1. BIOO

Javier Rodriguez (20), Co-Founder, Spain

What if our forests could become the energy stations of the future? Bioo is a clean-tech company capable of generating electricity from plant’s photosynthesis. Their mission is to turn forests into future energy stations. With nearly 8000 customers joining their movement they are leading a green revolution in which plants will provide the most sustainable and competitive energy source charging our cities in the future .

3. BLUB BLUB

Mitja Mavsar (23), Founder , Slovenia

Speech Blubs is a powerful app that has been used over 150,000 times to trigger sounds and words in toddlers, late talkers, children with Apraxia, Autism, Down Syndrome, ADHD and SPD. Blub Blub uses voice activation and facial recognition using a video-modeling teaching method triggering children’s mirror neurons. Within 3 months Mitja has gained over 2000 paid subscribers and over 3000 therapists are using his app in schools and clinics turning Blub Blub into the number 1 app in education in Slovenia.

5. BOUND4BLUE

Spain

Cargo vessels emissions represent a huge environmental challenge severely impacting public health, but they also have a massive internal problem as fuel represents up to 80% of their operating costs.

bound4blue’s wingsail system offers a complete solution to these challenges: 30% of fuel savings and significant pollution emissions reduction. bound4blue’s highly innovative concept brings aviation technology to the shipping industry, via their patented new foldable wingsail designed specifically for assisted clean propulsion of vessels. As a result, bound4blue ́s wingsails thrust capacity is ten times higher than that of traditional sails and existing novel designs. The system is suitable for a wide range of vessels: from fishing and recreational vessels to large merchant vessels. Their key solution is completed with a user friendly automated control system and a route optimization software which brings further fuel savings. bound4blue has been incubated by the European Space Agency, closed two investment rounds and have been awarded 4 public research grants. The startup is ready to go to market in 2018 and predicts to make up to 40 Million in revenue in the first 5 years.

7. BRILL POWER

United Kingdom

In a world where batteries are everywhere, and the cost to make them is huge, it’s essential to get the most out of every battery. Brill Power addresses the problem of battery aging and degradation in stationary storage and electric vehicle applications. They develop cutting-edge intelligent battery pack management and control technology that allows accessing the full potential of every individual lithium-ion cell. Brill Power’s patent pending cell management solution can extend the lifetime of a conventional battery pack by up to 60%, while largely improving its resilience to unexpected failure of individual lithium-ion cells. By 2022, Brill Power expect that their sales alone will offset 2.3 million tons of CO2 equivalents.

9. CERA HEALTH

United Kingdom

Cera is a technology-enabled home care provider looking to transform the elderly care market. They have provided over 100,000 hours of care with a 99% satisfaction rating, and have partnered with the NHS to deliver home care across a population of 5 million people. Through their matching algorithm and automated scheduling systems they were able to arrange home care within 24 hours, while still taking into consideration a patient’s needs and preferences. They were also able to take a lower margin so they could pay their carers 50% higher than the industry average. This results in recruitment of experienced, capable carers who are well trained and provide the highest quality of care. They are the best rated care provider across three user satisfaction platforms, and have been recognised by the UK Government’s Cabinet Office as a role model for partnering with the public sector.

11. CORTI.AI

Denmark

Medical professionals are expected to process an unprecedented variety of expert knowledge and as a result 1 in 6 patients is misdiagnosed each year. Corti is a machine learning company that uses auto-speech recognition (ASR) to provide live diagnostic aid during emergency calls, at a patients very first contact with the healthcare system. Corti provides more accurate diagnostic advice to emergency service personnel, allowing patients to get the right treatment, faster. To put this into perspective, Corti is able to diagnose cardiac arrest with up to 95% accuracy in less than 50 seconds. Corti’s technology is democratizing medical expertise worldwide. The Danish Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are already using their technology, and they have successfully deployed it in Australia and the US. They expect to reach 100 new EMS customers by 2018.

