This document provides an overview of Cisco's co-innovation programs in the EMEAR region (Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia). It describes Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIR), an startup incubation program, and ChallengeUp!, an accelerator and incubator program focused on IoT startups run jointly with Intel and Deutsche Telekom. It then profiles several startups that have participated in these programs, focusing on their innovations in areas like smart cities, healthcare, security and more. The document demonstrates how Cisco is collaborating with startups and partners through these open innovation programs to accelerate digital transformation.
2. Foreword
The Internet of Things (IoT) opens up great opportunities for all
industries. Our aim at Cisco is to bring the best of the technology
world in an ecosystem of open innovation together with our
partners in order to maximize these opportunities.
The IoT is an area in which there is an impressive amount of
industry collaboration. One vendor cannot address all of the
IoT challenges with one solution. This is exactly why programs
like Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence and ChallengeUp! are
so valuable. It brings together collective thinkers in an effort to
address collective challenges.
As organizations strive to become digital, by adopting and
deploying digital technologies and business models, it will call for
new approaches and IT requirements. Together, by combining the
best talent and capabilities, we are able to accelerate innovation
and digital transformation for organizations across vertical
industries.
I look forward to collaborating with the startup community and
our industry partners to create the next big things together.
Mike Flannagan
Vice President,
Cisco Data & Analytics Group
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Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence (Cisco EIR) is a 6-month startup
incubation program that supports early-stage, product-focused
entrepreneurs working on the next big ideas in the Internet
of Everything/Things (IoE/IoT), Smart Cities, Big Data/analytics,
enterprise mobility and security. We are headquartered in Silicon
Valley – with satellite programs in San Diego, Chicago, Boston
and Vienna (Austria).
Cisco offers exceptional entrepreneurs opportunities to build
strategic relationships with Cisco, co-working space, software tools,
financial support, access to VCs/experts through program events
and potential strategic funding from Cisco.
eir.cisco.com
Having understood the innovation challenge and a way
to face it, three global tech players – Intel, Cisco and Deutsche
Telekom – are teaming up to address the challenges of IoT and
being a true pioneer of Open Innovation 2.0 and connecting
innovation. That joint partnership is called ChallengeUp! – an
accelerator and incubator program targeting IoT startups.
ChallengeUp! aims at helping innovative IoT startups go-to-market
faster through joint projects, mentoring, high-value networking and
corporate assets. It is an example of true pioneer Open Innovation
2.0 with bringing together startups, corporations and customers
in a new platform to perform co-opetition and building use cases
overarching corporate and customer limits.
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Martin Bittner
Program Lead
Thomas Werner
Director
Florian Grossmann
Program Manager
Julia Eschelbeck
Program Manager
Werhard Berger
Program Manager
Sandra Imre
Program Manager
team
Team Cisco Innovation Program
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Germany
Switzerland
Israel
Romania
Austria
Germany
Israel
Germany
Poland
Spain
Bulgaria
UK
Israel
Poland
Germany
Lithuania
Germany
France
Italy
Belgium
UK
BigData
Security
SmartCity
Energy
Manufacturing
SmartHome
IoT/IoE
Logistics
Healthcare
Retail
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participated inStartup mentored by participated inStartup mentored by
Ozgur Gurleyen
Global Account
Manager
Gerd Pflueger
Distinguished
Systems Engineer
aircloak
Admetsys
Innovation Focus
Big Data/Analytics,Healthcare, IoT/IoE.
Company intro
Admetsys develops connected healthcare solutions
for diabetic care in hospitals. Admetsys developed
‘Smart PancreasTM’, a solution that measures and
helps to maintain blood sugar levels of diabetic
patients.
The ‘Smart PancreasTM’ attached to a patient’s
intravenous line automatically measures blood glucose
concentration in real time with no blood loss - improv-
ing health outcomes and health economics through
high-tech automation.
PROJECT IDEA
First-of-its-kind automated diabetic control system,
powered by Intel chipsets, tested and certified for
Cisco advanced wireless infrastructure. Information-
driven medicine: Highest precision care available, full
automation for unparalleled cost control, and pervasive
data availability and integration.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
Delivering a connected automated diabetics manage-
ment system with location and health analytics for
hospitals utilizing enterprise grade wireless networks.
start up Admetsys
web admetsys.com
Country Denmark
Innovation Focus
Big Data/Analytics, Security/Privacy, IoT/IoE.
