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Update : Qilimanjaro was chosen as the victor and grant € 20,000 .
Long ago Mobile World Congress , which we ’ve been extend all week , absorbed a side event for inauguration , the idiosyncratically named “ Four Years From Now . ” The event is now well and rightfully inside the Borg Starship that is MWC , and every twelvemonth runs a inauguration competition aimed at incur the “ best inauguration ” around the globe .
Thus , out of hundreds of startup that applied and pitch , five finalists were pick out by a board of industry experts and investor after monger their undertaking on stage .
Here ’s a speedy streak - down of the five finalist to emerge from the contention . ( Some of them are new than others , and we do n’t have funding selective information for all ):
BITSENSINGBitsensing is a radar technology which can discover if rider are inside a car or not , without using cameras . So for instance , it can detect if a tyke is left in a car by mistake . It can also detect where in the car the person is sitting . The company is from South Korea and has raised $ 21.3 million to engagement .
MICA AI MEDICALTrained on “ millions ” of image scan , Mica AI Medical says it can name suspicious findings long before a bosom cancer tumor develop . The chopine is designed to get over problems in mammography , whereby 40 % of cleaning woman have “ impenetrable breasts , ” which set the usage of regular mammography .
OCEAN ECOSTRUCTURESBased out of Barcelona , Catalonia , Spain , Ocean Ecostructures is the developer of a biodiversity positive feedback program . It take to regenerate marine animation , to mitigate the environmental effects of “ grey-haired ocean . ” It has raised € 1.6 million so far , and has four investors , including Inclimo Climate Tech Fund and Ship2B Ventures , and is also part of the 2023 Norrsken Accelerator ( impact investor ) program .
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QILIMANJARO QUANTUM TECHQilimanjaro is a full - stack quantum computer science ( QC ) fellowship developing hardware and software . It focus on mellow - quality qubit architectures and “ coherent quantum annealers , which do not require quantum error correction and can be therefore fast - to - grocery ” . It was found in 2018 by José Ignacio Latorre , a prof of Theoretical Physics at the University of Barcelona .
WHISPPThis “ Assistive Voice Tech and Calling App ” wascovered by TechCrunch last January . It converts whispered and outspoken corduroy impaired speech into a someone ’s natural spokesperson , in tangible meter . Thus , it could be used by your rather heavily - to - understand elderly relative or perhaps a post - operative throat affected role . But it could well also morph into a B2B program for discreet corporate phone calls … Based out of the Netherlands , it has levy € 1.4 million to engagement .
Edited at 10:30 a.m. PST to add that Qilimanjaro was pick out as the winner .