13. EDURIO

Latvia

Edurio helps over 600 schools and education agencies continuously monitor education quality, with a deep focus on non-academic indicators such as school climate and culture, student and staff perception and stakeholder engagement. The global shift of focus from a knowledge-based education to that of developing skills and competencies, shows that the importance of non-academic indicators of education quality is growing in every education system. With over 9000 teachers and 85000 students registered on their platform they have been able to gather over 7 million survey responses providing access to important data that is crucial for education reform.

15. EVA Vision

Peter Ferenczy (28), Hungary

EVA is a voice controlled wearable AI assistant for the visually impaired. EVA’s Artificial Intelligence recognises objects, texts, and signs and verbally describes what it sees relentlessly scanning and analysing your surrounding. She can handle your incoming phone calls, read your emails, help you compose a reply or assist you in finding your way home. EVA is currently building a functional wearable prototype and is eager to start user acceptance trials in many European cities.

17. FOTOKITE

Switzerland

Imagine a 100m camera crane that packs up into the size of your carry- on luggage. Fotokite creates self-flying aerial robotics tools for Public safety, Broadcast, and Sports markets that provide real-time video for 24+ hours of continuous flight. Firefighters & Public Safety teams can use the system for immediate aerial situational awareness. Fotokite has a patented technology that is a major step ahead of traditional drones and is devoted to making autonomous robotics an everyday thing. The technology has been adopted by BBC, AFP, CNN, Tribune Media, and many more.

19. GLEECHI

Sweden

Gleechi’s software solutions enables hand interaction between humans, computers and robots. Their technology is based on 8 years of robotics research and is the first software to enable free and realistic hand interaction in virtual reality. Their products are currently used for games, industry training and rehabilitation in VR. The technology is based on algorithms that can predict and visualize intended body movement, enabling, among much else, patients who suffers from disabilities from stroke to do more relevant and motivating rehabilitation exercises in their homes. Similarly, Gleechi’s technology makes it possible for robots to pick up objects without being restricted to pre-programmed repetitive movement. This way robots can perform tasks that previously demanded the dexterity and flexibility of human hands. Gleechi’s customers include world-leading companies within automation, manufacturing and VR development, and they are now aiming to become the standard solution for all hand interaction.

21. HEALTHAPP

Spain

Treatment of an eating disorder ranges from 500€ to 2.000€ per day. Outpatient treatment, including therapy and medical monitoring, can cost up to 100,000€, and significant decreases the quality of life. Jordina is the founder of HealthApp a young start-up focused on the development of intelligent mobile tools for the health sector, with special emphasis on improving communication between patients and therapists in long-term and chronic illnesses. The startup wants to offer effective home support between medical consultations. Healthapp’s aim is to become the first European company facing the challenges of connecting patients and therapists, improving their quality of life and improve the European healthcare starting with the treatment of Eating Disorders. Everyday Healthapp impacts the lives of 600 patients who use the application daily. Jordina appeared as one of the most promising entrepreneurs in Spain for 2017, and has been recognized by MIT’s under 35 innovators.

23. IN OVO

Netherlands

They are killed either by suffocation or shredding, based on manual gender typing. In Ovo is developing a gender typing machine which can detect sex differences by day nine with 95 percent accuracy. The mass spec test takes a second per egg. The company has shown its capable of determining gender fast and cost-effective and is now scaling up its throughput. As the poultry industry in Germany, France, the US, Australia, Belgium and the Netherlands want to stop the killing of chicks soon, there is great interest in Ovo’s technology. In Ovo is refining egg waste for valuable proteins and is developing a virtual assistant for hatchery managers to improve the welfare for the animals and maximize the earnings for farmers. In Ovo collaborates with large industry players, NGO’s and the Dutch government and its closing a funding round that will enable it to grow improving the lives of billions of chickens and thousands of farmers around the world.