Company intro
Aircloak Analytics is the first system to combine high
accuracy analytics with strong anonymity. It brings
together a unique blend of advanced technology along
with unprecedented transparency and oversight.
Aircloak Analytics frees up user data, enabling new use
cases and ways to monetize.
PROJECT IDEA
In combination with Cisco Data Virtualization it is now
not only easy to collect data for analytics but also
comply with European Data Privacy regulations.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
For the first time, combine high accuracy analytics with
absolute user data protection. Allow safe, easy and
completely compliant monetization of personal data
using Aircloaks’ patent pending “Cloak”, a black box
for data.
Allows for real-time combination of personal data
from any number of sources without additional audits
or user opt-in and offers use-case and data agnostic
anonymization without data loss.
start up Aircloak
web Aircloak.com
Country Germany
Vijay Kothandaraman
Director Engineering
Guenter Herold
Account Manager
Roland Roth
Commercial
Business
Manager
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participated inStartup mentored by participated inStartup mentored by
comfylight
coronet
start up CoroNet
web Coro.Net
Country Israel
Innovation Focus
Big Data/Analytics, Security/Privacy.
Company intro
Coronet detects and evades eavesdropping, intercep-
tion, and manipulation on WiFi and Cellular networks
(Commjacking). By installing a lightweight application
on any iOS, Android, Windows and soon – embedded
device, it becomes resilient to commjackers, making
wireless data and voice communications safe
PROJECT IDEA
Coronet technologies on our WiFi Plattforms and rout-
ers enable a totally new layer of security and can even
be extended to IoT devices. it is possible to offer.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
Coronet detects and evades radio attacks on WiFi and
Cellular Networks. Our offering builds upon the Cisco
security offering, and extends it:
– From WiFi to Cellular as well
– From router based protection to endpoint protection
as well
– From on premises protection to elastic perimeter
protection
– From Hardware based sale to recurring revenue
software sale model
Innovation Focus
Security/Privacy, Smart Home/-Building, IoT/IoE.
Company intro
ComfyLight is a simple and elegant security solution for
home usage: it developed a smart LED light bulb, en-
hanced with a presence sensor and connectivity which
helps to protect homes. The device learns movement
schemes and switches the light on and off in a natural
rhythm: Simple & Elegant Home Security.
PROJECT IDEA
ComfyLight will be integrated into Deutsche Telekom’s
Smart Home platform Qivicon (control all your smart
devices via one platform: Qivicon). Additionally DT
Smart Home will help to sell ComfyLight through its
own channels.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
Simple & Elegant Home Security:
– more reliable / affordable
– that integrates with existing devices
– that allows for upselling
– that allows for offline use
start up ComfyLight
web ComfyLight.com
Country Switzerland
Heinrich Friedmann
Client Executive
Sales
Patrick
Hermanspann
Regional Sales
Manager
Ernesto Beneke
Client Director
Service Provider
Michal Pechoucek
Director
Engineering
Yves Bron
Solutions Sales
Executive
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participated inStartup mentored by participated inStartup mentored by
Hans Greiner
Regional Sales
Manager
John Baekelmans
CTO
Dorin Pena
General Manager
Romania
Bogdan Doinea
Systems
Engineer
flatout
start up flatout
web flatout-technologies.com
Country austria
Innovation Focus
Smart City, Smart Home/-Building, Energy.
Company intro
Flatout provides an end-to-end Smart Home solution
to businesses interested in entering the connected
living market. Two prospects are currently testing our
product and plan a roll-out in the first half of 2015.
The Smart Home mass market has been stagnating due
to historically high prices, unclear value proposition and
complex installation processes. We have developed
an easy to use, customizable and future-proof Smart
Home solution. A wireless solution enables households
to set up their smart home on their own, at an afford-
able price. Users can not only turn on/off gadgets; they
can adapt its functionality to their preferences using
if-then rules that enables realization of advanced use-
cases, e.g. a security system.
PROJECT IDEA
Flatout is a Cloud Based Smart-Home solution with a
very small footprint on the gateway and clients for all
platforms (iOS, android, ...). can be easily white-
labeled, it fits perfectly in Cisco’s partner strategy.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
As an API-rich Software only solution it can compli-
ment the solution offering of Telcos, Utilities and
Insurances in a very scalable way to launch additional
offerings with a low initial investment.
Innovation Focus
Smart City, Manufacturing, IoT/IoE.
