Timeline
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May 2020
Miguel Peliteiro
Miguel Peliteiro, a tech-savyy MD, is run over by a car while cycling on a bike path. Critically injured, induced coma, 5 surgeries, 4-month hospital stay. Currently thriving to start medical practice.
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August 2020
Luís Rita
Luís Rita, a skillful data scientist and daily bike user, develops Become a Better Cyclist with Deep Learning at Imperial College London. Currently working on his PhD there. Top Talent Under 25 in the meanwhile.
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October 2020
Foundation
The two linked, brainstormed and decided to take action. Ended up drafting this ambitious project. CycleAI is born.
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November 2020
Winners of European Cyclists' Federation Hackathon
CycleAI is the winner of the European Cyclists' Federation Hackathon. And has now chances of being featured in the United Nations website and selected as one of the most innovative projects. Pitching in the world’s biggest cycling conference: Velo-City 2021 Lisbon.
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November 2020
Tudor Codrin Bostan
CycleAI has a new member. Known for its entrepreneurial projects and a singular mind in Machine Learning and Web Development, Codrin Bostan embarks on this adventure.
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December 2020
Winners of BET/AWS University Challenge
With the technical support from Amazon and a prize money to accelerate the project, we now have the tools to present the first results.
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December 2020
Winners of AML/BGI Lisbon Challenge
With Building Global Innovators and Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, we will implement our project in the capital. Its urban area comprises 3M people out of the 11M in Portugal.
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December 2020
Stamatios Kourkoutas
Finished a MSc in Computing from Imperial College London, now embarks in CycleAI as our Software Developer and responsible for the Machine Learning component.
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January 2021
Crowdsources
Hotspot Map and Perception Poll crowdsources released. Started generating data required by our safety calculator to train and validate its performance.
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April 2021
Gonçalo Moreno
Graduate from the University of Porto. Responsible for developing the first autonomous driving software for two wheel vehicles.
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April 2021
Winners of Building the Future Hackathon
With the support from Microsoft, we deployed our novel code in Azure to help building the future of Electric Mobility at the Hackathon.
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April 2021
Francisco Pereira
The youngest from the team. With a background in Electrical and Computer Engineering he will guide us taking the next steps through his data analysis skills.
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June 2021
Bikeable
For the first time, our perception calculator of cyclists’ risk - Bikeable - was presented in the XVII Iberian Congress “Bicycle and City”.
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July 2021
Accelerated by EIT Climate-KIC
Developing our business and market strategy were the 2 components that were missing. Not anymore. We will be incorporated as a company by the end of the accelerator - October 2021.
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September 2021
Velo-City Conference
After months of hard work and technological breakthroughs, a safety map for Lisbon was generated with the latest generation of Bikeable.
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October 2021
Aveiro 5G Challenges
Awarded as winners at Aveiro Tech City "5G Challenges", powered by Altice Labs & Ericsson, with a 25.000€ prize money.
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November 2021
Web Summit
We had a blast at our first Web Summit, Europe's biggest tech conference, as an IMPACT startup of the ALPHA programme.
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December 2021
WSA Young Innovators
Our cofounders were distinguished with a special recognition for young social entrepreneurs under 26 years of age to take action on the United Nations SDGs.