The event took place last night at the European Convention Centre during ICT Spring Europe 2016 and gave 17 international Start-ups the opportunity to present their projects in front of a jury composed of Karoly Papp (Docler Holding), Jean Michel Ludwig (Luxinnovation), Marton Fulop (Docler Holding), Xavier Buck (DCL Group & ICT Cluster), Nicolas Mackel (Luxembourg For Finance), Keith Hopper (Docler Holding), Jean Hilger (ICTSpring Advisory Board) and Andras Danko (Docler Holding). This edition gathered more than 200 people from the European investment, ICT and Start-up scenes.

“This event is now anchored in time in Luxembourg. We received around 90 applications from International Start-ups to compete in this event and we selected 17 out of them, all ICT related”, says Karoly Papp, CEO of Docler Holding

Just like last year, each Start?up was granted 3 minutes and 33 seconds to present its project, followed by 2 minutes of questions and answers. The Start-up with the best pitch and, as such, the winner of the contest, received a 50.000€ prize from Docler Holding. 

“The Jury has decided to support the Start-up that was the most disruptive and innovative. For these reasons, the jury unanimously picked SESAMm. It is also the type of Start-up that we believe should be raised in Luxembourg”, explains Marton Fulop, COO of Docler Holding. 

SESAMm is an innovate FinTech startup which provides investment indicators based on Big Data analysis of social media. These products are used by banks and hedge funds that are interested in new technological approaches for trading strategies. SESAMm’s team is composed of passionate specialists (PhDs. and engineers) with strong competences in Natural Language Processing, machine learning and quantitative analysis.

Nomoko came 2nd and works on the first compact 1000 megapixel camera, together with proprietary software for 3D modelling. The end product is called “lifelike 3D”.

LuxAI, a spin-off from the University of Luxembourg, which uses the latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence and robotics in building social robots for educational and therapeutic applications, came 3rd.

The 2017 edition will be announced shortly: http://pitchyourstartup.eu