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Southern Europe finalists in the world’s largest startup competition for women in tech She Loves Tech 2021

MILAN, 7-Oct-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — The first edition of She Loves Tech South Europe is entering its core in October. Since the beginning of June, after campaigning and engaging the South Europe startup ecosystem, the finalists are now called for the final pitching, to showcase their business to a wide public and to the panel of international judges from diverse yet professionally relevant fields! Only 1 out of the 12 finalists will be selected as Regional Winner and as South Europe representative to attend the Global Final Competition! The greatest competition tailored to women in tech – organised by X23 Srl and covering Italy, France, Spain, Portugal – has found its champions in South Europe (in alphabetical order):

  • Baby Friendly Companies, Luxury baby gift baskets from Spain by Elena Gómez del Pozuelo
  • Best Health 4U, Material solutions for skin-interacting from Portugal by Sónia Ferreira.
  • EcoSteer, software that enables the data sharing economy from Italy by Elena Pasquali.
  • EthicHub, a social enterprise that connects small farmers with the financing needed from Spain by Gabriela Chang.
  • Ienai SPACE, highly efficient ionic-liquid electric propulsion systems and mission analysis for nano-satellites from Spain by Sara Correyero Plaza.
  • Levante, a green tech startup that designs and produces a smart, modular and deployable solar panel device from Italy by Sara Plaga.
  • MEETOPTICS, helps optical engineers and researchers in photonics find, filter and compare optics amongst verified providers in an easy and fast way from Spain by Bárbara Buades.
  • MoonAi, a mobile app that offers science-based and customized sounds to help relieve period-related pain from Spain by Laura-June CLARKE.
  • NEVARO, helps companies take care of their employees’ mental health from Portugal by Rita Maçorano.
  • Orange Fiber s.r.l., patented and manufactures sustainable fabrics for fashion from Italy by Enrica Arena.
  • The Newsroom, limiting the spread of misinformation online from Portugal by Jenny Romano.
  • U-Earth Biotech, innovative biotechnologies that reduce air pollution from Italy by Betta Maggio.

he South Europe Champions will compete in the final pitch, an online event celebrated on 13th October, from 2:00 to 4:40 PM CEST via Zoom Webinar (agenda, CLICK). A few seats are still available to get to know the best women-in-tech-led startup to join the representatives from the other 40+ countries globally in the Final Global Event on 3-4 December, 2021.
The startups will be selected by a panel of international judges expert in the startup ecosystem, while the event will host the key-note speeches from international industry experts, startup mentors and community builders, such as:

  • Yonah Welker, Board Member, Yonah.ai, will discuss “Accessibility, algorithmic diversity and the role of women in this movement”
  • Maxwell Mirho, Host, Speaker, EntrepreNerd, will teach us “How to build a startup in 10 minutes”
  • Silvia Pulino, Professor, John Cabot University, will provide a speech about the “Gender Gap in STEM”.

Ready to discover the next top South Europe Women in Tech winner?
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SOURCE: EuropaWire

FriendMatch hopes to help thousands of Americans, Canadians who are creating classified advertisements to find new friends

With hundreds of thousands of classified ads posted on popular buy-and-sell websites like Craigslist and Kijiji by people who are trying to make platonic friends, a new concept was born- using the Internet to find and make friends.

Twenty-four-year-old Katie Hartle noticed this trend, and saw an entire market being ignored- online matchmaking for friends. Hartle created FriendMatch in hopes of making it easier for Americans and Canadians to make friends online, for free.

“This is just one more way that technology can improve our lives, in this case, our social lives,” says Hartle, “We have dating sites, lots of them, but this concept is long overdue.”

FriendMatch is designed so that visitors can look up potential new friends by city. Users can also browse or post an ad for friendship without signing up in one of several categories, including:

• New parents
• Seniors
• Couple Friends
• New in Town
• Exercise buddies
• Professional and Networking
• Room mates
• Weird Friend Requests

“As our lives change, we need friends to support us, whether we are newly sober, newly married, or even newly divorced,” says Hartle, “Friendships can enrich our lives, but the trouble is, it’s not always easy to find friends.”

The website can be found at www.friendmatch.us in the United States, and www.friendmatch.ca in Canada.

Via EPR Network
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