Company intro
DeviceHub offers a Platform as a Service (PaaS),
which users can connect easily and remotely to man-
age multiple devices and create services on top of
them.
The platform significantly decreases effort and time to
enter the market for IoT services.
PROJECT IDEA
Industry 4.0 process analytics, automation & factory
control. With Cisco: Integration of DeviceHub.net with
the new generation of FOG computing ready CISCO
products (iOX) With Deutsche Telekom: Run the fac-
tory management and visualisation dashboard in the
Deutsche Telekom cloud.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
Smart manufacturing: Modular & scalable system for
process optimisation, energy consumption optimisa-
tion, predictive maintenance, business continuity,
decision support & ERP/CRM integration.
devicehub
start up DeviceHub
web DeviceHub.net
Country romania
Ernesto Beneke
Client Director
Service Provider
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participated inStartup mentored by participated inStartup mentored by
Agnieszka
Czypionka-Grzesiak
IT Analyst
Munish Khetrapal
Director Business
Development
Barry Einsing
Strategy
Manager
start up hi-park
web hi-park.co
Country israel
Hi-park
start up graphmasters
web graphmasters.net
Country Germany
graphmasters
Innovation Focus
Big Data/Analytics, Smart City.
Company intro
Hi-Park’s technology uses crowd-sourced data and
images to provide information on parking vacancy.
As a result, it significantly reduces the time spent on
searching for parking. Efficient on-street parking, using
crowd-sourced camera views to dramatically reduce
traffic congestion.
PROJECT IDEA
Hi-Park will be integrated in the Deutsche Telekom
T-Systems MMS Smart Parking platform. There will be
different data sources used for the platform: Hi-Park
crowd sourced data, Video cams from Cisco and Intel,
fixed sensors in streets from different vendors.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
- Finds vacant parking spots very efficiently
- Open platform avoids vendor lock-in
- Reduces cost impact of traffic congestion
Innovation Focus
Big Data/Analytics, Smart City, Logistics/Transportation.
Company intro
Graphmasters is a crowd sourced data company
aimed at delivering solutions for smarter cities. Their
first product, Nunav, is the first navigation app that
optimizes your route every 15 seconds and gives you
the best and most accurate arrival time.
PROJECT IDEA
Nunav is the first navigation app that optimizes your
route every 15 seconds and gives you the best and
most accurate arrival time. The Distributed Swarm
Intelligence System behind it saves you time on each
commute.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
By dynamic and predictive traffic managment and
routing Smart Cities avoid CO2 and Parcel Delivery
Companies can avoid traffic jams by dynamic and real-
time routing.
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participated inStartup mentored by participated inStartup mentored by
Kamil Ciukszo
Sales and
Business
Development
Manager
Frederic Detienne
Distinguished
Engineer
Pankaj Srivastava
VP Engineering
Technology
Munish Khetrapal
Director Business
Development
ifinity
start up Ifinity
web getIfinity.com
Country poland
icegateway
start up ICE Gateway
web ICE-Gateway.com
Country GErmany
Innovation Focus
Big Data/Analytics, Smart City, Logistics/Transportation.
Company intro
Ifinity provides beacon based tailor-made technology
to cities, public spaces and commercial clients around
the world. The solution lets people digitally interact
with reality through their mobiles. Empowering Visually
Impaired with IoT (through mobile devices).
PROJECT IDEA
Citizen Service departments (18) in Warsaw for War-
saw City Hall with help of Cisco network.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
We’re bringing independence to visually impaired
mobile users through positioning, contextual feedback/
messaging delivered to their mobile devices in Citizen
Service Departments in the city of Warsaw.
Innovation Focus
Smart City, Energy, IoT/IoE.
Company intro
Connected City summarizes the concept behind ICE
Gateway strategy: Our wireless infrastructure (IaaS:
Infrastructure as a Service) optimizes the outdoor light-
ing and adds many value added services for people
passing by lights and also for sensors and devices (IoT:
Internet of Things) in smart cities.
ICE turns the streetlights to a high bandwidth (3G)
infrastructure for outdoor lighting, traffic, real time
marketing, security and logistic. Our customers have
no additional efforts and hidden costs. You do not need
any ISP (Internet Service Provider) or new telecommu-
nication contracts, and will be in the position to use the
ICE IaaS in combination with your preferred suppliers
for lights, devices, applications and sensors.
