InnoVEX 2018 Finalists Announcement
2018-06-08
The semifinals of the InnoVEX Pitch Contest was held on June 7 in the InnoVEX Pi Stage. This round was separated into 2 sections where the 29 startups pitched to 2 different sets of judges. The results were announced at 9:00 PM on the same day of the Pitch Contest.
From over 100 startups who applied, now only 8 are left from Taiwan, US, Philippines, and China. The finalists’ categories are: Security, Enterprise Software, Consumer Tech, AI & Big Data, AR & VR, Health & Biotech, and Hardware. The finalists will pitch to final judge panel including VCs from global firms: Fenox Ventures, Deloitte Tohmatsu Venture Support, and Imec.xpand, etc.
The finalists will compete for the cash prizes; with the prize pool reaching USD 350,000 this year, this is a record high for InnoVEX.
The prizes are USD 30,000 for the InnoVEX Pitch Contest Grand Prize from the organizers; USD 10,000 from Delta Electronics, Inc; USD 10,000 from Nogle Limited and Maxceed Capital Group; and a total of USD 300,000 from the SMEA Startup Terrace which will be given to 6 winning startups.
The final round will be open to public and held at 14:30, June 8 in the Center Stage. It is also livestreamed to the InnoVEX website:
http://innovex.computex.biz/2018/showRwd/content.aspx?htmlFile=eventLivestreamEnUs.htm&pageTitle=Livestream.
The finalists are:
1. HEX SAFETY,Inc.
2. Kloudless
3. Origami Group Limited
4. OneWatt Solutions
5. Construct Studio Inc.
6. BioInspira
7. Pi Square Co., Ltd.
8. Beijing Luckey Technology Co., Ltd.
【Media Contact】
Taipei Computer Association Tel: +886-2-25774249 Fax: +886-2-25785392
David Liu ＃360 Email: david_liu@mail.tca.org.tw
Sharlene Hung ＃324 Email: sharlene@mail.tca.org.tw
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