Jobin and Brainshare winners of Santalucía IMPULSA

Last Thursday, June 28, the Demo Day, the grand final of Santalucía IMPULSA, the acceleration program of Santa Lucía. It was a very pleasant day, dedicated to innovation, bringing to an end the second edition of the program. The event opened Carlos Lorenzo, General Business Director of Saint Lucy, highlighting that the insurance company is committed to R+D+C where C is the customer, and highlighted the work, effort and merit of all the finalist teams, recognizing that ”they are all winners for having come this far”. María Benjumea, Founder and CEO of Spain Startup and South Summit, he also wanted to participate in such an important occasion and made his contribution to the entrepreneurial ecosystem, highlighting the importance of”work on open innovation, making large companies and startups with great ideas collaborate and work together to advance in a collaborative society that allows the more dynamic development of innovations”.Subsequently, the startups that have been accelerated over the past few months by Santalucía IMPULSA: Familiados, Bdeo, Jobin, Defense and Covered presented their projects to a jury of experts. They were followed by entrepreneurship projects Brainshare and Retorno Plus.These were high-level exhibitions, in which both entrepreneurs and startups demonstrated what they learned over the months of acceleration. Once the pitches were over, the jury had time to deliberate and all the attendees were able to see a video summary of how mentors, trainers, startups and entrepreneurs have worked throughout the program to make the projects successful.

Finally, both were named. winners of this second edition of Santalucía IMPULSA:

• Jobin, the platform for finding and hiring professionals for home repairs and renovations, which allows users to choose from more than 13,000 professionals from all over Spain. The startup will not only have the possibility to establish synergies with the Grupo Santalucía, you can also receive financing by the insurance company.
• Brainshare, as an entrepreneur project winner of Santalucía IMPULSA Employees, an application that draws on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to provide effective answers to questions that “steal” effective working time in everyday processes.

The startup Jobin has been selected from a total of 252 applications coming from more than 700 entrepreneurs from different countries.Brainshare, on the other hand, has been the winner of the great innovation in this year's program: intra-entrepreneurship, in which a total of 50 entrepreneurs were chosen, of which only 2 (Retorno Plus and Brainshare) were selected to accelerate together with the startups in the program Santalucía IMPULSAHowever, for all the work done and the effort put into each project, all the participants are winners and received well-deserved recognition for this. After meeting the winners, all the participants in the event and program posed for a great family photo, which revealed the great bonds that are established by working together. To end the day, all attendees were able to enjoy special catering. Without a doubt, it was a memorable event, not only because of the selection of the winners of the 2nd Edition of the program but also because of the great involvement of the attendees, who broadcast the event on their social networks, making #PodiumIMPULSA a trending topic. But the acceleration doesn't stop here. The projects will go ahead, and even if they have not been the winners of this edition, it is not an impediment to reaching establish synergies with Santa Lucía in the future.For our part, we hope to be able to hold a new edition next year, since the program has brought us great joys, such as Best accelerator award at the 4th edition of Startup Olé, but without a doubt the best award we could receive was to see the great effort and dedication that both participants and mentors and trainers have shown throughout the program.Since Santalucía IMPULSA we want to thank you all because of the demonstrated commitment to the acceleration program, this gives us strength to continue working and accelerating new projects.