Cohort 1

Augmented reality (AR) is a fun, easy-to-use, COVID-friendly technology that uses people's own mobile phones to insert digital content into their real-world surroundings. It can be used to engage audiences on-site and/or remotely. Our solution combines evidence-based, Placemaking design with augmented reality technology to create space activations, events and tours that build community, attract visitors and convert customers onsite and remotely.

Challenge focus: Hybrid Experiences

Mantis XR is an immersive content web development company that is building the future of social tourism by creating 3D digital 'windows' to your experiences, accessible by URL from any device. Users can visit, shop, chat and invite others to explore your spaces without the need for 360 cameras or goggles. Our experiences are mobile first, but they work on all devices.

Challenge focus: Hybrid Experiences

Bespokely offers an all-in-one tool that helps businesses build and personalize their end-to-end digital customer journey with one single app. In a matter of minutes, businesses can publish beautiful digital experiences that can be accessed via web app, Android app, or iOS app. You can think of it as a simple but powerful cross-over of a CMS, E-Commerce, QR code generator, POS, CRM, chat, event calendar, order management, and audience segmentation tool.

Challenge focus: Contactless commerce

The solution streamlines the rental process from inquiring, scheduling, touring to applying.  They have paying customers from Compass, United Real Estate and other enterprise customers, including the President of TB Penick (the builder of Disneyland). They make money mostly by subscription or rent. The team came from Microsoft, MediaTek, and Compass with deep knowledge in design, tech, and real estate.  They are building modularized solutions to help realtors and managers tour the properties without in person meetings.

Challenge focus: Contactless commerce

Altoura is a pioneer in spatial computing (AR/VR/Mixed Reality) We make it easy for frontline workers to collaborate in 3D environments and shared spaces, acquire knowledge, perform tasks, and digitally interact with equipment, buildings, and machines. We help organizations upskill workers by supplementing—and often replacing—traditional training and guidance techniques with much more effective, immersive experiences.

Challenge focus: Workforce solutions

We have built a Digital Twin tool for restaurants. With this tool users can build a 1 to 1 recreation of their restaurants physical space, and everything that happens inside that space on any given day. It is a comprehensive simulation of a restaurants operations. It is made so the average restaurant owner can make a simulation within only a few hours of learning the tool.

Challenge focus: Workforce solutions

Our latest innovation is Clear2Go. We combine our identity technology with direct integration to state and provider vaccination database to create a non-refutable identity confirmed vaccine status. The Clear2Go app is available for IOS and Android via the respective app stores. Clear2Go links directly to the state or provider database using the identity confirmed via the user on-boarding process.

Challenge focus: Immunity verification

An easy-to-use, high sensitivity, low-cost solution to monitor infection and reduce retransmission. Delivers results on a simple, easy-to-use smart phone app, so that potentially infected individuals can be triaged for confirmatory molecular diagnostic tests e.g. PCR. Provides fully anonymized data analytics to healthcare professionals, public agencies and commercial customers so that they can track screening results across organizations, geographical areas and in clinical practice.

Challenge focus: Immunity verification