11 Potentially Game-changing Companies From The Insight Innovation Competition 2016

 

The Insight Innovation Competition has been one of my absolute favorite initiatives since Ray Poynter and Pravin Shekar suggested it as part of the very first Festival of NewMR six years ago.  The idea of developing a research-centric innovation competition for young companies to gain exposure, support, and capital was something new for our space, but from it’s inception the response from the industry has been phenomenal. To date over 130 companies have entered and 51 have made it to the final round, with 9 winners  going on to win the prize.  Many of the participating companies have received funding or been acquired, with even more going on to organic success through new clients and partners.

In short, the IIC is making a difference for all stakeholders in the marketing insights space, and that has always been the goal. We’re thrilled it continues to evolve and deliver on that promise!

In this most recent round, 11 companies officially threw their hats in the ring, and it is an amazing group of participants pushing the boundaries of innovation in market research.

Here are the final results from the open voting phase. Click here to go to the site and check out each of these great entrants!

 

	IDEA NAME	VIEWS	VOTES
1º	Monet Networks	3879	716
2º	Votechimp – Making consumer surveys fun	3723	515
3º	OdinText – Accessible Data Science	3735	512
4º	Remesh	1467	417
5º	Collaborata™ | the market-research marketplace™	2384	417
6º	The Insight Activation Studio	2018	391
7º	Sense360 – Observe @ Scale	2875	364
8º	OutSmart	720	163
9º	BEATGRID MEDIA’s Passive Audio Tracking	514	82
10º	Atlantia Search	763	59
11º	Prophesy	345	56

 

The crowd voting is just the first part though. 5 finalists and 1 wildcard will now go on to the Judging round at IIeX in Atlanta, and here is what they are competing for:

The judges have their work cut out for them. Each of these entrants have immense potential, and any of them could easily take home the prize! But, there can be only one who will take their spot along past winners of the IIC:

The other five will be in good company as well and will join the 40 other finalists who have gone to great success even though they did not win the competition:

 

 

Although the other 5 companies that entered won’t get a chance to present to the judges and win the prize, since we believe everyone deserves as much attention as possible and should still have a chance to network with the potential clients, partners, and investors at the event we’re working on creating some additional session space in the start-up track of agenda right now for a few of the runner ups so they will have an opportunity to make short presentations on their capabilities and business use cases to attendees.

It’s not too late to grab your ticket to IIeX so you can experience these (and many more!) great innovative companies first hand. Don’t be left out from meeting the companies that will be driving the future of the industry and exploring how they can work with your organization to deliver insight innovation and impact!