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.

Innovalley is proud to announce that we successfully presented at the European Startup Demo Night on July 21st in PariSoma.

EU Startup Demo Night is an event co-organized by Swissnex San Francisco, faber Novel, and Blackbox. 10 young entrepreneurs from all over Europe, selected among 100 applicants, presented in front of an audience of select VCs and fellow startups gathered at Parisoma.

Jose Luis Agell presented Innovalley and our smart apparel solutions getting great feedback from potential partners and investors.

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!

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

Today has been a great day! A group of Executive-MBA students from the EOI is visiting Silicon Valley and we had the chance to spend the whole day working with them.

The goal was to build innovative products and business models on top of some wearable technologies and software that Innovalley has developed. We first presented the company in a 15-minute pitch. We also presented our innovation management processes and we proposed them with the challenge: they had to work in seven teams and come up with a new product using a piece of Innovalley technology. They had 1 hour to brainstorm and 2 hours to work on their investor pitch (5 minutes).

The audience acted as investors and each one of us had to invest 1M dollars in 3 projects maximum. We still don’t know what team raised most of the funds. However, it was great to get so many brilliant ideas and we really enjoyed the time with such a talented and motivated group of people.

Thanks EOI!!!