We believe that the barriers every startup is facing while entering an industry are still high. We want to support every small business that has a MVP to find new customers, investors and mentors and get him the chance to skyrocket his business idea.
If you're a startup looking for investors, customers, funding or media exposure, StarTech Factory offers you an unique opportunity to showcase your tech product or solution to the Romanian business & tech community within Internet & Mobile World, on 3-4 October. The registration is entirely free and open for every startup that meets the criteria for participation.
StarTech Factory is a programme in which we will select 22 startups that we'll exhibit without any costs during IMWorld, being supported by Raiffeisen Bank and the organizers of the event.
22 startups will have the opportunity to showcase their businesses in front of 9.000 business professionals in IMWorld's Startups Area.
7 promising startups will be shortlisted to pitch their solutions on the IMWorld's Main Stage and will be evaluated by a qualified jury.
The startup that will convince the jury and will get the highest score will be awarded by our partner, Raiffeisen Bank with 2.000 euros.
Here are the key dates you need to put in your calendar.
Deadline for applications
Establishing the 22 startups that will ensure their presence at the event
Support for pitching & exhibiting preparations
Event Day
Pitch Day & Winning Announcement
They are the people who will evaluate your startup.
Head of Digital Services PI
Raiffeisen Bank
Head of Digital Banking for private individuals, Catalin Chirieac is specialized in online banking services, identifying and promoting digital initiatives, within and outside of the organization, in order to enhance customers’ digital experience and the commercial value proposition.
He’s one those guys keeping up with technology trends and regulatory changes.
Business Angel, Business Growth Consultant and Associated Dean
Sergiu is a Business Growth Consultant and Associated Dean with Maastricht School of Management in Romania. He coaches and mentors entrepreneurs. Sergiu is an active Business Angel, with participations in a number of high growth local companies (FRUFRU, 2performant, Softelligence, Fintech OS, EITG).
Previously, Sergiu has been the Executive Director and Board Member of PE-owned REGINA MARIA in Romania, where he coordinated a growing healthcare business (12x in 6 years) and an expanding team of professionals, including acquisitions of smaller players. Before returning to Romania, Sergiu has worked for Amgen Inc, in Austria and Switzerland, playing an active role in the company’s expansion to CEE countries.
Sergiu proudly holds an MBA from INSEAD. His previous education includes a Computer Science degree from Politehnica University of Bucharest and an International Business degree from ASE.
CEO
Angels Den Funding
After launching both projects and companies in B2B & B2C (omni-channel or digital), Adrian Enache began leading one of the largest UK-based angel investors platforms after being appointed CEO of Angels Den early this year. Angels Den connects almost 20.000 investors with businesses that have strong growth potential. Having an active angel investor on board increases the chance of success and, as a result, over 90% of the funded companies are still in the market and have been trading for more than 5 years.
The company has funded dozens of start-ups in 2018. With over 10 years’ experience in one of the most mature markets in terms of fund-raising and capital markets, Angels Den ensures that investors only see the best pre-screened investment opportunities.
Having both corporate and start-up experience, Adrian Enache also founded OmniPERFORM, a digital communication agency. By developing its proprietary technology, OmniPERFORM helps brands get a better understanding of their customers’ needs, while increasing the relevance of the advertising campaigns that are always designed with the customer in mind
IT/Tech, Data protection & IP Lawyer
Jlaw
For over 11 years, Claudia Jelea has been focusing her legal practice on IT&C, intellectual property, e-commerce and personal data protection. She has assisted both multinational and local players from industries such as IT, telecom, advertising and entertainment. She likes to believe that she is bridging these dynamic areas with a creative approach to the law. Claudia currently runs Jlaw. Attorneys at law (a boutique shop of niche legal services) and IP Boutique (a trademark agency). She is both a lawyer and a registered trademark attorney. In 2010, her background was further rounded by two master’s programmes from Stockholm University, Sweden: IT Law and European Intellectual Property Law.
Managing Partner
Universum Events
With core strengths in leadership, creativity, public speaking, project management and product ideation, Cristian is a creative and energetic solution builder, with a 15 years track record of delivering outstanding results in various fields and industries.
Under his leadership, he grew together with 3 partners, 3 companies that are currently number 1 in their field: Catalyst Solutions, Brainspotting and Universum Events, employing over 110 people and over 6 mil Euro in revenue.
He managed hundreds of events with more than 200.000 participants and facilitated over 400 trainings and teambuildings with thousands of participants.
His passion for people and technology made him start several major events in Romania: Internet & Mobile World – the largest B2B technology driven event in the region, Innovation Summit – the first concept-event in Romania focused solely on business innovation, Bucharest Technology Week – a full week of celebrating technology for a greater purpose, Angajatori de TOP & www.hipo.ro – the first and the biggest career fair for young professionals in Romania.
