The 50 finalists of the CODE_n14 Contest

Driving the data revolution

Startups from all around the globe are now shifting the evolution of big data into full gear with groundbreaking solutions for new tools and applications. CODE_n14 brings the most inspiring of these young innovators together in one spot – ready to drive the data revolution.

CODE_n14 Winner

“Big data” is a global megatrend that marks a new era in information handling. Its development is driven by three major trends:

• exploding data volumes
• constantly growing variety of data formats
• rapidly increasing velocity of data generation and transfer
• Big data enables users to store, process and analyze huge amounts of data in a highly efficient way that has not been possible until now. Its applications help companies from various industries to

• gather new insights into customer behavior
• generate a better basis for decision-making
• reduce costs
• innovate faster

In addition to the 50 CODE_n14 finalists, which will present their business solutions referring to this year’s topic “Driving the Data Revolution”, the exhibition area will feature an attractive conference program throughout the entire week of Cebit 2014. Get to know the CODE_n14 startups and their big data solutions during numerous of inspiring Fireside Chats on stage.

Also other Big Data companies apart of the 50 CODE_n14 finalists will present themselves. Companies such as BellaDati ( CEO -Marin Trigina, Agile data analytics) will be excibiting in Code_n’s hall 16 and will  hopefully have the opportunity to present them selves on stage.

Further highlights include the Young IT-Day, the Google Data Dialogue, and of course the CODE_n Award Show. But have a closer look for yourself.

Energy & Environment

AutoGrid System

Redwood City, USA

Harnessing big data, predictive analytics, and cloud computing, AutoGrid System optimizes the electri- cal grid by determining power supply and demand, and then adjusting the consumption to avoid black- outs, theft, and waste.

EnergyDeck Ltd.,

London, UK

EnergyDeck is a community-based platform that helps organizations reduce costs related to energy consumption. It leverages the collective intelligence of all users in order to provide relevant bench- marks and help identify the most suitable savings opportunities.

Marinexplore Inc.

Sunnyvale, USA

Marinexplore is a big data platform that makes sense of 4-dimensional marine data. It helps to dramatically reduce environmental and economic risk associated with decision-making in the offshore and marine industries.

Placemeter

Brooklyn, USA

Placemeter gives store owners, urban planners, and residents the best insights into what happens at the places they care most about by providing real- time measurements and predictions for vehicle and pedestrian activity.

SangamTech

Herzelia, Israel

Following the vision of a “Smart City”, LeanCiti by SangamTech enables users to share any type of city-related data on resource consumption in a social network.

Finance

Big Data Scoring

Tallin, Estonia

Big Data Scoring has developed credit-scoring algorithms based on social media data to be used by banks and other lenders.

Kreditech Holding SSl GmbH

Hamburg, Germany

Kreditech uses big data and complex machine- learning algorithms to enable faster and better credit decisions.

Tresata

Charlotte, USA

Tresata offers various big data analytics engines that help companies solve massive business chal- lenges, e.g. in product pricing.

Health

Cosinuss° GmbH

Munich, Germany

Cosinuss° has developed a heart rate monitor to wear in the ear. A specially designed technology platform conveniently and continuously takes mo- bile measurements of heart rate, core body tem- perature, and oxygen levels in the blood.

GENALICE B.V.

Harderwijk, The Netherlands

GENALICE’s big data software solution combines DNA interpretation, analysis, and correlation with other diagnostic information and helps to analyze vast amounts of complex medical data more quick- ly, more reliably, and at a lower cost.

Mint Labs

Barcelona, Spain

Mint Labs offers advanced medical image analysis and visualization, providing detailed 3D maps of the brain. The solution includes tools to quantify the anomalies of the tissue captured in the images.

SOMA Analytics

London, UK

SOMA Analytics’ Kelaa technology senses an em- ployee’s stress levels based on smartphone move- ment data.

