The New South Wales Government has honoured four of the State’s top ICT start ups at the Tech23 showcase in Sydney.

 

Four of the top companies shared in $100,000 in prize money. This year’s winners were:

 

  • Outstanding Collaboration for Innovation Award ($20,000): Ninja Blocks - allows  users to connect real things to apps, the environment, and web services. Whether it’s  a doorbell, electricity meter, or TV, Ninja Blocks enables users to connect and control  them.
  • High Growth Catalyst Award ($20,000): Smart Sparrow - revolutionises education with its adaptive eLearning Platform  - empowering teachers to create powerful learning experiences which intelligently adapt to students. Following five years of research in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Educational Data Mining and Cognitive Psychology, Smart Sparrow has spun out of the lab and is now used by tens of thousands of students in major international universities each year.
  • Greatest Potential Award ($20,000): ScriptRock offers companies a simple, secure platform for storing system configuration information. It allows customers to convert this configuration information into executable tests against their running systems. Armed with these tests, customers avoid failures due to change, greatly reduce troubleshooting times, ensure system compliance and prevent configuration drift.
  • Innovation Excellence Award ($40,000): Zeptonics creates the world’s fastest and most innovative devices for latency sensitive networks such as high frequency stock trading. ZeptoLink, a 50-port layer 1 circuit switch that can electronically create a circuit between any of its ports, forwards data in approximately five nanoseconds –five one-billionths of a second – about the same time it takes light to travel through 1m (3ft) of optic fibre.Deputy Premier and Minister for Trade, Andrew Stoner, said the Tech23 innovation event showcased 23 young technology companies and their business models.

 

“Tech23 provides a fantastic platform for innovative young companies to help them accelerate commercialisation,  generate investment and encourage business connections with potential partners, investors and clients,” Mr Stoner said. 

 

“The NSW Government is proud to support Tech23 as part of its broader efforts to position and promote NSW as Australia’s technology business hub.

 

For more information on Tech23 visit: http://www.tech23.com.au/the-23.php