Virtual UK Pitch Day

Welcome to the 2nd Virtual UK-India Pitch Day!

Exciting startups from India & UK will be pitching at the event. This will be a monthly recurring event for angel investors, VCs & family offices.

AGENDA & STARTUP BRIEFS:

This Pitch Day will showcase 4 unique opportunities across sectors.

12:10 pm GMT | 5:40 pm IST: Start-up #1: Video sharing Social Networking Platform

This startup is the fastest organically growing short-form video-based social networking platform in India. This platform currently has 40 million+ users, 95 million+ videos being watched every day, in a span of less than 140 days. They have the highest engagement rate in this space, and have also surpassed SnapChat user base in India.

This startup is addressing a large vernacular BHARAT market, which is where 90% of India lives.

This is the only Short-form company in India that has built the entire Tech in-house, including their camera tech and AR filters. They could undoubtedly say that they have one of the strongest tech teams in the country. Their AI/ML team involves folks who have built the recommendation engine for GoJek & Uber Globally.

The founders have 13+ years of experience in building and scaling companies, and also come from the media background. They have also been backed by some really big names in the global VC circle, such as FJ Labs, and are currently raising their Series A round. The Prime Minister of India has also mentioned them in his recent speeches, and they have also bagged the No. 1 spot in the social category in an award that was organized by the Government of India.

12:30 pm GMT | 6:00 pm IST: Start-up #2: Real-time Voice-Enabled Kitchen Assistant

The startup is a real-time, voice-enabled kitchen assistant platform set out to transform a customer’s entire cooking journey using it’s cutting edge ‘Culinary AI technology‘ for a personalized, time saving cooking and grocery shopping experience.  In simple words, it is an interactive kitchen platform that helps consumers right from their meal planning and grocery shopping to recipe discovery and final meal preparation. The startup’s platform has 100% qualified customers with cooking & grocery shopping interests, it offers a very attractive opportunity as the first-voice-enabled-marketplace for groceries and provides professionally curated recipes.

Co-founded by Indian Celebrity Chef along with a strong team, the startup’s consumer-friendly business model (“Spotify for recipes”) makes it a compelling business, and its ad-based and data analytics revenue model contributes to a highly-scalable business path. The other co-founder is a 3x entrepreneur with India’s first IOT startup exit and was awarded as IOT Thought leader in 2017 by IOT Congress India. He has been a technocrat with more than 3 decades of experience in tech products, robotics, automation and IOT Platforms.

The startup is an AI-first play in the food industry that is gaining real traction with many large food brands and smart home players. With a patent-pending AI engine, having curated over 2,00,000 personalized recipes within the engine, the startup has a 710K User base, and is addressing a USD 40B Voice-enabled shopping market.  Having launched in July ’19 in India, the company has acquired 70% of Alexa customers of which 15-20% are monthly active.

12:50 pm GMT | 6:20 pm IST: Start-up #3: Home Intelligence Tech (EIS Eligible)

This UK based EIS eligible startup creates technology that puts your privacy first. Their software and products are not just Artificial Intelligence, but a new category called Home Intelligence. Smart, brand-agnostic solutions take a holistic view of homes – people, devices, networks, habits.

The number of connected devices is set to increase three-fold from 23 billion in 2018 to 75 billion in 2025. 38% of visitor’s devices that come into your home or workplaces have malware that put privacy at risk. Covid-19 has seen cyberattacks on homes of remote workers increase by 35%. This startup uses its software and products to build an anonymous profile for each home, then uses that data to spot unusual behaviour and stop cybercriminals. They are addressing is addressing the smart home devices market projected to reach $160bn by 2023.

Their multi-award-winning product, available as SaaS has been featured on Wired and won the 2020 European Product Design Award. It is designed as a simple, smart and safe digital guardian for your home or workplace. This startup took cybersecurity and added human heuristics, data science, behavioural science and device pattern of life to build next-generation detection and prevention algorithm.

In June 2017, the Founder of this startup received a commendation from the House of Lords for his work defending Parliament from an unprecedented and widely publicised cyber attack. He started his career at IBM, and over the last 25 years, his roles included Head of Infrastructure and Computing for the Houses of Parliament and Chief Technology Officer for The Royal British Legion. The team is technically strong and business minded, with $500m exits.

1:10 pm GMT | 6:40 pm IST: Start-up #4: AI Powered Video Platform for Publishers

This startup is an AI-enabled video publisher network that allows users to engage and monetize their traffic. In 2020, video accounts for 60% of overall internet consumption. People are watching videos not just for entertainment, but also for education, research and knowledge. This startup operates on a Partnership Model with digital publishers where they embed their video player on 150+ partner websites and apps on revenue share basis.

Since its inception in 2016, this platform has established a large User base of over 50 Mn, growing at a rapid pace. They have a white space opportunity with no direct competition. It is the only platform built for businesses with premium PGC video content. Their flagship product that drives ecommerce with videos for top brands worldwide works with 650+ brands globally. Using AI driven videos for a semi-automatic content creation process, the startup has highly scalable technology build for scale. There has been multi-fold growth in the last few months, 200M+ monthly video views and 50M+ users (doubled since Mar-20).

The startup has an experienced team led by robust serial entrepreneurs who have grown the business from zero to multi-million USD revenue company. The three co-founders have diverse backgrounds, having previously worked with 100+ content creators and successfully exited 2 AI based startups. Currently raising their Series B round, this platform accelerated at the FBStart Program from Facebook, and is funded by Samsung, SOSV, LionRock Capital, Accretio Investments and Venture Catalysts.

1:30 pm GMT | 7:00 pm IST: Introduction to 9 Unicorns Fund