25. INKONOVA

Netherlands

Deep in underground mines, some zones are inaccessible. Inkonova builds drones that fly, drive and climb and use laser technology to scan zones, and create a 3D map of them. Inkonova is advancing aerial robotics technology to push forth human reach to any space untouched by man-made infrastructure. Inkonova’s TILT Ranger; was the world’s first specialized drone solution for underground mines, they have sold units and flown missions in Sweden, UK, Canada, Peru, Chile and Mali. Their R&D effort is creating a new feature in aerial robotics; “Batonomous Navigation”. Currently drones in the open air have eyes and brains which help them navigate, but they cannot navigate in dark caves and mines. Inkonova is transforming birds into bats, autonomy to batonomy, where an intricate architecture of laser scanning, flight control, mapping and localization algorithms are used for a new set of eyes and brains.

27. MEDIKURA

Germany

Less than 0.5% of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) cases are officially reported. Reliable data on ADRs is desperately needed for treatment, drug safety, and drug discovery. MEDIKURA is a healthcare IT and analytics platform with the primary goal to improve drug safety. They offer a holistic process innovation by providing an automatic, standardized and central reporting platform which connects patients, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies in real-time. MEDIKURA provides pharmaceutical companies with digital interfaces to enable multi-directional data exchange between all stakeholders.

29. MR.CHADD

Netherlands

Mr.Chadd guarantees on demand homework assistance within a 10 second time frame. The platform has launched on the 26th of september 2017 and already assists over 100.000 students in the Netherlands who seek personalized education from screened and trained university educated coaches. The students pay a monthly subscription and can use the service to chat, send photo’s and speech memo’s, enabling them to get the direct, tailor-made help while doing their homework. Over 100 coaches work for Mr.Chadd on a freelance basis from any location in the world and get paid by the second helping thousands of students through personalised homework assistance.

31. OURPATH

United Kingdom

OurPath is a digital lifestyle change programme aiming to tackle the growing ‘lifestyle’ disease epidemic. Less than a year after its initial June 2016 launch, OurPath became the first ever digital behavioural change programme to be commissioned by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) where lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes cost the system £9 billion per year. On the back of two clinical trials, and an NHS pilot, users of the OurPath programme have seen an average of 8.2% weight loss and over a 50% reduction in risk for type 2 diabetes. The benefits of OurPath are not limited to health alone. It is estimated that just a 5–7% reduction in weight will save the NHS roughly £70 million a year, with wider economic savings to the United Kingdom of nearly £210 million a year. OurPath is looking to roll out its programme across the United Kingdom and throughout Europe, bringing an effective and accessible preventative solution to those who need it most.

33. PLANRADAR

Austria

PlanRadar is a cloudbased SaaS solution for construction documentation, task and defect management in construction and real estate projects. Today there are on average 1–2 defects per 10m² in real estate projects. Plan Radar’s solution supports the user in recording, documentation, communication and tracking of tasks and defects. Project managers, architects, technicians and facility & property managers can record tasks and defects in a cost & time saving way directly on site with their tablet or smartphone and assign them in real time to the responsible project stakeholder. Today PlanRadar has more than 1,200 customers from 23 countries worldwide, and receives over 150 new inquiries a week from companies who would like to work with PlanRadar.

35. REMMEDVR

Poland

Currently the only two solutions for treatment which are available on the market are either an eyepatch, or an expensive, inefficient vision therapy that requires parents to bring their children to optometry clinics 2–3 times a week. RemmedVR addresses this by providing a telemedicine solution for a home vision therapy with the use of VR. For the first time doctors have full ability to monitor the therapy process and have access to objective results completely remotely. This breakthrough in vision therapy enables patients to get cured at least twice as fast by having access to home therapy on a daily basis, substituting the medieval eye patch and reducing the costs of treatment by 50% on average in comparison to stationary vision therapy.

37. SKRIWARE

Poland

Skriware’s mission is to teach children 21st century STEAM education skills using 3D printing technology, in particular in the process of designing, printing/prototyping, building and programming a personalised robot. They have developed an entire Skriware ecosystem, being a one-stop-shop consisting of easy-to-use, nicely designed and versatile 3D printers, 3D-printed robots/drones and an online education platform with software solutions such as the 3D creator, their mobile app teaching programming, and a 3D model library. Skriware’s 3D printers, courses and lessons are used in 10 countries, taking children on their personalized learning adventure through space, while teaching them the most sought-after skills on the job market.

