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23 May 2022
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Venture engine Unknown Group and the Darmstadt-based branch of EIT Manufacturing invited start-ups and company representatives “Into the Unknown” for their virtual dealmaking event.
Broadcast live from Unknown Group’s studio in The Hague, this online event showed recent use cases for the manufacturing industry. Eleven startups pitched their game-changing solutions and competed for an opportunity of a one-on-one meeting with dealmakers from established companies to scale their solution.
Pitches were short and sweet, with only 30 to 90 seconds, and only one question answered after the presentation, prior to the meeting. After the pitches, four one-to-one meetings of 20 minutes took place.
Roy van der Loos, Business Developer with Unknown Group said: “We help corporates and founders to accelerate their partnerships. This dealmaking event – jointly organised with EIT Manufacturing – contributed to this goal and leveraged our expertise.”
The start-ups
Get an overview of the start-ups below! They are listed in alphabetical order.
Using Gemvision’s augmented reality solutions means workers have more time with their hands free to work while being able to access real-time augmented instructions, live on-screen drawing or screen casting with colleagues.
The industrial-grade Augmented Reality technology, visual remote support and digital workflows of oculavis SHARE enable the digital transformation of cross-locational processes in maintenance, customer service or quality tasks.
Smart wearables from Precure collect muscle activity and movement data and use them to nudge employees to modify their behaviours, thus helping reduce the risk of musculoskeletal disorders. The solution covers individual, structural and organisational elements so that improvement potential can be fully leveraged.
Adding SenseGlove to virtual reality scenarios makes interactions become lifelike, so that the scenario becomes truly immersive and guarantees that the right interactions are trained and measured.
The VR Training Academy by Serious VR is a Software-as-a-service solution providing VR training applications and a performance analytics platform. Using Virtual Reality and gamification technology for operational training changes the impact industrial training, harnessing its visual and interactive functionalities.
Skelex offers a non-powered upper-body exoskeleton to support workers’ performance and reduce risk of injuries. It is a jacket that can be fit individually to different levels of strengths while providing a full freedom of motion. Skelex is one of the lightest exoskeletons in the world.
Soter Analytics offers engaging training programmes for workers which coach them throughout the day thanks to a wearable device and an app. For employers, this combination of high-tech, data and AI provides a way to engineer risks out of the workplace and help prevent musculoskeletal injuries.
Spiral Technology provides an augmented reality interface with visual work instructions for industrial inspections so that mechanics need less time to perform them and achieve greater accuracy.
WearHealth uses AI and data from the workforce to recommend workload balancing measures based on ISO standards, bio-signals from wearables and proprietary algorithms. The Workload Monitoring Platform provides an end-to-end secure, scalable and GDPR compliant service to fit industrial standards.
The Workerbase worker platform draws data from existing systems to enable organisations to improve decision making, adaptation to market demands and increase productivity with real-time production processes.
“This event provided great opportunities for the participating start-ups to cooperate with stakeholders of the manufacturing industries for innovation. The cooperation with the Unknown Group as an important Network Partner highlights the significance of ecosystem engagement for co-creating value.”
Wolfgang Kniejski, Senior Business Creation Manager with EIT Manufacturing