HACKOSAKA 2015: Hack OSAKA AWARD winners are decided - in Kansai Startups, Europeans are doing well | BRIDGE (Bridge) Technology & Startup Information

On February 10, the Osaka Innovation Hub (OIH) and the Osaka City Economic Strategy Bureau, a startup community base in Osaka, held an annual startup conference "Hackosaka 2015" at the Grand Front Osaka.This article is part of the interview.

In the last session of HACKOSAKA 2015, "International Pitch Contest / Hack OSAKA AWARD 2015", 10 startups pitched.I would like to introduce the startups that won the prize and the contents of the service.

* Click here for the Hackosaka 2014 pattern held last year.

The judge of International Pitch Contest

... 5 people worked.(Titles omitted)

Gold Prize (Hack OSAKA AWARD 2015): MCLINICA (Philippine Manila)

Deputy Prize: Cash 500,000 yen, Bonus Miles 50,000 miles x 3 people (provided by Japan Airlines), Amazon Kindle (provided by Amazon Web Services)

MCLINICA CEO's Frouk Meralli is from Canada, but is active in Manila, Philippines.Independent pharmacies in the Philippines are not organized, have no POS, and are not connected to the Internet.Therefore, it is extremely difficult for pharmaceutical companies to approach pharmacies to secure marketing and sales data.

With MCLINICA, patients who buy drugs can receive a discount when buying medicine at a pharmacy in exchange for providing their own phone numbers.The amount of this discount will be paid by the pharmaceutical company as a result of the pharmacy, but you can get information about which pharmacy is selling.Pharmaceutical companies and pharmacies can distribute promotional information on drugs to patients who are patients.

Currently, it has a major pharmaceutical company such as Roch and Pfizer as a client, and has earned 1,400 pharmacies and 20 million patients as a user in six months since launch.Last October, he was funded from 500 Startups, the Philippines was Kickstart Ventures, and Japan in Japan was funded from IMJ Investment Partners.

Silver Prize: Blaze (London, UK)

Deputy Prize: Cash 300,000 yen, bonus miles 50,000 miles x 2 people (provided by Japan)

Driving a bicycle at night is dangerous, and many accidents and casualties have occurred in the UK due to contact accidents and encounters with cars.Blaze develops laser lights for city cyclists, projects bicycle symbols on the ground in front of the running bicycle, urging other people and cars coming from the side road to prevent accidents.Is intended.

We use leather chips from Tokyo manufacturers, and if you use it regularly, you can charge the battery once a month.5 by Kickstarter in the UK.Successful funding of £ 50,000 (about 10 million yen), then £ 1.5 million (approximately 2) from Index Ventures, Branson Family, etc..700 million yen).Online is sold to 47 countries, in addition to the largest bicycle chain store in the UK, and at his MoMA Store by the New York Museum of Modern Art.

Bronze Prize: UP Performa (Japan / Kyoto)

Vice Prize: Cash 100,000 yen, bonus miles 50,000 miles x 1 person (provided by Japan Airlines)

Up Performa is a startup born from Founder Institute Kansai.In professional sports, data and analysis are frequently used using wearable.Up Perfoma is an attempt to incorporate these technology into amateur sports, measuring and displaying the heat map that represents the location, the mileage, and speed.

UP PERFORMA's sports wearable devices will be exhibited in crowdfunding in 2015.

Crosscorp Prize: SmartCheckups

Deputy Prize: Singapore, Delhi, Jakarta, Manila, Tokyo, Ho Chi Minshiti's right to use the crosscope office for one year.

Real estate operators and real estate management companies need to create reports on the inside of the property for lending, which needs to take so many photos and organize them.SmartCheckups has a template settings for all kinds of properties to be investigated in advance, and can simplify the work by taking photos and checking the situation.

Berlin's startup, but the service started from Belgium.Currently, the target markets are Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands, but they are also looking for partner companies in Japan.

The following is a startup that showed great ideas in this session, although it did not win.I want to introduce it in order of participation.Regardless of whether you won the prize, Amazon Web Services has given you $ 250 to use the cloud for all startups.

COFAME (Japan / Osaka)

COFAME is a startup that uses a mobile app to renew a user experience that exchanges business cards.You can use a mobile app to exchange business cards with your first person.In a meeting with multiple people, business card information can be exchanged between multiple people at the same time.

