【会员动态】2019海交会“智创未来”西雅图分区决赛圆满举行
由中国留学人员广州科技交流会组委会主办,广东南方人力资源服务有限公司承办,中国海外人才服务基地协办的2019海交会“智创未来”西雅图分区决赛在美国西雅图ONEPIECE圆满落幕。这是继较早前北美波士顿分区决赛成功举办之后,北美赛区的另一场以创新创业为主,集聚新能源、新材料、生物医药与信息科技等高精尖项目的分区决赛。
海交会“智创未来”大赛自开展北美地区落地赛以来,大赛组委会以高效的赛事组织、专业的评审指导和贴心办赛服务在该地区形成了良好口碑,吸引了大批北美优质的科技公司前往报名参赛。大赛不仅向北美地区传递了广州国际化的营商环境,也展示了粤港澳大湾区开放融合的创新生态体系,加强了北美创新创业要素与粤港澳大湾区的联动与融合,更好的帮助优胜项目在粤港澳大湾区落地发展。
众创集聚
“智创未来”助推创业者梦想起航
西雅图分区决赛继续推进“双创”升级版战略实施,鼓励创新创业者放飞梦想,引导、集聚政府和市场资源支持创新创业。比赛聚焦先进制造、生物制药、新能源和新材料、环境科技、物联网和信息通信、数字健康与诊断等6大领域,通过评选筛选出有寻求中国合作伙伴、进入中国市场明确需求的北美高质量创新创业项目,大赛优胜项目可优先回国参加2019海交会和“智创未来”总决赛。
此次西雅图分区决赛得到了北美科技公司、科研院所、创投企业及顶尖投资顾问等各届力量的大力支持,评委团由各大科技公司、科研院所以及相关企业的早期技术高管、投资者和投资顾问等组成,评委们均拥有丰富的专业知识、创业投资和评判经验,能切实保障赛事评比权威性与专业性。
决赛当天,入围复赛的科技企业代表一一进行了项目路演,专家评审团通过互动评审方式,从参赛项目行业领域、市场、商业模式、管理、技术、财务等维度进行了点评和打分,经过激烈的角逐,最终根据分数高低从150个参赛项目中评选出了前15强。
各项目代表针对项目概况、行业现状、市场预期、竞争对手、商业模式、风险应对和创业团队等内容,阐述自己的创新思路与创业理念。
西雅图赛区前三甲
1.Orions Systems Inc.
Orions Systems is the leader in Human Centered AI, where humans and machines work together to create real-time actionable intelligence. Our project is focused>ns available to use their cognitive abilities to keep the system adapting to new input and providing intelligence computers are not yet able to generate. Orions Systems’ advantage is that we have spun out of a very large sports analytics company and our concepts and technology are very mature and proven in a very competitive space. We have helped invent and own part of the mind share for where AI + Machine teaming is heading.
2. Athira Pharma, Inc.
Orions Systems is the leader in Human Centered AI, where humans and machines work together to create real-time actionable intelligence. Our project is focused>ns available to use their cognitive abilities to keep the system adapting to new input and providing intelligence computers are not yet able to generate. Orions Systems’ advantage is that we have spun out of a very large sports analytics company and our concepts and technology are very mature and proven in a very competitive space. We have helped invent and own part of the mind share for where AI + Machine teaming is heading.
3. VeriClouds
VeriClouds is a cybersecurity company providing identity protection services to enterprise and mid-size customers. The weakest link in cybersecurity is the human. VeriClouds credential verification services help organizations detect compromised credentials through the whole customer lifecycle and limit the risk of cybersecurity breaches based on compromised credentials. VeriClouds uses the same data attackers do, proactively monitoring the dark web and systematically reducing user‑centric risk. VeriClouds provides the safest approach to eliminate the biggest cause of massive data breaches - the weak and/or stolen passwords. We have raised so far $900K to build the service and the service is proven and ready. We have a partner company in China and need resources to scale the business.
