Zeleros has been proclaimed the most disruptive startup at South Summit Madrid 2022. The Valencian tech company, a member of Startup Valencia, received this award today at a ceremony attended by María Benjumea, founder and CEO of Spain Startup, and José Luis Martínez-Almeida, the Mayor of Madrid.
Zeleros was selected among 100 finalists who presented their projects during the last few days in front of investors, corporations and important agents of the international tech and innovation ecosystem. This comes after they also won the Mobility & Smart Cities vertical competition, which they received yesterday at the Startup Competition of the tenth edition of South Summit Madrid. The tech company is leading one of the Hyperloop projects, a land transport system to connect urban and logistics centres at speeds of up to 1000 km/h and with zero direct emissions.
Colibid, AR Vision, Streamion and Arkadia Space, companies also associated with Startup Valencia, managed to reach this final phase, standing out among the more than 3,000 candidates from 114 different countries that had applied to the competition.
In addition, Corify Care, also integrated in the association, has been awarded the prize for best startup capable of ensuring active ageing and a long life through technology at the CaixaBank Entrepreneur XXI Awards. The awards ceremony took place within the framework of South Summit Madrid 2022.
Valencian startups have been represented by Startup Valencia which, together with the Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia City Council and the Polytechnic University of Valencia, have participated in the exhibition of the tenth edition of this prestigious international tech event that was held from the 8th to the 10th of June in Madrid. Valencia had a meeting point at the event, sharing its initiatives with entrepreneurs, investors and other agents in the sector, where numerous networking and synergy-building activities took place.
Startup Valencia was also present in the event’s programme of activities. Specifically, Nacho Mas, CEO of Startup Valencia, participated on Thursday, the 9th of June in the round table ‘From North to South, infinite opportunities in Spain’ where, together with Pablo Hernández González-Barreda, President of the Consortium of the Canary Islands Special Zone; Cristina Fanjul, Director of CEEI Asturias; Celia Sánchez San Juan, Director of ALIA Alicante Investment Agency, and Koldo Atxutegi, General Director of Attraction to Bizkaia, they analysed how the national tech and innovation ecosystem is being promoted from each autonomous community to attract investment and ensure a soft landing for startups and companies.
Under the slogan Decoding Complexity, this edition of South Summit Madrid brought together thousands of corporations, investors, entrepreneurs and over a hundred startups from all over the world with the aim of generating valuable connections between them and real business opportunities.
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