The Program
The Desafia San Francisco Immersion Program, established by ICEX Spain Trade and Investment and Red.es, is run by the local partner Mind the Bridge (MTB). The 2-week-long immersion program is a comprehensive experience that includes workshops, learning and exploring Silicon Valley, generating networking opportunities and nurturing the entrepreneurial mindset unique to this region. The founders participated in workshops, meetings and activities that not only inspire but help assess the current strategic position of the company, plot improvements to ramp-up growth, define a roadmap based on strategic and tactical considerations and start working on it.
During the first week, startups had the opportunity to learn about the US business landscape and Silicon Valley Ecosystem, refine their storytelling, value proposition and pitching specific to a VC audience in the US, build strong networks with VC, corporate leaders and mentors and visit a corporation born out of startup culture. The second week was focused on understanding how to compete globally and grow revenue, ensuring IP is protected, learning how to build a strong cross cultural multi-functional team, meeting other startup founders and grabbing insights from their journey.
The Scaleups
Hotelverse redefines the hotel’s booking experience, allowing consumers to customize their stay through the hotel’s Digital Hub. We create a digital twin of a hotel, giving travelers the opportunity to fly over the hotel, explore its facilities, hyper-customize a specific room, and even book the room where each guest would like to stay at. Thus, the hotel has new value proposition that cannot be replicated by OTAs, changing the distribution status quo.
SEABOTS specializes in the development of marine robotics and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). Its activity is focused on the analysis, conservation and restoration of the marine environment through the application of cutting-edge technologies. SEABOTS has successfully carried out more than 150 missions aimed at the study and preservation of the aquatic environment. The organization counts on an extensive network of partners in Europe, Asia and America and is involved in several European R&D projects.
Meep helps cities and transport operators create digital sustainable mobility ecosystems through a suite of products and services that includes a consumer-ready MaaS platform and a data platform. MeePath is a data platform that tracks, describes and predicts the behaviour of a city’s inhabitants.
Thinger.io is a toolkit that streamlines the creation of IoT solutions by means of No-code tools that simplifies the development, deployment and maintenance processes, making IoT solutions more profitable. Nowadays our technology it’s being used by almost 100.000 developers from all over the world, and trusted by more than 200 companies to be the main infrastructure of their IoT solutions.
Tennders is a hybrid model which merges the SaaS model under subscription and the transactional model with on-demand transport services. Tennders offers on-demand road transport services as a B2B freight network. The software focuses on helping companies digitise their business to reduce inefficiencies to save costs and time.
Melboss guides artists step by step to promote their career and connect with their audience. Melboss is the filter between the artist, the digital world and what can be achieved there by providing a career development hub for artists worldwide. With the Smart Music Manager™ tool, Melboss aims to revolutionise the way artists work on their music releases in the digital environment.
eAgoria is an all-in-one govtech platform (All services in one platform: voting, ticket sales, communication, incidents, space reservation, etc.) It is a global platform that conforms to agenda 2030 (Real-time impact measurement on SDGs). Agora connects with social media and municipal website integrations with gamification.
Osamu Iizuka, Founder & CEO – Japan
Shinobu Izumi, Co-founder & CTO – Japan