Top Startups | European Innovation Academy 2017

2017 marks a remarkable year for European Innovation Academy. We now have 5000 alumni from 75 countries in nearly every industry. It is officially the time of the year again when summer is behind us and we are starting a new season.

For entrepreneurs of European Innovation Academy, it is a chance to leverage their newfound network and experience wherever in the world they call home. Some will walk the path of startup life, building and scaling businesses of their own. Others will create ecosystems and communities to bolster innovation wherever they reside.

We proudly present the top teams from the 15day Extreme Accelerator program 2017 in Italy and Portugal in alphabetical order:

ITALY

• ARCatalogs
• ATPC
• EZfit
•  Fish to Fish
• GardioGuard
•  Kumpa
•  nMesh
• P-Killer
•  Present
•  Roadside Rescue
• Totem
•  Work and Go

PORTUGAL

• Alo!Health
• Brizzlebee
• ECO-5
• Fire Tube
• LEFT
• On Fire Tube
• Paperchain
• Renvest
• Ripple Farms
• School X
• Tiger Time

Discover more about our Top Startups from EIA 2017

ARCatalogs ARCatalogs provides 3-D augmented reality menus and catalogs for restaurants and products in order to improve customer experience.

Team members: Arsalan Qureshi — University of California, Berkeley Fan Huafeng — Tsinghua University Francesco Maggiolino, Tommaso Pifferi — Politecnico di Torino Ruttanun Vilailuck — Illinois Wesleyan University

Chief Mentor: Anastasia Ashman Marketing Mentor: Francesco Fiume IT Mentor: Bartek Jazwinski

ATPC Active Tire Pressure Control: automatic management of tire inflation on vehicles to improve fuel economy and road safety on passenger cars and light-duty commercial vehicles. 4 patents pending.

Team members: Anastasiia Kazminskaia — Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Andrea Totaro — Royal Holloway, University of London Gaetano Valerio D’Aiera, Roberto Vitolo — Politecnico di Torino Raffaele Notaro — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles

Chief Mentor: David Feldsott Marketing Mentor: Joana Carvalho Afonso IT Mentor: Matteo Antony Mistretta

EZfit EZfit gives you an augmented reality view of how fashion items would look on you during online shopping. This technology aims to reduce return and shipping fees in e-commerce.

Team members: David Glaser, Williams Brandt — University of Michigan Luca Cras — Delft University of Technology Samuel Fogel — Indiana University Wanfei Kwan — University of California, Berkeley

Chief Mentor: Peter Mullen Marketing Mentor: Francesco Quartuccio IT Mentor: Wajid Khilji

Fish to fish A research team from University of Torino discovered a better way to detect heavy metals in fish. They are now scaling this technology through a smartphone application and data management.

Team members: Davide Simonetto — SAFM Hilton Bennett — Virginia Commonwealth University Isabella Timossi — Università di Torino Line Steiro — University of Bergen Yemeen Ayub — Christoper Newport University

Chief Mentor: Stephen Torres Marketing Mentor: Jesse Leimgruber IT Mentor: Gabriele Mittica

Cardio Guard A real-time ECG monitoring wristband for hospitals that decreases cost of care, length of patient stays, readmission rates, and the likelihood of a second heart issue.

Team members: Alyssa Blunt — University of Michigan Ben Tobias, Lindy Bowser — Grove City College Christopher Castro — Texas A&M San Antonio Vincenzo Randazzo — Politecnico di Torino

Chief Mentor: Phyllis Whiteley Marketing Mentor: Rene Rumberg IT Mentor: Fabio Daniele

Kumpa Kumpa takes the pain out of running by making it addicting, interactive, and fun.

Team members: Belén Barbé Abarca — University of Valencia Colton Barton — The University of Texas at San Antonio Eti Pricope — University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW Guillaume Pillon — HEC Montréal Maxime Robinet

Chief Mentor: Anastasia Ashman Marketing Mentor: Francesco Fiume IT Mentor: Bartek Jazwinski

nMesh nMesh is a self-generating network of internet access formed by cheap and flexible antennas, to quickly bring connectivity to all areas of the globe.

