The Sri Lankan apparel manufacturing giant, Brandix’s recently launched seed accelerator program ‘Disrupt Unlimited’, reached the next stage as the Demo Day approached. Seven teams of young Sri Lankans demonstrated their ideas for business start-ups at the conclusion of the Brandix-funded MIT Global Start-up Labs (MIT-GSL) Sri Lanka 2014 challenge.
The ideas varied from the delivery of therapy to dyslexic children, accessing organic vegetables and fruit, or eliminating false alarms generated by electronic surveillance systems, to helping university students find lodging facilities, commuters to locate the taxis closest to their locations, and retailers to know, engage and retain customers. The program is to be offered twice a year to second-year or older undergraduates as well as recent graduates of Sri Lankan universities.
