SXSW is one of the biggest web technologies festival in the world, taking place in Austin, Texas, every March The Accelerator at SXSW is the official competition of the festival, with more than 500 startups applying, and about 50 having a chance to attend the finals in 6 categories this year: Enterprise and Big data, Entertainment and Content, Innovative World, Health Technologies, Social Technologies and Wearables. This review is part of Innovation is Everywhere, a project which explores startups in the world. The project is lead by Agence Tesla and supported by the Web School Factory and the Innovation Factory, a campus-cluster in Paris, France

1. Startups @ SXSW 2014
Review of the finalists of the Accelerator
Showcase by
Agence Tesla, Bluenod,
Web School Factory et Innovation Factory

2. Every year, more than 500 startups apply for a place in the finals of SXSW,
one of the biggest tech festivals in the world
Twitter (2007) and Foursquare (2010) have been past winners, and overall,
finalists have raised about $600m
SXSW 2014 takes place in Austin, from March 7th to 16th
The finals of the Accelerator takes place on the 8th and 9th
There are 48 finalists in 6 categories

3. Enterprise & Big Data
Review of startups @ SXSW 2014

4. Enterprise & Big Data
AddSearch, an on-site search engine
AddSearch is an on-site search engine, that you can also use from any mobile device

5. Enterprise & Big Data
Addy, a URL for each location and venue
Addy transforms a location in a unique URL, that you can share anywhere, for an event on
Whatsapp, a delivery address for your business, and more

6. Enterprise & Big Data
Databox, the mobile dashboard for businesses
Databox is a mobile dashboard for businesses to aggregate any kind of data they want:
Analytics, business data, customer insights or any other source relevant to them

7. Enterprise & Big Data
Shelfbox : when consumers demand promotions
Shelfbox turns round the typical promotion by putting into the hands of consumers, via a
dedicated box in shops, the power to demand a promotion

8. Enterprise & Big Data
Trustev: better identification for lesser fraud
Trustev offers to improve identity authentification for e-commerce websites, to decrease
fraud and increase sales

9. Enterprise & Big Data
Evosure makes underwriters go digital
Evosure has undewriters of the insurance industry go digital. So far, in the US, 200 000
underwriters deal most of their $280bn revenues on paper.

10. Enterprise & Big Data
Fieldwire connects construction and collaborative platform
FieldWire help the construction industry to manage projects, dispatch tasks and track data
on each worker

11. Enterprise & Big Data
Map-D, faster and better data-visualisations
Map-D enhances data-visualisations for any type of data-sets, social media flows of tweets
to open-data sets from a city

12. Entertainment & Content
Review of startups @ SXSW 2014

13. Entertainment & Technologies
Artiphone, half-instrument, half-interface, all customisable
Artiphon is an amazing new music instrument, fully customisable, which will help you to
learn faster and better, and play with friends.

14. Entertainment & Technologies
Eyeris reads people’s emotion when watching ads
Eyeris Technologies detects through a webcam the emotions of the user when he/she sees
an advertising. A long-time pet theme for marketers and, to be true, a very boring one.

15. Entertainment & Technologies
Fliptu optimizes the fan/star relationship
Fliptu aggregates the content of your favorite star and will distribute goodies whenever you
share his/her news

16. Entertainment & Technologies
MentorMob for crowdsourced tutorials
MentorMob crowdsources tutorials in the Lifestyle categories, with an ambition, « access
to all the world’s knowledge », just like Google or Wikipedia.

17. Entertainment & Technologies
NamoMedia for easy in-stream ads
NamoMedia is a great app which transforms the content of your website into in-stream
ads, on Facebook and Twitter. Forget the banner creation and crappy placement on mobile
games.

18. Entertainment & Technologies
PlayCanvas, a cloud-hosted 3D Games dev platform
PlayCanvas is a cloud-hosted 3D game development platform where devs can also interact
and share files or tips

19. Entertainment & Technologies
SonarDesign, to embed your creations easily
SonarDesign help creatives to share and embed their creations easily on any device, and to
monetize it

20. Entertainment & Technologies
Waygo, the Chinese-English translation app
Waygo, already a winner of Echelon in 2013, is an amazing app translating through the
lense of the camera menus of Chinese restaurants.

21. Health Technologies
Review of startups @ SXSW 2014

22. Health Technologies
ActiveProtective prevents your falls
ActiveProtective helps toddlers and the
elderly to less suffer from falls with
sensors combined to small cushion, like
airbags, and you can wear them or
position them in your house.

23. Health Technologies
AdhereTech, the smart pill box
AdhereTech is a smart pill box. It will remind you to follow your prescription with light
signals, SMS, and e-mail notifications.

24. Health Technologies
Kinsa, a connected thermometer
Kinsa wants to map in real-time the
health of large population.
The thermometer will upload on a map
all data taken, and it costs only $20

25. Health Technologies
Pixie Scientific, the smart diapers
Pixie Scientific designed these smart diapers to follow track of your toddler’s health thanks
sensors to detect, on the skin, a series of potential symptoms.

26. Health Technologies
Plantiga, the smart shoe
Plantiga, is a smart shoe which collects a lot of data on your motion, and also on your
global balance. The dedicated app helps you to correct what can be.

