WINNERS OF THE SXSW ACCELERATOR PITCH EVENT
Enterprise and Smart Data
Winner of the SXSW award for enterprise and smart data, Deep 6 AI applies AI to medical records to find patients for clinical trials faster.
The annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, provides the perfect opportunity to learn about new innovative companies and their crazy / brilliant / breathtaking / no-longer-scifi ideas and products. There are many opportunities to meet the startups of the future; spot them for example in the SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event or during the Interactive Innovation Awards Ceremony. In this blog we present some of the most fascinating winners and promises of 2017.
WINNERS OF THE SXSW ACCELERATOR PITCH EVENT
Enterprise and Smart Data
Winner of the SXSW award for enterprise and smart data, Deep 6 AI applies AI to medical records to find patients for clinical trials faster.
Transportation
SPLT offers ride-sharing for companies, introducing enterprise carpooling in a closed network. Here CEO Anya Babbitt explains the concept.
Entertainment and Content
Laugh.ly is the first and only streaming app dedicated to stand-up comedy. Like Netflix for comedy.
Health and Wearable
Sound Scouts utilizes game-based technology to deliver an accessible, reliable, low cost hearing screening solution to detect hearing loss.
Sports
Brizi is an enterprise platform that uses in-venue fan-controlled A/R camera systems, letting sports properties monetize fan content.
Security and Privacy
Instead of using hackable passwords, UnifyID is developing technology with which you authenticate yourself with your own patterns and data.
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
Lampix is a software, hardware and cloud platform that makes augmented reality without glasses by transforming surfaces into smart surfaces.
Innovative World
Thimble teaches beginners a basic understanding of building electronics through a monthly kit with carefully curated instructions.
INTERACTIVE INNOVATION AWARDS
Health, Med & Biotech
Portal Instruments introduces PRIME, the needle-free injector. It administers a narrow medicine stream, the size of a hair, in 0,5 seconds.
Innovative 3-DIY
The 3Doodler PRO is a 3D-printing pen aimed at designers. This version allows to print in plastic and even carbon- and wood- composites.
Music & Audio Innovation
With the Holoplot Audio Wall you can control sound, as you can control lights. Enjoy the acoustics of a concert hall or open-air concert.
New Economy
The Blinker App helps you buy or sell cars; just take a snap of the vehicle! It even helps you with the paperwork and financing, for free!
Scifi No Longer
MIT partners up with Microsoft Research to develop metallic-looking tattoos, which are also skin interfaces that control gadgets.
Smart Cities
Pavegen is known for their kinetic energy tiles. Their newest product V3, also collects data and converts your steps into digital currency.
Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality
Tilt Brush by Google lets artists, kids or anyone interested paint 3D imagery in virtual reality.
Best of Show
The Sensel Morph is an input touchpad with over 20,000 sensor points that can be used as a DJ mixer, keyboard or painting surface.
People’s Choice
CaringCrowd is a crowdfunding platform which focuses on global public health. It’s free to use and sponsored by Johnson & Johnson.