ODINE entrepreneurs awarded a total of €1.7m
Publication Date/Time
2015-11-10T09:00:00+00:00
Eighteen Open Data companies from across Europe join the ODINE
The Open Data Incubator for Europe (ODINE) has awarded a total of
€1.7m to the eighteen businesses selected for its first and second
cohort.

THE STARTUPS AND SMES SICKLY [https://www.sickly.org/], THINGFUL
[http://www.thingful.net/], PIKHAYA SMART STREETS
[http://pikhaya.com/], COMMOPRICES [https://commoprices.com/],
INSYMBIO [https://www.f6s.com/insymbio], INSTATS
[http://www.instats.co/], BIKECITIZENS [http://www.bikecitizens.net/],
OPENLAWS [http://www.openlaws.com/], OPENRESORT S/I-AS-A-SERVICE
[http://www.infamouslabs.net/], IBEACONS LIVING LAB
[http://www.glimworm.com/], OPEN DATA BASED FIRE RISK ASSESSMENT
[http://netage.nl/], FARM DOG [http://www.farmdog.ag/], PLUME AIR
CLOUD [http://plumelabs.com/], DATAPRESS [http://datapress.com/],
OPENGAZETTES [https://opencorporates.com/], PROVENANCE
[http://www.provenance.org/], RENTSQUARE [http://www.rentsquare.io/],
AND UNIGRAPH [https://unigraph.rocks/] HAIL FROM AUSTRIA, ESTONIA,
FRANCE, GREECE, NETHERLANDS, ISRAEL, ITALY, THE UK AND SLOVAKIA. 

The business provide SOLUTIONS to pressing economic, social, and
environmental issues including air pollution, access to legal
information, and transparency in supply chains. They receive UP TO
€100K of EU grant funding each after being SELECTED in the first
rounds of the programme, which supports European startups and SMEs to
build sustainable businesses using OPEN DATA.
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/img/media/winners-odine.png]
_Winners of the ODINE grant at the ODI summit in London, UK (November
2015)_

Between 50 and 70 Open Data-focused businesses will be welcomed to the
incubator until August 2016. €3.8M of a total of more than €5.5m
are STILL AVAILABLE and interested companies are invited to apply.

In addition to grant funding, the businesses will have access during
their six month incubation to peer-networking, technology, datasets,
mentorship, investors and media services.

For more information on ODINE, please visit
http://opendataincubator.eu.

ODINE is being delivered by the Open Data Institute (ODI)
[http://theodi.org/], the University of Southampton
[http://www.southampton.ac.uk/], Telefónica
[http://www.telefonica.com/en/home/jsp/home.jsp], the Guardian
[http://www.theguardian.com/uk], Telefónica Open Future
[https://www.openfuture.org/en], Fraunhofer
[http://www.fraunhofer.de/en.html], Open Knowledge Foundation
(Germany) [http://okfn.de/]. New startups are being recruited every
two months on a rolling basis, until August 2016.