Team members:

Donna Bailey Farren — University of California, Berkeley Zeid Ayoub — University of Calgary Andrea Senacheribbe, Luca Rabezzana, Stefano Panaro — Politecnico di Torino

Chief Mentor: Andrea Basso Marketing Mentor: Sven Nuum IT Mentor: Aleksander Kuczek

P_Killer P_Killer is building a multifunctional AI robot to clean bodies of water. We combine trash collection, pollutants degradation, electricity generation, water quality monitoring and navigation in one robot.

Team members: Abdullah Masood — Victoria University Alla Bondarenko — Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Benoit Thomas — University of Technology of Compiègne Li Nan, Zhang Yihui — Tsinghua University

Chief Mentor: Marco Cantamessa Marketing Mentor: Kristjan Raude IT Mentor: Vadzim Zapolski-Dounar

Present Connecting companies seeking virtual reality advertisements with developers who want to monetize their VR content. Placing gamified VR advertisements in front of potential customers.

Team members: Ben Monaghan — Deakin University Matthew Halpern — Virginia Commonwealth University Michael Olmsted — University of Michigan Simon Seibold — LMU, Munich / Imperial College Business School, London Tiger Fu — University of California, Berkeley

Chief Mentor: Pirko Konsa Marketing Mentor: Cthy White IT Mentor: Walter Dal Mut

Roadside Rescue Roadside Rescue is an all-in-one tool that offers vehicle owners a personal driver and mobile mechanics to minimize disruption to your plans in cases of mechanical breakdowns.

Team members: Anas Ghanim — Qatar University Angela Mallett — Texas A&M-San Antonio Darius Chow — Singapore University of Technology and Design Kangjin Wang — University of Michigan Marissa Frey — MacEwan University Elena Carceller — University of Valencia

Chief Mentor: Marco Cantamessa Marketing Mentor: Kristjan Raude IT Mentor: Vadzim Zapolski-Dounar

Totem Totem is the ranking app. Rank everything from food to films with an easier and more harmonized system. The mission is to be the first search engine for options.

Team members: Daniel Nicholls — Shepherd University Haizannurah Bebe Zainuden — Singapore University of Social Sciences Macarena Rojas — Universidad del Desarrollo Maxime Chaury — Seoul National University Neil Sekhon — University of Michigan

Chief Mentor: Anastasia Ashman Marketing Mentor: Francesco Fiume IT Mentor: Bartek Jazwinski

Work & Go Work & Go connects companies and students for freelance work. We provide timely help in peak work hours while enabling students to earn money in their free time.

Team members: Abdurrahman Gadi — EAE Business School Andrés Evencio Izquierdo Riveras — University of Valencia Jason Amarjit Oberai — University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Zeming Zhang — University of California, Berkeley Ting Feng Shen — The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chief Mentor: Hazem James Abolrous Marketing Mentor: Diego D’Aquilio IT Mentor: Chris Sargent

Alo!Health Alo!Health is a visual recognition tool that tracks your diet through pictures of food. The technology calculates calories and nutrients, giving personalized and gamified recommendations through an in-app avatar that represents your health level.

Team members: Bemi Adeosun — Dublin Institute of Technology Kertu-Liis Oruste — Coventry University Michal Kovac — Comenius University Pau Freixas Mateu — La Salle University Peter Mikhail — Haagse Hogeschool Delft

Chief Mentor: Dirk Lehmann Marketing Mentor: Ross Kingsland IT Mentor: Tõnis Ostrat

Brizzlebee Brizzlebee is the world’s first ultrasonic hands-free toothbrush which is nonabrasive to your gums. Eliminate the human error in a task we do daily.

