Great things are being made! After over 230 Startup Weekends in over 60 countries and a week of earning votes, these teams are moving on to the final round of the Great In The Making Track, made great by Mr. Coffee.

Take a look at the companies below and let us know who you think should win!

Menehune Hat Clip

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Can elementary school kids change the world? We think so. Buddy (12 yrs old), Koko (10 yrs old) and Kyndra (6 yrs old) created a revolutionary GoPro camera mount that doesn’t require a bulky strap or destroying your hat. Once we created our final prototype and beta tested it we realized that there are unlimited uses for our Menehune Hat Clip, far beyond hats. Please help us get through the regional round and we will prove it. Let’s inspire kidpreneurs throughout the world.

Tactile Eyesight

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We thrive to build global tactile book platform for children with visual impairment.
Tactile Eyesight – community that formed during GSB / SW event in Latvia is thriving to provide easy & affordable way to support blind communities, by giving them easy access to 3D digital tactile layouts. We want to apply rising 3D printing technology to mass-produce tactile books and make them more available.

Culitech

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We create detachable cutlery that can detect allergens, toxins, and nutritional content. Our aim is to produce health-conscious, eco-friendly, and innovative cutlery to correspond with modern, advancing lifestyles.

WooU

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WooU is an innovative and balance team. Javier Manjón and Patrick Gouraud have wide international backgrounds. Their approach is strategic and both focus on resolving business and operating issues.
Patrick has the experience of Global Market Finance and Startups in New York while Javier broadened his team and business skills on startups and consulting firms in China.

CHAL

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Have a crazy idea but feel like you’re alone with it? Don’t kill it. Record it, post it on CHAL, nominate your friends and watch it conquer the world by using our interactive maps and infographics. CHAL is the world’s first social platform that turns small challenges into powerful movements by gamifying the user experience. How about you, are you up for a CHAL?

AVA

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The only thing that changed is everything. Introducing AVA: The Garden That Grows Itself. AVA is the smartest, most efficient, and well-designed indoor gardening system that saves you time and effort.
REINVENTING GARDENING: No soil. No mess. No hassle.
REFRESHING DESIGN: Sleek and modern. Compact and modular. Device and app.
REMARKABLE PERFORMANCE: Faster growing times. Better yield. Freshest quality.

LoopLogiq

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At LoopLogiq, we are changing the way you conduct and manage your mobile workforce and off-site business. Whether your company focus is catering, remodeling, or any number of services that have employees providing a service in the field, with LoopLogiq you can now focus on the seamless flow of successful management, and finally close the loop on your logistical beast.

househive

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househive is an online platform for your local neighborhood to leverage the collective purchasing power by bundling common household services. We help organize you and your close neighbours, find common services, package up the service requests and connect you with the best local service providers in your community. Ideal for busy professionals living in apartment buildings, find out who’s already working in your building, share the service provider with your neighbours and everyone saves!

Treffi.co

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Treffi.co tackles one of most annoying problems in public transportation in developing countries. Crowdsourcing solution that connect people that are desperate to know the time of bus arrival with people who are already on the bus. By crowdsourcing the bus locations you are able to get a real-time dynamic timetables on your phone. Team behind this idea combines experiences from venture development, marketing, operations, software development, to leadership and managerial positions.

EmoJo

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Company develops and manufactures kids watch that rewards for sharing their emotional status with parents. EmoJo means fun, safety and lives for the idea of the 9 year old boy. Company had developed MVP, validated with real parents, raised capital and made sales on one weekend. Our team began with a 9 year old boy; Caluán. His mam Olivia, supported him all the way. Team designers; Thiago and Killian, Marius, William and Craig; business roles.

Share Your Passion

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Share Your Passion – the adventurous way to travel! We offer you the ultimate travel experience around a passion you share with people you don’t know yet.

Do Process

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Do Process is a mobile app that empowers workers to handle challenges like discrimination, sexual harassment, and work injuries. The Pittsburgh based @DoProcessTeam has three players. Kevin Tucker is a labor law attorney and identifies the legal areas in which workers need the most support. James Tiu, a registered patent and trademark attorney, defends the proprietary interests of Do Process. Jeff Ritter is a college professor and helps shape the app’s educational and do-it-yourself platforms.

Come Along

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Come Along is a network for traveler’s to find other travel partners and share their experience as well as their experience. Connect. Travel. Share Experiences.

FlowByte

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To check meter tampering and give value for money to Nigerians and Africans who buy petroleum products regularly, we are developing a device to accurately calculate fuel dispensed. The result will be immediately available to the user, and can be routed to an online platform. For enterprise clients, this information will generate monthly analytics.

