WAINIP Overview

WAINIP is startup curation program which actively promotes collaboration and partnerships between WAIN-connected Startups and CXOs of different WAIN connected Industry.

WAINIP STARX20

STARX20 is a startup accelerator within WAINIP, featuring 20 "industry ready" startups that have proven to be exceptional with early use cases, clients, demos, or partnerships, and are poised for significant growth. STARX20 startups receive a promotion, and advisory support, and are prioritized for meetings with CXOs of member companies.

STARX20 List

Startups Founder's Name & Contact Details Institute Domain of working Related Possible Industry
Almaconnect Swapnil Khandelwal, DA-IICT, Hyper Energy, Dreams, Initiatives, Host, Dance, Badminton, Jabalpur Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology AlmaConnect is a social network based on private alumni networks focused on helping an alum / student get trusted help from his/her alumni network. Help ranging from getting referral for jobs, advice for careers, recommendations for services, introductions, fund raising to just asking if anyone is travelling from New York to Delhi in the next week and can carry a small parcel 1. TV Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Manipal Global,CFO, Infosys
2. CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad
Icv Ron Starinsky, Isreal Skill based recruitment platform Any Industry
Dialedin Dr. Shoukat Ali, United States Of America Ed-tech (Framework that supports interactive learning through a network of intelligent personal assistants that shadow a learning community) Education Industry like Standford University,
361dm Gopi Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Digital Learning Platform Combined with Classroom Learning Experience Corporates, Colleges, Institutions, Governments