入围优胜项目可优先回国参加2019海交会及“智创未来”大赛总决赛,进行创新创业交流、项目路演、展示、对接洽谈等活动。除此之外,海交会还特别提供大会推介、实地考察、创新创业推介等多项支持,给优胜项目搭建自我展示亮相的平台。
◇大会将对入围优胜项目予以专场推介、专题展示
◇大会将安排各地人才服务机构和创业服务机构与项目负责人进行对接
◇大会可提供多种形式的融资与投资机会,做好入围优胜项目落地的各项具体服务工作,促进项目落地转化
◇大赛入围优胜项目可优先推荐申报广州市“红棉计划”,入选项目将给予200万元创业启动资金资助、场租补贴、银行贷款贴息补助等全链条政策支持
◇入围优胜项目可优先获得大会示范创新创业园区的落地对接服务,予以园区落户最优政策待遇
◇入围优胜项目可获大会跟踪服务。项目在穗落地后,将针对项目发展需求提供个性化服务措施
项目主要负责人也可参加大会定制的创新创业培训营,粤港澳大湾区科创参观考察等活动,同时大会也将提供粤港澳大湾区国际创新创业合作机会,帮助优胜企业在粤港澳大湾区寻找最合适的发展和落地机会,借大湾区科技资源和产业优势互补,不断发展项目配套的全产业链集群,把入围优胜项目融入粤港澳大湾区,吸引更多国际创新创业者,创造更多产业附加值。
与上届比赛相比,本届比赛在延续上一届的规模和模式、吸收有益经验的基础上,不仅增设澳洲赛区,也在大赛的宣传等方面大力创新,更加注重赛事的社会价值及优秀项目的市场转化。
目前,“智创未来”创新创业大赛已发展为链接广州与海外创新创业的重要平台。优质的创新技术、科学的评价体系、以落地为导向的价值取向、完善的赛事组织与宣传、富有成效的对接洽谈都有力地促进了海外创新创业资源与国内重点城市需求的有效对接,得到参与赛事企业机构的一致认同。
评 委
评委团成员由美国各大科技公司、科研院所以及相关企业的早期技术高管、投资者和投资顾问组成,拥有丰富的专业知识、创业投资和评判经验。
其他参赛项目
Numtra
Numtra is a company developing an AI Platform for non-‐data scientists like business analysts, marketing analysts and line-‐of-‐business developers. It a real-‐time platform that enables the Analyst community to solve their business problems using AI without requiring the knowledge of data science and AI. They have abstracted the data science technology into the Platform and tehir differentiating factor for Numtra is how they easy we make for the users. Their primary focus is Startups, Non-‐Profit Organizations and SME Enterprises that can't afford data scientists or a data engineering team. With their Platform, their customers can help themselves solve these problems with the data they already own. Their Platform has data connectors to structured, semi-‐structured and unstructured data sources so that business of all types can start using the Platform from the get‐go. Their current customers are in the Healthcare sector, Fintech sector, Retail sector and Marketing horizontal and they are very happy with what we have been able to do for them. Based on their experience, they will have the opportunity to do some turnkey solution development and consulting work that want to offload development work.
Extentek LLC
Extentek is a company that centers its forces around creating devices and apps for disabled people allowing them to live more independently and improve the overall quality of their lives. The Galina device has a large potential market per the World Health Organization, which estimates that 285 million people are blind and visually impaired globally, which is one in 23 people. In China, approximately 18 million people are blind or visually impaired, accounting for 1/5 of all disabled people in China. This number has grown by 6 million since just 2015. Though Extentek started with an invention for blind, its potential expands beyond to improve lives of all disabled people.
EnergSoft is a company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the United States that produces interactive data visualization products focused on battery and energy storage intelligence. It initially began to commercialize research which had been conducted at Washington University's Department of Foster School of Business and Material Science between 2016 and 2018. It was founded as Delaware corporation in March 2018 by Slava Agafonov, who specialized in artificial intelligence techniques for analyzing and exploring battery data. The product queries hardware devices for energy storage test, research and development or customer data streams in the field then generate customizable graph types with statistical summary and predictive data analytics with artificial intelligence. Every lab, manufacturer, and certification company has its own internal processes. No single solution fits all needs, so EnergSoft builds custom software modules to accommodate any situation. We provide accurate cost estimates based on a thorough evaluation of your product requirements, scope, and responsibilities. Energsoft involves our customers in each step of tailoring our solution to their environment, working side‐by-side with the customer to ensure the result is an effective, reliable solution to their needs. Energsoft is always expanding our commitment to delivering the most costeffective battery analytics solutions for our clients' workloads. There are many big data and analytics players, but very few battery analytics players on the market and none with the advanced capabilities of EnergSoft's cloud analytics platform. Send us a few data files and use your free trial to see what insights EnergSoft can deliver while we put together an accurate quote.
