8 Australian teams won the Sydney Division Competition among a field of 113 Australian startups, and were invited to Shenzhen Industry Final in Shenzhen on April 13th as part of the 1st China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship International Competition. Cleverheart, led by Ian Scrivener won third prize in the "Internet and Mobile Internet (Information technology)" category.
CleverHeart was founded to help deliver clean energy to the world's poorest. It develops internet connected monitoring and control products designed to help pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar vendors in developing countries deliver affordable clean energy solutions. Near-real-time data is sent from hardware sensors in the field to the cloud via the local GSM (3G/4G) network. The CleverHeart cloud dashboard allows PAYG vendors to monitor their assets, financial and billing data. Machine learning helps predict when machine maintenance will be required. A modern API allows easy interchange for customer, financial, asset and impact data. At present, CleverHeart has partnerships with CSIRO, Microsoft, and APIGee/Google.
The other competing Australian teams in the various competition catagories were:
Advanced Manufacturing:
-Sonder E-ink Keyboard By Sonder Design
-Learning car By Frank Will/ Juergen Fet/Lutz Fugene
Biological and Life Sciences:
-ScalaMed By Tal Rapke Team
-Upper Limb Rehabilitation By Adel AI-Jumaily Team
Materials and Energy (including energy conservation and environmental protection):
-PVMaster By Yang Li Team
-Sunrise CSP New Energy Technology By Zawadski Artur Team
Internet and Mobile Internet (Information technology):
-CleverHeart By Ian Scrivener Team
Electronic Technology:
-Solar Window Glass By Hongtao Cui Team
The 1st China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship International Competition was launched in December 2016 and is run across three rounds: the Regional Division Competition at 8 locations across the globe, the Global industry Final and the General Final. Altogether 1210 people registered for the competition and 74 projects entered the Global Industry Final, with the top 3 in each industry winning a prize.
Austrade invited the 8 Australian start-ups to join a dinner with local incubators, accelerators and investment organizations, which showed great interest in their projects.
In recent years, increasing importance has been attached to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship at all stages of business development. The Australian federal government, under the National Innovation and Science Agenda has allocated 11.2 million to set up landing pads across 5 locations – San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Singapore, Berlin and importantly Shanghai. Administered by Austrade, the landing pads offer Australian founded, market ready start-ups 90 day residency programmes in these global innovation hubs. The program provides office space, as well as support from a primary local partner and a full range of activities. In Shanghai, tailored assistance and coaching from the Landing Pad Manager and Austrade's China Network, plus support from XNode to tap into the local ecosystem helps fast track the learning curve and access the China market, to enable more Australian startups to innovate, accelererate and go global.
The Shanghai landing pad, launched in September 2016, is hosting the first cohort of 5 start-ups in Fintech, Edtech, holographic technology, AI and data analysis. We welcome discussion with Chinese customers, investors and others interested parties as well as applications from eligible Australian business. For more details, please click Read More.
