EMA Entrepreneurship Network Webinar - Student Entrepeneurship - Saverio Murgia
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This document provides information about starting a student entrepreneurship. It discusses Saverio Murgia, the CEO and founder of Horus Technology, a company that created a device to help the 285 million people who have sight loss live more independently. It describes how Murgia and his friend Luca had the idea to apply their robotics and vision system knowledge to help blind people after assisting a blind person. It outlines the creation of their first prototype in 6 months and the development of Horus, which uses stereo vision, voice commands, and other technologies to provide navigation assistance and object recognition. The document also discusses how the company was funded through grants and crowdfunding and the importance of the core team and advisors in
EMA Entrepreneurship Network Webinar - Student Entrepeneurship - Saverio Murgia
- 1. HOW TO BE A STUDENT ENTREPRENEUR Saverio Murgia CEO & FOUNDER of Horus Technology
- 2. HELLO! My name is Saverio and I am an entrepreneur and innovator with the passion for computer vision and machine learning.
- 3. QUICK RESUME
- 4. 2014 - 2015 Ecole centrale de Nantes Master's Degree, EMARO - Advanced Robotics 2013 - 2014 Universit degli Studi di Genova / University of Genoa Master's Degree, EMARO - Robotics Engineering 2010 - 2013 Universit degli Studi di Genova / University of Genoa Bachelor's degree, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering 2010 - 2015 ISSUGE - ISICT Excellence Programme, ICT, Management and Economics March 2014 - present CEO and Founder Horus Technology February 2015 - present Visiting Research Student EPFL (cole polytechnique f辿d辿rale de Lausanne) October 2012 June 2014 Intern PSPC Lab - Universit degli Studi di Genova March 2014 July 2015 Visiting Research Student Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
- 5. LETS START!
- 7. 285 million people do not live independently due to sight loss. We want to give them a device that will change their lives.
- 9. HOW DID THIS IDEA COME?
- 10. One day, Luca and I were helped a blind person walk around the city because there was a detour. In that period we were working on robotics vision systems. We said: why dont we apply our knowledge to something that can help people?
- 11. AFTER SIX MONTHS WE MADE OUR FIRST PROTOTYPE
- 13. WE MADE HORUS
- 14. a greater independence Face recognition Text readingObject recognition Navigation assistance GOAL
- 15. THIS WAS MADE POSSIBLE THANKS TO GRANTS
- 16. 6K 15K 5K CHF 10K
- 17. AND A CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN ON THE TIM #WCAP PLATFORM
- 19. WE MADE THIS
- 20. Stereo bone conduction system Stereo vision
- 22. Voice commands Universal fit No ear impairment Eligible to be a medical device No internet required User adaptation ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGES
- 23. PARTNERSHIP
- 25. BUT, WHO IS BEHIND ALL OF THIS?
- 26. CORE TEAM Saverio Murgia Luca Nardelli Benedetta Magri CEO & FOUNDER CTO & FOUNDER CMO Advanced Robotics Neuro engineering Member of LEO Club
- 27. TEAM Alessandro Caldini Simone Vuotto Martina Cavalieri SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SOFTWARE DEVELOPER DESIGNER
- 28. SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD Prof. Fabio Solari PhD Manuela Chessa PhD Renowned researchers in the field of Computer Vision
- 29. THE TEAM IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR YOUR BUSINESS
- 30. HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
- 31. Countless hours spent working!
- 32. Here are the lessons learned
- 33. 1 Speaking a lot about our idea
- 34. 2 Not being greedy (with the team)
- 35. 3 Being greedy with everybody else
- 37. 5 Asking for help to mentors and advisors
- 38. 6 Pitching (and applying) for any grant/accelerator
- 39. 7 Saying NO
- 40. 8 There is no better moment to start than NOW
- 41. The person who cannot see has the future in their eyes. We must live our lives with every sense, every emotion
- 42. CONTACTS Saverio Murgia CEO & FOUNDER ceo@horus.technology ch.linkedin.com/in/saveriomurgia info@horus.technology www.horus.technology @horustechnology
- 43. THANK YOU
Editor's Notes
- La mission di Horus
- Raccontargli la storia di quel signore non vedente che avete conosciuto