Emerging Area of Work

Deliver Cheaper Faster & More Efficient Patient Care
Using Advanced Electronics - Critical care?
  • Reduction of Human Intervention in the assessment of health.
  • Predictive Diagnostics vs, Reactive Diagnostics
  • Healthify.me - Patterns for Food Consumption & Trends
  • Ensuring reduction in the cost of devices - esp. critical care
  • Identifying areas of medicine - match critical care equipment
  • Assistive Devices - stair climbing, etc.
  • Consumables - innovation using silkworm effective suturing
  • Mobile phone Sonar used for detecting diseases - Award winner
Latest Trends
  • Safe & Effective Medical Devices to Market at the Lowest Cost
  • Strive to Strik a Balance between
    • Reducing the overall cost of healthcare
    • Improving Safety & Survival rates
Technologies
  • Cancer Detection - Avoid Invasive Surgical Biopsies
    • handheld tool approved by FDA for multispectral analysis of tissue morphology
    • Melafind Technology - Missile Navigation Tech for an optic scan of lesion 10 emw.
  • Non-Traditional Cure to traditional ailments
    • Migraine - nerve stimulating device that blocks SPG signals ~ Acupuncture
    • Needle-free Diabetes Care - transdermal biosensor detects without pricking
Electric - Solar - Smart Power
  • Battery Ingredients - Lithium-Ion vs. current requirements
  • Innovation in Battery Charging Infrastructure -Fixed & Mobile
  • Zinc Oxide - Composites, Varistors - Semiconductors
Metal Powders
  • NanoTechnology - low particle size; Trend of Alloy Powders
  • Using Diffusion Powders - key players in the world
Aluminum powder
  • Manufactured using Atomization - residue / wastage
  • Deploying in advanced application like concrete blocks/explosives
  • Aluminum-based paints - protective, corrosion-free & decorative
Improving Shelf Life in Mfrg / Transportation / Store
  • Ambient Temperature - Natural vs Artificial Preservatives
  • Refrigerated temperatures - chilled vs frozen
  • MAP technology - deployed packing infrastructure
Retaining or enhancing the nutritional content
  • Organically grown Fresh produce (really organic?)
  • Boiled Corn & Lentils Daal, Rajma - Chawli -YCook
  • Roasting vs Baking vs Frying Snacks
  • Quality of Oil used -its breakup
Food - Focus on Innovation
  • Food processing and packaging
  • Food contaminants
  • Dietary supplements
  • Food preservation
  • Food Chemical reactions
  • Analysis of food components (Proteins, Enzymes, Vitamins, Minerals, Colors)
  • Sensory Scientist or Quality Control to monitor the above areas related to food and nutrition
Static?
  • Image Recognition - Security Forces, Identikit, Number plate recognition
  • Matching of patterns - visual effects of structural defects
  • Embedding into VR - AR and other possibilities
Video?
  • Body Language detection - anomalies/patterns in behavior, Crowd Analysis
  • Identification of Negative profiles - Customs @airports
  • Real-Time movement AI-driven - Ships/Aircraft - Avoid Accidents
Tags based Recognition -
  • Using NFC tags embedded into paper-plastic - lamination, e.g. Element42
  • RFID vs Sensors; Passive vs Realtime
Video Analytics / Search?
  • Crowd Analysis Situations - what patterns emerge; e.g. Hospitals Destroyed
  • YouTube Videos - snippets which contain useful information - Person of Interest
  • Breaking up full video clips - into recognizable patterns with meaning
  • Applying Meta-tags to ensuring identification and thrown up during the search
  • Product Demos / Training for CPR - e.g. Unlock phones
  • Walk-in Customer Profiling - capture demographic & psychographic data
  • Queue Management Solutions - Stores, Commercial Buildings
  • Shrinkage - Loss Prevention in Stores; 1% of sales lost; Watch Repeat Offenders
  • Traffic Control and Regulations
  • Heat Maps - Store Layouts - Bank Branch Layouts
Static Image Search?
  • Parts of /images - appearing in successive or multiple photographs - stills
  • Recognize meaningful patterns; Computer Vision/ML - Instantaneous Sales vs. Planogram
  • ATM Fraud Detection - static image-driven deep learning models
  • Specific features and detection of anomalous behaviors
  • VIP Identification - First Class / Biz Class / Club Circle Members @ Hotels
  • Sensor / RFID based Parking solutions-MLCPs Automatic Vehicle Number plate detection
  • Melafind - The collected signals are
    • processed using heavy-duty algorithms
    • matched against a registry of 10,000 digital /images of melanoma and skin disease.
Startup - Valley based, YouPlus -
  • Market Research - what /images, videos are being searched online
  • ML and how do companies represent their products/services to get noticed
Detection of Harmful Chemicals
  • Plastics Ocean Floor - 20km away from the beaches
  • Branded Salt contents ; recent article on this
  • Particle size reducing day by day - absorbed by Fish
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Delivery of e-Commerce products
  • Security Forces - Training / Education
  • Agricultural applications
  • Recreational applications
Last Mile Logistics
  • Optimization algorithms - Delivery of eCommerce
  • Directed feedback into production - real-time NOT staggered
  • Sales vs. GeoFencing vs. Movement of RM/FG
Analytics - Recommendation / Rating Engines
  • Mark-Down Optimization - using R, sales patterns
  • Omnichannel - online vs. offline - e.g. SAP advertisement
  • Bar Code vs. QR Code vs ....VR - AR driven Trials
  • Pricing Engines - Peak vs. Non-Peak hour
