At CES 2023, Korea had what appeared just like the second-largest startup presence after the French contingent. There have been a formidable variety of Korean startups in several places, and the Okay-Startup space was in all probability the busiest. We had an opportunity to go to it on Saturday, Jan 7, and had been capable of test virtually all of them.

Ubergizmo was a part of the Okay-Startup World Media Awards jury, and our job was to pick Ubergizmo’s Prime 3 startups. Our scoring and people from different worldwide media would decide the ultimate World Media Awards Prime 3. In complete, we had 46 startups competing for the highest spot, and that was probably the most dynamic teams we’ve seen but.

Myself (Hubert Nguyen) giving an award to SevenPointOne

We’ve been requested to make use of a scoring system based mostly on 4 key metrics: marketability, international market potential, Funding potential, and competitiveness. The coefficients apply equally to all startups.

From our viewpoint, the highest three Okay-Startup firms had been SevenPointOne, Avalve, and Dongnam Understand Inc.

#1 SevenPointOne

You would possibly do not forget that SevenPointOne was already a prime nominee for MIK CES 2023, nevertheless it is sensible to seek out them right here once more because it has a product that would assist everybody in some unspecified time in the future in life.

SevenPointOne builds software program that may detect early indicators of dementia and cognitive impairments. This is without doubt one of the most underdiagnosed situations within the US, and a large variety of folks might have higher dwelling situations if handled earlier. We count on this space to be extraordinarily aggressive, however SevenPointOne already has a product.

#2 Avalve

Avalve takes meals manufacturing to the following degree by offering software program and sensors to indoor farmers who wish to develop meals completely utilizing a continuing knowledge stream. The corporate can observe and analyze particular person vegetation to assist farmers ship optimum vitamin to particular person crops.

By doing so, Avalve claims to double the crop’s yield whereas decreasing labor by virtually half. Avalve recommends utilizing as much as one digital camera per plant, which appears unbelievable. Nevertheless, because of such sensors’ dwindling prices, it’s cost-effective for particular crops. Avalve has an intensive plant database and continues buying extra knowledge into its cloud platform.

#3 Dongnam Understand Inc.

These are made utilizing wood-based plastic alternative, utilizing regular plastic molding equipment.

Dongnam Understand Inc. provides an thrilling plastic alternative that makes use of wooden, a easy carbon-neutral materials accessible in abundance. By doing so, the corporate makes it handy to make use of this alternative in varied industries. This new materials doesn’t want new tooling and is delivered in the identical pellet type as most plastics. As such, it’s a drop-in alternative for sure plastics.

We had been shocked to be taught that though the fabric is cleanly bio-degradable, it could stay involved with water for prolonged durations, making it superior to many different natural replacements that can’t maintain such contact with out degrading in days.

One of the best ways to eliminate plastics is to seek out higher supplies, and Dongnam Understand Inc will get us one step nearer to that aim.

Conclusion

We wish to thank all of the startups that took the time to arrange and ship a pitch to our group of media jury. It was difficult to rank so many progressive merchandise and corporations, however in the end, we had been guided by our 17 years of expertise protecting CES.

Congratulations to the highest three firms with the very best aggregated scores, and we want them nice success within the market.

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