Startup Summit

Startup Summit is a series documenting the journey of innovative tech and tech4good startups competing for a £60k prize – spotlighting semifinalists and finalists including Konglomerate Games, CyberShell, Frog System, and more. Follow the highlights, founder stories, and entrepreneurial opportunities uncovered at one of Scotland’s most exciting startup competitions.

Startup Summit semifinalists: Konglomerate Games

Konglomerate games is a video games company specializing in providing healthcare and other serious game development or gamification services. What that means for us, is taking the best bits of video games and applying them to other non-video game scenarios like education, where the main focus isn’t only entertainment. Our current project is a video game designed around the physiotherapy care of children with cystic fibrosis.

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Scottish tech4good businesses go head-to-head for £60k prize at Startup Summit

Three Scottish tech for good entrepreneurs have been selected for the Startup Summit Competition final. The entrants will pitch for a top prize worth over £60,000 in front of 1,000 attendees at this year’s online Startup Summit.

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STARTUP SUMMIT SEMIFINALISTS: Futrsm.pl

Futrsm.pl is a tech-for-good platform designed to empower purpose-led entrepreneurs to do marketing better through a series of online tools and affordable expert support. It is an online Saas platform designed to empower purpose-led entrepreneurs to develop and deliver their own marketing strategy through a series of online tools and affordable expert support. The core package focuses on supporting socially-minded businesses that are bringing in a junior marketer as their first marketing hire. Providing a framework for both the company and the new start based on 90 days plans. The two inclusive monthly support sessions with a dedicated marketing expert to provide director-level practical strategic guidance throughout. A helping hand to get community changing businesses the brand presence they deserve.

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Startup Summit finalists: CyberShell

CyberShell provide comprehensive and understandable support and education of cyber-threats(Interactive application security testing-IAST) to software development team to prevent and mitigate cyber-threats. They give their clients confident and resilient in the digital age against cyber-attacks with securely develop products that reduce their risk of getting hacked with competitive advantage.

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Startup Summit finalists: Frog Systems

Frog Systems has developed the first dedicated mental health and wellbeing video platform to utilise the power of the lived experience to communicate positive messages of hope and support, from those that have survived dark times, to others who are facing their own personal challenges.

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Startup Summit finalists: Social Good Connect

Social Good Connect is a unique digital platform connecting employers and their employees to volunteering opportunities. Charities need skilled help day in, day out, but they haven’t always got the time or resources to find it. Motivated, skilled volunteers are hard to come by. However, in any one city there are hundreds of businesses with potentially thousands of skilled volunteers who could solve that problem.

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Startup Summit highlights opportunities for entrepreneurs in midst of crisis

Leading figures from the world of business gathered last week for Scotland’s leading entrepreneurship event, Startup Summit. The event, which for the first time in its 9 year history took place online, saw over 1,000 attendees join virtually on 28th and 29th October.

This article is part 7 of 7 in the series Startup Summit