I used the conference keynote as an opportunity to present early findings from an intense research project that Red has undertaken, looking at trends across all the startups we’ve seen over the last three years. More on that in a separate post.
The next day our ensemble decamped to Les Ardentes music festival where the investor summit and startup pitches took place. During a four-hour session the 18 sets of founders pitched to a jury of speakers at the conference and summit.
I was pleased and proud to see our alum
Vochlea impress the jury with a live demo of its intelligent microphone from founder George Wright.
The winner was
LUCiD, whose founders are developing multi-sensory solutions with adaptive music at their core, on point and at the core of industry interest right now. See our Red Talk blog post,
here, for more on music and wellness. LUCiD’s first product is a collaboration with furniture company Steelcase to develop a relaxation chair with biosensors that delivers personalised, immersive audio to the person sitting in it, based on their biodata.