Welcome To Our Spring 2019 Accelerator Teams!

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8 min readMay 2, 2019

This month we welcome twenty-nine new companies who are joining our Hardware & IoT, Drones & Robotics, and Food Technology accelerator programs from all over the world. Over the past couple of months, we’ve worked closely with these teams during our “Ramp Up” phase. During the coming weeks, we’ll be hosting the founders across our offices in Hong Kong, Bahrain, and Poland and helping them take their startups to the next level!

The latest teams to join the Brinc family are representative of our four core investment categories: How We Feel, Where We Live, What We Eat, and How We Move. It’s amazing and rewarding to be able to support a new batch of startups in the areas that we’re most passionate about.

Here’s a quick rundown of the companies coming on board:

Hong Kong Accelerator Programs (Hardware & IoT, Drones & Robotics, and Food Technology)

Hardware & IoT Accelerator Program

Blankit is developing a smart platform for hospitals and homes using IoT, AI, computer vision and data analytics. Through devices that solve the problems of communication, Blankit aims to improve patient experience, streamline logistics, reduce costs, and collect data in hospitals and care homes. With this technology, medical professionals can have more visibility on the patient situation ultimately leading to improved care and faster response times.
Frontier Bio makes bio-printing hardware that is unprecedented as it can print at both the micro and nano scales. Additionally, their technology can print with up to 100% cell survivability whereas other technologies result in up to 60% cell death. They combine multiple bio-printing technologies into one machine resulting in a powerful platform.
Hire My Farmer has created an ecosystem and platform that connects farmers directly to retailers. This enables better foresight and planning of agricultural production, and retailers to make direct orders from farmers without the intervention of middlemen.
Kulture Athletics has created the world’s first smart activewear designed for a more connected and gamified personal training experience. Their sensors record at a muscular activation level so athletes know exactly how hard they worked out and where that work happened.
Pocket Clinic is focused on developing new technology to optimize and personalize treatment for diabetic patients. Their company aims to rethink the entire control and drug delivery process by introducing a smartphone-controlled compact medical device to track diabetes, dispense medication and deliver updates to caregivers.

Drones & Robotics Accelerator Program

Drone Delivery Systems introduces the first solar-powered smart drone mailbox in the world. AirBox Home will safely and securely accept autonomous deliveries by truck, motorcycle or drone for the intended end user.
Herotech8 is developing automated drone-in-a-box technology — or “drone stations” — to enable aerial patrols for security surveillance purposes.
Infiction Labs is a robotics company dedicated to solar power and industrial automation. Their latest product, SPARC, automates solar panel cleaning. Their unique design allows for improved maneuverability reducing the risk of damaging the solar panels while saving time & water consumption. The company aims to provide solutions to optimize the operations and management of solar power plants in order to achieve maximum production efficiency.
iSpagro uses drone technology to provide customized engineering solutions for prevailing problems in the agricultural industry such as harvesting, spraying and monitoring of crops. These innovative and original designs can also be applied to other sectors such as inspection & maintenance and firefighting.

Food Technology Accelerator Program

Caskai is an award-winning beverage made from Cascara — the dried husk of the coffee fruit, an up-cycled former waste product of the coffee drying process.
Cerealthy is the world’s first company to produce plant-based kinds of milk in capsules for coffee machines and single portion sticks. They roast and mill various non-GMO whole grains and nuts including oats, spelt, almond, pistachio, and hazelnut.
Has Algae provides functional nutrition solutions by fortifying staple foods with algae. A range of food products, such as pasta, bread, yoghurt, protein balls and beverages, are enhanced with algae to boost their nutritional value and better appeal to vegan markets.
Journey Foods is the future of nutrient consumption for billions of eaters around the world through software that enables smarter research & design resulting in efficient data-driven production of plant-derived snack foods for millions of growing food companies.
Phuture Foods is the first Halal plant-based meat in Malaysia. Phuture Daging is a plant-based meat mimicking the texture of pork with flavor and aroma that suits the taste of the Muslim community.
Plento is tapping into the growing market of healthy snacks by creating a snack that incorporates both plant-based and insect protein. One of the first of its kind.

If you are interested in connecting with any of these teams or believe you can support them, please sign up here to become a mentor. If you are interested in becoming an accelerator program partner, please email Heriberto Saldivar.

