XTC Startup Competitions @ CES 2023 Finalists
We are thrilled to announce that from hundreds of applications across more than 40 countries, we have selected the Finalists for the XTC Startup Competitions @ CES 2023!
The Top 8 entrepreneurs from four different verticals – Digital Health, Fintech, Sustainable Smart Cities, and Web3 – will be pitching their innovations live on stage at CES in Las Vegas on January 5th and 6th.
Congratulations!
DIGITAL HEALTH 📱
🇺🇸 BetterMeal AI – A therapeutic which is on a mission to understand the biological connections between human gut and food at the deepest level
🇺🇸 General Prognostics (GPx) – Revolutionizing remote chronic disease management with the Bloodless Blood Test
🇧🇬 Kelvin Health – Personalized supportive tool for non-invasive screening & monitoring of PAD
🇮🇳 Medhini by Arficus Private Limited – An AI health-tech agnostic firm with its product MEDHINI – the future of healthcare in market
🇩🇪 Munevo – Intelligent wheelchair control via Smart Glass – simply nod and go
🇰🇪 Neural Labs Africa – Using AI to transform medical imaging diagnosis
🇨🇦 Qidni Labs – Developing the world’s most accessible and sustainable dialysis technology for kidney failure patients through the development of a portable and waterless dialysis system
🇪🇸 Pegasi – On a mission to cut time to first treatment for oncology patients in the developing world by half
The Judges
Jaswinder Ahuja, Corporate VP, Cadence Design Systems
Tunde Akinniranye, Venture Capitalist, 7WireVentures
Amit Aysola, Managing Director, Wanxiang Health Investments
Fergus Hay, Founder & CEO, Elysian Fields
Adrian Hernandez, Director of Business Development-CTO Integrated Solutions, NXP Semiconductors
Emma Kelley, Business Development Director-Health and Supply Chain, Chemonics International
Nathan Sundheimer, Corporate Innovation-Health, Plug and Play Tech Center
Angela Tay, Senior Investment Associate, AgFunder
Patrick Zehil, Venture Capitalist
FINTECH 💲
🇮🇳 BankSathi – Empowering consumers financial life by provide the right financial process access to the last mile user (tier2 and lower cities)
🇺🇸 Climatize – A climate fintech mobile application that allows you to easily & automatically invest in renewable energy projects through crowdfunding
🇲🇽 Expediente Azul (Blue File) – The only web and mobile fintech tool created specifically for financial and insurance institutions to simplify the way they receive the large amount of documents and data
🇩🇪 MotionsCloud – Insurance claims automation through the state of the art of computer vision technologies and deep learning AI technologies.
🇳🇬 Mzuri Solutions Limited – Helping small businesses in Africa to structure their business operations and prepare themselves for funding from formal financial institutions
🇺🇸 RealKey – Automated processing and underwriting for the mortgage ecosystem
🇺🇸 Remynt – Creating a two-sided, long-term customer revenue model that recovers debt, rebuilds credit, and restores credit access
🇺🇸 SPARE. – A convenient, easy to use, free way to withdraw cash from various digital wallets and other sources, anywhere and anytime
The Judges
Nicolas Autret, Partner, Walden Catalyst Ventures
Jun Ho Bae, Venture Investor, Plug and Play Tech Center
Thomas Luk, Partner and Managing Director in Europe and China, A.T. Kearney
John Martin, SME-Startup & Ecosystem, Extreme Tech Challenge
Melinda Moore, Partner, Aventura Ventures
SUSTAINABLE SMART CITIES ♻
🇺🇸 Augmented Sense Technologies – Delivering enhanced real-time situational information and eyes-free control of mobile tech
🇩🇪 Chargd – Providing an e-mobility platform for fleet operators to simplify fleet operation in the electric vehicle era without changing driver habits
🇺🇸 Enexor BioEnergy – The renewable energy and carbon conversion solution for the world’s organic, biomass, and plastic waste problems
🇱🇻 FIXAR AERO – The only full-stack autonomous UAV on the market that brings the best-in-class economic efficiency and operates in the mountains and geomagnetic anomalies
🇵🇹 Graphenest, S.A. – A technology provider of sustainable EMI shielding solutions for the e-mobility and electronics markets
🇬🇧 IONATE Limited – Using magnetic control to deliver a superior result at much lower cost, rather than relying on electronics to control power flow
🇺🇸 SIMPLENIGHT – A B2B digital global commerce platform providing the booking digitalization infrastructure for the connected future in areas including cities, homes, cars, travel, sports and more
🇮🇱 Watersight – An artificial intelligence-backed spectrometer on a chip solution for sensing water quality, safety, and security
The Judges
Lauren Behr, Senior Advisor-Innovation & Investment, Chemonics International
Clare Hunter, ESG Strategist, Samsung Electronics
Jinhak Lee, Senior Industrial Designer, Samsung Electronics
John Martin, SME-Startup & Ecosystem, Extreme Tech Challenge
Dragos Maciuca, Director Systems Engineering-Facebook Reality Labs, Meta
Janice Mori, Senior Vice President Business Development, Synaptics Incorporated
WEB3 🌐
🇮🇱 Believyn – The first follow2earn platform to allow followers to invest in their favorite creator’s growth
🇮🇳 Brú Finance – Connecting decentralized lending to real economy, serving the un/underbanked population of 1.70 billion in global south
🇪🇸 ComGo – The Common Good Chain – Developing the first blockchain backed “Digital Impact Ecosystem” to contribute to create a truthful impact industry, transversal to all other industries
🇺🇸 echo3D – A cloud platform for Metaverse & 3D/AR/VR that provides tools and network infrastructure to help developers & companies quickly build and deploy 3D apps, games, and content
🇮🇳 Eunimart Multichannel Pvt Ltd – A unified SAAS platform that simplifies omnichannel sales for small and medium global retail brands
🇺🇸 Rhiza Health Inc. – A web3 powered solution that automates healthcare transactions for payers and providers
🇦🇹 Riddle&Code – Making it easy to unlock the full potential of industrial machines for Web3 and helping industries to build tailored applications upon the RDDL Network
🇷🇸 Technology Partnership – A unified Commerce Network (Köpa) that offers the most secure and convenient omnichannel instant checkout integrated with merchants’ business processes
The Judges
Nicolas Autret, Partner, Walden Catalyst Ventures
Yasmeen Drummond, Investor, Nima Capital
Dennis Liu, Managing Director-Tech Clients, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
John Martin, SME-Startup & Ecosystem, Extreme Tech Challenge
Ian Sikora, Executive Director, Openspace Ventures
Angela Tay, Senior Investment Associate, AgFunder