  • Kim Kardashian-Screenshot AI Image Recognition- e.g. Sound hound
Smart Signage Solutions
  • Posters & digital signages at airports, retail stores, public spaces
  • Understand customer Characteristics
  • Responds in Real-time with Targeted Content
Analytics - Recommendation / Rating Engines
  • Computer Vision - Retail Shelves analysis
  • Mark-Down Optimization - using R, sales patterns
  • Omnichannel - online vs. offline; Bar Code vs. QR Code
  • In store Conversion - tracking trials to purchase - VR Engine
  • Pricing Engines - Peak vs. Non-Peak hour
  • Kim Kardashian - Screenshot AI Image Recognition- e.g. Sound hound
Messaging Solutions
  • Intelligent Keypads - Hyderabad based startup - LG bought over
  • Multilingual - audio recognition and transliteration - Reverse process
  • Responds in Real-time with Targeted Content
Content Analytics
  • Web Crawling
  • Focused Content - Directed towards; AIRIM
  • Computer Vision - Assortment vs. Planogramming vs. Sales
Fintech Applications
  • Invoice Discounting / Factoring - open platform
  • Loan processing - personal / individual vs. Business
  • Peer to Peer lending - Profiling and enabling process auto mode
Other applications
  • Claims Settlement for Late flights - Expenses at Airport
  • Frauds in car insurance settlements possible
  • Real-Time movement AI-driven - Ships/Aircraft - Avoid accidents
  • Document Verification - Physical Issuance ~ eGovernance
  • Fuel Efficiency - OmniComm, leading to lending solutions
Algorithms for Deployment?
  • Each application-separate Advanced Analytics from real AI/ML/NL
  • Follow Cutting Edge working - Google, Amazon, etc.
  • Proprietary platforms - if any, what are their requirements
  • Manufacturing area - optimization using big data
  • Pattern Identification - and cross-sector application e.g. POI
  • Smart Signage Solutions - Self Learning -
    • Who comes up to the signage
    • Targeted Content!
  • IITB and IBM Research Labs - tie-up? Can we do something similar?
Packaging
  • Alternatives for Plastics - and regulatory mechanism
  • Shrink Wrap - Aerated Beverages vs. bottled vs. tetra pack
  • Frozen / Chilled - Dry Ice for Fresh across Railways, Ports, Aircraft
Lighting
  • Energy Saving vs. Optimized Building Management Systems
  • LED - advancements in power savings
  • Laser Shows - interactive ; blank firecrackers display - simulated
  • Smart Home Solutions - Safety & Security
Organic Waste
  • Cleantech - 4 lac machine to process organic waste in large Organisations
  • Separation of wet and dry waste - real time
  • Food Waste - Recycling in the HORECA segment
  • Smart Dust-bins ?
Factory Waste
  • Pollutants released into the environment - waterborne and airborne.
  • Embedding Detection & Correction Systems - in-house analytics
  • Methods to Re-use and Re-deploy
New Growing Methods
  • Aquaponics - Hydroponics
  • Identification of high yield - Cherry Tomatoes per kg vs Canned
Alternatives for drugs
  • Medicinal plants extracts
  • Synthetic drugs
Analytics
  • Intelligent Manufacturing Processes
  • IoT driven - detected & interventions in place
  • Tableau & Click view Dashboards to Predictive & AI-led diagnostics
Advanced Robotics
  • Multiple vehicles being assembled
  • Automated Conveyor Belts - Scanning, Sorting & Placing
  • Load & Unload Vehicles - Finished Goods Telescopic Conveyors
Building Information Modeling
  • Requirement of Regulators - detection of beams
  • 3-D Modeling Mandatory Submission
  • Virtual Construction Designs
  • Augmented - Mixed Reality & Visualization
  • 3D Laser Scan Data Processing / As Building Modeling
Advanced Structures
  • Statues - Bridges - Underwater
  • Metro Stations - Lines
Automated Building Management Systems - Large Towers
AEC and EPC Design Analysis and BIM Expertise:
  • STAAD. Pro / ETABS
  • Tekla Structure / Advance Steel / BOCAD
  • Autodesk Products / Revit Building Suit /Nevisworks
  • Google Sketch-up/ 3D Max / V Ray
  • Rhinoceros / Catia / Solid works
  • Cadworx/PDS / PDMS / Inventor / Caessar II
  • ANSYS
  • Leica Cyclone / LFM
Business Models - Innovation in
  • Processes - Deployment of (scarce) resources
  • Improving visibility of Measurability
  • Metrics of Evaluation - Deviations
  • Rapid Adoption of New Technology
Application areas of AI/ML/NLP
  • Cash Conversion Cycle - Most Efficient
  • Cost of Capital - Lowest
  • Valuation of Critical Assets - DCF and otherwise
  • Rapid Adoption of New Technology
Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Optimization - Algorithms for Constrained Movements within Time e.g. Perishables
  • Move-in-Sync; Shared Cab services - Google, Microsoft
  • Fuel Efficiency - Block Chain driven - financing of fuel
  • Reverse Logistics - using Geo-Fencing e.g. ID Foods - Perishability
  • Shared Economy - Vehicles, Road-Infrastructure & Routes
Training & Development - Retaining of Manpower
  • Mindfulness - EEG technology for
    • understanding patterns of behavior
    • Profiling
    • Planning interventions
  • Predictive Behaviors
  • Design Thinking Led Innovation - Resource savings, Performance enhancement

Contact Us

For further information, please read our Startup guidelines, available here.

For an email enquiry please email: info@wainconnect.com

To arrange a meeting or for further information please contact: Shrish Kotmire / Prasenjit Banerjee +91 9867037444 / +91 9836189225 shirish@seraphic.in / prasenjit.banerjee@accendere.co.in

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