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Nexa's Covid-19 Challenge 2. Data intelligence for public management

Deadline: May 8, 2020

NEW  update:  Tomorrow (5/5), a webinar will take place to answer questions about the "Data Intelligence for Public Management" challenge, and on 6/5, for the "Preservation of professionals in a hospital environment" challenge.

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Nexa is seeking innovative solutions that allow consolidating data on the pandemic, generating information on prevention and care actions, allocating resources more efficiently and using geolocation to support faster and better decision-making in fighting the pandemic. The solutions we seek, allow:

i) Capture, manage and consolidate data;

ii) Use of data intelligence in analysis and predictive models for allocating and managing financial and technical resources.

3 startups will be selected to receive $50k equity-free investment each.

Next steps:

  1. i) startups to submit applications in the Nexa Challenge COVI19 website http://www.mininglab.com.br/ by May 8th.
  2. ii) Nexa to review submissions and provide feedback 
  3. iii) Winners to receive equity-free investment.

We suggest you apply both above and to us, so we can help ping to see where your application lands.

 

Nexa Resources, headquartered in Brazil, is a $3B global mining player for zinc, copper, lead and other essential elements. They have been in touch with 1-2 MIT startups and have a platform to receive applications from startups that can potentially help Nexa to solve their main challenges.  They have a venture arm / could invest.

Deadline: May 8, 2020
Posted on: April 29, 2020
Location: virtual

NEW  update:  Tomorrow (5/5), a webinar will take place to answer questions about the "Data Intelligence for Public Management" challenge, and on 6/5, for the "Preservation of professionals in a hospital environment" challenge.

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Nexa is seeking innovative solutions that allow consolidating data on the pandemic, generating information on prevention and care actions, allocating resources more efficiently and using geolocation to support faster and better decision-making in fighting the pandemic. The solutions we seek, allow:

i) Capture, manage and consolidate data;

ii) Use of data intelligence in analysis and predictive models for allocating and managing financial and technical resources.

3 startups will be selected to receive $50k equity-free investment each.

Next steps:

  1. i) startups to submit applications in the Nexa Challenge COVI19 website http://www.mininglab.com.br/ by May 8th.
  2. ii) Nexa to review submissions and provide feedback 
  3. iii) Winners to receive equity-free investment.

We suggest you apply both above and to us, so we can help ping to see where your application lands.

 

Nexa Resources, headquartered in Brazil, is a $3B global mining player for zinc, copper, lead and other essential elements. They have been in touch with 1-2 MIT startups and have a platform to receive applications from startups that can potentially help Nexa to solve their main challenges.  They have a venture arm / could invest.


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