They break rules and challenge existing order. We made for you a list of 15 most inspiring and fascinating start-ups. Keep your eyes on them! All companies listed vary: some belong to traditional start-up areas (like wearables), other are inventors and creators of new things, others analyze and discover niches to simplify task that used to be overwhelming.
1 Snowcookie
Their aim? To make winter sports safer and social. Snowcookie, a little sensor connected to smartphone, registers our moves and corrects them (thanks to virtual trainer). Skiers can also compete with each other, comparing their times, route and technique.
Snowcookie also makes sport safer. As 40% of accidents are caused by fatigue, Snowcookie suggest you to end skiing when your moves indicate tiredness.
2 Atlas Wearables
If you think that sports trackers and health monitors can’t surprise you, check out what Atlas Wearables team does. Apart from standard monitoring their device collects data about your moves, so giant database – Motion Genome Project – can be created. When it will be completed, virtual assistant will be able to correct all your permormance in every exercise.
3 Fashionote
Free app for Android and iOS: when you read a magazine and suddenly like some clothes, you take a picture of them and the app finds stores (online and offline) where you can buy them.
It opens new possibilities for advertising in traditional print media. It’s useful, measureable and simple.
4 NiceFlight
App making writing complaints to airlanes. Doing that on your own can be tedious and rtakes a lot of time. With NiceFlight you just fill a couple of boxes and your reclamation is automatically sent.
5 Headspace
An app and website for meditation and mindfulness to boost productivity, creativity and focus. If you are skeptical, we’ll just say: it has 1,000,000 users in 15 countries.
6 YikYak
Fresh idea for gossiping. You post anonymously and your feed is based on your location – so you see post people who are in the same area right now. Some schools in US are trying to block app.
7 Soofa
Urban space should be for people! Soofa is a bench which charges your mobile or other devices (it uses solar panels) and collects information about weather, pollution, traffic, etc. And you can sit on it too!
8 Huddle
Documents, thousands of documents? Huddle comes to rescue. It’s cloud-based service for business to cowork, edit documents, create corporate materials, monitoring and workflow management.
9 Tidemark
Analytical tool for business, using Big Data to provide answers, predict trends, indicate directions of possible development. All that in intuitive, user-friendly mobile app. You just write your question – in natural language – and get charts, analysis, data.
10 Anaplan
Alternative to MS Excel. Service for financial analysis, cloud-based, relatively easy and clear.
11 Electric Objects
It displays pieces of art you find online. Since internet has more art that any museum, why not to use it? Why to lock all that beauty on small smartphone screen? Allow yourself for distraction-free art contemplating.
12 OneWheel
Too long for walk, too short for car… so perfect for OneWheel! That electric one-wheel skateboard is much-needed way of transportation for people who live in big cities.
13 Fits.me
Great news for online fashion stores. Virtual dressing room, with 30 view and size suggestions.
14 Affectiva
What your customers feel? Don’t guess – measure. Affectiva uses build-in cameras and analyzes customer facial expressions and identifies emotions they experience at the moment. In real time!
15 Slack
Last but not least. Perfect communication tool for business. Easy, intuitive, non-distractive. No problems with findingprevious conversations. Can be integrated with Trello and Asana.
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