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#Aticcoworker: SoyMomo

14 Sep 2018

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Hello! We want to tell you about SoyMomo, a startup founded in March 2016 with a clear mission: adapt current technologies to make them safe for children. Aníbal Madrid, CEO and founder of the company, is an electrical engineer. Although SoyMomo has its offices in Santiago de Chile, he decided to settle also in Barcelona, specifically in our coworking Aticco Urquinaona, to create a commercial office destined to all Europe. He and his team are part of our community since May 2018, and we hope to accompany them in this adventure for a long time. But what is SoyMomo? It is about a cell phone with GPS in the shape of a clock. The device prevents access to pages that are not suitable for children, such as social networks or some addictive games, so that the only purpose of the phone is to make calls to their parents.   There are hundreds of difficult moments in the life of an entrepreneur.. The launching of SoyMomo meant many days of insomnia. The effort was worth it, since today it is an innovative and successful product in part of Latin America and Spain, and we are very proud to have you as part of Aticco! »For 2019, we plan to open in the USA and expand in Europe: Germany, Italy, Poland and the Nordic countries. For now, we have our mind set on starting to sell in France, the UK and Portugal.»  

»Within a week I had my first prototype.»

Aníbal explains that the idea came up in 2015, during a New Year's Eve party with some friends who have two small children. "Every five minutes one of them had to go check on the kids to make sure everything was okay. I took out my phone and said, "Why don't you pass my cell phone to one of the kids and call them?"", to which they replied: "A cell phone for children is extremely dangerousSocial networks, Internet, games...". The response, from the parents, inspired Hannibal with what was to be his future project: a secure device to keep parents and children in touch with each other.
»So, we started to think of a solution. We ended up talking about building with an Arduino a cell phone with GPS, avoiding all social networks and addictive games. After a week, I already had my first prototype of what we know today as SoyMomo».
 

»You can check their location and define safe zones.»

SoyMomo has different functions for the child:
  • Calls: you can make and receive calls from up to 10 contacts that you allow.
  • GPS: to get your child's location, follow the school bus route, bike ride...
  • Safe zones: every time your child arrives or leaves home, school and the locations you choose, you will receive a notification on your cell phone.
  • Call blocking for unknown callers, reminders, SOS button...
 

»A coworking gives you the flexibility to grow».

The SoyMomo team considers that being part of Aticco is a great opportunity for generate a network of contacts quickly.
»As a team, we hope that Aticco will continue to create opportunities for us to get to know each other. This enriches us as people as we meet dozens of different professionals from all over the world».
  And we look forward to you continuing to build relationships in our coworking space!
For our coworkers interested in Soymomo, for belonging to the community Aticco you have a special discount.
We like to see how startups are growing in AticcoDo you want to develop your project here? Ask us :).