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Continuum Technologies, Snaptivity win the 2017 Nokia Open Innovation Challenge
29 November 2017 Espoo, Finland - Startups pioneering innovations in wearable nanotechnology and connected media won top honors at the Nokia Open Innovation Challenge. In partnership with NGP Capital, the Challenge called for ideas, technologies and new business models that will help enable a smart, safe and sustainable world. The investor choice award presented by NGP Capital went to Snaptivity, also from the U.K. Snaptivity offers a smart stadium solution integrating IoT sensors and robotic cameras and intelligent software to enable the capture of candid emotional moments during live events, through which venues and brands can engage fans. Snaptivity also received the audience choice award. Winning startups will have the opportunity to explore co-innovation and joint business opportunities along with access to Nokia's global market, technologies, products and resources, and potential investment opportunities. Rounding out the finalist group were: Balcony: A SAAS platform that enables organizations to point at a map and ask for real time information from people onsite. Enigmedia: A cybersecurity company specializing in cryptography and data transmission protection. Health Gorilla: Aggregates medical and health data into a single web-based and mobile access patient-centric repository. LISNR: Aiming for a new standard for device connectivity using sound. NuCypher: Proxy re-encryption, a scalable form of public key encryption that is well-suited for data sharing scenarios and distributed systems (e.g. IoT). OQ Technology: World's first universal plug & play IoT device that can provide connectivity leveraging Low-Earth-Orbit satellite infrastructure. Savari: V2X analytics stack as well as V2X applications. Toposens: The first 3D sensor based on ultrasound. More information on the Open Innovation Challenge can be found here.
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