EdenBase Fund teams up with The Bakery to seek entrepreneurs and businesses to join the Amazon Alexa Incubator Programme in the UK
Hot on the heels of EdenBase’s first investment competition we are delighted to announce that we have teamed up with corporate innovation specialists The Bakery to find startups that can leverage or become supercharged using the Amazon Alexa frontier technology powered voicesystems.
The Bakery London are renowned for helping some the biggest brands solve business challenges and find new products and services by connecting them with startups and entrepreneurs. They recently won a brief to help identify candidates for the Amazon Alexa Incubator programme in the UK, which will make the next generation of Alexa voice technologies and business support available to a select list of U.K.-based startups introduced by the EdenBase fund and other Bakery network partners.
As well as receiving mentoring and support from Amazon, the selected startups can also qualify for potential investment by the EdenBase Fund, as well as Amazon’s UK SEIS Partner VC firm, and ultimately the opportunity to pitch for Investment from the Amazon Alexa investment fund set aside specifically for this purpose.
Amazon Alexa Family
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Andrew Humphries, Co-Founder of The Bakery said “When Amazon and their investment partners shared their vision for the U.K. Alexa Incubator, we immediately thought of EdenBase to access their portfolio and deal flow. EdenBase is focused on investing in companies that can achieve supergrowth through the adoption of frontier technologies to supercharge growth”.
Daniel Doll-Steinberg, Co-Founder of Edenbase said: “We were pleased to be approached by The Bakery to help Amazon find the next generation of gamechangers that can leverage the frontier technology-powered voice capabilities of the Alexa platform and product”.
The companies have already brainstormed a number of use cases and will now be engaging with the startups to shortlist those to go forward to the next stage.
About EdenBase
EdenBase is an optimised hub, ecosystem and fund investing in the next set of Game Changers, designed by the team that created London’s famous Level39 in London’s Canary Wharf, the TechCity (now TechNation.io) initiative for the U.K. Prime Minister - establishing the UK as a European “Silicon Valley”, and the Fintech vertical of the Swiss Kickstart accelerator with Digital Switzerland. By building a physical hub, an ecosystem of experts and a fund, EdenBase supports portfolio companies to deliver responsible supergrowth and valued impact to create a better future.
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