diseases. This knowledge will guide us to design tools that will make “cell therapy to cure diseases” a reality. To execute this goal, we are entering into groundbreaking interdisciplinary collaborations.
NOVOTHELIUM Website https://www.novothelium.com/
Country USA
Contact Lauren Cornell, CEO and co-founder and Bianca Cerqueira, Co-founder [email protected]
NOVOTHELIUM has developed an acellular nipple areolar matrix that enables patients to regenerate a nipple made from their own cells after mastectomy that maintains shape, has natural pigmentation, and the potential for improved sensation. have been miniaturized by employing patented physics-based algorithms and novel optical hardware.
REALITEER Website http://www.realiteer.com/
Country Taïwan – Republic of China
Contact Janet Yu-Jung Lin, Product Manager [email protected]
REALITEER’s Technology enables AR/VR devices to deliver effective physical or psychiatric rehabilitation and trainings to treat Chronic Pain, Autism, ADHD, Eating Disorder, etc… and continues to help hundreds of people with significant improvement.
SEMPULSE Website http://www.sempulse.com/
Country USA
Contact Kurt Stump, CEO [email protected]
SEMPULSE develops a durable, light-weight, cost-effective, and patented solution for monitoring the 5 major vitals on a proprietary body site (behind ear).
TENDONOVA Website https://www.tendonova.com/
Country USA
Contact Roy Wallen, CEO [email protected]
TENDONOVA is developing a suite of specialized tools for minimally invasive orthopedic procedures that can be performed under ultrasound guidance in the physician's office. Starting with chronic tendon pain, TendoNova seeks to provide clinicians with modalities that are customizable to individual patient needs without overwhelming expense.
FACEHEART Website http://faceheart.nctu.me/
Country Taïwan – Republic of China
Contact Jocelyn Tang [email protected]
FACEHEART proposes a computer-vision based solution, called eBus. The system can effectively monitor the status and behavior of drivers by face detection and recognition, image based physiological information measurement, behavior recognition, fatigue detection, drunk driving recognition, and painful expression analytics. If the detected status is abnormal, the system is going to take some suitable actions, warning the driver in real-time, or sending the messages to authority concerned.
IT/IoT COMPANIES
GIPSTECH Website http://www.gipstech.com/
Country Italy
Contact Gaetano D’Aquila, CEO [email protected]
GIPSTECH is a startup that develops and markets micro-localization technologies in environments where GPS is not enough or does not work. The start-up has developed several products based on highly innovative technologies, such as the use of the natural geomagnetic field as a source of information for geolocation, but also inertial and radio frequency technologies.
INGENIARS Website https://www.ingeniars.com/
Country Italy
Contact Camilla Giunti, Marketing Manager [email protected]
INGENIARS, spin-off of the University of Pisa, is specialized in the design and marketing of hardware and software products and technologies in the field of communications for aerospace applications. In particular, the company has developed SpaceWire products and SpaceFibre, protocols and standard communication/networking systems used by shipboard manufacturers to interconnect the different data acquisition instruments with the subsystems and transmission on land. The products developed by the start-up are aimed at European space agencies, aerospace prime contractors and research centers.
MUSA
Website https://www.playmusa.com/
Country Italy
Contact Christian Esposito, CEO [email protected]
MUSA SRL is a start-up that, through an intuitive 3D game for children aged 6 to 11, aims to make music learning more fun and accessible to all. The game is available on tablet and computer. Musa works with an algorithm that recognizes the frequencies of any musical instrument, but especially those of the piano.
ROADBOTICS Website https://www.roadbotics.com/
Country USA
Contact Mark DeSantis, CEO [email protected]
ROADBOTICS, Inc uses smartphones, any kind of vehicle and AI to assess roadways.
THINKTANK Website http://www.thinktank.com.tw/
Country Taïwan – Republic of China
Contact Ravi Nataraju, CEO [email protected]
THINKTANK is a communications platform for offline businesses to listen to their customers with a team from both sides of Atlantic and Pacific. We specialize in the destination, emotional analytics and offer SaaS service. Our clients are businesses, governments, hospitals, parking lots, train and bus companies, nearly every entity in the city.
UBIIK Website https://www.ubiik.com/
Country Taïwan – Republic of China
Contact Clément Dieudonné Corporate Strategy Director [email protected]
UBIIK has been selected as one of the few qualified cost-effective IoT technology vendors, with operation of smart electricity meters starting this year onwards. We are hitting the ground running to satisfy the demand of such project now that our products have been clearly validated and build momentum with it worldwide.
VIIMA Website https://www.viima.com/
Country Finland
Contact Jesse Nieminen, Co-founder & Chairman [email protected]
VIIMA SOLUTIONS OY is a SaaS (Software as a Service) product that helps organizations collect and develop ideas and turn them into innovations. Viima is designed to make idea management transparent, super easy and effortless for everyone involved. It allows the company to effectively manage ideas and turn them into innovations, while at the same time, transforming the company culture to be more innovative.
