WEST COAST FINALS
Entrepreneurship World Cup
Finalists
BidOps
Forecasts and coaches vendors towards impressive savings results during negotiations.
Runner-up
Corumat
Micro-engineered bioplastics that eliminate billions of pounds of plastic waste.
Falkonry
Enabler of Predictive Operations. Ready-to-use machine learning system.
i2Chain
Secures Information and Identity with cryptography, heuristics and distributed ledger technologies.
Smartypans
Sensor enabled cookware that powers a social recipe platform.
Winner
Koniku
The world's most advanced smell camera. We will be able to diagnose any disease by smell alone in 5 years.
SecureStream Technologies
Security and Analytics platform to Eliminate Threats, Guarantee Privacy and Compliance.
SupportPay
Enables parents to share child expenses & exchange child support with each other.
Veamly
Centralizes all your work in one place, bringing in all your collaboration apps and conversations.
Uprise Energy
The company has developed the world’s first commercially sized mobile wind turbine.
Judges
Jim McLean
Founder, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Data Capital
Sophie Liao
Founder and Managing Director, Oyster Ventures.
Tom Willerer
Partner,
Venrock
Nikhil Sinha
Chief Executive Officer,
GSVlabs
ABOUT THE MISK GLOBAL FORUM
The Misk Global Forum (MGF) is the flagship international platform of the Misk Foundation, a non-profit philanthropic foundation established by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discover, develop and empower Saudi young people to become active participants in the knowledge economy. Launched in 2016, MGF takes Misk’s mission onto the world stage, helping young people to realize their potential in the future economy and become active global citizens. Through international events, partnerships, and initiatives, MGF brings together emerging and established leaders, innovators, and creators to explore, experience and experiment with ways to meet the challenge of change.
ABOUT GSVLABS
Global Silicon Valley Labs - GSVlabs - is a worldwide innovation platform headquartered in Silicon Valley with over 5,000 members, 300 startups, 450 investors and 75 enterprisevpartners in our network. Our mission is to create the world’s premier global innovation platform - empowering entrepreneurs and democratizing innovation around the world. We create powerful network effects by supporting entrepreneurs, accelerating startups and enabling innovation in the world’s largest companies. We catalyse the world’s innovation ecosystem, and through our new digital platform GSV Passport™ connect Silicon Valley to the World and the World to Silicon Valley.
