TiE London’s second annual TISC competition made a stir last week in the capital as 70 exciting start ups where whittled down to a final 9, competing at the Lansdowne Club in Mayfair. The competition has been gathering traction since it’s debut last year where medtech winner, Medical Magnesium went on to achieve millions in funding at the Silicon Valley TiEcon event.
This year entrants were varied and of an enormously high calibre ranging across proptech, education, finance and more. Esteemed judges, Dinesh Dhamija, Sid Narang, Rohit Krishnan and Tony Harris put the final 10 entrants through their paces -
Tab Care - Tab Care LTD is a unique SASS Med-Tech start-up; our product improves
patient monitoring, care, transparency and efficiency.
WealthKernel - WealthKernel is a provider automated wealth and asset management solutions to institutional clients (B2B).
Akiva - software that analyses school data and presents the most important information to teachers in plain English.
TransferX - TransferX is a Fintech focused startup found in the payments service space offering remittance to Unbanked regions. Aura Innovation - Head-up display for commercial vehicles.
Doorsteps - the UK’s newest and fastest growing real estate agent. It is online only,
with no high street locations and has grabbed nearly 1% of the UK market in it's first year.
Join Highbrow - A SVOD platform of curated extracurricular and educational content
delivered ad-free both in the home and classroom, on any device, anywhere and anytime.
Academi - An Intelligent Mobile Training Solution for companies to optimise the delivery of
personalised and highly engaging training content to their employees.
P0d - P0d make desirable, obtainable, affordable space that presents a rapid solution to housing
and space shortages in areas of high demand across the globe
Wealth Kernel made it through to be crowned TISC winner 2018 with Join Highbrow coming a close second. Wealth Kernel will now get £50K funding from TiE London along with mentoring from experienced TiE London Charter Members.
Sid Narang, host of the Annual TiE Start Up Competition said..."we are delighted to see twice as many startups participating in the second annual start up competition at TiE. This year also saw participation from many world class entrepreneurs including Dinesh Dhamija and Tony Harris, and Venture Capitalists from Fidelity's Eight Road and WeWork's Corporate M&A team. We are really encouraged with the momentum the event is gaining annually and look forward to mentoring, investing and supporting more European start-ups from the 1st of January 2019 for our competition next year.
Nina Amin, TiE London President added, ‘Entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of London. We are proud to support and hear from so many wonderful and inspirational companies.’
