\r\nA Walloon delegation attended SXSW between March 7 and 14. Amongst it, young entrepreneurs and students who had all won the StarTech competition. Being in Austin with a whole delegation was an enormous opportunity for them.\r\n<\/p>\n\n\n
StarTech is an incubator for engineering students created by WSL<\/a>, the first technology incubator in Europe, and Wallonie Entreprendre<\/a>. In October 2023, four students won the competition with their Peach<\/a> project. They were part of the Walloon delegation in Austin<\/a>, thanks to the Walloon Export and Foreign Investment Agency (AWEX<\/a>) and Wallonie Bruxelles International (WBI<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Behind the development of Peach are Lucie Mathues Bilginer<\/a> (a student in the Master\u2019s first year in Biomedical Engineering), Cl\u00e9ment Vermeylen<\/a> (a student in the Master\u2019s first year in Computer Engineering), Maria Farcas<\/a> (a student in the Master\u2019s first year in Chemical Engineering) and Melissa Kaci<\/a> (a student in the Master\u2019s first year in Electrical Engineering). Their adventure began in March 2023, within a startup course given at the University of Li\u00e8ge<\/a>. A university project which rapidly became a passion, and soon maybe an entrepreneurial project? In May, they won the ULi\u00e8ge section of the StarTech competition, and then the general competition in October, bringing together several schools. Since July 2023, they have been incubated at VentureLab<\/a>. But what exactly is Peach? \u2018A project which aims to help women suffering from menstrual pain,\u2019 Lucie informs us. \u2018We have developed a heating belt which can be taken anywhere, and which cannot be seen under clothing, so that it can be worn at any time of the day to ease the pain.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n