PROJECT IDEA
ICE turns the streetlights to a high bandwidth (3G)
infrastructure for outdoor lighting, traffic, real time
marketing, security and logistic and is a compliment to
our Cisco City WiFi and City Infrastructure Management
Solution.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
ICE is designed as an IaaS which means that Cities are
free to use any brand of lights, sensors and backend
solutions.
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participated inStartup mentored by participated inStartup mentored by
Venkat Iyer
Manager
Engineering
Kevin Ott
Director/General
Manager Data
Virtualization
Robert Nicola
Strategic Product
Sales Specialist
Sharon Wong
Director Business
Development
Michal Pechoucek
Director
Engineering
Mammothdb
start up mammoth DB
web mammothDB.com
Country bulgaria
Intellimentsecurity
start up Intelliment Security
web IntellimentSec.com
Country spain
Innovation Focus
Big Data/Analytics, Logistics/Transportation.
Company intro
Mammoth DB is a radically inexpensive alternative to
traditional data warehousing (DWH) and business intel-
ligence (BI) solutions. Mammoth DB leverages Hadoop,
the ‘big data’ technology leader, and transforms it
to allow SQL-compatible reporting tools (e.g. from
Microsoft Excel to Microstrategy) to interactively query
against your Hadoop data store – in seconds!
PROJECT IDEA
Mammoth DB is a SQL native, massively parallel, elas-
tic database in the cloud adhering to industry proven
data models, connecting to all SQL compatible report-
ing tools - affordable and scalable from 50GB to 50TB.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
For all Data Warehouse projects that have been too
expensive of complex Enterprise Customers can gain
totally new insights within weeks now.
Innovation Focus
Security/Privacy.
Company intro
Intelliment Security derives the SDN benefits for the
specific firewall security policy management use
case. With Intelliment it is possible to manage the full
lifecycle of networksecurity policies in a network topol-
ogy and vendor neutral way, preventing security policy
historical degradation through a built-in fault diagnosis
engine and empowering companies with the agility and
visibility needed nowadays. Intelliment works with both
physical and virtual networks.
PROJECT IDEA
Intelliment provides a centralized network security
management. Enterprise customers will be able to
manage the security of whole network, in a vendor,
technology and network topology independent way
through both, programmable and visual interfaces.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
The abstraction layer of Intelliment reduces misconfi-
grations and resulting security leaks by an intuitive and
highly automated interface. The company’s flagship
product, IntellimentSecurity Policy automation, is de-
signed to allow companies to automate firewall security
policy management, cut costs, prevent misconfigu-
rations and help organizations better handle firewall
management at scale; Intelliment is what Cisco calls a
Policy Engine.
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participated inStartup mentored by Startup mentored by participated in
Frederic Detienne
Distinguished
Engineer
Idan Nachmani
Network Engineer
Ezrick Dayan
Team Lead
Gerhard Wieser
Director
Engineering
Kim McPherson
Director
Engineering
Vikram Kumeran
Technical Leader
Engineering
n-join
start up n-join
web n-join.com
Country israel
start up mentat innovation
web ment.at
Country UK
mentatinnovation
Innovation Focus
Big Data/Analytics, Manufacturing, Energy, IoT/IoE.
Company intro
n-Join offers an autonomous data-analytic system for
manufacturing plants. Thus n-join leverages the rapid
advancements in the Internet of Things to make these
manufacturing plants more flexible, maximize their
output and reduce their environmental signature.
PROJECT IDEA
For their customer Strauss Dairy in northern Israel,
n-Join provides an integrated solution with Cisco and
DT. While n-Join is providing the software (including in-
tegration and design), Cisco will support with hardware
(Cisco UCS server) and Deutsche Telekom (DT) with
the cloud infrastructure. The data is stored and anal-
ysed both on premise and on DT’s cloud environment,
and can be easily accessed through the cloud.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
Unprecedented visibility into the manufacturing pro-
cess, enabling:
– Root-cause analysis
– Predictive maintenance
– Energy savings
– Waste reduction
– Increased product quality
Innovation Focus
Big Data/Analytics, IoT/IoE.
Company intro
Mentat is building two groundbreaking machine intel-
ligence products in the unstructured and structured
data space. Obsessed with the thought of analyzing a
flow without disrupting it, and without lagging behind.
With algorithms consume data on-the-fly, as it arrives,
tweet by tweet, byte by byte, pixel by pixel.
PROJECT IDEA
The massive streaming data of IoT (Manufacturing,
Security,...) delivers new insights by applying Mentat
Machine Learning Algorithms.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
Mentat eliminates the Human Decision Maker in Big Data
environments and suggests actions only if necessary.
