Innovalley

From 22-29 September, Innovalley’s bags YouShine were exposed at the 16th edition of the ITMA, the most important textile machinery exhibition in the world.

For the first time, Fira Barcelona’s Gran Via trade fair site hosted this event which is held in a different city every four years. Previous editions have taken place in cities such as Milan, Hanover, Basel, Paris, Birmingham and Munich. This edition gathered 120,000 visitors, 1,350 exhibitors and had 240,000 m2 of exhibition space.

We want to thank ITMA and our partner,  CETEMMSA, for giving us the the opportunity  to expose our product and participate in the most important textile exhibition in the world. Innovalley’s goal is to revolutionize the textile world by partnering and co-developing innovative products with clothing and footwear brands.

José Luis Agell was interviewed by Chris Gill, President of SVASE, on Silicon Valley Entrepreneur TV. The interview took place 2 weeks after the Launch Silicon Valley event where Innovalley was selected most likely to succeed.

After a month of intense work, the first edition of Imagine Creativity Center has come to an end. The program’s highlight was the final event that took place last Wednesday at Public Works, San Francisco. The participants, the dreamers,  presented their ideas around 4 projects: the future of mobility, smart apparel 2.0, the future of shopping experience and the future of advertising.

Innovalley, as sponsor of Imagine, led the project about smart apparel 2.0.

Janire, Óscar and Aitor (the Smart Apparel team) surprised us with an innovative solution to improve the sleeping experience. Their project, called Smart Sleeping,  consists of a set of connected blanket, pillow and pajamas that interact with a Smart phone app. The system includes revolutionary features like biometric tracking, multimedia resources, communication capacities… Moreover, users can set up their profile from the app, store it on the cloud and take their sleeping experience anywhere.

Thanks guys for such a great job! Keep on dreaming!

Tuesday was a great day for Innovalley.Launch: Silicon Valley 2011 , an event co produced by SVASE and Garage Ventures, featured 30 new companies that had 6-minutes plus 4 minutes Q&A to present their new products and services. Innovalley was one of them (selected among 300 hundred applicants). The event gathered the Silicon Valley’s top VCs, Angels, corporate development executives, entrepreneurs, bloggers and media.It was great meeting so many interesting people, interact with investors and see their interest in our Youshine bags and new products. Above all, we’re very  excited to announce that the audience voted Innovalley as ‘most likely to succeed, 2011′ on the mobile category. This recognition is a new source of energy to keep on walking and a proof that we’re taking the right path. Thank you very much to the audience for voting us and thanks so much to the organizers and sponsors for this amazing event.

Also, you can read the Event Press Release here

The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE) just announced the name of the 30 companies that are demonstrating its products or services at Launch Silicon Valley 2011. The selected companies will be presenting on stage for 6 minutes in front of Silicon Valley’s most influential VC and Angel Investors.

We are thrilled to announce that Innovalley is one of these 30 companies (selected from over 300 applicants).

The event will begin on June 7 at 8.30 at Microsoft’s Mountain View Campus and is co-presented by SVASE, Garage Technology Ventures and Microsoft.

For more information about the event: http://launchsiliconvalley.org

Mañana, miércoles 23 de marzo, a las 10.00h (hora española), continuaran los debates organizados por el Área de Desarrollo Económico con motivo de la exposición “Futurotextiles”. Su misión es promover la reflexión alrededor de la transformación del sector textil y esta vez contaran con la presencia de Ariadna Mateu.

La sesión titulada “El textil y el mundo de las empresas: estrategias empresariales de éxito”, se emitirá en directo vía streaming desde: www.diba.cat/futurotextiles y se podrá seguir por twitter con la etiqueta #economieslocals.

Más información sobre el debate: http://www.diba.cat/cjs/jornada.asp?id=1461