1st Prize – Today We Learned

The major prize winner of $25,000 was Jason O’Neil from the Today We Learned team.

Today We Learned is an awesome tool to solve the problem of “what did you do at school today little Johnny?” “nuffing, just boring stuff”

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone grin so hard as Jason after he’d been told he’d won. His face must have been aching for the last week. Good job, now go make it happen 🙂

2nd Prize – Circadyn

The 2nd prize winner was Felicity Millman with Circadyn, which has been provided with $15,000 to assist in further development of their idea, which involves using collected data to assess sleep patterns and manage fatigue.

Felicity’s story is pretty amazing – she entered FI with a slightly different idea, pivoted that idea after feedback from the FI team and graduated FI, dressed it up slightly differently for this competition, and walked away with $15K. I look forward to reporting on her IPO sometime in 2015! You can sign up for her mailing list here

3rd Prize – FreeWheeler

Elvira Strombach(FreeWheeler) was awarded the third prize of $2,500 – enough to get a basic MVP up, so not bad. Their site is here and their idea is to encourage people to ride their bikes to work instead of driving. A slightly odd thing for the Royal Automotive Club to help build, but then that shows the spirit in which this was done: top marks for integrity RAC chaps.

 

RAC Seedspark
Brodie McCulloch (Spacecubed), Claire McGregor (Founder Institute), Jamin Hirte (RAC), Elvira Strombach (FreeWheeler) – 3rd place, Jason O’Neil (Today we Learned) – 1st place, Felicity Millman (Circadyn) – 2nd place, Nathan Sturcke (RAC), Terry Agnew (RAC)

 

This is the actual presentation from the RAC CEO, please excuse the sound: