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Smart Cities Challenge for Startups

Finding and co-creating innovative solutions to support infrastructure, transportation, and better waste disposal with LIMA EXPRESA and VINCI Highways group. Open innovation program to foster Smart Cities Startups


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LIMA Expresa VINCI powered by vinci Seedstars

About the Program

Finding and co-creating innovative solutions to support infrastructure, transportation, and better waste disposal with LIMA EXPRESA and VINCI Highways group.

Join the call for the Open Innovation Program to foster Smart Cities Startups!

ESPAÑOL

Choose Your Challenge!

Smart Cities:

  • Accident and Incident Detection and Prevention: How to identify and reduce accident detection time?
  • Smart Roads: Data from Customers Solutions to obtain massive data from users in Smart Roads with current infrastructure
  • Waste Management & Circular Economy: How to manage 20 tons of waste per day? Collect, segregate and recycle disposals on the roads

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Benefits

  • Co-create solutions: LIMA EXPRESA & winning Startups led by Seedstars (structure, mentoring, and tools for business design).
  • Own and sell your product/service: IP - Intellectual Property, and startup technology / purchased by LIMA EXPRESA and VINCI Highways, becoming the startups’ client.
  • Purchase: After the co-development process, LIMA EXPRESA and the rest of the concessions of the VINCI Group could purchase the solution, becoming clients of the startup.
  • Expand your business: opportunity to internationalize your product/service to VINCI Highways Center of Excellence.
  • Network and mentoring from executives: at LIMA EXPRESA and VINCI Highways Startups gain knowledge of market needs thanks to the experience, network and knowledge of the group.

Prize: Grant around up to 1,291,000 PEN*** (around 346,000 USD) for all winning solutions to implement the co-development project that meets the challenges proposed. The amount will be split as follows in the Terms and Conditions section below.

Accident and Incident Detection and Prevention

  • KPI: Targeting up to 5 minutes (detection time) with a 95% to 100% of effectivity
  • We are looking for Software solutions (with or without hardware solutions) that allow the quick detection of incidents in the road, determining if it is an accident or an incident (informal event vs formal accident that LIMA EXPRESA needs to detect). We are not looking for a software that registers incidents, we aim for an intelligent system that helps to differentiate a false positive from an accident
  • Artificial intelligence, Smart cameras integrated with Ai and Big Data, Machine learning, IoT solutions, Data analytics
  • The solution should have an interactive dashboard that allows immediate actions and responses to the accidents
  • It would be desirable to include predictive analytics based on history/occurrence or events over the years (weather conditions, traffic or any relevant forecast)
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Smart Roads: Data from Customers

  • Create a platform to capture massive data from users in Smart Roads with current infrastructure (Smart cameras) for improving customer experience by data analytics, AI and Machine learning
  • Obtain 300k full registers (use of data acceptance)
  • System to communicate road to driver
  • Interoperability with other concessions, municipalities, police
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Waste Management & Circular Economy

  • Solutions for collecting automatically 20 tons of waste per day
  • Solutions for Waste valorization, reusing, recycling, or composting the waste collected
  • KPI: Target collect and segregate 80% of the waste
  • Collect, segregate, recycle
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Program Timeline

PHASE 1

Open Call

21st of March 2022

PHASE 2

Close of applications

15th of April 2022

PHASE 3

Scouting

21st of March - 19th April of 2022

PHASE 4

Annoucement of finalists

2nd of May 2022

PHASE 5

Demo Day & Winner Annoucement

19th of May 2022

Project Team

None

REGIONAL PROGRAM MANAGER AT SEEDSTARS

Paula García

None

ENTREPRENEUR IN RESIDENCE & PROJECT LEAD AT SEEDSTARS

Jose Miguel Reta

None

MANAGER ON MARKETING, CUSTOMER SERVICE AND INNOVATION AT LIMA EXPRESA

Carlos Rubio

None

INNOVATION SPECIALIST AT LIMA EXPRESA

Maria Tomey

None

GLOBAL MARKETING PROGRAMS MANAGER

Maria Camila Albornoz

None

INVESTMENT ANALYST AT SEEDSTARS

Monica Gomez

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

About Us

sEEDSTARS

ABOUT

Seedstars

Seedstars is a Swiss-based group with the mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN. Seedstars connects stakeholders, builds companies from scratch with public and private partners and invests in high-growth ventures within these ecosystems. Seedstars aims at fostering impact investing and impact entrepreneurship over the world. Through different activities, that range from venture scouting, events organization to company building and entrepreneurial education programs.

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LIMA EXPRESA

ABOUT

LIMA EXPRESA

Since 2016, LIMA EXPRESA is a company of VINCI Highways, world leader in road concessions. It is in charge of a public-private concession, granted by the Municipality of Lima in 2009, which includes 16 km of the Vía de Evitamiento, from the Trébol de Javier Prado to the Óvalo Habich, and an express road of 9 km, located between the Huáscar Bridge and Av. Morales Duárez, on the border with Callao. Learn more at http://limaexpresa.pe/ and www.asisonlascosas.pe.

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VINCI

ABOUT

VINCI Highways

VINCI Highways, a VINCI Concessions subsidiary, is a leader in road concessions, operation and mobility services. We design, finance, build and operate motorways, bridges, tunnels, urban roads and mobility services on a network of more than 4,000 km in 16 countries. VINCI Highways leverages its expertise to deliver the highest performance and safety standards and treat drivers to a positive experience.

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Proinnovate

ABOUT

Proinnóvate

The ProInnóvate Program of the Ministry of Production promotes and consolidates innovation and entrepreneurship, technological and productive development in the country. ProInnóvate seeks to contribute to the growth of the competitiveness of the productive sector for the growth of the economy, social welfare, environmental protection and sustainable development

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