The 5 startups that will participate in the 2nd Edition of Santalucía IMPULSA have been selected. Get to know them!

The leading family protection insurer, Santa Lucía, has selected the 5 startups that will be accelerated in your entrepreneurship program Santalucía IMPULSA. The decision was taken by an expert jury, made up of the directors of the most representative areas of Santa Lucía.In this second edition, a total of 250 startups submitted applications, of which only 10 were selected by the company. Of those 10, the jury chose the 5 that will be accelerated in this second edition of the program. Among those chosen, projects on digital protection or risk mutualization stand out.Over the next 5 months, the selected startups will receive specialized training and individual mentoringl with experts who will help them to develop their business. In the words of Ángel Uzquiza, Director of Innovation at Santa Lucía: “Our priority is to carry out exhaustive monitoring and help them throughout the acceleration process, but, in addition, we believe that the selected projects will have many possibilities of establishing alliances with the SANTALUCÍA Group, as well as the possibility of obtaining investment when the program ends.”

BDEO, JOBIN, Covered, Familiados and Defense have been chosen to be part of this experience. Discover them!

• BDEO: platform to speed up accidents in homes and cars thanks to geolocated video technology and the mix of artificial intelligence to automatically recognize the damage caused by accidents. You can learn more about this platform by following it on its social networks: Twitter and LinkedIn.
• Covered: easy, transparent, community, social and participatory mobile or tablet insurance. Covered is a risk pooling program outside the insurance sector, a platform for managing a community of users that is committed to transparent and independent community insurance.
• Defense: offers a protection package for the Digital Identity of any natural or legal person. Based on a patented algorithm, the company rates the value of the client's different social profiles -Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twich-, their websites and blogs, their email accounts or even their video game accounts -LoL, WoW, CS-, based on a multitude of metrics. To learn more you can follow her on Twitter.
• Familiados: platform for caregivers of dependent people that provides hourly help. It is managed from the mobile and provides a specialist anytime, anywhere in less than an hour. If you want to know more about this startup you can follow it on its social networks: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
• JOBIN: mobile platform for hiring household professionals who easily, simply and quickly resolve a fault that has arisen at home. Learn more about the startup by following it on social networks: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn And Instagram.

But this year, startups will not be alone, they will be joined by the two best projects in the intra-entrepreneurship program, through which the insurance group offers its employees the possibility to develop projects that generate new business models. These projects are:

• Brainshare: The agile application based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning that provides effective answers to questions that “steal” our effective working time.
• Return Plus: The solution that seeks to give away, reward or reward those customers who have not used home care coverage.

These projects have been selected from a total of 10 participants, and they will not only form part of acceleration program Santalucía IMPULSA, in addition, they will carry out the Master's Degree in Entrepreneurship and Startup Acceleration of Santa Lucía.In the words of one of the winning entrepreneurs: “We are very grateful that Santa Lucía you have chosen our project and we can do this master's degree, since for us it is an excellent opportunity to launch our idea. We face this new phase with great enthusiasm and a great desire to do our best, make the most of it and learn a lot” From Santalucía IMPULSA we want to congratulate the projects that have participated in the program, both to external startups and to projects developed by the company's employees, and to especially congratulate those who have been selected to participate in the program. Five months of hard work and effort await you ahead of you, of which we are sure, you will get the most out of it.