In January, I got under the skin of LG Nova — electronics and appliances giant LG’s internal startup incubator — and its search for a different way of doing a corporate accelerator. Today, NOVA (short for North American Innovation Center) is announcing the twenty startups it selected as part of its Mission for the Future global challenge competition. The companies represent new developments in the areas of Connected Health, Energizing Mobility, Smart Lifestyle, the Metaverse and Innovation for Impact, which the company describes as a general “socially impactful” tech category.
Each of these 20 companies will receive $100,000 each to work with LG to create a business framework for running a pilot with LG’s accelerator.
“Over the last few months, our work with the First 50 startups has helped us continue to refine …