27. Health Technologies
SensibleBaby to remote-control your baby
Sensible Baby helps parents track remotely
their toddler’s health.
A small widget will be able to track the
temperature of the room, the motion of the
baby, and also its position (on the back, on
the belly…)

28. Health Technologies
ThriveOn, a smarphone coach
ThriveOn, helps us to follow the HBI
program, which has been designed to be a
sort of personal coach on wellness, with
insights ranging from nutrition to psychology

29. Health Technologies
YingoYango improves patient/hospital relationship
Yingo Yango, connects patients
and their hospital or caring
institution to follow up on
prescriptions and treatments.
The objective is to lower readmissions, a costly
phenomenon for both patients
and the healthcare insurance
system

30. Innovative World
Technologies
Review of startups @ SXSW 2014

31. Innovative World Technologies
CubeSensors for a better environment control
CubeSensors are amazing cubes you can put wherever you want at the office or home.
They will record indicators on humidity, temperature and air composition so that you can
keep a healthy environment.

32. Innovative World Technologies
InsideMaps virtualizes your space to choose better
furniture
InsideMaps helps you choose furniture by mapping out your office or home and then
placing any type of new goods in a virtual space to check if it fits or look well

33. Innovative World Technologies
Monsieur improves your cocktail skills
Monsieur bartenders to improve and share their cocktail skills

34. Innovative World Technologies
OP3NVoice, the voice API
OP3Nvoice is an API to connect any developper or project holder to audio sources

35. Innovative World Technologies
Plum controls remotely your lights
Plum helps us to control remotely our lights (home or office). They look like Nest in a way,
and have raised more than $300k on Kickstarter

36. Innovative World Technologies
Synbiota, a Github for DNA
Synbiota is an open-source sharing platform and library for professionals or hackers in the
DNA and biosynthetics industry

37. Innovative World Technologies
EyeTribe, eye-controlled interfaces
The Eye Tribe helps user control interfaces through the motion of the eyes, so that you can
relax your hands (and have a headache?)

38. Innovative World Technologies
Viddyad, easy corporate videos for SMEs
Viddyad helps SMEs and business owners to create corporate videos on a budget and with
almost no skills.

39. Social Technologies
Review of startups @ SXSW 2014

40. Social Technologies
Ansa, a Snapchat-like chat
Ansa is a Snapchat-like app which keeps
conversations private and destructible.
Where it’s puzzling is that you can actually
« recall » a destroyed conversation

41. Social Technologies
Connect puts our contacts on a map
Connect puts on the map the list of our contacts, from LinkedIn to Find my Friends on iOs.
Hard to see the value except the fact *they* will get your contacts information

42. Social Technologies
Felt, the postcard designed on an iPad, sent IRL
Felt will make your iPad picture a postcard, with the possibility to write event a hand
message on it.

43. Social Technologies
MobiSocial, a WhatsApp where we keep our data
MobiSocial is another of these social networks promising users they will keep their own
data. Hard to see how they could get traction after App.net

44. Social Technologies
PPLConnect, put your smartphone anywhere
PPLConnect will make your smartphone (and its apps and call function) work from any
device: tablets and desktop PCs

45. Social Technologies
Samba, reactive video messaging
Samba.me mixes video messages with a « reactive » feature which, still undevelopped, is
hard to understand

46. Social Technologies
Surfly, easy screen-sharing with a unique URL
Surfly improves screen-sharing with a simple system of URLS, meaning you don’t need
anymore a Skype Premium account to share a website and explain it. Useful for webinars
and to show your grandma how to publish on Facebook

47. Social Technologies
Terranova, find what/who you like
Terranova wants to be your Personal Assistant to help you find things, meet people, like if
you needed an app for that actually.

48. Wearable Technologies
Review of startups @ SXSW 2014

49. Wearable Technologies
Nymi, heart rate as a password
Nymi is a wearable device which knows your heart rate and use it to authentify sessions,
login online and even open your car

50. Wearable Technologies
Fashion Lab to scan fashion on the go
Fashion Discovery Labs allows anyone with Google Glasses to scan a person, and know
where his/her garments come from

51. Wearable Technologies
JonLou, when Italian design meet MIT
Jon Lou is a commong brand associating an Italian designer and a team from the MIT. No
visual yet of the connected fashion they are designing.

52. Wearable Technologies
Kiwi, the IFTTT for real life
Kiwi Wearable Technologies is an IFTTT for real life. When you wake up, it launches the
coffee machine. When you get out of the fitness room, it records your data on any app you
like. Superb device and set of triggers.

53. Wearable Technologies
The Nex Band, a smart and customisable wristband
The Nex Band is a smart wristband you can actually customize. The different « pearls » can
each fulfill one function, such as notify when you receive a Facebook message, or when a
friend challenges you in a game, or when you are near a geofencing area.

54. Wearable Technologies
P. Von Dongen invents solar clothing
Pauline van Dongen is a designer mixing solar
panel technology with clothing.
The result is completely absurd.

55. Wearable Technologies
People+, to know all about your contacts
People+ is a smart contact app which will enrich any of them with data from their social
media or profile pages, so that you know more of them than a mere contact number

56. Wearable Technologies
Skully, the smart helmet for motorcycles
Skully Helmets launches a helmet with intelligent features, a backward facing camera and
location/navigation data.

57. Thanks!
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