The Winner of the Arqus Virtual Company Creation Challenge 2021 Has Been Announced
After a week of jury rating and public voting with over 760 votes cast, Safe B has won the . The final had been programmed for the week of the 3rd of May as part of the .
This challenge is part of the Arqus "" Action Line and encourages participants who are already open to entrepreneurship to learn to implement practical tools and knowledge that they would have learnt through their local programmes on entrepreneurship. In April the teams got to participate in a common session on the topic: 鈥淔rom a fictional to a real project鈥.
The 6 projects received for this year鈥檚 finals were:
- Teleworking: a platform to help teleworkers to manage all their necessities when they decide to work remotely from Spain, including accommodation, services and memberships.
- Stageportal: a digital platform that connects artists with people looking for show acts. It should close the existing communication gap and lead to an increase in efficiency in this industry.
- Saige Sport Analytics: a gadget including a respective app for tracking, analysing and presenting complex movement data that can be used by sports teams to improve their performances
- Safe B: a connected teeth guards to improve concussion detection in rugby.
- Predict: prediction of patient-specific response to treatment by means of a patient-derived hydrogel and organoid chimeric 3D model.
- Cope: a platform that connects people who experience various levels of anxiety in order to battle it with human interactions and developing feelings of purpose.
Thanks to all the participants for the great effort and innovative solutions; to the public for their votes; and a special thanks to our jury, made up of members of Arqus鈥 regional socio-economic partners, for their contribution: Alexandra Huber 鈥 Startup Consultant at HTWK Leipzig (Startbahn 13), Julia Schadinger - President at Ideentriebwerk and Laurent Voyer - Director of Industrial Strategy & Digital at Boehringer Ingelheim.
The winners - Corentin Neker, Jade Sagnard, Ilana Arnulf, Romain Vigour, Quentin Vivier and Martin Huillard, will now get a chance to have some mentoring, as well as a mobility visit to one of the Arqus鈥 partners.
Watch all the video pitches of the finalists .