Meet our new Hong Kong portfolio teams at our Brinc Hong Kong Spring 2019 Investor Demo Day on Thursday, May 30th at The Qube @ PMQ, 2/F, 35 Aberdeen Street Central, Hong Kong. RSVP

MENA Accelerator Program (Hardware & IoT)

Hayatech is a connected hardware platform that aims to transform businesses into healthy communities. With employee well being at the center of their ethos, Hayatech is building a company reward program based on wearables and wellness technology to foster effective preventive healthcare solutions.
Honey Flow Africa has created a new evolution in beekeeping that improves predictability, honey production and honey processing. Honey Flow Africa provides real-time continuous apiary monitoring systems for beekeepers by detecting foraging activity, monitoring nectar supply and providing swarm alerts to increase survival rates, reduce cost and increase production.
PlantOS is a vertically integrated precision agriculture technology company for indoor and outdoor environments with sensor computers and a platform powered by Google Cloud. PlantOS is developing a comprehensive solution for agricultural companies that spans everything from people tracking to real-time agricultural data.
Rabt is a technology company that designs and develops connected hardware and software applications for specialized use-cases. They are focused on use-cases that include tracking, communication, health, automation and safety. Rabt’s first product is Hajj Gear which promises to make Hajj pilgrims’ journey safe and secure. Hajj Gear will include a Hajj Belt, a Mobile Application, and a Web-Based Platform.

Meet our new MENA portfolio teams at our Brinc MENA Spring 2019 Investor Demo Day on Monday, June 24th at Flat 301, 3rd Floor, Batelco Commercial Building, Building 114, Road 385, Block 304, Manama Center, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. RSVP

Poland Accelerator Programs (Hardware & IoT — Poland Prize & Scale Up)

3D Bistro is providing affordable, 3D printer using SLS technology, suitable for batch printing, available for a tenth of the prize of industrial SLS machines, it is designed to bring 3D printing precision to engineers, makers, designers and hobbyists while at the same time can revolutionize the way we do mass manufacturing.
Avrio Energy helps consumers improve energy efficiency through its end-to-end affordable hardware and software solution. Their single proprietary hardware gets installed near main power lines and collects overall energy consumption data.
BREN solution is a flexible hybrid energy nano-generator. It harvests energy from waste heat and vibration.
Climate Edge delivers agronomy at scale. Using IoT and SaaS, they allow agronomists in tropical cash crop cooperatives to provide thousands of farmers with expert advice and management recommendations.
Hava Health mission is to help improve outcomes for people who are battling nicotine addiction. Their patent-pending hardware + software solution automatically and gradually weans people off the substance, reducing withdrawal symptoms and increasing cessation success rates.
Kibus is the first home appliance to cook healthy pet food automatically. It allows pet parents to feed their pets on a healthy and natural diet in a convenient way.
Kozhya provides convenient active skin care to improve and maintain skin health. Kozhya creates a sustainable nature-powered product portfolio of skin care cosmetics and applications.
Pepper Cooking is a smart kitchen scale and nutrition platform that makes planning, preparing and understanding what you eat effortless. With Amazon Alexa built-in, Pepper can portion, track and calculate your food by over 150 nutrients, all with the power of voice.
Smartbell offers an enterprise IoT and AI based solution for livestock rearing and management. The fully automated system includes distress alerts, herd analysis, tracking across the value chain and customized management reports.
uFraction8 provides scalable bioprocessing technology enabling biomass filtration, separation and dewatering, used with a wide range of microbes like microalgae, yeast and bacteria, sorting biomass from culture medium with no harm and no flocculants, unlike centrifuges, filters and membranes.

Meet our new Poland accelerator teams at our Brinc Poland Spring 2019 Investor Demo Day on Wednesday, June 26th at Warsaw Spire, plac Europejski 1, 00–844, Warsaw, Poland. RSVP

We’re only just getting started in 2019!

Our Spring 2019 cohort is the biggest batch yet. It adds 29 new startups to our growing family of founders. This brings our total portfolio to 79 companies with founders from 28 countries across 5 continents.

Applications for our Fall 2019 accelerator programs will open at the end of the month. If you would like to get notified when applications open, register here.

We hope to see you at our upcoming Demo Days!

Brinc is a hands-on global venture accelerator with programs in IoT & Connected Hardware, Drones & Robotics and Food Technology. Brinc has offices in Hong Kong, China, the Middle East, Europe & India from where it runs accelerator programs, provides supportive services and capital to help founders move quickly as they build, launch and scale their businesses. Brinc’s diverse portfolio of 79 companies comes from 28 countries, is 64% B2B and 36% B2C and have been selected from over 5,700 applications. One of Brinc’s unique value adds is its strong partner network of over 500 suppliers in the Greater Bay region of China, enabling Brinc to provide the best manufacturing channels for its B2C & B2B startups.