Cisco BIG Awards Shortlist Announced
May 29 2012 - 12:00PM
Marketwired
Twenty businesses from across the UK have been shortlisted for the
Cisco BIG Awards today, as Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) completes the first
stage of its hunt to find Britain's most inspiring and innovative
start-ups and SMEs.
The Awards, which are running in collaboration with JP Morgan
Chase, Bird & Bird, DNX and Octopus Communications, will take
place annually throughout Cisco's British Innovation Gateway (BIG)
initiative -- a significant five-year investment of cash,
technology and human resources -- and aims to develop Britain's
innovation eco-system and create an environment in which start-up
digital businesses and their ideas can flourish.
In its inaugural year, the Cisco BIG Awards is celebrating
shining examples of the UK's most enterprising small businesses.
The categories, which include BIG Data, Collaboration, Future
Cities, Internet of Things and Mobility, each represent some of the
most relevant technology challenges and mega trends facing business
today. A dedicated judging panel from Cisco worked through the 300
entries, measuring each one against a strict criterion, to
shortlist 20 semi-finalists. From this 20, six finalists will be
chosen to present their business plans live to a judging panel
before the winner is chosen.
The overall winner will receive a total prize package of
approximately $200k, made up of $100k cash, 12 months of mentoring
from Cisco and a 12-month support package covering PR, marketing
and legal services. Runners-up and semi-finalists will also receive
cash and technology prizes to support and accelerate the
development of their brands and businesses.
The full shortlist is:
BIG Data
- Shopitize Ltd - Transform Receipts into Personalised Mobile
Shopping Assistant & Rewards
- Playback Holdings Ltd - Playback Rewards (PBR) - Targeted
television advertising with full privacy protection
- Metric Science Ltd - Metric Science - empowering advertising
professionals with the knowledge necessary to better evaluate their
media
Collaboration
- Six3 Limited - Six3 Video Messenger
- Portal Entertainment Limited - Immersion GO - A storytelling
platform for the digital age
- Rabbitsoft Ltd (clinked.com) - Clinked - Collaborating for More
Efficient Business
- TBC - TES Brightspark online tuition - global
collaboration
Future Cities
- KlickEx UK Limited - The World's Most Accessable Economic
System
- Nervecentre Software Ltd - Improving patient safety and
hospital productivity through collaboration
Internet of Things
- The Clinic Finder Limited - Helping clinics meet new patients
and patients find clinics
- Poikos Limited - MeasureCAM_
- Sion Buckler - Location Based Social WiFi Access and AdPlatform
Innovation
- Digital Shadows Ltd - Digital Shadows
- WhipCar Limited - WhipCar - Rent the Car Next Door
Mobility
- Snap Fashion Ltd - Snap Fashion - A Visual Search Engine for
Fashion
- ParkatmyHouse Ltd - Community Parking
- HipSnip Limited - HipSnip - shopping questions, answered
- TBC - mentorwell.com - boosting talent with social
mentoring
Supporting Quote:
Phil Smith, CEO Cisco UK and Ireland "We are very proud to
announce the Cisco BIG Awards semi-finalists. Each is a testament
to the fact that the UK is full of thriving and innovative
entrepreneurs and SMEs with diverse and leading edge businesses.
The quality of the entries has been outstanding and it's great to
see that the UK tech scene can rise to individual challenges and
also flourish in the wider context of a truly testing marketplace.
We are delighted to extend our congratulations to them all!"
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