Start-Up Chile is an ambitious accelerator program started by the Chilean government in 2010 to transfrom the country into the innovation hub of Latin America.
It began a pilot run in 2010 with 22 startups from 14 countries. They were brought to Chile, given US$40,000 of equity-free seed capital, and granted a six-month visa to develop their projects.
In the latest batch there are 100 startups picked from 25 countries all around the globe, including these early-stage, high-potential bootstrappers from India.
Pykih
This Mumbai-based B2B (business-to-business) startup builds data discovery systems for those who want to slice and dice data to quickly draw insights. It helps media brands move toward more innovative and data-driven news projects. It also builds customized, interactive, real-time data visualizations to explain your business case intuitively in a glance.
“We believe each big enough problem deserves a design that best leverages the properties of the data and the context of the business case. To achieve this, Pykih has built many lego-like building blocks,” says Pykih founder Ritvvij Parrikh, who started the company from his house in September 2013.
Currently, Pykih has a 13-member team, and its software has been used by organizations like Microsoft, 500 Startups, and the current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s website.
Pykih was incubated at Zone Startups India, a collaboration between Canada’s Ryerson Futures and the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Relatas
This Bangalore-based startup built an innovative business relationship product: a smart calendar with intelligent document tracking. This lets users manage their contacts for both business and personal life. It has features like unified communication, secure scheduling, document analysis, and a global meetings map.
Tech in Asia tried out the product in September when Relatas was in beta stage. It can sync multiple calendars, lets you learn more about the person you’re planning to meet, find common connections, and keep relevant others informed about your whereabouts. “Relatas was an attempt to solve a problem that I face on a regular basis as I love meeting people, attending events and traveling,” Relatas founder Sudip Dutta says.
Years ago, before ecommerce became hot in India, Dutta had founded and run a niche social startup that helped talented artisans and craftsmen sell their work online. Though the idea was innovative and powerful in terms of its social impact, the economics of running it didn’t work out and the site shut down a few years ago.
WizEngage
This audience engagement product lets you to monitor real-time social media conversations happening at your event. You can use the WizEngage console to moderate and publish relevant conversations. It gives you a live page for your event and lets you organize promotional campaigns to engage with the audience better. They can use this to get real time social media updates of the event and interact with other attendees.
The Mumbai-based startup was founded in December 2013 by technologists Samal Gorai and Vishwanath Gurlhosur.
So far, 53 startups from India have gone to Start-Up Chile since the program began in 2010. A few more cool Indian startups like SousChef and Perleybrook Labs are also heading for Start-Up Chile. We will tell you about them in detail soon.
The application process for the next batch will open on January 13, 2015.
See: Meet the 5 startups from India chosen to be incubated in Canada
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Meet 3 cool Indian startups picked for Start-Up Chile’s latest batch
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