Craft Bicycle is a start-up that builds city bikes made of bamboo, which are unique, lightweight and more comfortable than your normal bike. This year we are proud to introduce the first laminated bamboo bike in the World!
Throughout its existence Craft Bicycle has marked some important milestones and validations: we are the winners of Transport Innovation Challenge 2017, Country Finalist Winner of Power Up 2018 competition and currently rating in top 15 startups which promotes cleantech in Europe.
Our mission is to build a bicycle that integrates sustainable materials, offers the best riding experience and comes with a design that turns heads.
We are a Research & Development company who create a system for monitoring and predicting car anomalies like supercharged engine or driving behavior.
Our solution consist in monitoring and predicting system used by cars. We create an independent system that can connect to the board computer and send data for analyzing the car behavior and detects some anomalies that are different from the usual driving behavior. The system consist of two principle components, one hardware and one software, help by a user friendly web and mobile app.
Small team with big ideas.
We believe that software can improve every aspect of our world, smartphones and social networks have brought software to every persons personal life but that revolution has not happened in workplaces.
We discovered that small to medium sized business face a software shortage, they have no solutions implemented or they have a general solution in place which is never implemented top to bottom but in small sections of the company and not adapted to their unique workflow.
So we found our market but to finance our internal projects we also provided systems and services for corporations like: Metropolitan Life, Auchan Group, Oney Finances, Paypoint Services.
This is how we work:
1. understand the business from the ground up, what every employee is doing and ask one question ‘how can we help you’
2. come with proposals that streamline as much as possible operations
3. build the system the customer needs not the one we can sell faster
4. give control of every operation to management
5. long time relationship, the system grows and adapts with the firm
Bottom line our business is to ‘make money for our customers’ by improving productivity so our services are not a burden but advantage.
We have developed five systems:
Aicontrol CRM – lightweight Customer Relationship Management system aimed at providing tools to sales teams with low experience. Our aim is to increase sales by reducing contact times, providing alerts with next action to take and marketing automation.
Aicontrol Production ERP – complete ERP solution for manufacturing companies, with price estimations, departments, complete workflow, employee clocking and some CRM components.
Aicontrol Driving School ERP – for medium to large driving schools, ment to easily manage multiple work points, instructructors and alow for mobile app integration for classes.
Aicontrol Auto Dealer ERP – for medium to large dealers with one ore more dealerships, manages cars, sales, customers, generates required docs, invoices.
Aicontrol CMS – in house content management system designed to be integrated with the other systems, it can manage one or more websites and gives us the flexibility we need for front-ends.
Octavic and Imperial Electric help manufacturing organizations gather data from the production floor, in order to:
• Improve efficiency
• Better quantify KPIs for process improvement
• Reduce waste
Real-time insights together with a flexible human interface bridges combined people knowledge with automatic data gathering from production, helping companies obtain standardization and traceability.
Industries: consumer, pharma, automotive, heavy industry
We support methodologies like Deviation management, Kaizen, Six Sigma through Andon, Kanban, Visual management and prediction.
In addition:
• Design and manufacture of SCADA
• Custom software – signal processing, monitoring and control
• Industrial networks configuration
• Post-guarantee services and technical support
• Installing or set-up software packages
RiDESAFE is a technology company dedicated to motorcycle safety. Our product, RiSE is a high-tech, awesome rider and bike protection system that integrates seamlessly with any motorcycle, detects crashes, sends out rescue info and medical data.
RISE makes your motorcycle smarter using advanced technologies to track your performance while riding and watch over your motorcycle while parked. RiSE is the ultimate protection for you and your motorcycle. #ridesafe with RiSE.
Izibac is a mobile app with a quiz-type of game designed to help pupils study in a fun way for the baccalaureate exam.
The concept was validated by winning the Social Impact Award 2017, by having more than 5000 downloads on Android (iOS will be launched soon) and by being the number 1 trend in education on Google Play.
We are now working on developing the multiplayer feature for the mobile app and a web platform with interactive video lessons to facilitate the studying process.
Our plan is to design a gamified and digitalized alternative to studying, starting with one of the most terrifying exams in a pupil’s life.
Nifty Learning is the automation-driven scheduling software for corporate training departments, solving the tedious and time-consuming process of organizing face to face training.
Training departments inside large companies still use email, spreadsheets, calendars and even post-its to organize training. The result is up to 50% of the yearly training budget wasted.
Nifty is the alternative: we help companies by reforming an outdated way of working. Companies can use Nifty to:
– gather needs and create a training plan for their employees
– schedule training with the help of automation
– calculate ROI based on metrics measured in real time
Companies can make better use of their learning budget with the help of Nifty Learning, to train more employees using the same resources.
