Gearing up for glory: SiGMA Americas Summit unveils top 10 Startup Pitches in Brazil
SiGMA Group has established the SiGMA Pitch Competition as a platform for emerging startups to gain widespread recognition and achieve success. Returning to the SiGMA Americas Summit in S?o Paulo, Brazil this June, the competition grants over 100 startups exclusive space on the expo floor.
This exceptional opportunity offers participating startups unparalleled networking prospects and heightened visibility among prominent investors and venture capitalists in the region. The top contenders will also have the chance to present their projects live on stage, in front of a distinguished panel of industry experts.
Get a glimpse of the top 10 startups competing in next week’s SiGMA Americas Pitch Competition, in S?o Paulo, Brazil.
Top 10 startups battling for supremacy
Funtech
Funtech Games Ltd. is an innovative gaming company at the forefront of revolutionizing the online casino industry. Funtech Games is the pioneer behind the world’s first decentralized crypto casino, powered by DEGA (Decentralized Gambling) technology on the Binance Chain. This ground-breaking approach ensures a seamless and secure gaming experience, capitalizing on the scalability and reliability of the Binance Chain.
With a global market focus on LATAM, Indonesia, Russia, and North America, Funtech Games aims to provide fair and secure gaming experiences to players worldwide. The DEGA technology eliminates the need for token deposits or lengthy forms, allowing users to dive into the exciting realm of online gaming with a single click. This makes Funtech Games the ultimate destination for anyone seeking an unmatched gaming adventure.
Soul Brasil Esportes
Soul Brasil Esportes specializes in athlete management software, offering a centralized platform that optimizes performance, generates valuable insights, and supports career decision-making. Athletes who choose Soul trust a continuously evolving platform that provides essential tools throughout their sporting journey, including opportunities to connect with the ecosystem and benefit from partnerships.
The product’s key advantages lie in its user-friendly and constantly updated low-code software, focusing on sustainable long-term impact for athletes, investors, and the sports industry as a whole. By addressing various challenges faced by Brazilian athletes, Soul offers a comprehensive range of solutions in a single accessible platform, built upon real athlete experiences and years of research.
Armatore
Armatore leverages Artificial Intelligence to transform fans into thriving businesses. As a leading pioneer in comprehensive fan analytics, Armatore recognizes that understanding fan behaviour is key to unlocking the essence of fandom.
With a profound grasp of fans’ desires, needs, aspirations, and purchasing habits, Armatore empowers organizations to expand their audience, increase sales conversions, foster valuable sponsorships, and achieve much more through intelligent insights.
Olecoin
Olecoin is a blockchain-based game that generates NFTs of soccer players competing in leagues. Players can utilize their NFTs to build their own teams.
The team behind Olecoin consists of football entrepreneurs with over 50 years of experience, and the project enjoys strong support from ambassador Diego Lugano. The game focuses on addressing real-world issues within the football industry, offering innovative solutions.
Rinobox
Rinobox is known for its innovative approach, dedicated to providing market solutions that prioritize user experience and satisfaction. Their products are highly disruptive, introducing unprecedented experiences and solutions. They strive to overcome barriers and exceed customer expectations, leveraging their unique creative and disruptive capabilities.
The company’s focus is on developing innovative solutions that are simple yet impactful, taking inspiration from the story of the egg of Columbus. They utilize cutting-edge technology to bring these solutions to fruition and venture into uncharted territories. With a harmonious team dynamic, they work together to achieve their ambitious objectives.
Gamest
Gamest simplifies recruitment for game development companies, saving time and cost. They specialize in programming, arts, game design, animation, production, quality assurance, sound, and marketing. Their headhunting service provides comprehensive candidate reports with contact info, LinkedIn profiles, skills assessments, experience, portfolios, and Gamest insights. If hired through Gamest, a 5% Success Fee is charged. Recognized as a startup in @InovAtiva 2022, Gamest is part of @Softville incubator.
Connecting Latin American talent with game development firms is Gamest’s core focus. They possess an extensive internal database with 20,000+ mapped Latin American professionals. As the region’s sole game industry recruitment company, Gamest offers a validated product with scalability potential. Their team includes Allan (CTO), Eduardo (COO/management), and Jo?o (CEO/sales), guided by advisor Ian, renowned for his entrepreneurial background and Shark Tank Brazil participation. Gamest aims to be the leading platform for game industry professionals, launching in July 2023 at the BIG Festival, LATAM’s largest game development event.
Gamerpro
GamerPro is a cutting-edge Esports platform that targets Gen Z mobile gamers and seamlessly transitions them into active gamblers. Through advanced Esports technology, GamerPro captures the attention of this valuable audience and introduces them to a range of betting services. The platform establishes a strong connection between mobile gaming and online gambling, delivering an exclusive and lucrative experience for players and operators across multiple brands in the industry.
As one of the top 10, GamerPro distinguishes itself by offering a unique real-money gaming service that engages users and provides exceptional opportunities for gambling companies. With a focus on entertainment, competition, and tangible rewards, GamerPro attracts and retains users while offering significant benefits to its partners.
One notable aspect that sets GamerPro apart is its innovative approach to user engagement and retention. The platform allows users to practice for free until they can compete for real money, fostering confidence in their abilities and motivating them to participate in competitions.
Movement
Movement is a modular framework that enables the construction and deployment of Move blockchains, applications, and infrastructure in any distributed environment. Similar to Amazon, Movement delivers state-of-the-art technologies directly to users, projects, and blockchains in their existing locations. The focus on accessibility drives widespread adoption.
The initial endeavour, Mocha, is a flagship Move Layer One project incubated by Ava Labs. It leverages Avalanche Warp Messaging, AvalancheGO, and HyperVM / HyperSDK to provide instant liquidity and users to the Avalanche ecosystem. With a deep understanding of the challenges faced by builders and projects in Aptos, as well as expertise in cutting-edge Layer One technology and resolving blockchain Cold Start Problems, Movement collaborates closely with Aptos-native builders and projects. Aptos and Sui emerged from Meta’s Libra business and tech teams, equipped with an exceptional smart contract programming language but lacking knowledge of the latest Layer One advancements.
Propane
Propane is a pioneering Brazilian agency that specializes exclusively in the gambling market. With a data-driven and ROI-focused approach, Propane offers a range of services including translation and adaptation of gambling sites, influencer training and certification for gambling advertising, effective budget management, and a gambling school. The agency brings together a team with extensive experience in the gambling market, equipped with the necessary tools to cater to the unique Brazilian audience.
Despite the prohibition of casinos in Brazil since 1946, Propane excels in reaching this challenging audience. Their main products encompass site and communication translation/adaptation, a gambling school for the audience, a gambling school for influencers, and comprehensive campaigns for brands.
POW Gaming
As one of the top 10 startups, POW Gaming has created an eSports platform dedicated to mobile games, providing player vs player skill-based tournaments with real money prizes.
As the sole provider of this product to casinos, their aim is to appeal to younger generations of players who may not be interested in traditional casino games. POW Gaming operates in two distinct lines of business. In the B2B model, each gameplay retains 10% of the players’ bets, which contributes to the casino’s gross gaming revenue (GGR), with POW Gaming retaining 15% of that share. In the B2C model, POW Gaming serves as the operator and retains the full 10% of the bets.