In addition, the arrangement of a meeting around the table can be reproduced by displaying a business card on the application, and exporting contact data for various contact destinations such as Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.It is possible.

Hiroshi Noguchi, the founder of COFAME, was selected as the "1st Silicon Valley Human Resources Dispatch Program" in Osaka City and experienced a one -month tent life after visiting Silicon Valley.He is raising funds from several angel investors, including Japan and the United States.

Ingauge (Japan / Osaka)

It is estimated that the opportunity loss caused by neglecting customer response from customers will be 45 million yen per year.Ingauge develops a group email sharing and e -mail management solution "Re: LATION" and provides an environment where employees can reply to emails from customers who need reply without forgetting.

At first glance it is a web -mail screen, but when someone in the team starts writing a reply email, it displays who is doing the work in the real time.Along with the email that has already completed the reply, it is possible to avoid duplicating reply work between employees.

In companies that require the approval of the superior to send an email to the customer, the content of the reply email written by the employee is suspended, and the optional function that is sent along with the approval of the supervisor can be used.

CASHBOARD (Berlin, Germany)

Cashboard is 1,000 euros (about 13).This is a FinTech startup that provides an investment account that can be invested from 50,000 yen).Not only ETFs (listed investment trusts) but also new and old financial products can be mixed and operated automatically (close to a rap account?).Just answer some questions and create a portfolio for users to see which financial product should invest in which financial products.After that, you can start investing just by opening an account.

In 2014, the first financing was carried out from VC.At the end of the year he won the SEVEN VENTURES pitch day and satellite broadcasting 4 million euros (about 5).It has acquired the right to play a television commercial for 400 million yen, and in 2015, it will use it to strengthen its promotion for Germany.In 2016, the second VC funding was carried out, and the whole European area was planned.The company wants to expand the world to the Middle East and Asia since 2017.

M SQUARE (Kobe, Japan)

Msquare co -founder and CEO Miwa Miwa were in Paris in 2010 to get the MBA.He frequently moved to Paris city for interviews to get a job, but the reliable IC card on the Paris Subway IC card "NAVIGO".But she didn't know how to use it, and she bought her ticket every time she got on the train.

There are many IC cards in the world, including Oystercard in London, Singapore EZ Card, Hong Kong OCTUPUS CARD, T -card in Seoul, and Suica in Tokyo, but there is no interactivity (interaction).Also, if you have multiple mobile wallets, you may have to have many apps, PINs and passwords, and you may be stolen.

DEPAGO developed by M SQUARE is a payment solution using biological authentication.It has been developing last October, and the product will launch in June this year.

Digitaddress (Japan / Osaka / Tokyo)

Digitaddress provides an address encryption solution in the digital era.Instead of the address, the user gets his address as a DA code with her code, and sends the destination to the DA code and sends it to the DA code.The operator to be delivered is obtained from the DA code through her API, and the product is delivered safely to the destination.

Assuming the era of product delivery by drones, the DA code holds more detailed location information than the address.As a result, a product delivery operator using a drone can deliver the product correctly to the client, even if there are multiple houses or buildings with the same lot number.It is characterized by being able to convey detailed delivery destination information while protecting the user's privacy.

The founder Wan Way came from China to learn physics.He is sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the UVGP (UNIVERSITY VENTURE GRAND PRIX) won the TOMODACHI Award (his name at that time was his corddress) and has already raised funds from major security companies.is.

STAMP (Thailand Bangkok)

STAMP is developing devices that make it easier for stores to guide customers.Just press the device on the phone screen, you can do the same as pressing a stamp with a paper customer card.Because it is easy to introduce, it is characterized by the fact that the store does not require costs and is easy to operate.The user can use the accumulated points as cryptocurrency.

STAMP has issued an app for iOS / Android, but it also publishes SDK (STAMP Development Kit), and uses the application to incorporate SDK into its own apps for third -party applications.You will be able to enjoy services at STAMP introduction retail stores.

In many cases, points such as airplanes and credit card reward points have earned points but have not reached the lower limit.The idea is to increase the STAMP point currency area that can be used in common with STAMP by having a variety of third -party apps and subscription retail stores.In 2013, he participated in the startup event Echelon 2013 pitch in Singapore, and in 2014 he won the ASEAN ICT AWARDS.

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