Giftr

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Giftr is an app that uses the power of your social network to help you find and choose unique & memorable gifts. Giftr reminds you in time to start planning your gifts and helps you remember your best gift ideas. It allows you to create circles to collaborate with family & friends on gift ideas for the person you share in common, all at the best prices. We are a diverse team with all female developers based in Chicago with technical, retail and operational experience.

Thanks to Mr. Coffee for supporting these teams and entrepreneurs making great things in Global Startup Battle! 

We asked for the disruptors and those with big ideas, and the crowd has spoken! After over 230 Startup Weekends in over 60 countries and a week of earning votes, these are the teams are moving on to the final of of the Disruptors & Big Ideas Track, powered by Transpose. This first-rate panel of judges is now scoring these teams and we will announce a winner later this week, stay tuned!

Take a look at the companies below, watch their videos, and let us know who you think has the next the big idea!

LiftSync

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LiftSync is a tech fitness company focused on transcending the barriers of fitness. Founded by Matt, Pat, and Mariner, the idea hits close to home with all three feeling as if they have not seen the proper progress in the gym. The team has a wide breadth of knowledge from electrical engineering to entrepreneurship and finance. The LiftSync team placed 1st in Startup Weekend Tampa Bay and has received backing from the Lowth Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Tampa.

ProteCão

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ProteCão was founded in 2015 with the main goal to settle the demand of assistive technologies for blind dogs around the world. Based on researches with blind dogs owners and veterinarians, there was noticed a huge necessity of a product that helps this segment. Therefore we developed a collar that emits signals to the dog on the case the sensors detected some obstacle, thus assuring that the animal become more independent with safety, improving its welfare.

getmyweather

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Were a rock solid team whose passionate about changing the world to make it better. We strive hard to do our best on satisfying our clients. We do believe that IOT is the future that’s why we focus our technology on IOT bases. Yet we have a minor problem we often yield at each other if ever something is not that great because were perfectionist and we watch each others back for success.

Numenu

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Over 100 million Americans have dietary restrictions. Ordering at a restaurant for this population is awkward, time consuming, not transparent, and intimidating.
NUMENU is a smarter way to order. It’s fast, less stressful, convenient, and transparent. Users are able to create a custom profile with dietary restrictions/preference. Their restaurant results populate on a map. NUMENU shows the user a customized menu with food they can eat at the top with all the ingredients and nutritional values.

uFaktory

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uFaktory is an online B2B marketplace with a mission—helping small and medium sized companies from anywhere in the world to easily find, connect, and outsource with trusted suppliers, factories, and contractors in Vietnam, the World’s Next Manufacturing Hub and a member of the Trans-Pacific Partnership-the largest free trade deal in human history. uFaktory also offers uEscrow payment service which helps buyers and suppliers handling all transactions securely.

Come Along

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Come Along is a network for traveler’s to find other travel partners and share their experience as well as their experience. Connect. Travel. Share Experiences.

LoopLogiq

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At LoopLogiq, we are changing the way you conduct and manage your mobile workforce and off-site business. Whether your company focus is catering, remodeling, or any number of services that have employees providing a service in the field, with LoopLogiq you can now focus on the seamless flow of successful management, and finally close the loop on your logistical beast.

PlaytoGather

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We intend to do for Hobby Board Games what Kindle did for books. An industry aproaching $1B, Hobby Gaming has a year on year growth average of over 15%.
Almost every Hobby Gamer that we interviewed said that the main reason they play games is to have fun with their friends, but the analog board & pieces mean that too much time is spent learning the rules, setting up, & putting away games. Further, Game Makers are missing valuable customer insights, & don’t have data on usage or exposure.

Allergy Managers

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We’re a team of students and professionals who joined forces and won the Swansea Startup Weekend 2015. We’ve created Allergy Manager, a multi platform app that helps people with food allergies shop and eat with peace of mind. Allergy Manager allows the users to select the allergies they suffer from, scan the barcode on the food package and be alerted of the presence of any allergens. AM has a forum in development as we aim to build a strong community that will affect change in the food industry.

Do Process

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Do Process is a mobile app that empowers workers to handle challenges like discrimination, sexual harassment, and work injuries. The Pittsburgh based @DoProcessTeam has three players. Kevin Tucker is a labor law attorney and identifies the legal areas in which workers need the most support. James Tiu, a registered patent and trademark attorney, defends the proprietary interests of Do Process. Jeff Ritter is a college professor and helps shape the app’s educational and do-it-yourself platforms.

Entaro Crowdsourcing Tourism

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Entaro is a platform for locals to share their information, suggest activities, and even create tours for travelers. We help crowd source tourism information. Entaro helps locals curate and translate all of their insight and suggests gives travelers in depth and up to date tourism information. Go a little deeper and create a tour. Entaro becomes the de facto tourism guide for places that can`t create their own guides and offers more in depth information for other places.

