Who are the last venture pitch winners?
03.10.2014
"Why are you better?" is a question that can stump startups as they try to explain their value proposition to a jury. Fortunately for four startups pitching in the first round of venture kick, the answers were both compelling and realistic. Congratulations to the venture pitch winner!
 The team of comfy (Electronics & Mechanics)
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 Martin Davtyan from MechanicalCrowd (Internet & Mobile)
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 The team of InsideDNA (Biotech)
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 The two partners of Di55erent (Internet & Mobile)
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Breaking the walls of deficient home security
comfy develops an effective and affordable home security solution. The St. Gallen-based startup empowers people to jointly build safer neighborhoods by leveraging the Internet of Things, existing infrastructure and social capital.
Combine work of humans and algorithms to make crowdsourcing cheaper and faster
MechanicalCrowd is a B2B platform built on top of Mechanical Turk that combines the work of humans and algorithms to make crowdsourcing cheaper and faster. A lot of companies use Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing and micro tasking platform for solving image categorization or data cleaning problems, i.e.
An online platform for bioinformatics tools back ended with a cloud technology
InsideDNA is an online platform to publish, share and execute bioinformatics tools back ended with a cloud technology. It is user-friendly, social and cost-effective and helps reseachers in biology and medicine streamline analysis for next-generation sequencing data.
User-friendly solution for end-to-end encryption and online collaboration
Di55erent's technology is based on a novel data structure enabling distributed storage, end-to-end encryption and fast synchronization. Files can then be stored on the cloud with the best privacy protection, without compromising on ease of use or online collaboration.
comfy develops an effective and affordable home security solution. The St. Gallen-based startup empowers people to jointly build safer neighborhoods by leveraging the Internet of Things, existing infrastructure and social capital.
Combine work of humans and algorithms to make crowdsourcing cheaper and faster
MechanicalCrowd is a B2B platform built on top of Mechanical Turk that combines the work of humans and algorithms to make crowdsourcing cheaper and faster. A lot of companies use Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing and micro tasking platform for solving image categorization or data cleaning problems, i.e.
An online platform for bioinformatics tools back ended with a cloud technology
InsideDNA is an online platform to publish, share and execute bioinformatics tools back ended with a cloud technology. It is user-friendly, social and cost-effective and helps reseachers in biology and medicine streamline analysis for next-generation sequencing data.
User-friendly solution for end-to-end encryption and online collaboration
Di55erent's technology is based on a novel data structure enabling distributed storage, end-to-end encryption and fast synchronization. Files can then be stored on the cloud with the best privacy protection, without compromising on ease of use or online collaboration.