Team members: Bilal Attar — Lund University Eliza Böhm, Heidi Marsalek — Karl-Franzens Universität Franco Qian, Iida Salmivesi — Aalto University

Chief Mentor: Dirk Lehmann Marketing Mentor: Ross Kingsland IT Mentor: Tõnis Ostrat

ECO-5 ECO-5 leverages “Power Burp” which refers to the electrical energy generated by harvesting the burp of cows. This technology is developed by a research team from the Science and Technology College of Lisbon NOVA University.

Team members: David Jorge da Silva Coutinho, Marta Vidal Pereira , Pedro Correia Lima Sobral, Raul Ramos Vences, Rui Simoes de Albuquerque Cabral— Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Chief Mentor: Dagmar Eisenbach Marketing Mentor: Veiko Paalandi IT Mentor: Janno Stern

LEFT Study abroad programs lack a mobile tool tailored to the travel experiences they offer. LEFT is a framework that enhances the study abroad experience through uncomplicated access to resources, local information, and risk management.

Team members: Aron Van Es — Thomas More Hannes Vanoverschelde — University Ghent João Albuquerque — University of Coimbra Pieter Peeters — KU Leuven Shayanne Wright — Azusa Pacific University

Chief Mentor: Tommaso Di Bartolo Marketing Mentor: P.J. Leimgruber IT Mentor: Tiago Fernandez

On Fire Tube On Fire Tube is the a sport social network that allows any athlete, professional or amateur, with or without sponsors, to monetize their online photos and videos from the first moment on the platform.

Team members: João Neves Laura Bradshaw — Loughborough University London Luís Maximo Navega — NOVA School of Business and Economics Luís Pedro Lopes Pimenta — ISAG Sulaiman Mahmood — Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

Chief Mentor: Fred Krieger Marketing Mentor: Andrea Frahm IT Mentor: Daniel Vila Boa

Paperchain Paperchain provides data validation services to solve the problem of unpaid royalties to music copyright owners.

Team members: Daniel Dewar Kaspar Püüding — Tallinn University of Technology Lara Zelenova — Martella OÜ Rahul Rumalla — Berklee College of Music Tanya Niesvizky — AtraVerse

Chief Mentor: Fred Krieger Marketing Mentor: Andrea Frahm IT Mentor: Daniel Vila Boa

Renvest Renvest is an equity based e-commerce platform that connects investors with accessible real estate solutions.

Team members: Francisca Marques Pereira — Instituto Universitário da Maia Lukus Ratz — MacEwan University Pedro Ricardo Martins Lopes da Fonte — Universidade Lusófona Stefan Messinger — FH CAMPUS02 University of Applied Sciences

Chief Mentor: Mike Kyriacou Marketing Mentor: Veiko Paalandi IT Mentor: Pedro Ferreira

Ripple Farms Ripple brings vertical farming to cities. Our produce grows in four weeks and we stagger the crop cycles for daily harvesting. Our software tracks from seed to plate.

Team members: Breah Robinson — Wilfrid Laurier University Eleonora Manukian, Pieter-Jan Hoedt— VIVES University College / Suringo Steven Bourne

Chief Mentor: Jana Kukk Marketing Mentor: Jesse Leimgruber IT Mentor: Roman Vasjoho

ScoolX ScoolX is a learning tool for preschoolers that brings virtual worlds alive through augmented reality.

Team members: Daniël Swaab — TU Delft Jenny Nam — Monash University Johannes Behringer — Lund University Johannes Smolle — FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences Sarah Schaetti — InHolland University

Chief Mentor: Alina Adams Marketing Mentor: Kristi Saaremets IT Mentor: Claudio Gamboa

Tiger Time Tiger Time calculates long-term goals against how people actually spend their time, incentivizing productivity by granting or withholding free time from users. This mobile application tailors to specific organizations including corporations.

Team members: Adam O’Neill — Dublin Institute of Technology Johnny Cartucho — Loughborough University José Luís Pereira — University of Lisbon Natalia Pineda Uribe — Venture Lab / Nova School of Business and Economics Peter Cole — Loughborough University / The NUEL

Chief Mentor: Dagmar Eisenbach Marketing Mentor: Veiko Paalandi IT Mentor: Janno Stern

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