Manufacturing & Construction

Precogs

Paris, France

Precogs offers companies from the electronic manufacturing industry a predictive software solu- tion that anticipates critical supply chain risk, like a product overstock, and generates priorities for action.

Sablono

Berlin, Germany

Sablono BIMtime is the first software for construc- tion management that uses a virtual 3D building model for scheduling. It increases the level of detail for a given schedule by a factor of 1,000.

Marketing & Sales

Crayon Data Pte Ltd.

Singapore, Singapore

Following the idea that when people are given a limited range of relevant options, they are more likely to choose and will be happier with their choice, Crayon Data helps consumers and busi- nesses to make smarter decisions by simplifying big data and providing more relevant and personalized sets of choices.

Feingold Technologies GmbH

Unterföhring, Germany

Feingold Technologies provides a platform for analyzing the emotional states of users through voice and text facilities. It combines artificial intelli- gence, textual data and language-flow analysis with cutting-edge behavioral science.

G|Predictive

Norderstedt, Germany

Based on the finest in machine learning techniques, G|Predictive offers individual predictions for con- stantly recurring questions within the marketing and sales process – automated, ongoing, in real-

Iptvbeat Inc.

London, UK

Iptvbeat monitors the behavior of TV viewers and processes this data in real time, making this key information available to cable companies, broad- casters and advertisers.

Locoslab GmbH

Bonn, Germany

Locoslab offers indoor navigation for airports, fairs and shopping centers as well as location analytics to improve business processes according to the customer’s needs.

Navegg

Curitiba, Brazil

Navegg offers a proprietary technology that ana- lyzes online user behavior and determines each user’s demographics, interests, purchase intention and preferred brands, avoiding intrusive methods of traditional data collection.

Science Rockstars BV

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Science Rockstars combine behavioral science and technology in a next level marketing solution. It helps companies to optimize personalized commu- nication with their customers – online and in real- time.

Spinnakr

Mountain View, USA

Spinnakr is a next generation web analytics prod- uct. By applying the best of machine learning and predictive analytics, Spinnakr enables business owners to deal directly with data insights without having to analyze the data themselves.

Streetspotr GmbH

Nueremberg, Germany

Streetspotr is a smartphone app that connects Europe’s largest Mobile Workforce. Companies can use the crowd to obtain data and insights from any address in almost real-time.

Mobility & Transportation

Augmentation Industries GmbH

Cologne, Germany

In order to make cars smarter, Augmentation Industries has developed easy-to-install, easy-to- use hardware that enables users to extract car data like fuel status or CO2 emissions in real time.
Boxever

Dublin, Ireland

Boxever is a customer intelligence solution for the travel industry. It enables companies to leverage their online and offline customer data to create stronger, more profitable relationships.

Graphmasters

Rahden, Germany

nunav from Graphmasters is an internet-based traffic management solution for navigation devices that actively helps people avoid traffic jams.

Transmetrics OOL

Sofia, Bulgaria

Transmetrics’ predictive analytics solution enables cargo transport companies to make prognoses about their future shipping volume. The software learns from the shipping history of other transport customers and uses external forecast data.

Retail & Consumer

42 Technologies Inc.

Toronto, Canada

42 is an intuitive and dynamic predictive analytics platform for retail brands. It creates customer profiles, identifies key consumers and overall pur- chase patterns, and then translates this data into tangible, visual results.

Aentropico

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Aentropico’s DataApps supports small and medi- um-sized enterprises by providing ready-to-use reports on key business issues like customer seg- mentation and promotion planning.

Avansera Oy.

Helsinki, Finland

Avansera collects consumer shopping intentions and turns this data into real-time predictions of what consumers will buy. It allows retailers and manufacturers to react to market trends and influ- ence them significantly.

Buzzoek

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Buzzoek enables brick-and-mortar businesses to instantly create their own customer reward pro- gram by using any NFC-enabled card as a loyalty card with no need for pre-registration.