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participated inStartup mentored by participated inStartup mentored by
Heinrich Friedmann
Client Executive
Sales
Frederic Detienne
Distinguished
Engineer
Gerhard Wieser
Director
Engineering
proglove
start up proglove
web proglove.de
Country germany
start up oort
web oort.in
Country poland
oort
Innovation Focus
Manufacturing, IoT/IoE, Logistics/Transportation.
Company intro
ProGlove is a smart glove that enables its users to
scan hands-free and provides them with an instant
feedback. The device unlocks a new level of business
intelligence through additional data point. Combining
wearable technology with IoT for industry.
PROJECT IDEA
Creating a smart supply chain: accelerating the han-
dling of packages and goods through faster and more
ergonomic picking. Seamless integration of ProGlove
into Supply Chain Monitoring (SMC) solutions of e.g.
warehouses, logistic and transportation companies.
Proof of Concept with selected customers from Cisco,
Intel and DTAG.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
Faster and more ergonomic picking. Seamless integra-
tion into SCM solutions.
Innovation Focus
Smart Home/-Building, IoT/IoE.
Company intro
OORT is a unique patent-pending technology that allows
users to build an open ecosystem consisting of smart
devices, sensors, mobile software & cloud platform. The
company developed the first Bluetooth smart special-
ised smart home system that can be controlled via any
device connected to he Internet, regardless of its pro-
ducer and used OS – ultimately, it makes devices smart.
PROJECT IDEA
Making devices smart – Intel will provide chipsets,
combining Intel hardware solutions with OORT’s
software layers.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
Complete solution, fast growth potential.
Frederic Detienne
Distinguished
Engineer
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participated inStartup mentored by Startup mentored by participated in
Michal Skiba
Product Manager
Agnieszka
Czypionka-
Grzesiak
IT Analyst
Alexander
Braumann
Technical Solu-
tions Architect
senic
start up semseye
web semseye.com
Country lithuania
start up senic
web senic.com
Country Germany
SEMSeye
Innovation Focus
Big Data/Analytics, Retail, Smart City, IoT/IoE,
Logistics/Transportation.
Company intro
SEMSEYE is Google Analytics for Retailers and shop-
ping malls. It is a unique solution for monitoring people
flows. It is built on the most advanced algorithms for
intelligent video processing and can be used, among
others, in retail areas.
PROJECT IDEA
Intel runs a pilot using SEMSEYE in the Dublin Croke
Park Sports stadium and also for the Dublin City Project
‘Smart Cities’ (conducted at museums and libraries) -
where SEMSEYE will be used to monitor visitor flows.
Deutsche Telekom installed SEMSEYE in five flagship
stores in Romania, and in two flagship stores in Poland.
Also Telecom Romania is promoting SEMSEYE to their
customers (retail, e.g. Penny store).
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
– Marketing teams run more effective campaigns
– Asset managers build higher-value portfolios
– Operation teams optimize center operations
– Rental professionals make better rental propositions
Innovation Focus
Smart Home/-Building, IoT/IoE.
Company intro
Senic creates Natural User Interfaces (NUI) to make the
interaction with technology seamless and smart - at
home and at work. Senic’s first product is Nuimo, a
universal controller for the Internet of Things.
PROJECT IDEA
A Smart Office – jointly with Cisco, Intel and Deutsche
Telekom: Intel will integrate Senic in their Intel-chip
based computers, Cisco in their Collaboration Systems
(e.g. MX300) and Deutsche Telekom in their Smart
Home platform Qivicon (control all your smart devices
via one platform: Qivicon). Watch the video to the use
case here: https://vimeo.com/147722093.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
Speed - Precision - less distracting workflow.
Jacek Danda
Engineer
Sorin Ciornei
Business
Development
Manager
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Startup mentored by participated inStartup mentored byparticipated in
Patrick
Hermanspann
Regional Sales
Manager
Sorin Ciornei
Business
Development
Manager
Marco Becker
Service &
Support Manager
Max Stolz
Territoy Services
Sales Manager
Leo Gruber
Business
Operations
Manager
taggalo
start up taggalo
web taggalo.co.ok
Country italy
start up sensewaves
web sensewaves.io
Country France
sensewaves
Innovation Focus
Big Data/Analytics, Retail, Smart City, IoT/IoE,
Logistics/Transportation.
