Past events & Award winners

Hack Award 2020

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We were planning to have Japanese and foreign startups in the fields of Agritech, Food Tech, and Smart Life. But we have canceled the event in consideration of the impact of the Covid-19.

Overview

Date

March 13th (Wed.), 2019, 15:30-17:00

Theme

Sustainability-conscious businesses & ideas for a comfortable and fulfilling lifestyle

  • ●Services and devices that utilize "Food" , "Agriculture" and "Smart life(data aggregation through connected devices and utilization of that data to provide new services for more convenient and healthy life.)".
  • ●Collaboration and co-creation with businesses of Osaka-Kansai, a business model to fuel Kansai-based open innovation.

Expected contestants at Hack Award 2020

社名 参加者氏名 役職 事業内容 Category Area ウェブサイト 参加意思表明 面談希望先
No.1 Inaho.INC Mr. Yutaka　Hishiki/CEO agri-tech Japan
No.2 SaliCrop Mr. Dotan Borenstein/CEO agri-tech Israel
No.3 Embr Labs Ms. Elizabeth Gazda/CEO smart life NYC/USA
No.4 Shiok Meats Dr. Sandhya Sriram/CEO & Co-founder food-tech Singapore
No.5 Kazoo Technology Mr. Yui Kong HEUNG/Sales Director smart life HongKong/China
No.6 MycoNourish Limited Dr. Peter Orrell/CEO & Founder agri-tech London
No.7 Timekettle Technologies Co.,Ltd. Mr. Yuta Yamauchi/Japan Market Representative smart life Shenzhen/China
No.8 Sea6Energy Mr. Shrikumar Suryanarayan/Managing Director agri-tech food-tech Bangalore/India
No.9 Insectta Pte. Ltd. Mr. Phua Jun Wei/Chief Technology Officer / Director food-tech Singapore
No.10 Smallhold, Inc. Mr. Andrew Carter/Co-Founder&CEO(Thailand) agri-tech NYC/USA

Award winners

Gold

NIRAMAI Health Analytix Private Limited / India

a software to detect breast cancer with examinationradiation-free, non-touch, not painful and works for women of all ages

Silver

No new folk studio Inc. / Japan

the world’s first Smart Shoes Platform which analyzes various kinetic data from your feet such as walking, running, kicking, jumping and dancing

Bronze

Fooyo

app for tourists including smart navigation, smart itinerary planer, smart passbook, and dynamic suggestion system

O-BIC Prize

Acumen Research Laboratories

a prototype manual assay test kit as an early “red-flag” indicator of sepsis

The Past Winners

Award 2019

Gold

NIRAMAI Health Analytix Private Limited

a software to detect breast cancer with examinationradiation-free, non-touch, not painful and works for women of all ages

Silver

No new folk studio Inc.

the world’s first Smart Shoes Platform which analyzes various kinetic data from your feet such as walking, running, kicking, jumping and dancing

Bronze

Fooyo

app for tourists including smart navigation, smart itinerary planer, smart passbook, and dynamic suggestion system

O-BIC Prize

Acumen Research Laboratories

a prototype manual assay test kit as an early “red-flag” indicator of sepsis

Award 2018

Gold

Dot watch (Eric Ju Yoon Kim / South Korea)

the world’s very first, mass-producible,micro-braille actuator

Silver

Eye control (Tania Suares / Israel)

A new wearable and affordable solution for "locked-in" patients

Bronze

Remo (Haruumi Shiode / Japan)

Let "Remo" take control of your air conditioner and save energy with convenience and comfort

Carbyne (Iris Hermon / Israel)

multi-national emergency communication platform for public safety

Other

  • BLOODHERO (Joselito Barquez / Philippines)
  • Oui reward (Ugo Weyl / France)
  • Yiyuan (Dr. Zhili Wu / China)
  • Travelio (Christie Amanda / Indonesia)
  • BackTech (Kimiko Motoyama / Japan)
  • protectiq (Sergey Shayakhmetov / Russia/UAE)

Award 2017

Gold

Docquity (Indrranil Roychowdhury / Singapore)

Asia's fastest growing network for medical professional

Silver

Holiday-Sitters (Ela Slutski / Holland)

top-quality, fully-vetted babysiters who speaks your language that is as easy and reliable to book as a hotel room or restaurant reservation

Bronze

MARUI Plugin (Max Krichenbauer / Japan/Osaka)

a plug-In for Autodesk Maya that allows you to do your modeling and animation work in VR

Other

Award 2016

Gold

Pawnhero (David Margendorff / Philippine)

an online pawnshop where anyone can submit a pawn request anytime, anywhere

Silver

podaris (Nathan Koren / UK/London)

a powerful tools for proposal development and feasibility studies that let you create transport plans

Bronze

shipwise (Alexander Malov / Spain)

The faster, easiest way to book & manage your international freight shipments

Other

Award 2015

Gold

mclinica (Farouk Meralli / Philipine)

digital networks of pharmacies all over Asia

Silver

BLAZE(Blaze is now Beryl.) (Emily Brooke / UK/London)

Lazer light to make cycling safer

Bronze

Up Performa (Shuhei Yamada / Japan/Osaka)

wearable device of player tracking system

Other

  • Smart Checkups (Didier Vermeiren / Germany/Berlin)
  • Cashboard (Robert Henker / Germany/Berlin)
  • M SQUARE　LLC (Miwa Jojo / Japan/Kobe)
  • Cofame (Kanji Noguchi / Japan/Osaka)
  • INGAGE Inc. (Tetsuya Wada / Japan/Osaka)
  • DigitAddress (Wang Wei / Japan/Osaka)
  • Stamp (Opie Lopansri / Thailand/Bangkok)

Award 2014

Gold

Waygo Inc. (Ryan Rogowski / USA/California)

point and translate, no internet required

Silver

TransferGo Ltd. (Dvilinskas Daumantas / UK/London)

Transfer service to send money completely FREE with real exchange rate and no transfer fees

Bronze

StudyPact Ltd. (Tobias Hoenisch / Japan/Tokyo)

Crowd funded motivation platform for self studying

Other