Soumik Aswad, the founder of a Dhaka-based startup whose mobile app identifies counterfeit pharmaceuticals, he been selected as the recipient of a free three month stay at the GEW Startup House in Kansas City's Startup Village.
Panacea created the mobile application to help customers verify the authenticity of medicine--with counterfeiting a common problem in its native Bangladesh. It qualified for the GEW Startup House prize by finishing in the top five of the Startup Open competition during Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Located in the Kansas City Startup Village, the GEW Startup House (on Twitter @GEWHouse) is in the center of an entrepreneur-led community of promising young startups and a supportive ecosystem backed by high-speed Google Fiber.
In 2011, Kansas City was selected by Google to be the first community to receive its fiber network with speeds up to 100 times faster than average broadband. The network became available to residents just ahead of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012.