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Slovakia National Finalists

Best Accelerator or Incubator Program

HealthCare Lab

Description

HealthCare Lab is a CEE-based acceleration program for digital healthcare ventures. Our mission is to connect and nurture the community of innovators, researchers, healthcare providers and regulators to bring ground-breaking innovations in healthcare to the market faster.

Nadácia Pontis

Description

Through our activities, we strive to contribute to transforming Slovakia into a better country, a place for free and responsible people who improve their lives and their surroundings. In education, Pontis Foundation scales up innovative innovative learning approaches.

PERRY TALENTS

Description

PERRY TALENTS is a business accelerator that offers startups offices in the centre of Bratislava, business know-how from mentors and lecturers, practical workshops and a strong network of experts and investors.

Technology incubator UVP UNIZA

Description

A friendly team with great skills will help you to develop your ideas. We offer expert support in solving technological and business projects. Your startups are welcome in the incubation program in the initial phase of development.

University Technology Incubator of STU (InQb)

Description

We are the oldest university incubator in Slovakia. We support student´s projects and startups. We also connect the university with practice. We help them start a business. We offer free open space, consultations with mentors and we organize educational events.

Startup of the Year

Crayonic

Description

Crayonic enables next-generation security for user authentication, digital asset storage, and electronic signatures.

Tachyum

Description

Tachyum is leading the way in delivering semiconductor solutions that provide industry-leading speed, power efficiency and cost. Whether enabling supercomputers more powerful than the human brain or turning data centers into low-cost HPC and AI centers of excellence

Luigi's Box

Description

We have founded Luigi’s Box in 2016 as 4 co-founders. We have built a set of tools for eCommerce which helps to increase the conversion rate simply by optimising the internal search. Today we improve the product discovery experience with our Search and recommendation engine.

Selecta Biotech SE

Description

Selecta Biotech SE is a joint-stock company founded with the aim of bringing an original technology for selective nucleic acid recognition to the market. Selecta owns the proprietary ESiNAR-X® platform, that is implemented to the R&D of novel oligonucleotide-based RNA inhibitors.

Sensoneo

Description

Sensoneo redefines the way waste is managed. The solution combines unique Sensors that monitor waste real-time with advanced tracking tools and software, providing with data-driven decision making resulting in transparent waste streams and optimization of waste collection process

Best Coworking Space

Campus cowork

Description

Is an international community of entrepreneurs and startups in Bratislava.Offering spaces for small and medium-sized businesses.For membership in cooperation with other participants who promote events,organize or provide advice & advice in the field of business startups.

Lab.cafe

Description

We believe that everyone has creative potential that can change the world to a better place. We created Lab.cafe with focused on productivity and creativity. By building a community of creative minded people, we want more and more people to unleash their creative potential.

Best Fintech Startup

Fumbi Network

Description

Fumbi offers an easy and simple way to invest in the whole cryptocurrency market in a single transaction through which customers can buy an algorithmically rebalanced index of top cryptocurrencies.

Vestberry

Description

Portfolio Monitoring, Fund Management, and Advanced Analytics for Venture Capital & Private Equity.

Best Newcomer

nettle ai

Description

nettle builds enterprise grade conversational AI technologies and solutions that create impactful CX at scale while driving superior engagement and unrivaled brand loyalty. We are globally the first conversational AI provider to deliver “banner-bot” on Google Marketing Platform.

Interestingsamples

Description

Accelerating medical research by allowing participation in cutting-edge scientific projects from home.

Selecta Biotech SE

Description

Selecta Biotech SE is a joint-stock company founded with the aim of bringing an original technology for selective nucleic acid recognition to the market. Selecta owns the proprietary ESiNAR-X® platform, that is implemented to the R&D of novel oligonucleotide-based RNA inhibitors.

Tirn Technology s.r.o.

Description

Electroad is spin-off of Tirn Technology company which works towards sustainable mobility by easing the adoption and operation of electric vehicles, increasing daily mileage and improving the driving experience with our real-time, accurate software, predicting any electric ride.

Best Social Impact Startup

Selecta Biotech SE

Description

Selecta Biotech SE is a joint-stock company founded with the aim of bringing an original technology for selective nucleic acid recognition to the market. Selecta owns the proprietary ESiNAR-X® platform, that is implemented to the R&D of novel oligonucleotide-based RNA inhibitors.

