As the STARTUP3 project nears its finish line, it lays out the last stepping stones for its startups.

Among the initial 250 applicants, the programme has selected and trained the Top 25 startups, then 10 – and finally Top 5. Provided with a full scope of business, marketing, financial, pitching, matchmaking and other services, the Top 5 startups have been disrupting their respective markets ever since. However, STARTUP3 goes beyond! The end of participation for some beneficiaries is not the end of their participation in the deep-tech ecosystem, chances to network, meet investors and further develop their solutions. STARTUP3 consortium organizes the Brokerage Day in Sophia Antipolis on 29^th November and offers special benefits and discounts for the Hello Tomorrow Global Summit to all of its startups!

So, let’s dive into the latest news from the Top 5 as well as other top startups of the STARTUP3 project!

STARTUP3 Top 5

During October and the end of September, Centiloc has had the chance to attend prominent events presenting its solutions including Go entrepreneurs, France Digital Marseille, Big event of Bpifrance, Paris Retail Week and SIDO Lyon – IoT, AI, Robotics & XR. Next on at Salon hybrid tri-national BE 4.0 Industries du Futur!

Detektia has been announced as the winner of the ESA Global Space Market Challenge in the downstream category. In addition, with the support of the European Space Agency – ESA – Detektia had an opportunity to pitch their innovative solution at the 2021 International Astronautical Congress in Dubai, the world’s largest space conference.

FaunaSmart has been active in both increasing its presence on events such as SENSECO COST Action as well as engaging in the new programmes like ESA BIC Denmark incubator aiming to change the future of horticulture!

MAGOS has been active in showcasing its solutions at 85thThessaloniki International Fair, starting a new collaboration with Santa Clara University in the frames of NGI Explorers open call#3. Finally, MAGOS has been named one of Hello Tomorrow’s Deep Tech Pioneers and awarded with the “Exploitation of Industry 4.0 Technologies Award” in the 1st National Startup Awards by Elevate Greece! Next at the “Hello Tomorrow Global Summit 2021” in Paris along with 3,500 disruptive startups, investors and corporations.

RTsafe has received grant under the Operational Program “Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship & Innovation” (EPAnEK).

From the Top 25 during September and October 2021 most successful startups were:

EbreDrone – building a strong regional presence by actively participating in events such as Wayra Investors Day 2021 where they had the chance to present before +60 VC’s and reunite the startup ecosystem in Barcelona as well as collaboration with the Aerial Uptake program that brings together local/regional public authorities and key players of the UAS sector from 6 European regions, being pioneers in the creation of a single European drone market.

EOanalytics Limited has been a part of the new paper on the Evaluation of SWIR Crop Residue Bands for the Landsat Next Mission. Read the paper here.

Haruspex was chosen by the Italian Trade Agency, formerly known as ICE (Institute for Foreign Trade) to represent Italian technological excellence in Silicon Valley since September, where the National Center for Innovation and Culture was recently established. More information can be found here.

The most energy-efficient and productive solution for indoor farming, Laava Tech, will be presented at the upcoming Web Summit event in Lisbon.

Latitudo 40 showcases its solutions at Ecomondo – KeyEnergy Fair which is an Urban Data Analytics platform to make sustainable / ESG decisions and improve people’s quality of life. As part of the I-Tech Innovation Program, the program launched by CRIF and Fondazione Golinelli they were the recipients of the Venture Up Award 2021 in Turin! Additionally, just in September 2021, Latitudo40 was declared as one of the Top 6 startups in the Earth Observation downstream segment in Europe and Canada by the European Space Agency in Global Space Markets Challenge.

The innovative AI company MyDataModels announces a game-changer for Google Analytics users TADA DM (Digital Marketing). The TADA Digital Marketing platform is a super AI-enabled Google Analytics platform powerful enough to find who will be your online buyers. Read the full press release here.

Nsoilab is selected as one of the most innovative companies in a competition conducted by Serbia’s National Alliance for Local Economic Development together with the Government of Serbia. NSoilab and 28 other companies were awarded shared grants in the amount of one million dollars.

OPT/NET has earned the top spot in the CoSta awards – which celebrates the most innovative and impactful corporate/startup interactions, and established a strategic collaborative partnership with the Unknown Group, to help bolster the continued commercial uptake of their suite of advanced AI solutions. Additionally, the team has presented their solutions at the Broadband World Forum and INTERGEO 2021 HYBRID HANNOVER. Lastly, OPT/NET joins the H2020 family by becoming part of the new H2020 CENTURION project consortium.

Oscillum BioTechnology announced that they were selected as one of the Top-10 startups participating in the Food Tech Challengers, and will pitch their solution at the upcoming Food Tech Congress!

Sensoria Analytics will present its product – CardioSensys – an application coupled with an oximeter, that uses the latest developments in artificial intelligence and biosignal processing,  at the upcoming Web Summit event in Lisbon.

Termodron has presented its solution at this year’s EIMA 2021 fair in Italy, and at the international conference Smart Villages in Brestanica, Slovenia.

Terroir from Space has been selected as the winner and top finisher within the Call for Ideas “Space-Innovation for Agrifood-Tech: dallo Spazio alla filiera” launched by Fondazione E. Amaldi.

Tune in to the STARTUP3 podcast mini-series with Top 5 and join in for the Brokerage Day in order to meet them and other STARTUP3 startups in person!