by maria | Nov 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s three weeks now since Beta-start kicked-off and time has been flying among so many interesting activities hosted during this crazy journey. The 10 teams have been growing fast with the support of many mentors and coaches that are coming around to help them on the project development.
Cristina Fonseca, co-founder at Talkdesk, one of the fastest growing companies in San Francisco, is coaching one team as well as Diogo Ortega from Line Health (Beta-start alumni), Tiago Franco from Imaginary Cloud and many others.
The team building activity with which they started the journey is, so far, one of the highlights of the program and resulted in a goldfish adoption – Margaret. Other highlights include the workshop From Concept to MVP by Diogo Teles, Head of Product at Faber Ventures or the Business Model Innovation by Manuel Tânger.
They’ve been able to narrow down their business ideas and focus on core features with the help of the above mentioned coaches and many others. The feedback has been so valuable that one team is actually pivoting. Kudos to our Beta-starters and keep up with the great job on the last week of the program.
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by maria | Nov 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
This first week of our program is a bootcamp where the 25 selected startups get to prove that they deserve to be here. It was an exciting week with workshops, mentoring sessions, startup pitches and a 48 hour hackathon.
Check out the videos below:
https://vimeo.com/144049326
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by maria | Oct 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
After the first week of Bootcamp at Deloitte Digital Disruptors, where the selected 25 startups worked really hard to get to the final list, here are the 15 finalists who will join us for the rest of the accelerator program.
It has been an exciting week, full interesting workshops, mentoring sessions, a 48 hour Hackathon and startup pitches. We were highly impressed with the quality of the startups and their solutions but, when the Bootcamp was over, we knew that only 15 of them could join us for what lays ahead.
And the 15 startups who will disrupt the insurance industry at Deloitte Digital Disruptors are….
DreamQuark
DreamQuark is a startup that develops cognitive technologies healthcare and insurance, creating value out of their data stocks. They develop new tools around cognitive and deep-learning technologies to help customers create new products and services for prevention, diagnostic and care.
Zen We Share
ZenWeShare has developed an automotive insurance scoring algorithm based on e-reputation data. What they are able to do is to compute a driving quality scoring based solely on a person’s Facebook profile.
idatase
Starting from a profound understanding of the infrastructural foundation idatase uses an innovative and always up-to-date view on efficient real time or buffered pre-processing of massive amounts of data. Through an inherent in-depth analysis of technology, economy, society or business oriented interactions and structures, they are able to create a better understanding of ongoing processes.
Powr of you
Powr of you is a consumer intelligence tool that connects brands and consumers to learn and earn from their digital footprint. Brands can learn about consumer behavior with a unified view across devices and platforms, driving greater marketing ROI.
Kinetikos
Kineticos turns your data into clinical insight. They combine the explosion of movement monitoring technology with breakthroughs in computational biomechanics and machine learning to support clinical decision making. In other words, they transform vast information about each patient into treatment knowledge so that you and your doctor take the best medical decisions.
Whale
Whale has a platform to deliver the best customer experience management on social media. They have the ability to collect unstructured data regarding client’s digital interactions, emails, mentions, complaints, requests, simulations, and create a dynamic client profile for each and every customer or lead. Based on this information they are able to determine each client’s archetype.
Fluo
With Fluo consumers can buy the right insurance at the best price avoiding duplication of covers while business partners (insurers, banks, payment service providers, travel operators) sell more, improve customer satisfaction and provide a solution for new regulations. Fluo’s engine provides a diagnostic on guarantees needed for each situation such as travelling, renting a car or buying goods, then advises users on the right guarantee for each situation and, if needed, recommends buying the missing ones.
Scicrop
Scicrop is the S&P and Bloomberg for agriculture. It acquires worldwide data from agriculture, financial markets and climate, mapping the value-added information. It analyzes more than 200k data units per day collected through public and private agrometeorological stations, mapping drones, news, social networks and satellite images.
WeSavvy
WeSavvy is a Pan-European insurance digital platform that enables insurers, agents/brokers and other financial service providers to engage more effectively with policyholders. Through the combination of Big Data and IoT, WeSavvy brings telematics, effective analytics and innovative risk management to the insurance industry introducing an easy and transparent way for policyholders to gain back control over their insurance premium.
Sensefinity
Sensefinity is the Internet of Things for the masses. In other words it’s for all businesses which have data information needs for additional revenues based upon efficiencies and risk mitigation. By plugging Sensefinity’s devices and registering to the platform, projects can immediately start using data gathered from their assets and delivered by their ubiquitous GSM data-pipe with multinational companies and covering worldwide territory.
RiskAPP
RiskAPP collects, processes and represents risk data for the insurance industry. Their tool, thanks to a proprietary algorithm, is capable of estimating the value of risk in supply chain and in productive systems and express the economic losses that can arise from such risks. Insurers are using this tool to estimate the risk and consult their clients on the best policies to subscribe and they’re also using this tool as an actuarial method to compute premiums for business interruption cover and contingent business interruption.
Botcar
Botcar is an electronic brain to transform old cars in connected cars for less than 100 euros of investment which, unlike other alternatives, works as a platform providing several apps everywhere and anywhere for the B2B market.
Petable
Petable is a preventive health plan management software for veterinary clinics and pet owners that make caring for their pets a priority, bringing them together through a web based back office and a mobile app. Since they integrate vet clinics in this experience it leads to an increased quality of the clinics’ services (being top-of-mind, being part of the pets life while at home), and a 20 % improvement in health plans’ compliance which means more visits and transactions for the clinics.
Standard Access
Standard Access has developed a hardware / software product and lock combination that allows monetised time restricted access to a building via your internet enabled device integrated with a client or tenant management platform. This is for property managers to be there when a potential client wants to do a viewing or for a real estate agent or for a maintenance guy to carry out repairs and to stop unauthorized access when keys or card based systems get into the wrong hands.
SkenarioLabs
SkenarioLabs is developing a globally applicable service (SaaS), which gives virtually anyone the capability to optimize and understand the most sustainable choices for urban structure in terms of energy efficiency, climate effects and money. Their service exploits standardized calculation methods, open data and various algorithms and automatizes these analyses.
Stimul
Stimul is a high-touch intervention program delivered through an online platform that provides everybody with the capacity to build healthy lifestyle habits thanks to human coaching, personalization, tracking and flexibility.
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by maria | Oct 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
This is a guest post by one of the startups who joined Deloitte Digital Disruptors for our Bootcamp. Check out what Scicrop thought of the first few days of our program…
After a round of seed investment, awards and several meetings and pitches to investors in Brazil, Canada and USA, our journey continues. This week we landed in Lisbon, Portugal, to participate in Deloitte Digital Disruptors, a new approach of innovation in the insurance market. Besides us, our drone and the traveled lab station (large, but a great companion every single time) are all in on, for this new moment!
Despite the rush of our routine and the intense mentoring and pitching sessions, this is giving us much joy on keeping up with our mission. Each place brings us new connections, new concepts, and knowledge.
Here on the first two days, we’re experiencing valuable situations with constructive feedback that enhance even more the solutions we develop. The insurance market shows up as a challenge, but also as a new opportunity.
We realize that there is a gap to be covered directly through our solutions. Being in this ecosystem full of experts, the whole team of Deloitte and Beta-i provided us a complete analysis of the insurance market.
We’re ready for the upcoming days! Let’s show Lisbon what SciCrop can offer and what we’re here for. Our mission is to deliver something that adds value to Deloitte’s customers, but more than that, to prove that innovation is made by disruption and lots of enthusiasm!
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