This summer was all about: product development, marketing strategy and funding for the 10 teams accelerating their businesses with Spherik. Bootcamps, workshops, remote working and on site 1:1s got them closer to their goals and #pitchready for the final point of the program: Demo Day.
On September 26th, at Liberty Technology Park Cluj, was the Spherik Demo Day! Teams from #spk2017 batch presented on stage their business evolution during the acceleration program in front of the Spherik founders, partners and investors.
Meet our graduates and new alumni, ambassadors of Spherik acceleration program in their region and countries:
Baro (Moldova) – Efficient automatic campaign management for digital advertising agencies and companies with a high-number of Facebook pages. Since joining Spherik program they grew from 200 processed campaigns per month to almost 800. Recently Baro.io has received a first investment round of 80.000 euros from Fribourg Digital.
CleverWash (Romania) – finds the nearest carwash available right now. Since October 2016 they have 2200 registered users and 850 bookings that have been processed and are pending now to sign their first 4 corporate customers.
Ad Tech Media (Moldova) – high-performance content monetization for publishers, journalists and bloggers with focus on customer’s user experience. Consumers – first, monetization – second. The team has adopted serverless computing, continuous integration and continuous deployment and the platform is being tested now with the first pilot customer.
Knowl (Ukraine) – compliance training tools powered by AI, such as: desktop and mobile apps with online/offline modes, text to speech mode, heatmap for complexity analysis of content, incremental training, etc. During the acceleration program they have pivoted the project, built a new MVP and have already acquired their first customer.
MyCar (Romania) – avoid fines by renewing car insurance and road taxes with a click of a button based on expiration reminders. Recently they signed 2 collaborations for car insurances and road tax renewals directly from within the app, and have added new types of push notifications, for regular tasks like checking the tire pressure, change the tires with mandatory winter tires, etc.
Prism (Moldova) – smart inventory portfolio management. During the acceleration program, they have launched a new type of connection to the bookkeeping systems and warehouse management systems for easier onboarding. It was already piloted successfully with one customer;
Eyesight (Romania) – lazy eye treatment using Virtual Reality gaming. Since joining the program they managed to pilot their device at a clinic with real lazy eye patients. During the 200 Seconds Seconds Of Fame, the iCEEfest startup contest, Eyesight was the winner of the public choice.
JURIO (Romania) – allows to search for precedents and legal articles within seconds in the biggest Romanian case-law and legislation database. It also helps draft legal documents in no time. In the last months Jurio managed to sign more than 20% of the big law companies in Bucharest and have added 22 million new files into their database.
BreadXY (Romania) – data-driven animal breeding programs for breed societies, a web and mobile suite that provides functionalities and processes for breed societies to perform breeding book management, performance testing and genetic evaluation of breeding animals. Part of the new solution developed in the last months is the mobile application (gathers on-field milk test results, on-field animal identification) that is being tested now with 2 clients.
bNesis (Ukraine) – SaaS that streamlines API integrations and teaches banking systems, even if it is legacy ones, “to talk” to billing, payment, financial and systems of other banks, simplifying and automating data transfer between them.
Thank you all for joining Spherik community and stay tuned for the new system of acceleration. Just a hint: open session for applications, no batches and personalized approach for early stage tech startups from the Eastern Europe.