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Startup No 176 - StartupRealities 2020 series HighestPlatform installs raised observation decks and platforms at the top of houses and buildings or at the highest place in gardens where legally possible. This allows the building owners to climb up the stairs to the platform to look at the sky or film the sunset. CEO QUOTE "Most people dream of being up high - unless you have vertigo, of course. We make this happen: we install platforms on rooftops; we build a balcony above the balcony; we put up platforms in the canopy of trees. And it is an amazing experience to be standing at the top of the world, your world, looking at the sky. We can even lend you a temporary mobile platform, just to try for yourself the feeling of being up there. It is a real treat!" - said HighestPlatform founder and CEO Higgins Platt. Mobile platform (image source: Wikipedia )

Startup No 175 - StartupRealities 2020 series Vine&Passion is a landscaping company which plants and looks after grape and passion fruit vines that cover the facade of people's houses with a rich canopy of greenery. The company plants varieties of both species/genera ( Vitis and Passiflora / passion flower) simultaneously as they have different requirements and one may be more successful than the other. The plants are grown and trained up trellising to serve as natural decoration on the facade of private homes, though occasionally office buildings also show interest in the company's services. CEO QUOTE " Our climbing plants are the most beautiful addition to your house that exists out there. We create a green wall in the most natural way. And for detached houses, we can cover all four walls of your house with passion flower and grape vine. A small bonus on top of all the greenery is that the vines and the passion flower do produce grapes and passion fruit, whic...

Startup No 174 - StartupRealities 2020 series ValueTagger is an artificial intelligence (AI) service that evaluates and tags content on social media based on the value of the information contained in a posting. The key marker of intransient value is whether a posting contains useful information for the reader or is simply meant to convey information about the person posting it. A second dimension of assessing the value of a posting is whether it informs about a forthcoming event or summarises a past event. A third dimension is the originality of the posting: newly created content or a "retweet". CEO QUOTE "I often get asked how an AI can assess such a subjective thing as the value of information to a particular individual. It isn't that difficult: a posting from close friends or family members would usually be considered subjectively valuable even if it is only about the person posting it because you would care about that person. Whereas a posting by a distant a...