We are the developer of Sypher Suite, the GDPR compliance platform designed to assist your DPO and compliance team manage the implementation of EU Regulation 2016/679.
Sypher Suite can help you
● Become GDPR compliant and document the implementation process
● Demonstrate a thorough approach, involving both business and compliance people
● Verify your GDPR project for potential errors and omissions
● Embed GDPR compliance into your operations and stay compliant as your business changes
● Provide management with real time information on project progress and key issues, for each company or geography under their supervision
● Manage data subjects’ requests
The platform can be installed in the cloud or on-premise and can be customised. Request your free trial at www.sypher.eu.
54% of the average women’s wardrobe is made of items used only once, never to be worn again. This is the passive wardrobe. Garderoba-Infinita.ro is the online marketplace where women turn their closet into cash and save the world, while constantly enjoying fashion.
We started our journey from the very simple insight that ownership of fashion items is not cost-effective. Our solution is fashion as circular economy. We designed a marketplace for women to Sell & Buy or Rent their pre-owned premium & designer clothes & accessories.
In July we started building a community of passionate & responsible women that look for a solution to detox their existing wardrobe while wearing something new constantly, in the most affordable way.
Jobful is the first gamified recruiting platform in Romania. It helps candidates complete their profiles, learn new abilities and test their skills, during an engaging gamified journey and it supports companies find, select and recruit great talents.
As a recruiter, you can use different filters for experience, skills, languages and many more to find candidates based on your profile in seconds. You can create online academies similar to MOOC platforms to train and test your potential future employees and you only pay when people you’re interested in also confirm their interest on your job.
As candidate, you can complete you can find different job opportunities, you accept or deny invitations from companies, you learn new things and you prove your skills.
Join our platform where recruitment becomes a game for adults.
schimbvalutar.ro – An intelligent online currency exchange service in Romania.
We have been combining the world of finance and new technologies for 7 years. We constantly improve our tools to address the current needs of users and improve their quality of life. We provide modern solutions enabling instant exchange of currencies and quick transfer of funds between domestic and international accounts. We design and implement modern tools that automate the exchange and transfer of funds. At the same time, we are developing new products aimed at individual and business customers because we know they face different challenges every day in which we want to assist them.
Why us?
We offer better exchange rates than Banks or Exchange Offices. Our services are:
– Quick
– Without fees
– Safe and trusted
– Accessible on desktop and mobile
– 24/7 online exchange
What currencies could you exchange?
You could exchange on our platform 18 currencies, as follow: EUR, USD, GBP, CHF, PLN, SEK, NOK, DKK, CZK, RUB, HRK, BGN, CNY, JPY, AUD, CAD, TRY, HUF.
Which are our banks partners?
We will have partnership agreements with 12 well known banks from Romania: BT, BRD, BCR, Idea Bank, OTP, Garanti Bank, Unicredit Bank, Intesa, Alpha Bank, Credit Europe Bank, Libra Bank, Blom Bank France.
Who are our clients?
Individual and Business clients.
ClarK offers a solution based on augmented reality (AR) to improve workers’ efficiency and safety across industries. The AR smart glasses have features such as camera with continuous QR scanning, thermovision, wireless connectivity, sensors and integrated head-up display. From factories and warehouses to fieldwork, ClarK offers a scalable solution, being part of a modular ecosystem.
Put in use, AR glasses for industrial purposes help the employee in his/her day to day-to-day job. Apart from being protective glasses, their main purpose is to provide explicit guidance overlaid on the work being done. Due to the fact that every information will be projected on the lens human error will be reduced and productivity will grow.
CBN Agrotech is a IT & C company founded in 2011 by the Nourescu brothers, Cezar and Bogdan. Initially, the company developed complex custom cloud based software for B2B.
As both of them used to spend their childhood at their grandfather’s farm, who also was a silo engineer, they became passionate about agriculture and tech, which motivated them to investigate further more into the farmers’ problems that can be solved with cutting edge technology.
In 2015 they started working on Arendas.ro, a local application for managing contracts between farmers and landowners. Subsequently, CBN found a new challenge due to their customers needs of automating the temperature reading process of their storage systems, leading the company to develop the most complete solution to protect their harvest.
HOMEPOD created one of the most advanced technology to create energy efficient homes with the help of industry 4.0. Automation enables HOMEPOD as a startup company to develop a robotic process automation software for designers and property developers to mitigate operational risk and reduce cost for energy efficient buildings. Our technology also enables designers, architects and project managers to better manage their energy efficiency requirements by integrating producers and distributors through a marketplace for search and acquisitions. The company introduced the world’s first technology to combine a modular structure and robotic automation to create self-assembled homes.
To make the company more visible we are also selling merchandising with our technology.
HOMEPOD was awarded in 2017 by WITSA the Digital Emerging Technology.
