Deadline: 1-Dec-21
Open Innovation Program is a global initiative by Kaspersky in which it is looking around the world for interesting startups with MVPs and the first revenue, with which the Kaspersky could bring truly innovative products and services to the global market.
Areas
- FinTech
- Personal finance and money management
- Cyber-risk prevention and management (physical and digital platforms and tools)
- Secure storage and payment technology e.g. e-wallets, walts
- Gaming
- Fast and secure VPN for gamers
- Voice control technology
- Communication services
- Playmate finder
- Payment provision for younger or foreign customers
- Digital goods ownership brokerage
- Game modification software
- Cheating identification and submission
- Content discovery opportunities
- Cyberbullying protection
- Profanity filter
- Cloud gaming
- Game mode and optimization
- Levelling and progression
- Future household
- External house staff control e.g. video monitoring, offensive language detection and alerts tech
- Identity theft protection e.g. detection, alert, protection and resolution
- Virtual assistant e.g. AI based concierge / secretary
- Family digital organizer tools
- Fully private and secure email services and document exchange platform
- IoT cybersecurity management
- Family expenses management
Benefits
- Commercial PoC: Upon successful PoC completion, partner is eligible for compensation of up to 10,000 US dollars
- Long-term partnership: A successful PoC with Kaspersky leads to product integration and license purchase; creation of a joint product or investment/M&A
- Expert evaluation: Technical and business validation by Innovation Hub and Kaspersky experts
- Access to APIs: Startups within the program have access to selected APIs for various Kaspersky services
- Access to clients and sales channel: Access to Kaspersky’s client base of over 400 million users and more than 240,000 corporate clients
Selection Criteria
- Growth stage company: Raised Series A or later funding rounds.
- Finished product: The product is market ready, validated through sales.
- Developed technology: Technology at the core of a product is well developed, proprietary, novel and scalable.
For more information, visit https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/open-call-b2c-solutions-for-future/