THIS WEEK IN WAYRA LONDON
Week commencing 21st July
What a wonderful 2 weeks it´s been - congratulations to Buzzmove, Skin Analytics, Karisma Kidz , Roadio, Hubbub, Virtually Free, Insane Logic, Third Space Learning and Crowdreactive for their achievements!
Looking ahead to this week, we've got a couple of things to share with you.
ACCELERATION
Peer Review Group 1 - Mon 2:30pm
Pitch Slam Group D- Fri 1:30pm
EVENTS IN THE ACADEMY
Digita Skills Report- Wed 11:00. By invitation only
Commissioned by the Leader of the Labour Party, the Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, this independent report will provide a series of key recommendations about how government, business, education and civil society can better develop home grown talent to seize the opportunities in the growing global digital economy. Speakers will include Chuka Umunna MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
NESTA Open Data Challenge Series: Housing Challenge July Meetup - Tues 18:00
Interested in taking part in our Housing Open Data Challenge?
The event will be a great opportunity for potential participants and people with ideas to network, hear initial user research in relation to the challenge as well as the chance to build teams and product suggestions.
Nesta / Open Data Institute - @odchallenges
SAP Event- Friday 09:30
Join us at the Wayra SAP Start Up Focus Fórum and learn how you can make the most of SAP HANA and the SAP Start up FOcus Program - SAP ´s Big Data Development accelerator
To attend: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sap-startup-forum-london-tickets-12180382853
FROM THE TEAMS
Buzzmove
Roadio
Roadio broke into the top 25 educational apps in the app store last week. A clear example that good job becomes great satisfaction. Congratulations!
Skin Analytics
Skin analytics was selected as one of 10 who were selected for a $10k grant.
Fantastic job!
Karisma Kidz
Hubbub continues to grow
In October there will be 20 hubbub platforms, almost as many as the all of the university platforms in the US. They recently launched the UK's first university crowdfunding platform (York), plus the world's first charity crowdfunding platform and the first such platform for an NHS hospital.
Crowd Reactive exceeds $500,000 in revenue
Awards & Honours
- Skin Analytics were elected to the FOUNDER.org Class of 2015, winning a £10,000 grant.
- Virtually Free won the Startup Competition at Cambridge University's Technology Ventures Conference.
- Insane Logic founder and CEO Zoe Peden won Best Female Investment at the UKBAA Angel Investment Awards.
- Third Space Learning won Social Investment of the Year at the same ceremony.