MIT Solve

Basic Information

Our tagline:

Reinventing the connection between universities students teams and organizations, solving real challenges and making students projects generate value in society.

Our pitch:

Two Sided problem: 1.4 billion students worldwide are working on projects in their courses with no value beyond academic exercise/+254 Millions of organizations in the world have real problems & need people to help solve them.
Students don't have the opportunities to: acquire experience during their university life, develop skills to adapt to jobs that don't even exist yet and ways to connect to organizations to show their competences and prove their value in real time
Can you imagine what we could achieve if we connect university students to solve the problems of the planet during their education instead of just solving hypothetical cases?
- Similar to an Airbnb or university courses
Co-creation Platform that connects organizations challenges with university courses, seedbeds and scholarship students + Methodologies to create an interactive process and improve the solutions of the challenges + Digital Tools to manage projects evolution and cocreaton in real time + Innovators Community (Skills Data/Content/Scouting/Best Solvers)
We developed a new revenue opportunity for universities and professors: By solving real challenges in their classes, they receive a percentage of the subscription fees paid by the companies.
Would you like to have a service where you can be connected, in a massive and affordable way, with talented university students, who are going to develop projects in their courses to create value for your organization?
Would you like to participate in real organizations challenges, to learn new skills, shorten your adaptation to your professional life, acquire experience and win rewards instead of looking just a good grade?

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Medellin, Colombia

The dimensions of the Challenge our solution addresses:

Other (Please Explain Below)
Upskilling, Reskilling, and Job Matching

About Your Solution

What makes our solution innovative:

We are the first ones to connect courses in a massive way with a new business model.
-We connect universities courses, not just students, but the right environment. Courses have features that no other space in society have: a professor/expert, clear topic, term/time, notes, deliverables, research, work group, space, minimum of people.
-We developed a new business model for universities and professors: a new line of income for solving real problems in their courses.
-We are not open innovation but cocreation innovation (all participants interact. The process is fundamental).The right course, semester, professor, university, topic for the challenge‚Very affordable and massive

How technology is integral to our solution:

Our technology is the key. Our platform has more than 700.000 code lines.
in house methodologies, personalized Interactions, collaboration between courses, Networking tools, Knowledge management, interactive project format to create content and stories, talent identification, projections profiles, how to find and document challenges, teams gamification, interactive cv format.
- Co-Creation Online Platform: Courses and challenges connection. Profiles creation, based on projections, and achievements. Course projects management (document the process: pitch, video, infographic, validations, feedback, communications, research).
- Digital Tools: Tutorials, course reports, gamification, research/knowledge and ideas management, team's management.

Our solution goals over the next 12 months:

Our top three goals over the next year:
- Technical: Scale Up our platform (open worldwide) and build our App (70% of students use mobile devices to interact in universities)
- Sales: Our goal is more than 4.000 challenges in the next 2 years. We have companies that required us to open between 3-9 new markets (Unilever, Falabella, Sura AM, others). Open new markets: We are going to open USA, Chile and Costa Rica in the next months.
- Business Model: we have to create In App Purchases Model and the system rewards and educational currency to collect rewards and gain badges.

Our vision over the next three to five years to grow and scale our solution to affect the lives of more people:

Reinvent world's educational system and traditional innovation organizational models, evolving the connection between universities/students/professors and organizations, seeking to make students' projects have real use in society while we revolutionize the way of identifying and develop the best talent, requires a paradigm shift towards a bold initiative that invented a new model to transform the learning process, while creating employment opportunities / entrepreneurship, according to the preferences of the students, in a Co-Creation community that exemplifies effective innovation and meritocracy, through the solution of problems with real impact, preparing students for jobs that do not even exist.

Our website

https://www.interacpedia.com/

Our promotional video:

The regions where we will be operating in the next 12 months:

Latin America and the Caribbean

How we will reach and retain our customers or beneficiaries:

We developed a new service that is key to change society: students of low income (base of the pyramid), with very few opportunities, who have a scholarship to study in a university (technical, technology or higher studies) by a private or public organization, are being connected with another organization that sponsors them. We connect them, they find a challenge together, and the students solve the challenge during its whole academic period (between 1 year and 5 years), applying the challenge in every course, university labs, mentors, professors.

How many people we are currently serving with our solution:

15.000 users, +200 mentors, +500 professors, +1000 courses, +500 companies, +35.000 ideas, +3.000 projects, +500 challenges, +67 universities, 17 cities. Finalist: GSP Singularity, Global EdTech Awards, Titanes Caracol, Ventures Colombia, Digital Startup

About Your Team

How our solution team is organized:

For-Profit

The skills our solution team has that will enable us to attract the different resources needed to succeed and make an impact:

- Santiago Lalinde, CEO: Business Manager, Finances, Internet Business.+15 years experience in sales, information systems, market research.
- Juan Carlos Orrego, CTO: Systems engineer. +17 years to create more than 200 digital solutions, marketing strategies, and new products with cutting edge technology in Latin America.
- Maria Escobar, CDO: Graphic designer, brand development Master in Barcelona, +14 years experience corporate identity, communication, international advertising.
- Sergio Calle: COO +15 years leading +100 product design projects. Mechanical Engineer., Expert in systematic innovation
- Sergio Calle: Experience of 15 years leading more than 1000 projects in design and manufacture of containers, Mechanical Engineer.

Our revenue model:

We developed a platform than connects organizations challenges with universities students groups in a massive way, sharing our revenue with them (like Uber or Airbnb). We developed digital tools to help manage their projects in a collaborative and real time interactive way, methodologies to help improve their solutions and their way o learning new skills (creativity, teamwork, research, analysis...), and a new way to show their competences and their process to change their CV for an interactive, dynamic way to show achievements and real abilities.
We have created alliances with massive students and organizations associations: Redcolsi has more than 19.000 Seedbeds (research teams), Camara de Comercio has more than 120.000 companies, Comfama +90.000 companies, Sapiencia +35.000 students with scholarships, and others.

Partnership Potential

Interacpedia