DropThought Inc.

Santa Clara, USA

DropThought is a consumer experience manage- ment solution that enables companies and retailers to get instant feedback from their clients at the point of sale.

Infinite Analytics Inc.

Cambridge, USA

Infinite Analytics has developed a personalization engine for the Web that creates an individual profile for each user based on social network data. This helps to predict user behavior and provide person- alized recommendations.

Precifica Preço Inteligente

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Precifica offers a dynamic, real-time pricing plat- form for e-commerce companies. It helps them to increase conversions and preserve their net margin at the same time.

Viewsy

London, UK

Viewsy provides analytics for offline retailers by supplying insights into customer behavior patterns, such as customer loyalty and time spent in the shop.

Technology & IT

AppScale Systems Inc.

Santa Barbara, USA

AppScale Systems’ autoscaling platform makes it easier for developers to write scalable web applications. They no longer need to worry about how many servers to purchase, how to configure them, and how to manage them.

CartoDB

Madrid, Spain

CartoDB is a geospatial database in the cloud that allows users to visualize real-time data on maps and share it over the internet.

Deltasight

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Deltasight is an innovative analytics platform that aggregates and fuses data from different sources to create a central, global innovations database. It was designed specifically for R&D, business, and tech- nology transfer professionals.

elastic.io GmbH

Bonn, Germany

elastic.io is a cloud integration platform for soft- ware vendors that connects various cloud services and automates the data transfer of their customers.

iMath Research S.L.

Bellaterra, Spain

iMath Research bridges the gap between internal company data and external digital data in order to find correlations and patterns that can be trans- formed into predictive models for a better deci- sion-making strategy.

Intelie

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Intelie uses the most modern trend analysis and information correlation technologies to help busi- nesses achieve their strategic goals by avoiding possible mistakes.

MammothDB

Sofia, Bulgaria

MammothDB is an inexpensive and enterprise- ready alternative to traditional data warehouse and business analytics solutions,leveraging the power of Hadoop, yet maintaining the benefits of SQL.

mapegy UG

Berlin, Germany

mapegy provides companies with a compass to navigate the world of high-tech solutions – it keeps new technologies on the radar to help companies make better strategic decisions, showing them ex- actly which innovations are ideal for leveraging their R&D resources.

Massive Analytic Ltd.

London, UK

Massive Analytic enables organizations to optimally access, compress, transfer, analyze, and store data – for faster and more effective decision-making.

OpenDataSoft

Paris, France

OpenDataSoft is a cloud-based platform designed for seamless and unlimited data re-use, making it easy to publish and share data online.

Radoop LLC

Budapest, Hungary

Radoop is a fully graphical tool with an easy-to-use interface supporting the whole range of big data analytics, from ETL and ad-hoc reporting to predic- tive analytics.

Real Impact Analytics

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

As an alternative to cash, Real Impact Analytics has developed a mobile money service for poor regions in Africa based on telecommunications data usage.

SQream Technologies

Ramat Gan, Israel

SQream Technologies uses graphics processors to capture, store, and process big data within seconds – users get data insights 100 times faster than usual.

Swan Insights

Brussels, Belgium

With Swan Insights B2B companies get a 360-degree view of their clients. A smart database solution combines information of individuals’ profiles from the social web with the corporate Big Data analysis.

SynerScope

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

SynerScope makes data analysis easy for anyone by replacing complex queries with visual representa- tions – a fast and agile software solution for more efficient interactions.

Read more on Scott Brave’s point of view how the country is suffering from a crucial shortage of data scientists. And how then the solution lies in creating fit-to-purpose products and solutions that abstract away as much of the technical complexity as possible, so that the power of big data can be put into the hands of business users.

Scott Brave is co-founder and CTO of Baynote, an e-tail and e-commerce advisory business.

Read more: InnovationInsights form WIRED (The Artikel was Posted by Dave Fowler)