
The Sirius Programme start ups
The start ups joining the second round of the Sirius Programme include:- Adverdose: Italian entrepreneurs, Paolo La Paglia and Mario Dughi are aiming to reinvent digital advertising with their video contest platform that rewards users each time they interact with advertising content;
- Edukit: The global team behind Edukit hails from Jamaica, the USA, China and St Kitts and Nevis. They?ve created an online platform that matches disadvantaged students with programmes run by charities and social enterprises that offer specialist educational and personal development;
- Fresh4Cast: Romanian Mihai Florin Ciobanu and Brazilian Francisco Teixeira de Goeya want to revolutionise the international trade of fruit and vegetables with fresh4cast, a service that will provide aggregate data on shipment, stock and sales allowing importers and exporters on different continents to make more informed decisions about what to buy, where to sell, and at what price;
- iGBL: This team from India, Ukraine and Australia aim to revolutionise university teaching by enabling all lecturers to take a ?science experiment? approach to teaching. By integrating experiments, polls and instant feedback into teaching, students learn by doing, increasing performance;
- PhotoPitch: The new Flickr, PhotoPitch is the brainchild of Danish trio Linisha Palm, Jens Axel So and Mikkel Lonnov. It sets out to eradicate staid stock images by enabling image buyers to commission bespoke budget images from photographers anywhere in the world;
- RingCaptcha: This innovative tech start up from Argentinean entrepreneurs Mariano Fernandez, Nicolas Messina and Martin Cocaro will revolutionise the phone verification process for websites and apps;
- Sliide: South African entrepreneur, Corbyn Munnik and the UK?s Frankie Kearney have created Sliide, a unique smartphone application that allows the end user to get paid for doing something they do everyday – unlocking their smartphone – whilst giving brands the opportunity to distribute content to incredibly targeted audiences;
- SunEos: French duo, Henry de Bennetot and Alexis Garavel?s business will revolutionise the way we socialise. Eliminating the need for wallets and queuing, SunEos is a fully integrated cashless payment system combined with e-wallet wristbands for any social event;
- Teech.io: Italian trio Lorenzo Bruno, Giuseppe Labanca and Paola Santoro?s business means developers can build, launch and maintain educational apps at a reduced cost and accelerated timeframe to take advantage of this growing market; and
- Zipcube: an online marketplace for meeting rooms, work spaces and event venues from French-born entrepreneurs Guillame Santacruz and Yacine Rezgui and Hekla Goodman from Sweden.
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