Hydrobee SPC
Founded in Seattle in 2013. Founder previously launched and funded $3M energy startup. Participated in Fledge accelerator for impact startups. Winner of several startup contests. Raised
$72,000 from first investors, seeking more for growth. Hydrobee makes personal renewable energy products for people living and working off the grid and for emergency power. The products make electric power for USB charging from sun, motion, and heat. Hydrobee's target market is 1 billion people living in developing countries who have no electricity.
Astrolabe Analytics Inc.
VTeam Labs LLC
VTeamLabs is a technology solutions and services company, serving enterprises and other customers around the world through direct and partner channels. A Microsoft Azure Certified Partner and an AWS consulting partner, VTeamLabs focuses>
platform-‐based solutions through evolving go‐to-market relationships. Our technology expertise includes cloud and data security, data sciences and engineering, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things. Our approach enables us to solve complex engineering problems with an inclusive design mindset. Our technical competencies and skills extend to data analytics on SQL, SQL data platform, Azure Cosmos DB, Internet of Things, Microsoft Cloud Learning platform on Azure, Microsoft Cognitive Services, artificial intelligence and Microsoft Bot Framework. Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, VTeamLabs has offices in Vancouver, BC, Canada and New Delhi, India.
Retrocausal AI
Retrocasul is a company building visual telematics and ADAS solutions for fleet managers, automotive OEMs, and auto-insurers leveraging computer vision and AI>at the granularity of individual trips. The driver mounts his smartphone on the windshield, looking outside the vehicle using an easy magnetic mount. They highly understand driving behavior and the value proposition of this solution is dynamic pricing for PHYD (pay how you drive). The PHYD app can specify a range of insurance fees for a given trip and show the driver the fees per mile that was charged based on her safety behavior at the end of the trip. It is also a more mature risk model than point-‐in-‐time models used currently. The company is developing new visual AI capabilities for ADAS and forging new partnerships and pilot plans with fleet managers, auto-‐insurers, and automotive OEMs.
NANO3D SYSTEMS LLC
NANO3D SYSTEMS LLC is a company formulating, marketing and selling proprietary specialty chemicals for metal deposition including Electroplating (EP), Electroless Plating (ELP), and Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) for advanced electronics applications. This company is built upon many years of experience of industry veterans who are focusing on delivering high-‐performance and high-‐quality innovative plating materials at an attractive price. Their products are used for research and development as well as commercial scale applications, especially in microelectronic, transportation and chemical industries. They also provide custom formulations of plating solutions, precursor synthesis, micro-‐fabrication and characterization services. NANO3D's electrochemical technology is based on proprietary formulations of plating solutions with unique features a) superior chemistries enabling high speed plating; b) selective plating of fine features, and c) alloys with unique properties. The company need advanced plating enables next generation consumer and power electronic devices.
IntellaSphere
IntellaSphere is a company developing the world’s first Brand Affinity Marketing System. It is an integrated, all-‐in-‐one marketing platform which transforms marketing from a solitary to a socially collaborative approach by turning supporters into active promoters. IntellaSphere is digital marketing and their SaaS (software as a service) platform eliminates the need for multiple marketing tools and presents an immediate positive ROI for marketers and businesses, saving them time and money, while improving their marketing effectiveness. In addition, they also offer marketing service for additional 'hands-‐on' marketing assistance, which is delivered by their hybrid
on-‐shore / off-‐shore marketing services team with its growing network of certificated marketing partners. IntellaSphere’s success is to helps Harness the Power of Grass-‐Roots Brand Advocates to Amplify the Success of Key Marketing Initiatives. Currently, they are in growth stage with realistic breakeven in 16 months with strong, experienced, proven management team.
Enlyte
Enlyte was founded to provide a stigma-free, digital therapeutic platform to help reduce the estimated $560 Billion of cost in lost workforce productivity in the US alone due to stress, anxiety, depression and addiction. 90% of the people that urgently need help do not receive it, primarily due to stigma, out of pocket expenses, and treatment facility capacity issues, so the evolving digital therapeutics industry allows for exponential technology to reach and help many more people than currently possible. The Enlyte platform is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) principles and was co-developed with psychologists and neuroscientists from prominent mental health facilities from several countries, and is coupled with other components to form a holistic approach to the concept of obtaining and maintaining a healthy mind and healthy body.
