While the entire world came to a grinding halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the first half of the year, phenomenal entrepreneurs have seen the opportunity in building solutions that make people’s lives easier, better, and more enjoyable. Having said that, many new startups debuted this year to cater to the needs of people.
Techstars London 2020 startups
This year, the well-known seed accelerator programmer Techstars has been hosted digitally for the first time on account of the pandemic crisis. Here we have listed these 10 budding ambitious startups that will meet mentors, investors, and potential clients in the next batch of Techstars program.
Audyo.ai (Ireland)
Founder/s: Colin Ricardo, Éanna Morley, Eoghan O’Neill
Founded year: 2020
Funding: €186k
Audyo.ai lets your content speak for itself. With AI, it brings intelligent audio for the internet. Using just a single line of code, Audyo makes any publication listenable. Audyo not only increases the revenue of the companies but also their reach and provides them with rich data-driven insights into the things that actually matter.
Aya (UK)
Founder/s: Mandana Ahmad
Founded year: 2020
Funding: NA
Aya is a digital mental wellbeing companion, which helps people manage stress and anxiety. The company uses innovative tools at the intersection of psychology, computational neuroscience and machine learning in order to help users better understand themselves and their stress and anxiety levels. Aya proposes a personalised set of solutions with the help of proven approaches across psychology, mindfulness and the wider mental wellbeing space.
Decorte Future Industries (UK)
Founder/s: Roeland Decorte
Founded year: NA
Funding: NA
Decorte Future Industries builds intelligent and adaptive clothing powered by AI. The company answers the requirements from Defence to Care, for a single centralised data-gathering and capacity-enhancing platform built on top of the human body. DFI focuses on human-machine teaming and interfacing and its suits integrate the human itself into the Internet of Things, thereby enabling preventative and predictive healthcare. Also, this intelligent clothing provides wearers digital superpowers. The company’s body body-adaptive exoskeleton lets any human fit into any clothing, thereby resolving the fit-related issues.
Eola (UK)
Founder/s: Callum Hemsley, Daniel Steele
Founded year: 2017
Funding: €310k
Eola is a complete booking and management platform for experience providers. The company lets businesses to automate their processes ranging from taking bookings to resource management and also focusing on significantly increasing their revenue. The company’s cutting-edge technology makes it easy to manage all day-to-day admin so that partners can save their valuable time to focus on delivering outstanding experiences.
Lanu (UK)
Founder/s: Shane O’Donnell, Luke Coburn
Founded year: NA
Funding: NA
Lanu is changing the way houses are developed, presenting all the options to extend in clear 3D models. It allows houses to be re-imagined. This startup operates with the goal to empower homeowners and connect stakeholders in order to make planning and development simpler and to illuminate the hidden value within domestic properties. Its technology has the speed and accuracy to transform both planning assessment and property valuation.
Lupa (UK)
Founder/s: Stefano Lorini, Eleonora Mantovani
Founded year: 2020
Funding: NA
Lupa is a digital running studio where runners can find immersive, live audio experiences and personal coaching customised to their preferences on a daily basis. These details can be accessed on the Lupa app anytime and anywhere. The Lupa App guides runners and helps them achieve their running goals. You have to start by choosing a new personalised route and live navigation. It is also possible to add adaptive personal coaching to be mindfully guided to reach the goals.
PandMe (UK)
Founder/s: NA
Founded year: 2020
Funding: NA
PandMe is a “Personal Shopping Assistant” that brings a great sense of relief by resolving all the shopping problems. On an average, people spend nearly five hours to make a purchase decision and this is where this startup comes to play as it reduces the same to minutes. With the help of Artificial Intelligence and product experts, it has never been easier to choose the best option for you or your loved ones.
Pixchange (Switzerland)
Founder/s: Allison Gorecki
Founded year: 2018
Funding: NA
Pixchange is a GIF and sticker community, which enables people to engage in visual messaging with a broader and more personalised range of images. The company has created a global marketplace that lets creative types from all walks of life to earn revenue and add the highly needed variety to stickers and GIFs. It integrates mobile content creation tools, a custom keyboard, and a marketplace that let users share unique visual content instantly across platforms.
Syncify (UK)
Founder/s: Sam Harris, Jack Hughes
Founded year: 2020
Funding: NA
Based out of London, Syncify operates with the mission to create a better way for humans to fundamentally understand each other. It helps them understand that they need to be connected in a more practical and meaningful way. The company is building an app, which lets users listen to content together starting with podcasts. It is possible for users to listen to the same content at the same time or catch up on the same things and talk to each other about their shared experiences.
Troglo (UK)
Founder/s: Josh Armistead
Founded year: 2018
Funding: NA
Troglo is a mobile platform that operates to improve sexual health and wellbeing in addition to reducing STI and HIV infections. The company is building a digital sexual health monitoring platform and companion services that ensure that everyone has access to the tools required to maintain their sexual wellbeing. This app lets users take control of their sexual health by tracking their sexual activities, partners, risk score, and a holistic diary of their horizontal fun.
