Impact Hub Milano, certified incubator focused on social innovation and coworking space, is organizing its first Investor Day which will be held on Thursday 16 February at the headquarters in Via Aosta, 4 from 9.30 to 11.30. The event crowns a particularly intense 2016 for the incubator which saw the successful conclusion of various startup selection programs: the first proprietary incubation for equity program IHM Acceleration as well as #Natiper in collaboration with Axa and South for Tomorrow in partnership with Axa Italia and Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
The time has therefore become ripe to present a series of promising young companies to potential investors such as venture funds, private investors, business angels, family offices and companies. The protagonists of the Investor Day will be the winning startups of IHM Acceleration Feat Food, GoBee, Delizialy, Wishraiser, having already concluded their incubation path, as well as the winner of #Natiper Mivoq, Pharmap which won the first position in South for Tomorrow , M3datek, winner of a category of the Marzotto Prize and XMetrics.
These startups are seeking funding of over 200.000 Euros to boost their development programs. Although not currently seeking financial support, BiiHar – jury prize in the IHM Acceleration competition – and Talents Venture, finalist of the Marzotto Prize, will also be part of the initiative.
“The activity we developed in 2015 has borne many fruits and we are now able to present to investors a portfolio of startups offering original business ideas with good return potential”, said the President and CEO of Impact Hub Milano Marco Nannini.
“We are particularly satisfied with the recognition that companies operating in an innovative way in sectors such as health, sustainable food and sport are having, supporting the idea that sustainable businesses will soon be considered also by important investors who currently intervene mainly in more traditional businesses” added Nannini. On the next page, the description of the startups participating in the Investor Day.
FeatFood is an integrated Food Delivery service of gourmet, healthy and balanced meals. Through its platform it allows you to receive a single dish or a balanced diet directly at home or in the office and guarantees the possibility of following a tailor-made fitness and training program being followed and advised by a team of expert professionals. (Startup winner IHM Acceleration program).
M3DATEK (WRAP) is based on the bioprinting activity for 3D printing materials to repair and regenerate tissue. The project develops a medical device, such as a plaster, capable of accelerating the healing of chronic lesions and which is reabsorbed by the skin. (Startup winner of the sixth edition of the Marzotto Prize, category "from the idea to the enterprise".
Wishraiser is an online platform of Lottery Benefits where Celebrities, Influencers and prestigious companies will be able to launch fundraising campaigns in favor of their favorite non-profit organizations, through an innovative model based on the lottery system. (Startup winner IHM Acceleration program).
GoBee develops robotic devices for video shooting with Sport&Action Camera and Smartphone. Gobee introduces new solutions that make use of robotics and artificial intelligence to obtain products that make shooting videos even easier. Gobee's first product is called Gobee Director and it is a mechatronic device that allows everyone to make exciting and exciting video shootings using the same cinematographic shooting language that a real director would use. (Startup winner IHM Acceleration program).
Pharmap it is a service that allows you to select any product, drug, prescription or non-prescription, from the Pharmacy database, using your smartphone/PC/Toll Free Number, to purchase it and to appoint a "Pharmapper" to collect them; the latter will go to the pharmacy and, equipped with a special electronic proxy, will collect the products chosen by the patient and deliver them to the selected address, in less than 45 minutes from the request. (Startup winner of the #SouthforTomorrow program).
Mivoq is the first company to make personalized text-to-speech accessible to everyone. By recording 100 sentences (in less than an hour), Mivoq is able to recreate a digital model capable of converting any message into voice, with the user's timbre and intonation. The main target group is people with ALS who are at risk of losing their ability to speak. (Startup winner of the #NatiPer program).
Delightfully is the first Italian crowd platform dedicated to gourmet catering. Delizialy wants to change the way the Milanese go out to dinner, allowing the many food enthusiasts to see their dream gastronomic experiences come true, to choose from the unpublished menu proposals presented by talented chefs. (Startup winner IHM Acceleration program).
XMetrics, the technological revolution in the world of swimming, the first and most innovative activity tracker for swimmers, whether professional or amateur. Proprietary algorithms, combined with patented technology and positioning, are able to detect with absolute precision a series of data such as stroke rate, stroke length, times or swimming style, then obtaining efficiency indices to help athletes to improve in each phase of training.
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BiiHar is a system that helps improve the lifestyle of obese people who have already embarked on a weight loss journey. In addition, BiiHar facilitates and encourages communication between professionals who collaborate in the same team and patients who want to recover from obesity. (IHM Acceleration Program Jury Award Winner Startup).
Talent Ventures supports and finances the most talented students in Europe with an innovative tool that allows the cost of education to be linked to the person's future salary. Financial aid is accompanied by an ecosystem of additional services to accompany talents on a path of personal and professional growth. (Startup finalist of the sixth edition of the Marzotto Prize, category "from the idea to the enterprise").
