VUNK Garage48 Hackathon 2016 kicked off in the awesome SpaceX grounds in Tallinn, Estonia on Friday where 32 brave new visionaries pitched their innovative ideas. By the end of the team formation session, 16 projects got teams together and were brought to life by the teams of product managers, developers, designers and marketeers. 16 great projects were presented in the final presentations where the jury needed to do tough decisions.
Instead of picking 7 teams for the next
phase of VUNK Accelerator program Team Validation of confirming their business model and validating their teams, the jury picked
9 intriguing new startups.
In addition
the awards were given out for Best Tech Solution and Best Design. Prototron
chose 2 teams to get straight to TOP40 into their Accelerator program and Ajujaht gave access to 1 team directly to TOP30 round.
We had great mentors & jury working with the teams over the intensive week-end: Calum Cameron (Startup Wise Guys), Ragnar Sass (Garage48, Clanbeat), Ivo Remmelg (Telegrupp, Startup Wise Guys), Holger Haljand (Telia), Andre Visse (Telia), Elise Sass (Garage48), Henri-Paul Ariste (Telia), Ivo Kukavica (Telia Company), Kirke Saar (Telia), Lauris Muzikants (Telia Sweden), Martin Rand (VitalFields), Tiivi Püvi (IDEA Group), Mantas Gostautas (TEO & Omnitel), Priit Pikk (Telia).
OVERALL WINNER
VUNK TEAM VALIDATION PRIZE
CADirect (www.cadirect.eu)
CADirect developed a software platform to enhance CAD workflow by integrating supplier databases directly into CAD workflow
Team: Christof Neuman - CEO/business strategy, Meelis Paas - CPO, Janno Paas - CTO, Ranek Runthal - Architect, Octavio Ado - Database engineer, Karel Kullama - Product development, Marko Söörnum - Design
VUNK TEAM VALIDATION PRIZE &
FAVOURITE OF THE AUDIENCE PRIZE
Skynda (skynda.me)
Finding and buying a proper pre-owned car can be slow & messy. With skynda.me it isn't.
Team: Karl Anton - Team leader, Visionary, Business development, Tiina Kärsna - Marketer, Business development, Artur Puiste - UX, Designer, Edward Yesid Rodriguez Caro - Development Team Leader, Full-Stack, Tauri Nikkari - Front-End Developer, Ardi Aver - Full-Stack Developer, Mihhail Marenkov - Full-Stack Developer, Jaanus Varus - Full-Stack Developer, Jevgeni Rumjantsev - Full-Stack Developer
BEST B2B PRIZE
VUNK TEAM VALIDATION PRIZE
Hypesilo (http://hypesilo.com)
HypeSilo is a smart-bot that replies automatically to customers on social media in crisis situations.
Team: George Groshkov - Project Lead and Designer, Khawaja Umair - Backend Developer, Terje Ennomäe - Business Developer, Zuzanna Sobiecka - Designer, Uve Poom - Business Developer, Cesar Martinez Dominguez - Frontend Developer
VUNK TEAM VALIDATION PRIZE
AJUJAHT TOP30 PRIZE
Moveprep (www.moveprep.com)
MovePrep secures expat professionals living spaces in new cities by striking rental deals with property owners ahead of time – this way, you'll have a flat as soon as you've completed identity verification.
Team: Markus Hääl - Project Manager, Ott Ilves - Marketer, team lead, Virgo Kadastik - Project Manager, field specialist&sales, Kaarel Metsaots - Designer, Kaur Kask - Designer, Carl Rannaberg - Front End, Vadim Zapolski - Back End
VUNK TEAM VALIDATION PRIZE
Holme Care (http://holmecare.com)
We connect care workers directly to customers.
Team: Nik Seth - Team lead, Der Yung - Frontend, Mihkel Allorg - Backend, Peep Käiss - Frontend\Design, Oliver Eding - Frontend, Arkadi Zaitsev - Marketing, Karl Oha - Backend, Liisa Ruusamagi - Marketing, Valter Vlassov - Business
VUNK TEAM VALIDATION PRIZE
Nimi (http://nimi.garage48-project.com/)
Nimi is an online service for people who are choosing a name for their startup, product, or brand. We help businesses avoid failing in global markets - by testing their name candidates for linguistic, cultural, and regional issues via a worldwide community.
