![]() ![]() ![]() Third place in the Pitch Off went to MigrantHire - a startup that wants to be ‘LinkedIn for refugees’, offering a platform to help recent arrivals find jobs and upskill (starting with IT skills), while simplifying the migrant hiring process for employers by helping navigate legal hurdles. Second prize went to BuddyGuard, which is crowdfunding an elegantly designed connected home security camera with added AI smarts to power pro-privacy features, and which has a smart focus on selling its hardware and services via insurers. BuddyGuard wins two tickets to Disrupt London. They can also house screens to double as digital ad units, offering an additional revenue stream. Green City Solutions will be exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt London in December. Sensors embedded in the units are used to collect environmental data to help regulate and control the solar-powered units so that minimal manual maintenance is required. The startup’s four meter high freestanding ‘CityTrees’ vertically house moss cultures and vascular plants selected for their ability to consume particulate matter and help clean the air - with each unit billed as being equivalent to planting 275 urban trees, yet taking up far less space than an urban forest. In the end, hardware startups walked away with two of the three possible prizes, with first place going to air pollution attacking Green City Solutions whose cross-disciplinary team includes expertise in biology, mechanical engineering, architecture and computer sciences. There was even an energy efficient alternative to the traditional kettle. The summer in Northern Europe may have been a bit hit and miss so far this year but no one had cause to complain of being chilly inside a packed Glashaus yesterday evening at TechCrunch’s 2016 Berlin Meet Up + Pitch-Off.Īn engaged audience of over 500 attendees watched ten startups pitching on stage, with ideas ranging from privacy compliant cross-device ad tracking, to decentralized cloud security, to machine learning powered cloud infrastructure management. ![]()
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