Winners Startup Battlefield TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2018
We visited Disrupt SF 2018 and looked closely at the pitches of all 21 startups. Here are five finalists:
The winner of this year is the Forethought team with the AI ​​bot Agatha Answers. Agatha indexes the knowledge base of companies, even in the video, for example, the company's webinars and helps technical support specialists very quickly find the exact answers to user questions.
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Already used as an assistant to customer service. The result is a 20-30% increase in efficiency (speed and accuracy) of responses to users' questions when they contact support services. The product is embedded in Salesforce and Zendesk.
The company was founded in 2017 and is working on winning the $ 7B market.
Agatha Answers Example
What is fast growth today: closed beta service launched 4 months ago. Now there are seven paid pilot clients, the first of which is already on an annual subscription. Agatha has already indexed 10 million documents, increasing the productivity of support services by 30% and retaining 20 years of customer support.
It seems that with Google Duplex shown earlier, answering our questions in support services will very soon become AI.
Read more about the company's product: youtu.be/yfdft1JXfRw
Second place: Unbound , #sextech.
With the project Palma - a ring that vibrates in three modes of varying intensity. The accelerometer is built into the ring, which allows you to change the pattern of vibration by lightly pressing the ring body. Palma enters the market in 2019. A company with a product line of more than 50 items has been growing quite quickly, having shown growth 15 times since 2015.
Promotion - through instagram and educational articles, 12 million views on the company's website. The Sextech market in the USA is very active and brings only $ 1B of vibrators per year to companies in only one product line.
A quote from the pitch: “In their age of Donald Trump,”
3. Origami Labs #wearables
Another Orii ring turns your hand into a smartphone. Sound through the bone, bone conduction, touch the ear with a finger and hear the smartphone.
The team has built a powerful affiliate network, they see a market of $ 1 billion and are counting on selling the first 100,000 rings in 2019. The company successfully conducted a crowdfunding campaign for a kickstarter, collecting 10 times the target ($ 333,619).
Key functionality with great development potential - gesture management. Battery - 1.5 hours talk time, 40 hours standby.
Quote: “Audio quality is amazingly clear” - the results of a test drive ring from the jury of the TCD.
4. CB Therapeutics #biotech
Biotech company, with biosynthesis technology and microorganisms (yeast) for the production of pure cannabinoids from sugar.
Reducing the production time to five days, the cost of production is 10 times. The market in the USA is $ 8,2B.
5. Mira #biotech
A device that, through urinalysis, shows the concentration of hormones and then in the application tells you when to conceive a child in the most optimal way. Reproductive tracker through hormone monitoring and Fertility Score of every day. Replaces large medical laboratories device on the palm. “The only home diagnostic tool that provides full monitoring of a woman’s health.”
Already more than 2500 users and 300% monthly growth. The developers promise the development of functional devices for analyzing health in many other areas.
Quote from the pitch: “eventually we will expand to the family house platform”
Total: AI bot, two rings and two biotech projects: AI, wearables, healthtech, biotech are some of the most interesting topics of 2018.
The winner of this year is the Forethought team with the AI ​​bot Agatha Answers. Agatha indexes the knowledge base of companies, even in the video, for example, the company's webinars and helps technical support specialists very quickly find the exact answers to user questions.
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Already used as an assistant to customer service. The result is a 20-30% increase in efficiency (speed and accuracy) of responses to users' questions when they contact support services. The product is embedded in Salesforce and Zendesk.
The company was founded in 2017 and is working on winning the $ 7B market.
Agatha Answers Example
What is fast growth today: closed beta service launched 4 months ago. Now there are seven paid pilot clients, the first of which is already on an annual subscription. Agatha has already indexed 10 million documents, increasing the productivity of support services by 30% and retaining 20 years of customer support.
It seems that with Google Duplex shown earlier, answering our questions in support services will very soon become AI.
Read more about the company's product: youtu.be/yfdft1JXfRw
Second place: Unbound , #sextech.
With the project Palma - a ring that vibrates in three modes of varying intensity. The accelerometer is built into the ring, which allows you to change the pattern of vibration by lightly pressing the ring body. Palma enters the market in 2019. A company with a product line of more than 50 items has been growing quite quickly, having shown growth 15 times since 2015.
Promotion - through instagram and educational articles, 12 million views on the company's website. The Sextech market in the USA is very active and brings only $ 1B of vibrators per year to companies in only one product line.
A quote from the pitch: “In their age of Donald Trump,”
3. Origami Labs #wearables
Another Orii ring turns your hand into a smartphone. Sound through the bone, bone conduction, touch the ear with a finger and hear the smartphone.
The team has built a powerful affiliate network, they see a market of $ 1 billion and are counting on selling the first 100,000 rings in 2019. The company successfully conducted a crowdfunding campaign for a kickstarter, collecting 10 times the target ($ 333,619).
Key functionality with great development potential - gesture management. Battery - 1.5 hours talk time, 40 hours standby.
Quote: “Audio quality is amazingly clear” - the results of a test drive ring from the jury of the TCD.
4. CB Therapeutics #biotech
Biotech company, with biosynthesis technology and microorganisms (yeast) for the production of pure cannabinoids from sugar.
Reducing the production time to five days, the cost of production is 10 times. The market in the USA is $ 8,2B.
5. Mira #biotech
A device that, through urinalysis, shows the concentration of hormones and then in the application tells you when to conceive a child in the most optimal way. Reproductive tracker through hormone monitoring and Fertility Score of every day. Replaces large medical laboratories device on the palm. “The only home diagnostic tool that provides full monitoring of a woman’s health.”
Already more than 2500 users and 300% monthly growth. The developers promise the development of functional devices for analyzing health in many other areas.
Quote from the pitch: “eventually we will expand to the family house platform”
Total: AI bot, two rings and two biotech projects: AI, wearables, healthtech, biotech are some of the most interesting topics of 2018.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/422769/
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