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MIA endorses Moldovan based firms, promotes innovation, and unveils hidden champions. The winners were announced at the 1st edition of MIA Gala on June 15, 2023.
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We award innovation by IT and creative companies. Startups, corporate innovators, game-changing companies.
Moldova Innovation Awards is the key innovation in tech part of the Moldova Digital Summit.
Each nominee was evaluated by international and local jury experts
Award Category
Best Product Innovation
Discover success in the Best Product Innovation category at the Moldova Innovation Awards. Our jury seeks digital products excelling in innovation, creativity, and value proposition, designed to meet target user needs as standalone offerings.
Submit an application by providing a description of your product, emphasizing its innovation, functionality, usability, scalability, market potential, and value proposition. Include relevant data, metrics, customer feedback, and industry accolades.
Eligible products include software applications, mobile applications, games, and other digital products developed and launched after January 1, 2021. Share your roadmap for future development and innovation plans to demonstrate your product's potential. The international jury will evaluate products on various aspects, including technical design, market fit, and growth potential.
Boost your chances of being a finalist and winning the Best Product Innovation award by highlighting your product's distinctiveness, innovation, and impact.
Submit an application by providing a description of your product, emphasizing its innovation, functionality, usability, scalability, market potential, and value proposition. Include relevant data, metrics, customer feedback, and industry accolades.
Eligible products include software applications, mobile applications, games, and other digital products developed and launched after January 1, 2021. Share your roadmap for future development and innovation plans to demonstrate your product's potential. The international jury will evaluate products on various aspects, including technical design, market fit, and growth potential.
Boost your chances of being a finalist and winning the Best Product Innovation award by highlighting your product's distinctiveness, innovation, and impact.
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Award Category
Best Service Innovation
Stand out in the Best Service Innovation category at the Moldova Innovation Awards by emphasizing your service's distinct features, customer benefits, and growth potential. Support your application with data, metrics, customer feedback, and industry recognition.
Our jury assesses factors like uniqueness, customer impact, creativity, scalability, and user experience when evaluating submissions. The ideas must be new and original, with the power to disrupt or significantly improve its or other sectors. Demonstrate how your service aligns with these criteria to boost your chances of becoming a finalist and claiming the award.
Our jury assesses factors like uniqueness, customer impact, creativity, scalability, and user experience when evaluating submissions. The ideas must be new and original, with the power to disrupt or significantly improve its or other sectors. Demonstrate how your service aligns with these criteria to boost your chances of becoming a finalist and claiming the award.
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Award Category
Impactful Initiative of the Year
Elevate your chances in the Impactful Initiative of the Year category at the Moldova Innovation Awards by detailing your initiative's objectives, outcomes, and positive contributions to society, the environment, and the economy. Support your application with data, metrics, and highlights of innovation and creativity.
The judges evaluate submissions based on positive impact, innovation, scalability, partnerships, and sustainability. Demonstrate how your initiative aligns with these criteria to boost your chances of becoming a finalist and claiming the award.
The judges evaluate submissions based on positive impact, innovation, scalability, partnerships, and sustainability. Demonstrate how your initiative aligns with these criteria to boost your chances of becoming a finalist and claiming the award.
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Award Category
Rising STARtup
The Rising STARtup award celebrates exceptional results from tech startups that have launched an MVP by May 1, 2023. To apply, outline your innovative product or service, emphasizing its features, functionality, and advantages. Include evidence of your MVP's launch and any distinct or inventive aspects of your solution. The jury assesses your startup's performance, growth potential, and industry impact. Showcase your team's expertise, qualifications, and future vision.
Criteria considered by the jury include innovation, growth potential, market impact, user experience, and team expertise. Seize this opportunity to spotlight your startup and earn recognition in the IT industry.
Criteria considered by the jury include innovation, growth potential, market impact, user experience, and team expertise. Seize this opportunity to spotlight your startup and earn recognition in the IT industry.
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Award Category
Special Jury Prize
The Special Jury Prize category acknowledges extraordinary digital innovation, particularly those that did not win in other categories but demonstrate significant potential for impacting the tech industry in Moldova and beyond. It's a platform to celebrate innovative work that pushes the boundaries of technology. This category will evaluate only the top eight applications, those ranked second or third in their respective categories.
The jury's decision will be taking into consideration international recognition, certifications, and achievements of the applicants. This prestigious category shines a spotlight on exceptional innovation, inspiring further digital creativity within the Moldovan tech community.
The jury's decision will be taking into consideration international recognition, certifications, and achievements of the applicants. This prestigious category shines a spotlight on exceptional innovation, inspiring further digital creativity within the Moldovan tech community.
Showcase your initiative's positive societal, environmental, and economic impacts.
Earn recognition for unique digital innovation with the Special Jury Prize.
More info
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Exhibit your startup's innovative product or service for the Rising STARtup award.
Categories
Make a statement with your innovative product in the Best Product Innovation category.
Highlight your service's uniqueness and growth potential for the Best Service Innovation award.