Company intro
iTunes for real world analytics. Open platform integrat-
ing video analytics, Wi-Fi tracking and Beacon, all in
a single, plug & play sensor solution. It allows users
to collect contextual data accessible directly or via
APIs in real time. Taggalo is the Game Changer in the
collection and management of customer conversion
metrics for retail and outdoor advertising.
PROJECT IDEA
Analysis of footfall and traffic flows in crowded
environments (railway station), accurate measure of
advertising reach and target audience for outdoor
advertising media owners, provide full evidence of a
venue commercial value. Rollout to main Italian railway
stations, Airports, Train stations, Retail shops. Position-
ing of Taggalo sensor and Cisco’s Meraki access points
inside digital totems at entrance of railways station.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
– Provide full evidence of a venue commercial value
– Measure ROI of ADV for brands (e.g. Coke, Nike)
in private and public spaces
– Safety prevention in crowded areas
Innovation Focus
Big Data/Analytics, Energy, IoT/IoE.
Company intro
Sensewaves is the time-series analytics web platform
for the Internet of Things. At Sensewaves, we make
connected assets smarter transforming raw sensor
data into meaningful information. We provide industrial
IoT platforms with impactful insights on their connected
assets and leverage the value of their stored data.
PROJECT IDEA
As the world of IoT delivers real time data (Smart Grid,
Manufacturing, Transportation, ...) the prediction
of future developments will be the main value driver
for success.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
We offer time-series analysis/analytics and impactful in-
sights on the fly for energy utilities and the industrial IoT.
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Startup mentored by Startup mentored byparticipated in participated in
Simon Douglas
Business
Development
Manager
Gerd Pflueger
Distinguished
Systems Engineer
Peter Salisko
Business
Operations
Manager
Christoph Beyer
Product Sales
Specialist
Reinhard
Eichborn
Director Business
Development
John Parello
Technical Leader
Engineering
Petr Pavlu
Director Systems
Engineering
Frederic Detienne
Distinguished
Engineer
Gerd Pflueger
Distinguished
Systems Engineer
wittos
start up wittos
web wittos.com
Country uk
start up waylay
web waylay.io
Country belgium
waylay
Innovation Focus
Big Data/Analytics, Retail, Smart City, IoT/IoE.
Company intro
Wittos is rethinking the way local spaces engage with
connected customers. The Smarter WiFi Hotspot
integrates advanced mobile analytics with a wire-
less network allowing one to understand the online
and physical journey of the connected customer and
then to serve more relevant content to enhance the
customer’s in-venue experience in real time.
PROJECT IDEA
Combining the insight of user location, behaviour and
history enables new insights for Cisco WIFI customers
in the fields of Retail, Events (Sports, Exhibitions, ...)
for additional revenues.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
Smarter Wireless with real-time actionable analytics.
– Real-time Instant Context analytics –analyze
connected consumer behaviors on Wi-Fi networks
– Predictive content engine and APIs for personalized
moments -pre-purchase and engagement profiles
to enhance content serving relevancy and API inte-
gration with customer and commerce systems
– Respect for privacy -protect users through a self
service opt in and control of their digital data (explicit
opt-in and opt-out)
Innovation Focus
Big Data/Analytics, Smart City, IoT/IoE.
Company intro
Waylay is a real-time automation platform that inte-
grates the Internet-of-Things (IoT) with enterprise IT
systems and online services. Waylay provides seam-
less integration between devices, software, processes
and people.
PROJECT IDEA
With Cisco/ Deutsche Telekom Connected Lights:
Using 3850 switch, ICE gateway and Waylay. Waylay
controls the lights (on/off/dimming) depending on the
weather info, motion sensors, calendar etc.
This will be used in smart buildings: The Waylay
platform controls indoor sensors, cameras and lights
connected to the switch taking into account external
sources such as weather, inside/outside temperature,
motion, calendars etc.
CUSTOMER BENEFIT
For Smart buildings, the Waylay platform controls indoor
sensors/cameras and lights connected to the switch
taking into account external sources such as weather,
inside/outside temperature, motion, calendars etc.
17. What did the Startups think?
Innovation mentors 32Co-Innovation in EMEAR31 Co-Innovation in EMEAR
The joint innovation program ChallengeUp! brings together Tech/Sales/
BDM/GTM industry experts from Cisco, Intel and Deutsche Telekom resulting
in a three times greater impact for the startups.
