Trophée Startup 2023: Meet the two winners of this year

On October 17, the winners of Trophée Startup 2023 were announced, this competition aims to detect Chilean initiatives with potential for commercialization and growth in Chile as well as in France and the rest of Europe. 

The competition has been organized for four years by the French Embassy in Chile, Business France Amérique Latine, the French Institute of Chile and Inria Chile and the final was held at the offices of Start-Up Chile. Representatives of these institutions, together with representatives of ACTI Chile, Bpifrance, CCEF, CHILETEC and the Trophée Startup sponsors Engie Chile and Total EREN, were part of the jury, which listened to the pitches of the seven finalist initiatives (Beeing Company, Chucaw, DomoLif, GCare, Guayacán Solutions, Hacknoid and Reite), about their projects and expansion potential. Finally, Chucaw and Reite were chosen as winners of a comprehensive package to expand in France, the most attractive country in Europe for international investments from 2020, according to the EY Barometer.

It was created to position Chile and France as attractive, innovative and dynamic markets and ecosystems, as well as to strengthen economic and scientific cooperation between the two countries. It also seeks to promote Chilean startups with high international growth potential, with the opportunity to discover and implement themselves in the French market and its innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Benefits for the winners

Chucaw and Reite will receive a comprehensive training and internationalization package in Chile and France, to create the conditions for a potential implementation in the European country. This will be done with support and funding in deeptech training with Inria Academy, generating contact networks between both countries with research centers, public agencies, among others. In addition, they will participate in an acceleration program in a world-renowned French accelerator and will take part in Vivatech, the most important technology event in the world. They will also benefit from the support of the French Foreign Trade Advisors in Chile, who are CEOs of large French companies, and will support them with mentoring and networking.  

It should be noted that round-trip airfare is included in the package along with accommodation and visibility management in France for the winning initiatives.

Innovation-focused startups

Reite is a company whose mission is to revolutionize the way people purchase everyday products, making their experience faster and more convenient. It does this by solving the problems of lines and waiting times, implementing cameras with artificial intelligence in coolers and cabinets, and transforms them into autonomous stores that offer an automated service, frictionless, without queues and without waiting times 24/7. The goal of this initiative is to become a benchmark in automation and user experience, leading the way to the future of retail.

Chucaw is a company that seeks to bring the best available science and technology for adaptation and resilience to climate change to vulnerable communities, generating synergy with other territorial actors through platforms that use artificial intelligence, satellite technologies and geospatial sciences to locally identify vulnerabilities, predict risks, level knowledge and suggest solutions based on nature to increase the adaptive capacity and resilience of communities. Its objective is to reduce losses to insured parties in the forestry and livestock sector caused by extreme weather disasters, such as forest fires or floods.

The sponsors of Trophée Startup are Air France, BNP Paribas, ENGIE Chile, TotalEren. Trophée Startup benefits from the collaboration of ANID Centers, Corfo,  French Foreign Trade Advisors, ProChile, Start-Up Chile by Corfo, and, since this edition, BancoEstado.