optimize.health
optimize.health is a next-‐generation remote patient monitoring platform. Our cloud-‐based platform receives data from a range of wireless health devices, including cellular and
bluetooth-‐based blood pressure cuffs, scales, glucometers, and smart medication packaging, with data being stored in easy-‐to-‐interpret reports that clinical teams (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc.) can use to identify which patients need proactive communication. Built-‐in communication tools facilitate communication by the care team. This approach has been shown to lead to reduced hospitalizations, reduced costs, and better health outcomes. Starting in 2019, our system became reimbursable by health insurance in the U.S., including Medicare. We have features built into the product that enable reimbursement to providers in a way that is compliant with U.S. regulations. During the next phase of the company we will create a network of integrations to Electronic Health Records and apply artificial intelligence techniques to our unique data source to create a very powerful clinical decision support tool that is informed by realtime data from hundreds of thousands of patients. This dataset will be useful to creating better healthcare outcomes, both in the U.S. and globally.
Litesprite
Litesprite builds games to manage chronic health conditions. Clinicians can use their data to remotely monitor patients, standardize care and documentation, receive reimbursement, and identify high-‐risk individuals to prevent adverse events. Their games gather important, hard-‐to-‐ collect, in-‐field data like text, image, video, and voice, that can be used to construct new digital biomarkers. They develop to applying machine learning to our unique data sets, predictive models,such as first-‐of-‐kind suicide-‐risk predictive models. Their mental health video game, Sinasprite, is the first to win a U.S. Surgeon General Award and the only one recommended by payers and clinics. It impacts many chronic conditions, including cancer and cardiovascular, and different parts of the patient journey. Sinasprite uses evidence-‐based treatment methods, including cognitive-‐behavioral-‐therapy (CBT) and mindfulness strategies. Their disruptive innovation has been recognized with 20 international health innovation awards, and their future business models include an outcomes-‐based cost savings model.
Visom Technology
Visom is a healthcare data company that is starting with an AR app using the Microsoft HoloLens. Our application uses facial feature detection for identification of patient anatomy in order to overlay and align their 3D imagery from CT, MRI scans. The software uses geometric algorithms along with cutting edge machine learning and computer vision; the combination is very efficient and allows the app to run fully self-‐contained within the HoloLens headset. Additionally, the software executes basic segmentation of medical images with image processing and
three-‐dimensional visualization. Image-‐guided surgery (IGS) enables a surgeon to use a patient’s pre-‐operative imaging data (such as CT or MRI) as a real-‐time reference during a procedure; it basically shows the surgeon the spot on the scan image that is associated with the pointer instrument tip location. IGS is limitedto only 20% of surgical procedures. Studies have shown that IGS can improve accuracy by 2X and reduce reoperation rate by 66%-‐100% for select procedures. The reason why devices with such promise have so little adoption is a combination of technical limitations and poor user experience. Lagging adoption decreases patient access to best care, and outdated technology wastes surgeons’ and patients’ time. Lack surgeon time is the larger backdrop in front of which this specific technological problem sits. The anticipated physician shortage and rising burnout rate only amplifies these harms to patient and surgeon.
three-‐dimensional visualization. Image-‐guided surgery (IGS) enables a surgeon to use a patient’s pre-‐operative imaging data (such as CT or MRI) as a real-‐time reference during a procedure; it basically shows the surgeon the spot on the scan image that is associated with the pointer instrument tip location. IGS is limitedto only 20% of surgical procedures. Studies have shown that IGS can improve accuracy by 2X and reduce reoperation rate by 66%-‐100% for select procedures. The reason why devices with such promise have so little adoption is a combination of technical limitations and poor user experience. Lagging adoption decreases patient access to best care, and outdated technology wastes surgeons’ and patients’ time. Lack surgeon time is the larger backdrop in front of which this specific technological problem sits. The anticipated physician shortage and rising burnout rate only amplifies these harms to patient and surgeon.
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海交会介绍
中国海外人才交流大会暨中国留学人员广州科技交流会(简称“海交会”)的前身是中国留学人员广州科技交流会(简称“留交会”)。在国家有关部委大力支持下,21年来已经成功举办20届。大会以“面向海内外,服务全中国”为宗旨,通过展览、洽谈、论坛和沙龙等一系列活动,为广大的国内需求单位和海外高层次人才搭建一个相互了解、沟通、交流的平台,目前已成为国内规模最大、开放度最高、覆盖所有海外人才的、在海内外最具影响力的海外人才与科技信息交流平台。
2019海交会将于2019年12月在中国广州举行。
来源:中国海外人才服务基地