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Here are our picks for July 2016.
AlphaGamma Startups Overview: July 2016
Helppier – Portugal
Founder: Hugo Magalhães
Year founded: 2014
Website: www.helppier.com
Corporate email: support@helppier.com
Hugo Magalhães, CEO and founder of Helppier, worked as a software developer creating documentation, when he recognized the need of developing a solution that could simplify this area in many aspects both in terms of production and training costs. Therefore Hugo built a young and well trained team to develop a tool that allows the creation of manuals easy to write and use, without any infrastructure.
“Helppier is an online software service that allows you to create help tutorials for your site or web application in a short time using a clean and easy user interface, without ever leaving your website or app.
Helppier is all about helping and attracting your users to the right place. You can teach them how to buy your product or use your service, help new customers through onboarding messages and keep them coming back. And you don’t need development or IT experts to set it up. You can do it yourself quickly because you don’t have to write any code and install plugins.”
DealMatrix – Austria
Founder: Christoph Drescher
Year founded: 2015
Website: www.dealmatrix.io
Corporate email: info@dealscreening.com
At the end of 2015, Christoph Drescher founded the FinTech startup DealMatrix with the aim to unite the venture ecosystem and create transparency in early stage investments.
DealMatrix has developed a platform that makes startups more comparable by analyzing them according to standardized criteria that is relevant to investors and company scouts. Accordingly, investors quickly see whether an applicant matches their portfolio while company scouts find startups that fit their innovation focus. DealMatrix software further supports real-time pitch competitions and startup conferences from the application and selection of startups to jury/public scoring and data analysis. Project receives anonymized feedback regarding their jury/public scores at pitch competitions. On the platform the startups themselves create a profile via which they can apply to investors, corporates and events. For startups, the use of the platform is free of charge. Investors and corporates
“In the fast-paced and dynamic world of venture, transparency and structure are hard to find. Every bit of data that puts you ahead of your competition is invaluable. DealMatrix provides the innovative software and services that are needed for better decision making. The solutions are customized to the specific requirements of each player of the venture ecosystem.”
CANARD – Spain
Founder: Jorge Gomez
Year founded: 2015
Website: www.canarddrones.com
Corporate email: jorge.gomez@canarddrones.com
CANARD is an IoT Smart Cities / Smart Airports platform that allows a smart, green and cost effective process for real-time inspection and calibration of aeronautical Navigational Aids safety systems in airports using ultra-fast, auto-piloted, and zero emissions UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or drones) to perform satellite-precise positioning and 100% accurate Flight Inspections, bringing to market a high potential technology ready for exponential international growth, and to disrupt the established value of the Flight Inspection´s €3.9B EUR/year global market.
«We are a dynamic company that designs solutions with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones. We work flexibly with clients to fulfill their needs while working with the highest standards in engineering and systems integration. Our flagship project, which involves the calibration of lighting systems in airports using drones is a huge forward leap in the Air Transportation sector.»
S-Alert – Afghanistan
Founder: Tamim Isazadah
Year founded: 2016
Website: www.s-alert.com
Corporate email: tamimisazadah@gmail.com
S-Alert is a platform which bridges teachers, students, and student’s parents in an electronic, well-managed and appropriate way to facilitate the educational communication and remove gaps which exist among students, parents and teachers. So that it enables parents to have all activities information which happens in the class instantly. This application paves the way for parents to keep track of their children precisely anytime and anywhere.
“Our team discussed about different problems regarding education in Afghanistan and lots of obstacles existing in this domain, one of the most critical problems and substantial issue in a war-stricken country like Afghanistan is lack of coordination and communication between the teachers in schools and the parents of their students, which is a big deal to be managed. Because most of the parents can’t keep track of their children and have no reports about their children’s activities, potentials, debilities and their progress at schools.”
Tamim is a semifinalist of GIST Tech-I (it is an annual competition for science and technology entrepreneurs from emerging economies worldwide) Also he won the First Award in iIabs competition in Afghanistan.
Climber – Portugal
Founders: Joao Feliciano, Mario Mouraz, João Caldeira
Year founded: 2015
Website: www.climberhotel.com
Corporate email: sales@climberhotel.com
Climber is a revenue management software to help hotel managers maximizing hotel revenues through dynamic rates of rooms and services. The solution, which is based on a SaaS (software-as-a-service), suggests to the hotel what is the best room to sell, the best price, the best period, the best customer segment and the best reservation channel, automating the entire tariff calculation process and according to a dynamic pricing policy.
“We want to help hotels maximize their revenue according to constant changes on demand peaks. Our innovative pricing elasticity model considers not only the history of hotel bookings, future and planned reservations and competition prices (what traditional RMS do), but also the effect of weather conditions, macroeconomic factors, behavior analysis of customers in the hotel website, online reputation of the hotel and the occurrence of events to calculate and recommend the best selling price of the rooms and services of the hotels. This technology is important because not only improves the daily work of the hotel manager by saving him time but also because it improves the revenue of the hotel.”
King of App – Spain
Founder: José Vicente Sogorb Moron, Oriol Riera, Xavier Barata Teixidó
Year founded: 2014
Website: www.kingofapp.es
Corporate email: theherald@kingofapp.com
King of App is the first CMS for mobile applications; a proposal designed to cater to a growing market that requires agile, dynamic and robust tools. The option to create a CMS is the clearest response to an inflated environment, difficult to access for most and which runs a serious risk of becoming saturated by excess demand.
King of App allows the creation of mobile applications for free. However, exclusive services and certifications and quality controls have minimal cost to the user. On the other hand, the creation of an official store to purchase products (templates, modules, functions and services) will also allow the users to trade their creations, modules and templates.
«King Of App allows you to have a perfect mobile application for all your needs. Each app is different depending on the needs of each client. So you can create business, brand or personal applications .Its function is to unify all the information on one shortcut that, in turn, is accessible from any mobile phone or tablet. This feature makes it possible to view the content 7 days a week, anytime from anywhere in the world.»
Ukowapi – Germany
Founder: Steve Odhiambo
Year founded: 2015
Website: www.uko-wapi.com
Corporate email: info@uko-wapi.com
Ukowapi was founded in Darmstadt, Germany in 2015. ‚ukowapi’ is Swahili and means ‚where are you?’
It is a mobile solutions startup that specializes in location-based services. The core service is providing reliable and verifiable digital addresses as an alternative to underdeveloped physical address systems.
«Our vision is to completely revolutionize address systems in the developing world, thus transforming the way people do business. We believe that if you change the way a person interacts with his world, you in fact change that person’s world. This will give rise to a safer, more connected and more accessible world.
Ukowapi aims to ‚make individual reachable’ by providing reliable and verifiable digital addresses. In the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2014, ukowapi received the Galileo Masters Award for winning 1st Place in Hesse, Germany and 2nd Place overall.»
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