Start-ups 2018
Knowie
Knowie is your new colleague who will help you by providing answers to your questions in your daily work. Knowie will help employees by preventing them getting lost in the knowledge jungle and getting agitated for not finding information. Our ambition is to become the leading digital colleague and that every employee uses Knowie with pleasure. When employees think about finding information they should think about Knowie, to have a conversation with. As a team we want to make employees, managers and companies happy, by supporting them with knowledge at any time.
PoliticAI
At PoliticAI we want to make politics more transparent. We do this by building a search engine that makes it easy to find which politician said what about a certain subject. We combine multiple data sources to give insight in these opinions.
Streamium
We want to bring brands and social influencers together on a platform where it is easy for brands to select thousands of social influencers they think fit their brand. These social influencers can choose, at any time, to promote the brand either verbally or visually and are paid automatically and immediately. The rewards are based on duration and prominence of the promotion. Brands only have to sign up once for our platform: no further contracting is required. We are also responsible for making sure promotion are detected correctly.
What makes it all work? A deep learning algorithm that can learn to recognize any product in a few hours, based on only a few images of the product itself. The algorithm is performant enough to then detect promotions as they are happening on live streams. It can also detect promotions in videos and pictures (taken from Instagram for example). When a promotion is detected, the system checks whether the brand is affiliated with the influencer and fetches the current reward the brand has set out, combines it with duration and prominence and processes their payment.
The algorithm can be exploited in numerous ways and this is currently one of them, but new possibilities are emerging as we are writing this!