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16 BIODIT has taken on the challenge of ending the threat of someone stealing your car, breaking into your hotel room or hacking into your bank account. BIODIT has implemented unique finger- print identification technology across a wide product portfolio to address the needs of different industries. The company recently delivers sophisticated access-control systems to some of the largest hotel chains in the world, including nH, and also partnered with insurance companies Allianz, Uniqa, and Generali in Bulgaria to offer its anti-theft vehicle solution. With successful pilots in the automotive and hospitality industries, BIODIT is ready to expand across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. BIODIT GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY Vencislav Kostov, Julian Sofroniev Bulgaria Brandon provides consumer goods brands a digital bridge to the online channel. Brandon selects brands that can perform well in the online channel and supports them to digitalize their product offering, improving the listing with SEO friendly descriptions and quality photography. Acting as a single point of contact for the brand, Brandon publishes the optimized listing on all the major online platforms (marketplaces, flash sales sites, top merchant accounts) leveraging on software connectors. Order management, fulfillment and warehouse integrations are done using a pro- prietary software platform. Brandon provides supplier brands with additional services such as logistic supervision, sales forecasts and analysis and customer care, in order to optimize the sales and to make brands "e-commerce ready". BR ANDON GROUP Fabrizio Guglielmini Italy Empatica builds wearable devices with clinical-quality sensing capabilities, targeting the neu- rological disease space with an initial focus on epilepsy. The company's first product, the E4, is the world's smallest and most accurate wearable research device meant to track daily human behavior. Empatica sells the E4 to a long list of top research institutions, including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, NASA, Microsoft Research, and a number of Pharma companies. The firm's consum- er-facing Embrace wristwatch is designed to save lives by notifying epilepsy sufferers and their caregivers of seizures via smartphone. Empatica not only builds the sensors but also develops the software and analyzes data in-house. EMPATICA INC Matteo Lai Italy Leveraging a network of over 150 independent, local, artisanal producers that create 600 prod- ucts, Ergon is reintroducing Greeks and foreigners alike to delicious Greek gastronomy. Since Greek cuisine is as much about people coming together over food as the food itself, Ergon created a line of affordable-luxury restaurants that are combined with functional grocery stores. The menu, created by executive chef Dimitris Skarmoutsos, previously a judge on the show Greek Master Chef, has been meticulously crafted with Ergon products to offer diners authentic recipes with a modern twist. ERGON FOODS Thomas Douzis Greece