Team: Kirill - visionary & project manager, Anatoly - backend developer, Karina - fronted developer, Priit - backend developer/devops engineer, Jaan - UX designer/resercher, Robert - sales&marketing
VUNK TEAM VALIDATION PRIZE
Tipoff (http://freecash.herokuapp.com/)
Crowdsourced sales team
Team: Rait Videvik - Visionary, Grete Urbel - Project Manager, Lauri Lüüs - Front-End Developer, Ronalds Sovas - Back-End Developer, Christian Safka - Back-End Developer, Mykyta Tsylyuryk - Marketer, Marju Sokman - Marketer, Erika Lille - Designer
VUNK TEAM VALIDATION PRIZE
ShopOn (icvreality.com/shopon)
ShopOn is an augmented reality based mobile solution that aims to give online retailers an opportunity to add a layer of interaction and information while the customers will have a better understanding of what they are actually buying and if it event fits in their home.
Team: Suman Sarkar - Marketing and web development, Erich Loob - mobile developer/sound engineer, Martin Allmaa - Designer, Christer Loob - Mobile developer
VUNK TEAM VALIDATION PRIZE
ATM
Gamified location based instant events app to organise meetups with people in the area.
Team: Tuomo Hopia - Project Manager, Andreas Vilja - Developer, Denis Kovalenko - Developer, Oleh Stasula - Developer, Luiz Köhler - Developer
BEST TECH SOLUTION
Proof of you (http://www.proofofyou.com/index.php/vunkdemo/)
Let's export Estonian mobile-ID and make it even cooler. You can make blockchain based identity and sign documents with it, using only your mobile. Let's take a step into the paperless future!
Team: Hando Rand - Marketer, Asse Sauga - UX, Vision, Indrek Lasn - Front-End developer, Gabriele Dantimi - Back-End Developer, Yary Ribero - Back-End Developer, Marc Picornell - Business dev, Vision
BEST DESIGN
BackPack Chat
Connecting backpackers to old and new friends through geo-location.
Team: iOS - Sven Kirsimäe, Android - Sander Saarsen, Android - Marko Kullam, Sander Harjak, Back end - Kris Gerhard Abrams, Design, UX - Sandor Torn, Mart Piirimees, Marketing - Taimi Karing, Project manager - Martin Jeret
PROTOTRON TOP40 PRIZE
PostPal Push (https://www.postpal.eu/push)
get a courier at the push of a button
Team: Harry Kanistik - Visionary / Project Manager, Kaarel Teder - Web Front-End Developer, Klemens Arro - Software Back-End Developer, Malitha Gamage - Software Back-End Developer
PROTOTRON TOP40 PRIZE
Grifters Wallet (grifterswallet.com)
Grifters Wallet aims to keep your valuables safe by tracking your beautiful wallet
Team: Reno - Designer, Martin - Product, Madis - Marketing, Kristajn - Front-end developer/entrepreneur.
WiseDeal (www.wisedeal.eu)
Marketing platform, where clients create requests for electronics goods and vendors offer prices is a bidding manner
Team: Evgeniya Dolgopolova /designer, Vadim Gerasimenko /full-stack developer, Vladimir Repnikov /full-stack developer, Aleksandr Selivanov /marketeer, Joao Neves /international marketing advisor, Filipp Koppel /full-stack developer, Valeri Babak /team lead
BiteBite
Personalized food recipes delivery service based on needs of your family
Team: Merike - head of content, Joosep - marketing, Marten - UX disainer, Rasmus - developer, Meelis - marketing/sales, Miko - project manager/visionary
Gimme (http://gimme.ee/)
Gimme.ee helps you to organise any kind of event – list down your gift ideas, party essentials or other special wishes and share them with every attendee.
Team: Eva Maria Veitmaa & Ulf Anso (Back-end developers), Rait Vagula & Tanel Drui (UX/UI Designers), Kairi Rais & Kaspar Karm (Project Managers/Visionaries), Kristiina Koppel (Copywriter)
Ortofy (http://ortofy.com/)
Ortofy is changing THE WAY YOU ORDER FOOD. Cooking right meal for dinner haven’t been so easy before. Swipe favourite recipe, order all needed ingredients and in 1 hour all goods will be delivered to your door. You can just enjoy cooking!
Team: Angelo Maiuri - Front-end/UX, Elo Johanna Kuklane - Marketer, Endel Soolo - Back-end/Android, Rudolf-Gustav Hanni - Project manager, Toivo Hanni - Web-designer
Virtual Alias
This is an app to see who is around you, 100 metres radius.
Team: Priit Arge - project manager, Martti Rand - mobile developer, Taavi Rand - marketer, Joosep Pihl - designer
A big shout-out goes out to all the participants who took part in this weekend. As it was said to finish the event: You are all winners!