GoSilicon Valley - Austrian Startup Demo Night 2023
Open Austria/ Flo Siapno
On the evening of September 18, 2023, the GoSilicon Valley Austrian Startup Demo Night 2023 took place at Parklab Gardens in San Francisco.
The event provided participants of this year's GoUSA 2023 | Silicon Valley Startup Landing Zone with a unique opportunity to showcase innovative solutions and products through brief pitches to an audience consisting of founders, innovators, and investors from the Bay Area.
More than 150 attendees, including representatives from the Austrian community in San Francisco, gathered for this key event hosted by Open Austria.
The startups participating in this year's GoSilicon Valley program represented a diverse range of industries and presented various business solutions in their pitches, from AI-powered sales-support to innovative propulsion systems in space exploration.
These startups included:
APICHAMP: With their revolutionary SaaS platform, this startup enables developers to create scalable backend applications without coding.
HalloSophia: Offering a comprehensive digital expert platform powered by AI.
KickScale: Aiming to generate new business and improve conversion rates through intelligent AI-driven sales support.
Opus Novo: A socially-focused startup specializing in family eldercare, currently developing a new software platform for digital home adaptation.
raicoon: Leading the way in renewable energy, raicoon introduces the world's first autonomous operations center for renewable energy systems, with an initial focus on photovoltaic installations.
surface solutions: In the quest to digitize the coatings industry, surface solutions provides a service to simplify information retrieval for coating specialists.
temprify: A partner for commercial refrigeration solutions, developing sustainable integrated systems to make dry ice unnecessary and refrigeration logistics profitable again.
GATE Space: Introducing a plug-and-play mobility solution called "Jetpack" to simplify satellite propulsion and control capabilities through innovative injector technology.
AudioIndex: Addressing the challenges of misinformation in the digital age, AudioIndex offers a platform capable of detecting deep fakes in audio and video.
Impact AI: This startup provides a B2B platform empowering teams to develop human-centric products across major life areas.
Their pitches were meticulously prepared in the preceding weeks during the Bootcamp of the GoUSA 2023 | Silicon Valley Startup Landing Zone in collaboration with mentors and industry experts with whom Open Austria has established a close cooperative partnership.
The Silicon Valley Demo Night represents a highlight of the GoUSA | Silicon Valley Startup Landing Zone program. It offered a stage for Austrian startups to shine, share their innovative ideas, and connect with potential collaborators and investors in the heart of the tech world, Silicon Valley.
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(All photos courtesy Open Austria/ Flo Siapno)
