How to Become a Student Entrepreneur
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How to Become a Student Entrepreneur
- 1. HOW TO BE A STUDENT ENTREPRENEUR Saverio Murgia CEO & FOUNDER of Horus Technology
- 2. HELLO! My name is Saverio and I am an entrepreneur and innovator with the passion for computer vision and machine learning.
- 3. QUICK RESUME
- 4. 2014 - 2015 Ecole centrale de Nantes Master's Degree, EMARO - Advanced Robotics 2013 - 2014 Università degli Studi di Genova / University of Genoa Master's Degree, EMARO - Robotics Engineering 2010 - 2013 Università degli Studi di Genova / University of Genoa Bachelor's degree, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering 2010 - 2015 ISSUGE - ISICT Excellence Programme, ICT, Management and Economics March 2014 - present CEO and Founder Horus Technology February 2015 - present Visiting Research Student EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) October 2012 – June 2014 Intern PSPC Lab - Università degli Studi di Genova March 2014 – July 2015 Visiting Research Student Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
- 5. LET’S START!
- 7. 285 million people do not live independently due to sight loss. We want to give them a device that will change their lives.
- 9. HOW DID THIS IDEA COME?
- 10. One day, Luca and I were helped a blind person walk around the city because there was a detour. In that period we were working on robotics vision systems. We said: why don’t we apply our knowledge to something that can help people?
- 11. AFTER SIX MONTHS WE MADE OUR FIRST PROTOTYPE
- 13. WE MADE HORUS
- 14. a greater independence Face recognition Text readingObject recognition Navigation assistance GOAL
- 15. THIS WAS MADE POSSIBLE THANKS TO GRANTS
- 16. 6K € 15K € 5K CHF 10K €
- 17. AND A CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN ON THE TIM #WCAP PLATFORM
- 19. WE MADE THIS
- 20. Stereo bone conduction system Stereo vision
- 22. Voice commands Universal fit No ear impairment Eligible to be a medical device No internet required User adaptation ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGES
- 23. PARTNERSHIP
- 25. BUT, WHO IS BEHIND ALL OF THIS?
- 26. CORE TEAM Saverio Murgia Luca Nardelli Benedetta Magri CEO & FOUNDER CTO & FOUNDER CMO Advanced Robotics Neuro engineering Member of LEO Club
- 27. TEAM Alessandro Caldini Simone Vuotto Martina Cavalieri SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SOFTWARE DEVELOPER DESIGNER
- 28. SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD Prof. Fabio Solari PhD Manuela Chessa PhD Renowned researchers in the field of Computer Vision
- 29. THE TEAM IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR YOUR BUSINESS
- 30. HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
- 31. Countless hours spent working!
- 32. Here are the lessons learned…
- 33. 1 Speaking a lot about our idea
- 34. 2 Not being greedy (with the team)
- 35. 3 Being greedy with everybody else
- 37. 5 Asking for help to mentors and advisors
- 38. 6 Pitching (and applying) for any grant/accelerator
- 39. 7 Saying NO
- 40. 8 There is no better moment to start than NOW
- 41. “The person who cannot see has the future in their eyes. We must live our lives with every sense, every emotion”
- 42. CONTACTS Saverio Murgia CEO & FOUNDER ceo@horus.technology ch.linkedin.com/in/saveriomurgia info@horus.technology www.horus.technology @horustechnology
- 43. THANK YOU
Editor's Notes
- La mission di Horus
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