As a startup we are accelerated by ClimateKIC in partnership with CCIAT.
Octavic and Imperial Electric help manufacturing organizations gather data from the production floor, in order to:
• Improve efficiency
• Better quantify KPIs for process improvement
• Reduce waste
Real-time insights together with a flexible human interface bridges combined people knowledge with automatic data gathering from production, helping companies obtain standardization and traceability.
Industries: consumer, pharma, automotive, heavy industry
We support methodologies like Deviation management, Kaizen, Six Sigma through Andon, Kanban, Visual management and prediction.
In addition:
• Design and manufacture of SCADA
• Custom software – signal processing, monitoring and control
• Industrial networks configuration
• Post-guarantee services and technical support
• Installing or set-up software packages
We are a young team of people from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, which, since starting with 2017, has been engaged in reshaping the hospitality industry by combining latest technology and advanced AI algorithms with efficient management processes and a unique user experience in a game changing product for both hotels and travelers.
Our platform doorie is a virtual hotel employee assisting upcoming guests directly from their mobile phone or from within their hotel room, learning about their wishes, preferences and special requests, while offering easy access to personalized hotel services and events.
With doorie we bring back the hotel doorman that always remembers guests name and makes them feel welcomed even when thousands of miles away from home.
Instantfactoring.com is an online factoring platform that answer to the difficulties, worries and challenges that SME are facing every day.
We offer a solution to SME to access their one liquidity quickly, 2 hours appproval process and 24 hours cash access, their work and daily effort being rewarded on the spot, without any other hidden costs, by turning their invoices into cash as the easiest step to getting the money they need quickly, without bothering with bureaucracy, extremely long analysis and response times or refusals because they do not match the template.
Instant Factoring teem has an individual experience of more than 10 years in the field, accounting for a total of more than 1,000,000 processed invoices.
Touching AI is developing a mobile app that will make visually impaired people be able to learn complex information by themselves with the help of tactile graphics.
Our e-learning freemium platform:
Our vision is an international platform that helps visually impaired persons to understand untouchable objects. They form mental images of any object by themselves with our software assistant.
Our goal is to create the largest international community for visually impaired people interested in tactile graphics. The community will solve their needs by creating content, images and spatial representations.
Thouching Ai will create mental images.
Holosee has developed an end-to-end solution for capturing, generating and streaming photorealistic holograms of real people in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.
Users can watch recorded content or interact and communicate in real time using the live streaming version with real size holograms in their own room.
Holosee is a solution for creating realistic high definition holograms for AR/VR. In cinema the human mind recognizes the image of the actor as a true reflection of the person.
When it comes to 3D models and computer generated images, the mind, at a subconscious level, recognizes that the image is not a true reflection of a human being, but a 3D model of it.
We plan to solve this by offering a tool that creates and streams hi-definition holographic content, using a different approach than classic computer generated images.
AppSeed it’s about software #automation. Using this product we are able to generate software products in various languages and technologies.
On short term we are focusing on web applications / websites and web development. Currently, APPSEED activate on two niches:
– deliver websites for home users. Sub products derived from APPSEED: www.WebsiteMarket.ro, Simpplo.com [ under development ]
– sell coded web apps for developers (especially the beginners).
They can choose the language and technologies for their future app and a big part of the code is already coded & tested.
Taraba Virtuală is a platform directly connecting small farmers with clients.
Clients have a marketplace (web and mobile app) to interact with sellers, while sellers have a CRM to manage the requests.
Clients can choose from the farmers list and their products available based on their location. We show you only farmers that can deliver to your desired address and the delivery is done locally, by the farmer himself, in the proximity of big cities (maximum range of 60 km). Products range from fresh fruits and vegetables to processed food, bread or honey and jams.
While farmers have a CRM in their pockets, they can input products, answer to orders and communicate with clients. Hence, our platforms contributes to the business education of the sellers.
Beez is a fin-tech start-up offering a platform and mobile app which helps people to save money when they shop online.
The platform offers a unique experience. We encourage our users to set personal objectives and goals or decide to tag along with our sweet deals with substantial incentives.
On long term we want to provide a way of investing the savings through our platform.
One platform for global privacy needs. Clym is the data privacy platform that helps organisations meet their data protection obligations. Cookies, Consent, Requests, Policies and more are all managed in a secure and adaptive application.
As new data privacy regulations emerge, companies face new compliance challenges. This is why we built Clym, the data privacy platform that helps you collect, control and manage the data that is relevant for your company in a transparent way.
The platform covers 6 main areas of compliance, namely: Data consent management, Cookie consent management, Company & DPO data management, Terms, Policies, Agreements & Procedures, Data subjects’ requests, Localisation and Consent receipts.
Through all its functionalities, Clym offers companies a head start in compliance.