On the 18th of July, in Google for Startups Campus Warsaw, we launched the 12th edition of Huge Thing Pre-acceleration Program that for the 4th time we run in partnership with Google for Startups. We’ve selected 20 final startups from over 250 applications. The diversity of the ideas in this edition has positively surprised us, just like the creativity of the solutions. During 3 months of the program, the founders will verify their MVP and get ready to acquire the first investors. All the startups are based in the CEE region, where the startups’ ecosystem is rapidly growing.?
“Central and Eastern Europe is home to an immensely innovative and rapidly expanding startup ecosystem. Over the last decade, the number of startups has grown steadily, and the overall investment value increased 19-fold since 2010, to over €186B, drawing from the region’s huge talent pool and accelerated by an increasing amount of foreign investments that are currently at a record high” - says Micha? Kramarz, Head of Google for Startups, Central Europe.
We’re proud to share with you the list of the final 20 startups:
- Rytme - a mobile app for patients with various health problems, that effectively transforms patients’ daily routines into a personalized program.
- Reco Fibre - a recycling old post-consumer textile waste and then turning recycled cotton into new textiles dedicated to garment.?
- RECOMMENDme - a platform to find and book various services (or places like cafes and pubs) recommended by your friends.
- Naomi Animation - a 3D animation software that lets users create immersive animations in augmented reality.
- NPC engine - a tool for game developers, which by using Large Language Models trained on millions of stories, creates an engine that predicts what happens next in a computer game.
- Nanit Robot - an education robot that makes the learning process for kids and adults more creative.
- Brokee - provides a platform for assessing the technical skills of system engineers.
- Lookerz - a SaaS solution for fashion online stores, which generates personalized Outfits, Tags, and similar items in real-time, using machine learning.
- Eduvolta - a polish startup that connects cognitive science research with game design art to fix the problems of an ineffective schooling system.
- Atlat - a digital complaint tool building the bridge between suppliers’ workers and the brands.
- Sellers society - profitability and account management tool for beginner Amazon sellers that helps users to make data-driven decisions.
- Phone2 - a shared system for all team’s phone activity.
- Coachinga - an outcome-driven platform for people development with AI-driven matching mechanism and text analytics that helps to develop adaptive behavioral patterns.
- AI Ipsum - their product, Knock-knock is an intercom with face- recognition, connected to the mobile app.
- Tripa - a two-sided sourcing platform that gathers people's insights to increase self-awareness and align their career paths with their life purpose.
- Magnetto - automated mobile checkout solution for physical retail stores. Magnetto offers real-time data, customer theft risk scoring models, and staff control apps for the retailer.
- TransiTool - is a web application that assists Transport Service Providers to create, manage, analyse and publish data to Google Maps, other map applications, and any application with an internet connection using APIs.
- JOY BOX - their product, munchGO is a mobile app that learns how to prepare meals, addressed to the parent and children.
- StanPass - an app that allows music fans to earn rewards from their favorite artists by completing quests.
- Coworkscan - an online platform for booking meeting rooms, offices, or working places in coworking spaces, cafés, hotels, or events within companies.
In our social media, you can follow the startups’ development. Stay Tuned!