Reflect

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Reflect is a SaaS platform that tracks real-time activity targeted towards the elderly (+65). Leveraging existing technology, Reflect synthesizes sensor information and translates them to actionable health-focused insights. Caregivers can ensure that end users are maintaining an active lifestyle—such as walking on a regular basis, getting the proper amount of sleep, meeting pre-determined goals and with the addition of a built-in fall detection device, users also receive an immediate alerts.

Handoff

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Even in a digital world, most hospitals still use an outdated pager system to coordinate patient care between attending physicians, nurses, and front desk administrators. This creates confusion as well as a delay in administering care—ultimately hurting the patients that the healthcare system exists to protect. Handoff is a free, HIPAA-compliant messaging platform that solves these roadblocks to consistent attention, putting patients back at the center of the healthcare system.

ReferHealth

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ReferHealth is an online platform for complementary medicine practitioners to easily refer patients to each other. Collaboration is a major pain point as the tools used for referrals and scheduling are usually paper-based, archaic, and insecure. ReferHealth solves these pain points by creating an easy, secure, referrer network. Over 75% of those surveyed were willing to pay over $500/year for an integrated scheduling service.

Invimma

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Invimma is an instant video mobile messaging application that allows a user to send a video right after a missed call. Gone are the days of having to sit through a long greeting to leave a voicemail. With Invimma you can instantly send a video and receive a notification when it is received. With built in analytics, Invimma can help your company shine by showing who is really interested in what you have to say. For families, it provides a greater way to connect. Join Invimma today!

Thank you to Transpose for powering disruptors and their big ideas!

Check out the finalists of the Mobile Growth Track! After over 230 Startup Weekends in over 60 countries and a week of earning votes, these teams are moving on to the next round of the Mobile Growth Track! This awesome panel of judges is now scoring these teams and a winner will be named later this week.

Check out the teams below, who do you think should be crowned champion?

Invimma

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Invimma is an instant video mobile messaging application that allows a user to send a video right after a missed call. Gone are the days of having to sit through a long greeting to leave a voicemail. With Invimma you can instantly send a video and receive a notification when it is received. With built in analytics, Invimma can help your company shine by showing who is really interested in what you have to say. For families, it provides a greater way to connect. Join Invimma today!

The Bridal Network

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The bridal network is a new social network platform in which brides-to-be can communicate, share and interact, in order to plan their weddings. It also connects them with wedding vendors to give them the best wedding experience, all under one roof.

Riff Square

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RiffSquare is a six people group who has in common the passion for music and arts. Nicola is the leading ideator and the programmer of the app. Annalisa is the grafic designer and creative director. Gabriele is the Social media manager with skills in commercial comunication. Clara is the crowdfunding responsable. Responsable to find the main competitors. Samuel is the music manager and talent scout. Paolo is the project market manager for lobbying and key partners.

UGO

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Have you ever went to swipe into the subway to find that you have insufficient funds as you watch your train leave? You go to try and quickly refill your card at the machine only to be hit with a massive line of people as you realize you will now wait another 30 minutes for the next train… We are creating a mobile application where someone can update their metro card anytime and anywhere, never again will you miss a train or bus with uGO!

Click Remote

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The way people watch TV is about to change. We want to make TV watching experience more simple and interactive. So we’ve developed an app that will control your TV from your phone and more. Our team consists of extraordinary people who are great in their own field. We have app developer, web developer, designer, marketer and a business developer who have experience in Media research. We are united by our drive to improve how people watch TV and we are passionate about the media business.

Baby Book on the go

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BaBy Book on the go is an easy to use application that allows parents to create, store and securely share all the precious moments of their child’s life. It serves as a reminder of upcoming moments like the first bath or the first steps.

ZoneOut HeadGear

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We design, deploy headphones that can detect when someone is asleep or awake. We use sensors to detect the position of a user’s head is in and based on that we lower or increase the volume. There are several applications for this for example this can be used by night drivers. Right now our focus market is students. Students want a vibrating headphone that can keep them awake.

ArtSmartPDX

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ArtSmartPDX is a tinder style app that lets artists upload and price their work in app, and lets users in each city swipe left or right on affordable art pieces. If the art is in the user’s price range, “It’s a match!” This app will launch in Portland, Oregon where the local art scene drives our city’s culture, yet many talented artists go undiscovered. ArtSmartPDX gamifies the art scene while exposing people to local art and matching them to art they can afford.

ALDY

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Albergo diffuso is a new kind of accommodation for tourists. It is a hotel spread across different buildings, located in a town which can be up to 300m from the central property, the hotel reception. We would like to create a network among all Albergo diffuso (spread hotel) all over the world and we call it: ALDY! Promoting Spread hotel to all potenti al users, we increase customers number and incentivize low season travel. These hotels pay to join the network.