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Identifying and scaling AI startups for SDGs
11.6 Innovation Factory Live pitching session
Online, 28 September 2021
Moderator: Josh Choi, Program Lead at AI for Good, ITU
Startups:
• TestAlng: TestAIng's AiEnsured is a complete testing suite for AI products, the world’s first
comprehensive testing product for privacy, ethics, and security.
• Paylend: Paylend aims at providing financial solutions to communities in Africa. As an
innovative fintech company, Paylend is a platform that facilitates credit management and
easing the supply chain.
• Delft Imaging: Delft Imaging dreams of a world where healthcare is a universal right, not
a privilege. Through reliable, cost-effective diagnostic imaging solutions and AI software,
Delft Imaging is driving global health transformations, aiming for a universally healthier
future with each innovation.
• TechTics: On two entrepreneurs’ initiative, a team from TU Delft built a prototype of a
beach robot, the BeachBot. The robot is specially made to help keep the beaches clean,
by cleaning up small litter.The prototype uses a trained image recognition algorithm for
machines and can already recognize cigarette butts.
Judges:
• Mickaël Mesbauer; Program Manager, Hatch CoLab
• Joseph K. Hopkins; Senior Managing Partner, The IPRESTIGE Emerge Fund LLC and CEO,
Fallingst Technologies LLC
• Melissa Sassi; Global Head of IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator, IBM
11.7 AI for Good Innovation Factory Live pitching session
Online, 31 August 2021
Moderator: Josh Choi, Program Lead at AI for Good, ITU
Startups:
• Talov Studio: Talov designs accessible technology for everyone, especially for people
with disabilities. Talov’s apps are: SpeakLiz, a powerful AI communication tool, designed
as a complete solution for the worldwide deaf community. Vision, using AI in real time to
identify objects, money, colors, approximate distances, read text, and more; all through
a phone's camera and optimized for working with VoiceOver and TalkBack in up to 48
languages. Read more here.
• Fieldy: Fieldy combines satellites, ML, and unique ground data to make reliable predictions
and enable informal market’s integration into global agricultural chains.
• Ninjamoba: Ninjamoba provides conversational AI consulting tailored to empower social
initiatives. Their unique approach combines user-friendly chatbots and media adoption
programs, enabling you to effectively leverage our tools for maximum impact.
• Orbisk: Orbisk is a startup on a mission to make the world’s food system more sustainable
by using progressive and innovative technology to tackle one of today’s biggest
challenges: food waste. Their solution provides hospitality organizations with a complete
insight into their food waste and helps them cut it in half. For this, Orbisk makes maximum
use of recent developments in computer vision and AI.
• SmartHelio: SmartHelio, based in Switzerland, is an innovative leader in Predictive Solar
Analytics, dedicated to improving the health and efficiency of solar plants worldwide.
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