Women Startup Challenge 2017 Europe Finalists

BLITAB® is the world's first “tablet” for the blind, creating tactile text and graphics. The award-winning  BLITAB® tablet empowers blind users to learn, work, and play with one mobile device, to have digital access to information in real time.

Epicery is an app that allows people to order fresh food online directly from local artisan shops, with one-hour delivery. The best butchers, fishmongers, cheese makers, organic fruits and vegetables, pastries of your city are now available on-demand and delivered to your door at your convenience.

Lifebit is democratising the analysis and understanding of the operating system of genomics using genetic big data to leap-forward cures, disease prevention, and our quality and understanding of life. Their unified framework system enables insightful real-time genomics analyses that are easy to deploy, portable across clusters and clouds, scalable, reproducible, and more time and cost-efficient. 

Open Bionics is revolutionising the healthcare industry by using 3D scanning and 3D printing to dramatically cut the cost of fitting hand amputees with robotic prosthetics. The company blends robotics, inclusive design, fashion, and wearable technology to create lightweight, affordable prosthetics that are inspiring to wear.

See Fashion is a discovery platform that helps fashion brands identify new trends and buying opportunities in their market. They collect data from their designers' e-commerce site and marketplace to provide highly segmented and contextualised product insights in real-time.

Simprints developed an inexpensive biometric scanner, mobile app and cloud platform, that has become the first source of providing identity to the 1.5B people who do not have formal IDs. By using people’s fingerprints to accurately link them to records, Simprints is creating a world where lack of identity is never the reason why anyone is denied the services, care, and rights they deserve.

Sound Bounce is a game-changing acoustic metamaterial. Independently tested and proven to be 100x more effective at attenuating noise over the most widely used acoustic foams. It’s thinner and can be deployed in many operational environments, including automotive, aerospace, construction, and more.

POP is the marketplace for film and TV Production. POP’s mission is to enable productions to book, manage, and pay for all people and services required to make their show seamlessly through one beautiful, integrated platform. POP is introducing innovative technology that brings efficiency to an industry surprisingly reliant on laborious, manual, old school processes.

TechSixtyFour's My Gator Watch is a wearable mobile phone and tracker made for children. It has no internet, games, or social media, so kids will be more active.

Tespack provides mobile energy creation on the move with its smart clothes and Smart Wear. Combining state-of-the-art connectivity features, Tespack technology solves the biggest problems of smart clothing, battery life, and connectivity. Tespack’s clients range from Vodafone to the United Nations to General Electric.