Airbus BizLab selects start-ups in Hamburg, Bengaluru for accelerator programme

Airbus BizLab, the aerospace business accelerator from European aviation major Airbus, today announced that it has selected 10 start-ups for its programme of which four are from India.

These start-ups submitted their project’s proposals for the Airbus business accelerators in Hamburg, Germany and Bengaluru, India. 

Blue Morfo, Shoonya Games, Open Turf, Qualitas are the four start-ups selected from Bengaluru for this programme. These four start-ups were selected in Bengaluru from 80 applicants from seven countries.

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Airbus will offer a comprehensive support through a six-month acceleration programme. The selected start-ups will interact with a large number of Airbus experts from various domains (technology, legal, finance, marketing, etc.) and will benefit of a dedicated mentor. They will have office space and have access to prototyping and test facilities. A dedicated demo day with Airbus decision makers, partners, subsidiaries, customers, and venture capital will be also offered.

Some of the start-ups selected grim India focus on problems such as specific health issues related to constant flying, gaming solution for training and marketing, wireless in-flight entertainment among others.

For instance, Blue Morfo is developing a mobile application to detect and prevent specific corporate health related issues, like exposure of airline crew to jetlag, cabin pressurisation, etc.,

Shoonya Games is proposing interactive gaming solutions for training and marketing purposes through the use of Virtual Reality and 3D technologies embedded in a mobile device.

Open Turf's project is about providing Wireless in-flight entertainment using passenger personal devices.

Qualitas offers automated quality inspection systems for manufacturing, specializing in 2D and 3D machine vision. 

Some of the other start-ups selected include ZinkCloud from Spain, Jetlite from Germany, Velmenni from Estonia/India, and Nebaqua from Spain.