Partners
Stanford Seed Spark is an online program hosted from July to October 2020. Spark was made possible by a unique collaboration between Seed and incubators/angel networks, who encouraged their aspiring entrepreneurs to participate in this program.
We like to thank our following collaborators for helping us identify participants:
- C-CAMP, Bangalore
- Chennai Angels Network
- TiE Chennai Chapter
- Vellore Institute of Technology Technology Business Incubator
Showcase Gallery
60 start-ups started participating in the program despite a global pandemic and uncertainty looming over the head on a daily basis. Some couldn’t stay until the end of this learning journey. 40+ start-ups persevered, learned and made it through the end.
In this Spark Showcase Gallery, we have listed pitch videos of 16 of our aspiring Spark entrepreneurs. Listen to their value propositions, problems they solve and solutions they provide in the form of pitch video and feel free to get in touch with them if you need more information.
Spark Cash Prize Winners
1st Place: Nesa Medtech Private Limited
Nesa Medtech Private Limited is a medical device startup working towards excellence in the Research & Development of Medical devices for emerging countries specifically India, and believes in pursuing business through innovation and technology. They are focused on delivering minimally invasive therapeutic devices innovation to address social and economic burden.
Founder: Sreekar Kotamachu (Bangalore, India)
2nd Place: Giftolexia Solutions Private Limited
Giftolexia’s mission is to help children with Dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties realize their true potential. In India about 10-15% of children of school going age struggle with dyslexia, which makes it difficult for them to learn in the traditional way. Giftolexia uses proven methods and tools with their distinctive Identify-Interpret-Intervene-Involve-Inspire value chain offering.
Founder: Teena Paul (Bangalore, India)
2nd Place: AmpliGeneIndia Biotech Pvt Ltd
AmpliGene’s™ mission is to make molecular diagnostics simple and accessible. We take power of Molecular Diagnostics out of lab by deskilling sample prep and ease of instrument use for POC application. AmpEZ provides bench to bedside solutions.
AmpEZ Real Time COVID-19 Test can detect Covid RNA in less than 30 minutes. It is fastest test proposed currently. It can enhance testing capacity by more than 10-fold in current settings only. Demonstrates our potential and ability to address global crisis with upmost urgency and efficacy. AmpEZ is an innovative and disrupting platform technology which is dynamic, robust, flexible. It has application across the clinical spectrum like other IDs TB, malaria, dengue, chikungunya and many more. It also provides a platform for various other fields like Agri Health, GMO testing, food safety, Veterinary, Biodefense, Forensic Science etc. Integrated tool for multidisciplinary areas for co-ordination of national projects.
Founder: Dr. Chirag Pandya (Ahmedabad, India)
Spark Finalists Showcase
Aikenist Technologies Pvt Ltd
Aikenist provides AI accelerated imaging solutions for diagnostic centres and hospitals. MRI which is a golden standard for medical imaging to detect critical illness like Cancer, Alzheimer’s is costly, slow and inconvenient to the patients. Aikenist provides a QuickScan solution which accelerates MRI scanning time by 4x. This will improve patient convenience and Return on investment. The solution is based on the cutting edge AI technology and is clinically proven. We are now going live with the Hospitals and Diagnostic centres.
Founder: Ashwin Amarapuram (Bangalore, India)
Aristogene Biosciences Private limited
Aristogene is an internationally reputed contract research and manufacturing organization with multidisciplinary skills in biology services. From Bacterial Identification Service, protein expression in E.coli and purification and custom monoclonal antibody development service, we provide customized services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology majors, on a strong platform of confidentiality and intellectual property protection.
Founder: Vasudha B
Autoyos Private Limited
Autoyos aims to be at the forefront of the technological transformation of the eye-care industry, bridging the existing gap between care seekers and care providers. In order to address the acute lack of ophthalmic specialists and restricted usage of products/services, we have come up with intelligent Autonomous Medical Systems which can provide comprehensive eye care in non-clinical and resource-poor settings without depending on skilled manpower.
Founder: Bharathkumar Hegde
Kinoscope
An app for talent connect for the Indian film industry.
Founder: Ishrat Akhter
Foundation for Neglected Disease Research
Foundation for Neglected Disease Research is a not for profit organization dedicated to drug discovery and diagnostics research in the field of neglected diseases.
Founder: Shridhar Narayanan
MARVAR India Private Limited
MARAVAR door delivers automotive parts of multi-brand car service companies.
Founder: SELVA (Selvarathinam)
Milli Gold India Pvt Ltd
milliGOLD’s mission is to nudge a billion people in the middle and bottom of the pyramid, to consistently save 5 to 10 percent of their income through the instrument of physical gold.
Founder: Ramkumar R S
Nojoto
India’s Largest Storytelling Platform in 12 Languages. Content which we read, listen and watch is one of the most basic need of any individual to understand the world and is unfulfilled for billions of people across the world, and hence we decided to take the batton and create Largest “Multi-Lingual” Platform solving Content need for Billions.
Team:
Amit Kumar
Arun Raina
Hitwicket
Hitwicket (Octathorpe Web-Consultant Pvt. Ltd.) is a funded Technology startup based in Hyderabad, India. The company has pioneered the amalgamation of Sports + Gaming with the launch of its first game, Hitwicket. Octathorpe’s Vision is to be the premier mobile eSports company in India, covering sports across all top global markets, from USA to Europe to Japan. Our pioneering journey incorporates the use of new age technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Virtual Reality for the first time ever in Sports!
Founder: Kashyap Reddy
Pavo & Tusker Innovations
Kandula.ai is a Cognitive data intelligence platform that enables businesses to quickly ramp up their AI engineering competency in creating and maintaining the state of the art Visual intelligence solutions.
Founder: Sriram Subramanian
PurplePath Wealth Management Solutions Private Limited
PurplePath is a new generation wealth management solutions provider. We aim to bring about convergence of the old with the new – converging the evolved financial fundamentals with the emerging technologies – in transforming personal finance and democratizing wealth management solutions.
Founder: Arun Ramaswamy
Shriven Agritechs Private Limited
Shriven strives to ensure a healthy availability of agriculture producers to the end customers and to improve the livelihood of farming community. An Integrated Pack-house provides post-harvest management for all horticulture produces, reducing the wastage and improving the quality of the produce.
Team:
Manjula Gandhi Rooban
Prasanna Venkatarathnam
ThoughtBit Technologies Private Limited
ThoughtGST is an intelligent solution that ensures 100% GST compliance for your business at the click of a few buttons!
Founder:
Sidharth Selvam
Honorable Mentions
Transity
Transity is focused on solving the problems of inefficiency and unreliability in the agri-supply chain which is one of the major challenges being faced in agriculture sector. Our mission is to enable different stakeholders in the agriculture supply chain with digital tools so that there is seamless collaboration across the value chain resulting in efficiency, reliability and convenience. Our Cloud and Mobile technology platform, freshFLO, can digitize the farm-to-fork operations for agri and food based organizations such as Farmer Cooperatives, Impact Organizations, Foundations, Direct-to-Customer Startups, Exporters, Distributors, Contract Farming Companies etc. helping them scale and grow.
Founder:
Krishna Kumar Ponnada
Contact
Feel free to reach out to any start-up(s) or founder(s) that you find interesting and would like to know more about. If you have any questions for the Spark program team, drop us an email at seedspark@stanford.edu.