39. STORRO

Netherlands

Storro B.V. is a high-tech software company that contributes to a safer world through enabling secure communication, making secure sharing easy. Storro is a peer-to-peer Blockchain application enabling you to safely store and share files without the cloud decrease dependency on cloud providers, which is good for privacy of Europeans.Thanks to Storro’s unique mix of technologies, your files are encrypted and distributed to storage locations you trust. With Storro your files only come into the hands of those for whom they are intended. The founders of Storro are cyber security experts with specialization in, among others, encryption, network protocols, blockchain technology and geopolitics having received recognition through various (inter)national awards.

41. SYMPTOMA

Austria

Misdiagnosis have been a blindspot in medicine for decades. Each year, 1.5 million lives could be saved with the right diagnosis. Symptoma.com is an award winning search engine for diseases. Physicians enter symptoms and receive a list of matching causes — sorted by probability for the respective patient. Symptoma thus empowers doctors and patients to diagnose even ultra rare diseases. The company has invested over 10 years in R&D, and so far established one of the largest disease databases with over 20.000 diseases and millions of connections to symptoms, risk factors and statistics. With over 700,000 unique users per month — the German Minister of Health has acclaimed SYMPTOMA as one of the world’s best health care innovations.

43. TALKIN’THINGS

Poland

Talkin’ Things is the leader in delivering smart packaging solutions for IoT and has a long history of working with leading brands and packaging companies to deliver innovative solutions that define the trends in the Smart Packaging market. Talkin’ Things is the only provider in the world that offers a real end-2-end solution with customizable technology, software, hardware and marketing creation. Products using their technology include customer engagement tools, security and logistic options, and a comprehensive data management system with customizable APIs. Talkin’ Things has over 20 pending patents and is bringing 1.5 Billion tags on the market within a year, reimagining the customer experience.

45. TOPOSENS

Germany

Toposens invented the world’s first real time 3D Ultrasound Sensor bringing sound vision to technology and are working with customers ranging from MBW to Porsche. With its systems cars gain the ability to park and drive autonomously in close proximity and low speed environments. Their 3D sensors are working with ultrasound, enabling them to see like bats, which navigate through sound and therefore enabling precise 3D detection of objects in real time through powerful algorithms and standard hardware. The sensor system of Toposens generates new ways of providing non-optical vision to machines, simplifying and transforming our interaction with technology making autonomous systems of tomorrow smarter and more efficient. Next to automotive applications they see huge opportunities in robotics, building intelligence and logistics and the consumer electronics sector. Next year Toposens will release its first anonymous people tracking solution and a low-cost robotics collision avoidance sensor to bring the vision of intelligent technology one step closer to become reality. Toposens was awarded ICT Company of the year by the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy.

47. ULTIMATE.AI

Finland

Ultimate.ai changes the way humans work in customer service. They use state-of-the-art deep learning models that learn from historical chat data and can handle common customer service cases automatically while escalating hard cases to humans. Ultimate.ai supports multiple languages and can be trained with chat-logs in a matter of days. Their AI works alongside humans learning from them and freeing them to focus on things that matter. Ultimate.ai is working with multiple large companies including Telcos, Government and Airlines.

49. VEGEA

Italy

Each year we create about 6,5 million tons of waste as a result of wine production, which is the solid waste that remains after crushing the juice from the grapes. Italy alone produces 5 Billion litres of wine each year. The disposal of the enormous quantities of grape marc each year presents a considerable challenge for winemakers because of its low digestibility, which does not make it a good feed for livestock and its acidic pH, which does not make it a good fertilizer. Vegea transforms wine waste into a high value added material, thus offering a green and cruelty free alternative to the materials that are already placed on the market. This has gathered big interest from the major fashion and automotive global brands, aiming to introduce Vegea into their production in order to face the growing need for eco-sustainable products.