Meet the MIA’23 winners
Best Product Innovation
Access thousands of banks globally through a single API
Access the open banking data across Europe and beyond with Salt Edge. Never stop growing. Keep testing and adding new bank connections so you can enjoy a gateway to any bank account.
Nominees in this Category
From all-around BGP routing optimization, to automated bandwidth control, DDoS mitigation, and more, learn how the platform can take your network to the next level!
Parkopedia brings together interconnected parking and charging technologies to transform the EV driver experience, starting in Europe and North America.
Best Service Innovation
All insurances just a click away
With omnis you can create travel and MTPL insurance*, receive notifications for insurance and documents that expire soon, have all the insurance created at your fingertips at all times.
Nominees in this Category
Offers experienced, dedicated teams who speak your language, accommodate your business hours and share your culture. Developers can quickly switch between tasks and adapt to evolving project needs.
An injectable antibiotic gun (Health Injector) and a cloud-based software solution to automate the monitoring of farm animals and farm functioning, per general.
Impactful Initiative of the Year
Refinance a credit or fuel your dreams
The Vision of Fagura is that people can manage online their entire financial life. Their mission is to make a revolution in the financial system and create exceptional services where customers can get, multiply and control their money at a click away.
Nominees in this Category
Is an initiative that aims to reform charitable giving in Moldova by providing a user-friendly platform that allows individuals and business organisations to make diverse types of donations for a large variety of causes.
Caring for your loved ones is now in the palm of your hand. With the Gardy.me app, you can carry out your personal tasks worry-free, while remaining just as thoughtful and engaged in family activities.
Rising STARTup
Digital Programming and Logic School For 5-14 year olds.
Main mission: To teach one million children to code. Their firm belief is that programming is the next form of 21st century literacy. In the digital age, to program is to succeed.
Nominees in this Category
The Selftalk approach unites psychology, coaching, AI, behavioural and neuroscience experts to drive change on a large scale, strengthening resilience, versatility, and efficiency.
The one-step solution for all your event needs. Transform the way you plan and execute events. The comprehensive platform puts you in control of every aspect of your event, from planning to promotion to management.
Special Jury Prize
A form of remote employment where an individual performs job duties for one company while officially employed by another.
Offers experienced dedicated teams who speak your language, accommodate your business hours and share your culture. Developers can quickly switch between tasks and adapt to evolving project needs.
Jury
National and international experts from across the world
- Angelos AngelouAngelou Economics Founder & CEOFounder & CEO of AngelouEconomics, a leading US and international consulting company specializing in strategic economic development and site selection, and International Accelerator, an Austin | TX, USA-based startup accelerator that focuses exclusively on foreign-born entrepreneurs helping them launch their startups in the US.
- Manisha AryalGlobal Lead for Digital DevelopmentA digital development strategist at Chemonics, providing market opportunities leveraging digital ecosystem. Expertise in media and information systems. Her works spanned countries in the former Soviet Union, South Asia, North Africa, and the Balkans.
- Rick RasmussenIndustry Fellow for the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, USASilicon Valley native that has been part of five IPOs, exits amounting to over $12B, mentored over 1500 companies and advised over two dozen accelerators. He is a past Entrepreneur-in-Residence of Institutional Venture Partners and member of the Sand Hill Angels investment group.
- Mateusz MajewskiVice President South Eastern Europe at UiPath, PolandBusiness Leader with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, driving digital transformation across Europe, helping customers to transform their organization and achieve more with AI-powered automation. Currently running South Eastern European operations for UiPath.
- Kadri TuiskFounder and CEO @Clanbeat & @SageAI / Young Female Entrepreneur of the Year in EstoniaNominated 'Young Female Entrepreneur of the Year' in Estonia, 2021. Founder & CEO of edtech start-up Clanbeat, bridging the students' mental health gap. Leading SageAI exploring how AI unlocks the human potential of the adult B2B market.
- Vasile TofanSenior partner Horizon Capital, MoldovaJoined Horizon Capital in 2012, following a career in both management consulting as well as industry. Prior to joining the firm, as a consultant with Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte) in Amsterdam, Mr. Tofan focused on growth-enhancement projects, mostly in the FMCG and tech sectors, working mostly in emerging markets, including Russia, Nigeria, Romania, and Slovakia.
- Victor GuzunPolicy Expert on Digitalization at IPRE. Manager at Guzun Consulting OU, Estonia.A policy expert on digitalization at the Institute for European Policies and Reforms in Moldova and a manager at an international consulting company in Estonia. Victor collaborates with in-al institutions and organizations on digital transformation policies in the Republic of Moldova and other countries.
- Ion SturzaPresident Fribourg Capital, RomaniaThrough his activities, he brought significant contributions to the development of Liberty Technology Park in Cluj, Elefant Online company, the accelerator Spherik, as well investing in technology startups.
- Vitalie EșanuFounder & CTO Soofragio, Founder & CTO Privesc.Eu, Owner EvisoftIT Expert, Coding Specialist, and Entrepreneur. With over 23 years in the industry, Vitalie innovated solutions for iOS app, AI and Media systems. His main goal: Drive technology transformations, develop cutting-edge software, and mentor the next generation.
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