5 Startups that are going to transform the world in 2020

Today’s markets are more data and technology-driven than ever before. More businesses and startups are being incubated to deal with climate change, develop artificial intelligence for various applications, and use technology for a larger social impact.

In such an age, a few startups stand out that promise something truly revolutionary that will transform their industries. Focused on a problem-solving model, these startups will transform fields across the world through their unique approach and a customer-oriented approach to business.

Start Inc.

Start Inc. is an online platform that accelerates your business by allowing you to establish your brand without any technical skills. The brainchild of Asim Rais Siddiqui, Start Inc. is a one-stop-shop for entrepreneurs to conduct market research, competitor analysis and create brand collaterals through a branding toolkit that’s easy to use and can easily track and monitor your brand’s market performance. The platform covers everything from landing-page and explainer video creation to prototyping and pre-launch social media and/or email marketing workflows. Start Inc. equips aspiring entrepreneurs with everything they need to validate their ideas and get their business going, at a fraction of the conventional cost.

As technology evolves, it will become harder for startups to find a place in a competitive market. The fear of “potential loss” will be a stronger factor to demotivate aspiring entrepreneurs. With Start Inc. entrepreneurs will be able to test their idea out in the real world, allowing them to evolve with the help of accurate and tangible results.

Aqua Agro

Aqua Agro is a cloud-platform dedicated to monitoring sustainability metrics at farms with Ramla Kaleem Khan as the CEO behind the project. Using IoT-enabled devices, it monitors real-time conditions of multiple crop fields, for data accumulation and analysis. On the basis of this information, the program is able to provide highly accurate forecasts about water schedules, fertilizer requirements, weather updates, pest attacks, and soil health, to ensure optimum crop health.

As climate change and land degradation affect Pakistan’s crop yields, this solution can help revitalize Pakistan’s status as an agricultural country. Moreover, data-driven resource management helps that saves water wastage can help reduce the expediting problem of water shortage in the country. The benefits of such a system can impact the very livelihood of farmers and their economic well-being, both in the short and long-term, with sustainable farming.

Adverif.ai

Founder and CEO, Or Levi’s, AdVerif.ai is an artificial intelligence company that provides content verification solutions for advertisers, publishers, and ad networks. It focuses on using advertising technologies and semantic text analysis to segment information for accuracy. The solution is designed to augment your editorial staff with AI capabilities and automatic reports in order to get the job done in seconds with super-human accuracy.

In today’s world with more information, it has become harder to verify what you see on the internet and social media. From affecting daily life decisions to influencing informed decision making, this provides a great way for people to validate information to navigate through the information in a world with flooding information. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, industry professional or stay at home parent, this startup is bound to become a staple in your everyday life.

 Arterys

Founded by John Axerio-Cilies, Arterys is a web-based medical image processing tool, powered by Artificial intelligence. Using augmented reality tools in junction with cloud-computing to process medical images, render 3d files and large multi-dimensional data, it helps doctors analyze patients and provide reliable healthcare solutions.

In its application, Arterys provides automated solutions for doctors to better care for their patients. At its core, it can provide doctors with the ability to diagnose illnesses more accurately, by tapping into updated, accurate data and analytics. The potential this technology brings to the table promises to save more lives in the future and provide more robust mechanisms to diagnostics and testing, while simultaneously helping doctors collaborate on patient studies to ensure the best outcome for each case. It helps fulfill the primary function of the healthcare industry, which is to save more lives by making collaboration and analysis faster, more accessible and accurate.

ChainAlysis

Chainalysis is a blockchain analysis company that specializes in monitoring and analyzing activities based on cryptocurrencies to identify possible cases of money laundering, compliance violations, and fraud. For Jonathan Levin, the co-founder of Chainalysis, it is important to create a transparent system around cryptocurrencies to build trust in blockchains and that’s what ChainAlysis aims to achieve.

The impact of their activity can help globalize the use of cryptocurrencies and integrate them into global financial markets. With the digital space becoming a battleground for businesses, it is only logical to shift towards digital currency and reap its benefits. Yet compliance and security issues have stained the blockchain technology industry.

Chainalysis is creating a system of accountability to ensure that businesses, banks, and financial institutions can utilize the technology in the future without any of its possible harms by providing data to financial institutions and government agencies. For businesses, this is a great sign to compete in the global world where transactions across borders become more seamless and accessible, both for businesses and their customers.