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Nasscom 10,000 Startups recently announced TechMarch – an initiative to bring together smart hardware startups driving innovation. The programme includes an eight-city tour to invite applications from startups in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Cochin, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi, and Kolkata.
So far, 300+ applications have been received and 27 startups have already been selected from Bengaluru (14), Hyderabad (7), and Cochin (6).
The next stop in the series was Mumbai, which the Nasscom 10,000 Startups’ team reached on October 3. With an insightful session with Guruprasad Rao, the Senior Director of Imaginarium (Asia’s largest prototyping factory), the roadshow kickstarted with a visit to KJ Somaiya College to meet a few hardware startups. It then proceeded towards SINE IIT Mumbai as Plugin (an initiative of DST, SINE, and Intel) – which provides hardware acceleration. Finally, the roadshow ended at Microsoft Accelerator -backed Indian School of Design & Innovation (ISDI).
Here Are The Selected Startups From The TechMarch Roadshow In Mumbai:
Soul & Protector: It is a project to safeguard girls/women, senior citizen or anyone vulnerable from the unexpected dangers of life like rape, molestation , physical assault, and robbery. It does not need any mobile app. It is based on GPS and GSM/CDMA technology.
Faclon Labs Pvt Ltd: It provides end-to-end solutions for remote monitoring and automation requirements focussed in making cities and villages smart. The team has an assortment of devices connected over long range RF and 3G technologies, sending sensed data to the cloud. The cloud finally delivers high-end insights and analytics to end-users in the most efficient and easy to understand way, thereby empowering them with real-time complex insights to deliver perfection.
BleeTech Innovations: Blee is a wearable band for people suffering from deafness that converts emergency sound alerts to vibrations and light. User can record and save any sound from the environment. Whenever the same sound is picked by the band, it vibrates and notifies user about the sound.
Seven: It is developing a health-focussed smartwatch, entirely from the ground up, for performing portable, cost-effective, on-demand, on-the-go ECGs and optical blood pressure on the wrist, over and above doing basic fitness tracking like steps, floors, sleep, distance etc.
The Applications For These Cities Are Still On, Interested Startups Can Apply Here.
Check out some pictures from the event here:
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