Save lives, Paralyzed to help, and something against the global warming to do – a Rabbi-organization of three Tech Startups. Lisa Louis was at the award ceremony in Paris.
Award winners with a Rabbi. From left: Claudiu., Maoz Ben-Ari, Pinchas Goldschmidt, Uri Gabbay, Thierry Lamidieu, Ben-Zion Bobrovsky
“Improve your technology to the world?” – this is the Motto of the price, with the conference of European rabbis (CER) a year, Internet-distinguishes entrepreneurs. A Central question, Mounir Mahjoubi, France’s Secretary of state for Digital, on Tuesday evening, the opening of the award ceremony speech, which took place this year in Paris.
“Of course, it is to make a profit and to convince as many customers as possible of his product,” he said. “But digital technologies should also help to provide people better and to produce more sustainable.”
The rabbis-conference CE is dedicated to usually topics such as the dialogue of the religions or the fight against anti-Semitism and radicalization. With your “Internet Entrepreneurs Prize”, they also Startups, new technologies, in accordance with the Jewish principle of “Tikkun Olam” use – Hebrew for “repair the world”. This potential of the three winners of the competition will receive 26,000 euros for the first and, respectively, € 18,000 for the second and third place.
A box, to save lives
For this measuring device cardio scale received from Israel the first prize
A small box of Israeli Startups cardio scale, could save many lives, landed at number one. You strap it around like a blood pressure device. It measures five different values of blood pressure, pulse, number of Breaths per Minute, oxygen levels and carbon dioxide levels in the body.
“With a developed algorithm, we can say in advance whether someone will soon fall into a state of shock,” explains the company’s founder, Maoz Ben-Ari.
So you bypass a body’s own mechanism to compensate for certain measurement values such as blood pressure for some time, and so, for example, in the case of a terrorist attack, internal bleeding could hide. Only shortly before the collapse of the real condition of the patient, but then it was often too late.
The idea had almost ten years ago, the doctor Uri Gabbay, Ben-Aris father-in-law, and electrical engineering from Ben-Zion Bobrovsky. However, in 2012 the two wanted to let the project fall because they couldn’t market it simply.
Ben-Ari stopped them. The business man that had sold for ten years, diamonds, founded a Startup and made a contract with the Israeli army. In the elite unit he had served in his twenties as a General. Since then, Ben-Ari is the face of the company and do not regret the career change.
To make “this project is incredibly difficult. There is a constant need to convince people of our ideas and try to get new funds,” he says. “But the opportunity to save a life, is better than money and everything else. It’s worth getting up in the morning.”
The three founders have so far invested around a Million dollars in the company and hope to write in two years, first in the black.
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New technologies for wheelchair users
Not life-saving, but significantly, the intelligent glasses of the Munich-based Startups Munevo, which has won the second price could improve. With your people, who are largely paralyzed and can draw on head movements of your wheelchair.
“Normally, you make the one with the chin on a Joystick, but this is often very unpleasant and also not very aesthetically pleasing,” says Claudiu., co-founder of the company. “Our glasses detects your head movements – when you move him to the back, leaving the wheelchair, for example. In addition, you can adjust via a menu in the glasses to the Seating, and even Photos.”
The wheelchair by glasses taxes – the second prize went to Munevo from Munich
Officially to life. and his three co-founder Munevo launched only this year. But the idea arose as early as 2014 – in a University project.
“I wanted to be a business consultant in the IT sector,” says the business Informatics specialist. “But as we in this project have discovered how little of a technologically networked in a wheelchair, we thought, we’ll just have to do something for you.”
Again and again the students met at the time, people with paralysis, their life force, they made a deep impression. In the meantime, they have collected more than 600,000 euros to the Foundation funds, state grants and private donations. The product is approved in Europe.
Soon, the first glasses should go to a wheelchair in Augsburg – financed by the health insurance Fund. In the future, the glasses should be able to control the Computer, the cell phone and the home environment, such as light and heating.
Produce electricity where it is consumed
The power for these devices could be at home will soon be producing the so-called Green Pack of the company Inergys, landed on place three. The small machine combines a wind Turbine with a solar panel and produce enough electricity for a European household with four or five people.
The company is in the southwest of France Limoges is a founder Thierry Lamidieu on the heart. “We have to do something against global warming, and more renewable electricity, otherwise we are soon travelling against the wall,” he says.
Wind power and solar energy for the Green Pack of Inergys from Limoges, there were the third prize
The Green Pack is so small – a little higher than five meters – that could be him up there, where not a conventional wind turbine for the right fit. And the combination of Solar and wind energy complementary. “At night there is no sun, but often the Wind”, so Lamidieu.
Inergys already has six customers, including large companies such as energy giant Engie (formerly GDF Suez) and the telecommunications provider Orange. A further 30 could follow. So far, Lamidieu can 1.7 Million Euro to collect. But he need, once again, about two million, he says: “We have reduced our production costs by a third, but we need to halve again.” Thus, the company could be in two to three years to be profitable.
With the price of money do more Good
For the price, have applied this year, around 500 companies. Five years ago, in the first edition, there were only 50. “It’s just great that more and more people join in,” says Pinchas Goldschmidt, CER President and chief Rabbi of Moscow. “Our winners help, the price is often a breakthrough to do more Good.”
The three price want to the carrier immediately. Cardio scale is to be financed with the money of the measuring devices for paramedics for rescue services in France and Israel. Munevo wants to donate the premium to more than a dozen glasses of paralyzed children at Alyn hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. And Inergys pins a Green Pack to a village in a developing country. The company is currently in search of a non-governmental organization that could provide it.