The 10 top startups from the Seed program of Start-Up Chile exhibited their companies in front of judges and investors. Husky, startup from Brazil, was awarded the first place and a ticket to San Francisco. Plus, those who couldn’t attend could watch the event directly on streaming and Facebook Live.
The top 10 startups of Start-Up Chile, showed the most relevant businesses of the 17th generation of the acceleratio program. These were selected from a group of more than 80 ventures, which competed to present to a select group of guests, investors, press and influencers.
Demo Day is the culminating moment of the 7-month acceleration program for entrepreneurs. They only had 3 minutes to delight attendees with their ideas, business models, sales and market visions.
In this opportunity, the companies that showed their businesses came from Chile (4), USA (2), Perú (1), Brazil (1) and Spain (1). The startups represented various industries, such as IT, education, e-commerce, Fintech and Artificial Intelligence, among others.
The judges decided that the best startup of the day was Husky platform that combines traditional banking systems with blockchain technology to make international payments easy for the next generation of business people.
Being the first place, Husky got a round trip ticket to Silicon Valley, San Francisco, courtesy of Transbank.
The second place was for Gencomex, a marketplace that gathers and provides all the logistics operators information to help companies manage their international freight Budget.
The third place was for Nexatlas, a flight planning and air navigation app for pilots with built-in marketplace of flight support services.
The winners received awards from Transbank, Viña Requingua and Banco Bci and then enjoyed a cocktail with the attendees.
The event was streamed live by streaming and on Facebook Live thanks to Microsoft.
Calentando motores! Ya está por empezar…#SUPdemoday @startupchile. Toda la suerte a los finalistas G17!! Ánimooo ? pic.twitter.com/C7aWh714Y1
— Camila (@Camila_Postigo) 10 de agosto de 2017
Esperando los resultados del #SupDemoDay de la generación 17 de @startupchile. El ganador se va a Silicon Valley ?? pic.twitter.com/JE3bg6ebK3
— Banco Bci (@BancoBci) 10 de agosto de 2017
Nicolás Vilela presentando en #SupDemoDay de @startupchile! Apoyado también por @Enel_Chile pic.twitter.com/LCdT3jqTHD
— Hernán Acuña Gamboa (@asheacuna) 10 de agosto de 2017
Nicolás Vilela presentando en #SupDemoDay de @startupchile! Apoyado también por @Enel_Chile pic.twitter.com/LCdT3jqTHD
— Hernán Acuña Gamboa (@asheacuna) 10 de agosto de 2017
Judges deliberating now. Who will win today’s #SUPdemoday Generation 17 and get 1st place? Find out the winner LIVE: https://t.co/HyS5hbdgdW pic.twitter.com/YVCCPhgM0W
— Start-Up Chile (@startupchile) 10 de agosto de 2017
We already have something to celebrate haha #SUPdemoday pic.twitter.com/TZnoPRCvcS
— Ana Raquel (@kell_cp) 10 de agosto de 2017
The last of our 10 global startups at #SUPdemoday is @StoneFaceSoft – an alternative communications platform for speech impaired people pic.twitter.com/Kduyt4wEfF
— Start-Up Chile (@startupchile) 10 de agosto de 2017
Full house in our #supdemoday!!! pic.twitter.com/9RigJXwQzA
— Sebastián Díaz Mesa (@Cba_Diaz) 10 de agosto de 2017
Great evening watching the best startups of Seed Generation 17 at #SupDemoDay @startupchile
— Hashting Latam (@HashtingLatam) 10 de agosto de 2017
@NexAtlas se luce con su Pitch en #SupDemoday. Recuerden enfocarse en su modelo de negocio y ser simples al explicar su producto ? pic.twitter.com/VCrpKmsE6r
— Banco Bci (@BancoBci) 10 de agosto de 2017
Visor.ai Platform Artificial Intelligence and Chabots #supDemoDay @startupchile pic.twitter.com/MYj1142U1a
— R. Antonio Silva (@Mantonsm) 10 de agosto de 2017
Full house at @startupchile #SupDemoday! First event in our new home! Follow the event at https://t.co/BEWF3ObycG pic.twitter.com/ECZOwPEcvn
— Sofía Del Sante (@SofiadelSante) 10 de agosto de 2017