Memed – Brazilian Startup

Memed is Brazil’s first web-based e-prescription service and social collaboration tool for doctors. Epocrates is an international reference. They have launched a live beta version of a prescription creating app for dermatologists with 1,100+ products catalogued and 4,000+ prescriptions made. They plan to expand to all medical specialties. In Brazil, the market for medical prescriptions generated sales of US$26B in 2011

starup accelerated by 21212

ZeroPaper – Brazilian Startup

ZeroPaper is focused on solving the problem of the small business owner who doesn’t have the time or skills to manage expenses and the clutter that is associated with running his business. They will aggregate expense data from the physical notes and invoices for businesses and organizing it in an easy to read format.

starup accelerated by 21212

Behold Studios – Brazilian Startup

Behold Studios is a small indie game development studio founded in 2009.

The team has been awarded on events such as SBGames in 2008 and 2012, BRGames 2009, and with the game Knights of Pen & Paper getting nominated by the Independent Games Festival a winner for the Student Showcase, and reviewed by IGN, Kotaku, TouchArcade, EuroGamer, and others. The game was also nominated as the game of the year in some websites, such SlideDB and UOL Jogos, and some other even said that is the best RPG ever created for mobile.

Today, the studio focus primarily in producing indie games for Steam and Mobile. But, based on recent contests and publishing partnerships, the team is also developing games for SONY and Microsoft Consoles.

startup accelerated by Anjos do Brasil

CELLSEQ – Brazilian Startup

CELLSEQ develops tolls to test agriculture, cosmetics, food and pharmaceutical products for safety and toxicity.
CELLSEQ technology allows for reudced dependency on animal experimentation by use of cells derived from juman stem cells.

Accelerated by Techmall SA

Superela – Brazilian Startup

 

Superela is a platform built for women to feel more confident and less lonely. Through free online content made by experts, a video chat platform (in a pay per minute system) where they can to talk to experts, and a community where they can talk to each other, women are able to have all help they need about several subjects such as Love, Sex, Life, Beauty, and Fashion.

starup accelerated by 21212

Tippz – Brazilian startup

Tippz collects data from drink consuption while helping bar managers to register and process sales.  Data is then used to bring efficiency to beverage distribution and logistics.

This startup was accelerated by Start You Up.

Start You Up – Brazilian Startup Accelerator

Start You Up acceleration yearly batches have accelerated over a dozen startups.
Program include seed money (BRL 30k to 60k), support in methodology and training, network, and help in market  positioning.

Start You Up is based in Vitoria, Espirito Santo.

Daily Activity as Password

In this recent paper researchers explores the possiblity of creating security checks directly from users activity.  Verification based on activity logs of apps in the mobile would make an automated key creator.

Despite some limitation to security for some applications that require especific criptography and legal restictions to what can be used as verification, system could bring benefits: no need of previous passowrd checking, confirmation and registry, limitation of password sharing.

Users would free part of the valuable RAM memory used to remember the multitude of passwords we deal daily.

Selo Reserva – Brazilian Startup

Selo Reserva provides a sophisticated experience for purchasing local and international wine and haute gastronomie goods. They give customers direct access to competitive flash sales and to premium content, curated by world-renowned chefs and sommeliers, to guide their purchase decisions.

starup accelerated by 21212

Germinadora – Brazilian Startup Accelerator

Germinadora –  São Paulo based accelarator/incubator.

Their 12 weeks program “Startup Bootcamp”  proposes to focus on entrepeneurs, more than projects.  Entrepreneurs go thorught stages: ‘get-real’; ‘finding the good deal’; ‘prepare to grow’; ‘launchin to a strong initial growth’ after what startup is supposed to keep momentum and keep growing.

In their 4th batch they show 33% success rate making business models into performing companies.  This is out of 30 business models tested, when 6 of them were continued after initial validation and went through program final 9 weeks.