Capgemini announces InnovatorsRace50 top ten finalists

MUMBAI: Consulting technology and outsourcing services company, Capgemini has announced the ten finalists of its InnovatorsRace50, a worldwide competition for early stage start-ups to showcase the potential of their projects or innovative uses of technology to disrupt businesses and organizations.

This is a special edition of Innovators Race by Capgemini to mark its 50th Anniversary year, which received 928 submissions from 37 countries. From those submissions, 50 have presented their projects to a panel of experts who then nominated the finalists.

The ten finalists will now get the opportunity to connect with tech and industry experts from Capgemini in person, leveraging five of Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchanges (AIEs) located in San Francisco, Paris, Munich, Mumbai and London. Over the next two months, all finalists will get to experience the AIE’s immersive and transformative environment in order to refine different elements of their projects.

From June 15 to June 17 at VivaTech, the tech show for game-changer start-ups in Paris, the 10 finalists will be invited to present their projects on the Capgemini booth. On June 16, they will pitch in person to an audience and jury. Five winners will be awarded with the “Serge Kampf entrepreneurship and innovation award” and will each have the opportunity to secure business backing of equity free funding to the tune of $50,000, extensive networking opportunities, participation in international tech events, access to industry experts, and to potentially join the Capgemini partner ecosystem.