Sensoneo

Description

Sensoneo redefines the way waste is managed. The solution combines unique Sensors that monitor waste real-time with advanced tracking tools and software, providing with data-driven decision making resulting in transparent waste streams and optimization of waste collection process

starter, o. z.

Description

starter, o.z. is a young civic association of the 21st century that implements information technology in areas where it is lacking. We offer people with disabilities tangible solutions and measurable results.

smepripraveni.sk

Description

Our initiative aimes to help Slovakia to overcome medical issues during the COVID 19. We connect volunteers with the medicial education with the medical organisations, such as hospitals.

STROOI Slovakia

Description

We are an eco-friendly innovative company that strives to promote a sustainable way of life, promote the principle of circular economy and replace non-organic/plastic products with more suitable green alternatives, such as our organic straws made from wheat stalks.

Best Virtual Teamwork Solution

CloudTalk.io

Description

CloudTalk is smart cloud-based phone software (SaaS) for businesses designed to enhance customer experience and business performance.

Kontentino

Description

Social media tool tailored for ad agencies and brands solving all content planning challenges in marketing teams.

smepripraveni.sk

Description

Our initiative aimes to help Slovakia to overcome medical issues during the COVID 19. We connect volunteers with the medicial education with the medical organisations, such as hospitals.

Founder of the Year

Eliska Dzurnakova

Description

Eliška Dzurňáková is the CEO of ElysiumTech – an IoT technology company with a firm conviction in converging technology and nature for a better quality of life. As a person inspired by nature, with a strong belief in fine company culture she is shaping the way we experience and enjoy spas. Prior to founding ElysiumTech Eliska was a business development associate in the big data company Instarea, after several years of volunteering and traveling the world.

Dr. Radoslav Danilak

Description

“Rado” Danilak has over 25 years of industry experience and over 100 patents designing state-of-the-art processing systems. In 2016 he founded Tachyum to disrupt markets by solving the processing performance plateau of nanometer class chips. Rado was founder and CEO of Skyera, a supplier of ultra-dense solid-state storage systems, acquired by WD in 2014. Rado was cofounder and CTO of SandForce acquired by LSI in 2011 for $377M.
Dr. Danilak is U.S. citizen born in Slovakia, and serves on the Slovak government’s Innovation Advisory Board.

Martin Basila

Description

Martin is a Senior Executive Manager with great experience in the management of complex IT projects, programs, and integrations. He studied Automation and Robotics at the University of Technology, Bratislava, and since 1997, he worked on numerous IT & project management positions for reputable companies. In 2012 he founded his own IT company. In 2014 he founded Sensoneo to revolutionize the way waste is managed. Martin is very passionate about new technologies, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Martin Malych

Description

Martin is Co-Founder of the fast-growing SaaS startup CloudTalk. He is responsible for product development and daily operations. Before CT, he successfully founded local digital agency Adbee, which employed 25 people, operated for more than 5 years and provides services in custom IT systems, websites and e-commerce development and marketing strategies and few more. Currently working full-time in CloudTalk team.

Gejza Nagy

Description

I have more than 12 years of experience in the field of eCommerce, UX and CRO. In my career as a co-founder, CEO and UX designer I helped hundreds of online businesses to increase their revenue.

Ecosystem Hero of the Year

MUDr. Tomáš BRNGÁL

Description

Tomáš Brngál, member of Forbes 30under30 list (Slovakia) received his M.D. degree at the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University. He is the Co-founder and CEO of VIRTUAL MEDICINE . Their medical educational platform is designed for students of medicine and doctors, working on the principle of virtual and augmented reality. It is used by tens of thousands of people in more than 150 countries of the world.
Tomáš received the prestigious Slovak Crystal Wing Award and among others he is holder of Award of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for investments and informatization.

Investor of the Year

Slovak Investment Holding

Description

SIH is a NPI which is 100% owned by the Slovak Guarantee and Development Bank. SIH fulfils its mandate primarily through implementation of financial instruments in: transport infrastructure, energy efficiency, waste management, RES, SMEs, social economy, healthcare, etc.

Innovations and Technologies Fund

Description

The mission of the Slovak based Innovations and Technologies Fund is to use venture capital to support entrepreneurial initiative and promote the development of entrepreneurship, employment and business towards an innovative economy.