Meet the Six East European startups of Starta Accelerator's First Batch
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Starta Accelerator is launched by VC fund Starta Capital.
- New York, NY (1888PressRelease) January 21, 2016 - Starta Accelerator is happy to announce the first batch of startups with East European R&D roots that are joining the acceleration program for opportunity to gain traction and next round of funding in the United States. These companies were selected from the hundreds of applications. Only the best candidates with groundbreaking frontier technologies, traction in Europe and global product potential have been accepted.
All of the selected teams are starting the program on January the 25th in New York. The program lasts 3.5 months and will culminate with Demo Day planned for the end of April, 2016. For the latest updates or to connect to these companies please contact us via http://startaaccelerator.com
Navigine (www.navigine.com) is B2B platform for developers and system integrators who need simple tools to create indoor navigation and tracking solutions. Think GPS for airports, malls, logistics and production facilities. The team includes two co-founders with Ph.D.'s in inertial navigation and strong experience in business development.
To date, Navigine has rolled out services in 60+ locations and built a network of 40+ technology and reselling partners who value solutions performance and convenient licensing policy. The company's wants to expand on global indoor location services market, which is projected to reach $4.4B in 2019, and become an industry standard for development of enterprise indoor location solutions. Navigine has raised seed funding in total of $300K with over $100K in sales in 2015.
GeoCV (www.geocv.com) is a mobile app for 3D capturing the world. The company's vision is to become the #1 solution for 3D reality capture. GeoCV starts with providing immersive 3D virtual tours for real estate, which help agents attract more engaged customers and sell faster while spending less time on live demos. We live in a 3D world, 3D is the most truthful way of capturing and sharing. The emerging market of virtual and augmented reality, that is projected to be $120B in 2020, drives the need of 3D content creation.
The founders have been working in 3D computer vision industry for 9 years. They started with R&D projects with Samsung and then founded 3 companies, including a startup that has been acquired. The team includes a Samsung TopCoder, an inventor of a 3D format standard, a creator of a popular gamedev library. 6 out of 10 team members have PhDs. GeoCV differentiates itself from competitors in different market positioning and better technology. Due to advanced computer vision algorithms, their product will deliver truly photorealistic and accurate 3D models of spaces, objects and humans in real-time.
The company has raised $700K from 5 investors. GeoCV has graduated from Rothenberg Ventures River - the first acceleration program for the fastest growing startups in virtual reality and frontier technologies. The company has started building partnerships with Google, Intel and other strategic partners, which drive the 3D ecosystem.
Healbe (www.healbe.com/us) is a health wearables company which is dedicated to making people's lives happier, healthier, and easier by providing the most comprehensive information from your body, delivered to your smartphone.
With its beginnings in research in 1999 at Saint Petersburg-based Algorithm Innovation and Technological Consulting Center, Healbe was founded in 2012 and set out to apply Algorithm's technology to the development of a totally new kind of wearable device: a body manager that use the body's own data to give wearers continuous insight into the most important parameters of whole-body health-including automatic calorie intake measurement.
JetHunter (www.jethunter.net/en) is an online platform that provides the most convenient way to book a private jet for both B2C and B2B clients. In a $230B market with over 25,000 flights occurring daily around the world, this private jet startup is ready to take off.
JetHunter is an auction model, which helps airlines analyze the way flights are sold and drives sales to meet client needs rather than of sending quotes to brokers. As a result, the market has become more transparent and flexible. Clients get the best prices and airlines are able to manage their sales more efficiently. The system is available through web interface and mobile applications.
More than 300 airlines have already joined JetHunter with total fleet more than 1,200 aircrafts, which is why JetHunter can provide the best auction results quickly. To date, the company has raised $400K.
Online Patent (www.onlinepatent.org) is the first and the only online system for intellectual property protection. Its mission is to make patenting clear and transparent for every individual or company. By increasing the transparency of procedures to secure and maintain the titles of protection, Online Patent is dedicated making the legal protection more accessible. Online Patent provides the full scope of service in supporting the intellectual property protection, including submission of applications to register intellectual property items, patent searches and trademark check, maintenance of the existing titles of protection and their prolongation and support all over the world.
Vote! (www.thevoteapp.com) is a mobile game media that allows users to predict the outcome of top news events as they unfold. Launched in December 2015 on App Store, Vote! allows to get cut public expectations for any major events. For advertisers, Vote offers rich media and native formats and engaged auditory. For users, Vote offers the opportunity to express their opinion on important event, news stories, and to engage with relevant media content. Vote has its eye on the $35B Mobile Game Market and $64.5 B Mobile Advertising Market.
About Starta Accelerator
Starta Accelerator was launched by Starta Capital VC $3M fund formed in Moscow. Starta Capital is one of the leading VC funds in Russia. It has received prestigious awards granted by Russian Venture Capital Association, National Venture Industry Award and National Association of Business Angels award.
Accelerator's main mission is to introduce startups with East European R&D roots to best practices, trusted advisers and mentors, and overcome cultural differences through a customized educational program that help startups to gain traction in U.S. and become part of the local startup and investing ecosystem.
For more information please visit http://startaaccelerator.com
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