IRIDA wins 1st prize at the WMF Startup Competition 2023 in Thessaloniki
IRIDA AI Technologies won first place at the 3rd WMF Startup Competition & Conference, held on 16 December 2023 in Thessaloniki.
Seventeen startups pitched to a jury of technical experts and specialists in innovation and funding, at Cisco's International Centre for Digital Transformation and Digital Skills (DT&S Center). IRIDA was ranked first, ahead of ManaGi (2nd) and ComeTogether (3rd).
The competition is organised by the Entrepreneurship Centre of the Hellenic-Italian Chamber of Commerce of Thessaloniki, together with the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Search On – WeMakeFuture! Festival from Italy. The day opened with an address by Margaritis Schinas, Vice-President of the European Commission.
The top three startups were invited to the WeMakeFuture! Festival in Rimini, Italy (13–15 June 2024), to present their solutions in the international competition.
We thank the organisers, sponsors and jury, and congratulate all the startups that took part.
In the press: Women in Business, 22 Dec 2023 (in Greek)
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About IRIDA AI Technologies: an Athens-based green-tech company that protects birds, bats and forests at wind farms with AI. Its Bird Protect™, Bat Protect™ and Forest Protect™ systems detect wildlife and wildfire in real time and trigger automated turbine responses through Shutdown on Demand. IRIDA has 643 systems installed and contracted at 93 wind farms in 12 countries on 2 continents. Protecting biodiversity. Enabling wind energy.
