Meet the SIGMA Europe pitch finalists
The SiGMA Pitch competition is set to return as an integral part of the SiGMA Europe summit. Taking place at Malta Week the SiGMA Pitch serves as a valuable platform for startups, facilitating connections with investors and VCs, and bringing their bright ideas to a global audience. Hand-picked by a team of judges, 6 innovation-driven startups have been shortlisted to present their projects to a panel of judges during the summit. The live pitch will take over the SiGMA stage on the 14th.
Watchers
Watchers help iGaming platforms get social, providing them with integrated community chats, supported with AI-moderation, engagement and copy-betting widgets. Having their social SaaS integrated, sport betting and casino platforms develop and retain their communities inside their apps, increasing their satisfaction, and boosting transactions.
Industry-Sector: Game Content ; Marketing Services (affiliate, acquisition/retention)
Unique Sports Tech
Through Unique Sports Betting you can play on 1X2 daily – the challenge is to predict a draw, a home win, or an away victory in 13 different matches. One of its unique selling points is that you can bet small, win big, benefit from a global pool with The World Jackpot and set up your own local or global 1X2 coupons where the winnings are based on turnover. 1X2 is enabled to cater different sports. 1X2 and the team mentioned is backed by CaspianTech, an Azerbaijani company, and are setting up shop in Malta as we speak.
Industry-Sector: Game Content
Leet
LEET is a phygital platform that brings amateur sports enthusiasts onto one gamified ecosystem by offering a suite of functions and features to get more people to play the sports they love. The platform: a multi-layered platform that caters for a range of functions and features that promotes one interactive ecosystem and applying a range of technologies including the use of AI and gamification elements. They have received endorsements from POC and Beta already endorsed by entities such as MITA, MFA, Malta Enterprise, MCST and SharkTank.
Industry-Sector: Marketing Services (affiliate, acquisition/retention)
We The Bookie
B2C online sportsbook that redistributes 50% of monthly gross gaming revenue to customers in direct proportion to each one’s monthly net loss. We The Bookie would rather pay its customers than affiliates and marketers. As such, they return 50% of each month’s gross revenue from bets back to our losing customers in direct proportion to their loss – in what’s called the WeShare program. We The Bookie is one of the most responsible bookmaker in Ireland (and soon the world). Their model inherently discourages chasing losses and since it is transparent and each losing customer receives the same percent of their losses back, they have no need for VIP programs. They plan to expand globally.
Industry-Sector: Sportsbook
8BIT Gaming
8BIT Gaming’s product is a collection of 8-bit games such as 8Bitman, 8Bit Plinko, and 8Bit 2048. These titles bridge the gap between traditional slots and modern crash/mini-games, targeting a demographic that craves both nostalgia and innovation. With the mobile user behaviors inching closer to igaming, they decided to tap into the millennial psyche who reminisce about the 8-bit era. Their games uniquely combine retro aesthetics with a dynamic gaming experience, featuring evocative sounds, ambient effects, and a controller-inspired interface, thereby redefining the igaming landscape.
Industry-Sector: Game Content
TRIION Gaming
Triion Gaming brings live dealers into the Immersive 3D space with their AI body tracking system and voice recognition. When live dealers deal the cards in real life their avatars deal them in the virtual space. With this tech they have created a whole world with different casino games, offering an experience very different from the traditional. This is the only 1 product on the market which provides a full immersive live casino experience in virtual space or metaverse without any gadgets / sensors. Apart from live games they have developed an immersive experience for slot games.
Industry-Sector: Game Content ; Backend Platform ; Marketing Services (affiliate, acquisition/retention)