VIMAI
Website http://www.vim.ai/
Country Finland
Contact Ismo Olkkonen, CEO [email protected]
VIMAI enables indoor augmented intelligence by taking advantage of computer vision and machine learning techniques. We use commercial devices like mobile phones to scan the indoor environments and build 3D models. With the information extracted from the visual data, we can implement object recognition, scene understanding, etc. We can further map the recognized objects to the 3D space. Based on the understanding of features in 3D spaces, our technology also enables high precision indoor localization and navigation.
WECARE Website http://www.wecareinnovation.com/
Country Italy
Contact Ricardo Zanini, Founder and COO [email protected]
WECARE SRL is a start-up that operates in the field of digital, human and animal health. The start-up has developed two platforms, Amyko (for humans) and Amuuko (for animals), which measure, archive and manage physiological data. Amyko is a NFC passive technology connected bracelet to a personal archive of medical data hosted on cloud, allowing access at any time. Amuuko is composed of a subcutaneous chip and a collar allowing a fast access to the veterinary data and a geolocalization of the animal.
C16 BIOSCIENCES Website https://www.c16bio.com/
Country USA
Contact Shara Ticku, President and Co-founder [email protected]
C16 BIOSCIENCES LLC was founded with the objective of creating a sustainable, environmentally friendly alternative to conflict palm oil. By offering producers, refiners, traders and consumers of palm oil an opportunity to invest part of their production into bio-based oils and sustainability efforts, our aim is to reduce the environmental footprint of palm oil production and protect precious natural land, wildlife and resources in the process.
ELFYS
Website https://www.elfys.fi/
Country Finland
Contact Mikko Juntunen, CEO [email protected]
ELFYS OY offers induced junction black silicon photodiodes with external quantum efficiency (EQE) greater than 96% over a broad range of wavelengths (250 to 950 nm). The collection efficiency has been enhanced by employing a surface nanostructuring technique combined with a conformal ALD alumina coating. The high EQE results from zero reflection of black silicon surface combined with no dead layer of induced junction. These innovations improve the absorption of light and collection of generated charge carriers.
CLEANTECH COMPANIES
FLEXWAVE Website http://www.flexwave.com.tw/
Country Taïwan – Republic of China
Contact Jimmy Hsu, Co-founder [email protected]
FLEXWAVE is redefining the use of solar technology. Our invention, waveguide solar can collect wide range of incident ambient light with features of being colorful, shapeable, durable, and powerful. We provide 20% more power than traditional small solar module. Our product “Solar box” is designed for LPWAN IoT system to provide 10 years power for applications such as environmental sensor, wildfire detector, oil/gas leakage detector, and smart agriculture.
SYZYGY PLASMONICS Website http://plasmonics.tech/
Country USA
Contact Suman Khatiwada, Founder and CTO [email protected]
SYZYGY PLASMONICS will produce a low-cost, on-site, on-demand hydrogen production system that will be capable of producing hydrogen fuel at a price point that is competitive with gasoline. This product will be a first of its kind photocatalytic reformer that uses light to transform natural gas into low emission green hydrogen.
THE WAVE TALK
Website http://thewavetalk.com/
Country South Korea
Contact Vladimir Mun, Senior Manager [email protected]
THE WAVE TALK is a first Inline Water Contamination Sensor Detecting Any Bacteria in a Second.
NEARTHLAB
Website www.nearthlab.com
Country South Korea
Contact Jay Choi, CEO [email protected]
NEARTHLAB provides automated drone inspection toward wind turbines. With help of deep learning, the drone fly by each blades and identifies defects and damages. From flying the drone to generating reports, all procedures are done unmanned.
ROBOTICS/SPACE COMPANIES
PALU Website http://www.paluinnovation.com/
Country Italy
Contact Luca Branca, Director [email protected]
PALU is a startup that develops innovative solutions to improve the safety of rotorcrafts during approach and landing operations, especially in very critical conditions. The first product developed by PALU is Angels, a system that improves the safety of rotorcrafts by increasing situational awareness. Angels was developed with H2020 financing and financing from the Lombardy region.
T4INNOVATION Website http://www.t4innovation.com/
Country Italy
Contact Daniele Pavarin, CEO [email protected]
T4I operates in the emerging field of mini-satellites, particularly in two critical areas of this market: orbit access and orbiting. The start-up develops products that allow satellites to reach customized orbits in order to make the best use of their capabilities. T4i has developed in particular a low cost plasma propulsion system, the Mini Helicon Thruster (MHT), designed for different types of satellite platforms. Helicon technology has been fully developed within the University of Padua as part of a European FP7 project.
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