Cisco Mentors were the centerpiece of the Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence
program. Through connecting and activating corporate experts from
Tech, Sales, BDM and GTM the Startups were able to derive incredible value
and efficiently access the right people within Cisco.
Our success with ChallengeUp! is that we are
working together with the biggest names in the
tech industry to bring to market a unique product
for businesses that want to be IoT ready today.
ChallengeUp! 2015 Participants
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powered by
Joint Innovation Projects
Mentors Intel
– Tech
– Sales/GTM
– Bus Planning
Mentors Cisco
– Tech
– Sales/GTM
– Bus Planning
Mentors DT/hr
– Tech
– Sales/GTM
– Bus Planning
n-Join is proud that we have successfully
integrated our system with hardware by Cisco
and cloud services by Deutsche Telekom —
and used this powerful joint solution to great
effect with one of our top clients.
ChallengeUp! 2015 Participants
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Simon Douglas
Mentor Entrepreneurs
in Residience
It’s been a privilege to be an EIR mentor; a vote
of confidence from Cisco that they think you have
what it takes to move the business to the next phase
of growth. I sincerely hope to be able to add value
to future Cohorts and continue this experience with
the current ones.
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In terms of business outcomes we did bring products
from a raw status to a mature status. We helped build
the Start-Ups go to market strategy and implement it.
Together we found first customers who are now “live”
with our solution. A good example is the Italian Start-Up
Taggalo. Together we’ve equipped the central train
station in Milan with a wireless hot-spot solution plus
IoT business solution, implementing a Meraki solution.
This showcases how working with Start-Ups also helps
us as Cisco to differentiate ourselves in the market
through this incubation collaboration.
This way we come straight into line of business discus-
sions and have good stories to tell to our customers
in our very own sales process.
”Patrick Hermanspann
Regional Sales Manager
“
For SEMSeye ChallengeUp! was an absolutely
astonishing experience – in 4 months’ time our
product became part of the Intel product portfolio.
Also, we partnered with Deutsche Telekom to
equip our smart sensors to provide “Counting as
Service” in their regional outlets!
ChallengeUp! 2015 Participants!
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ChallengeUp! was a great opportunity to “really chal-
lenge us up”. Our team was pushed by an international
group of experts to test our vision, reshape our product,
our value proposition and to reconsider our target
market. Together we’ve set a joint Go-to-Market strategy
that allowed us to scale our business fast.
ChallengeUp! 2015 Participants
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Our collaboration with ChallengeUp! enables the
future of connected healthcare to become a reality.
The Admetsys device powered by Intel chipsets and
Cisco networking allows for nurses and physicians
to care for and manage a patient wherever they are
in the hospital or across the world.
ChallengeUp! 2015 Participants
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what did the startup think?
Innovation Mentors
The key factor to success
18. Wanted: Disruptive innovations in IoT and related fields
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Challenge Up Summit Video: youtu.be/c0yKZVQIbkY
www.challengeup.com
“Shopping List”
ChallengeUp! 2016
Smart/connected
solutions
Industry 4.0 Big data Analytics
Smart City and
Infrastructure
Information
security
Technology
and Solutions
for Connectivity
Cloud computing
Apply as a Mentor for one of our Innovation Program!
Please contact Julia Eschelbeck jueschel@cisco.com
Submission
Screening & Judging
Phase 1: Exploration & Mentor/Sponsor setup
Phase 2: Technology alignment & Joint Use Case Identification
Phase 3: Building & Sales
Phase 4: Execution & finalizing Joint Use Case
Roadmap
ChallengeUp! 2016
10 weeks
3.5 weeks
4 weeks
5 weeks
10 weeks
13 weeks
Jan 11 - Mar 22
Mar 22 - Apr 15
Apr 15 - May 12
May 12 - Jun 21
Jun 21 - Sep 1
Sep 4 - Dec 1
Januar 11, 2016
Submission open
March 22, 2016
Submission close
April 18, 2016
Announcement
of Top24 teams
May 10-12, 2016
Final Selection (24>12) &
Mentors alignment (Krakòw)
June 21-22, 2016
Technology alignment & Joint
Use Case Identification (Dublin)
September 1-2, 2016
Building & Sales (Berlin)
Teams visit mentors
October 18-19, 2016
Execution & Finalizing Joint
Use Cases (Tel Aviv, tbc)
December 1-2 (tbc), 2016
ChallengeUp! Summit
challengeup! 2016