Europe’s biggest annual event for the tech industry is looming once more, and this year Le Web’s
regular startup competition - run alongside the conference itself - has attracted 30 companies from Europe, and a few from the US, across a wide range of sectors. This year the overall organisation for the competition is being handled by the Europe-wide early-stage investor SeedCamp.
The list of startups:
2Win-Solutions - FRANCE
3scale networks S. L. - SPAIN
Apture - USA
Box.net, Inc. - USA
Brozengo SA - FRANCE
Charge Ventures - UK
Cmune - FRANCE
ConTrust - ISRAEL
DoctorSIM - SPAIN
Edicy - ESTONIA
Haploid - FRANCE
IZI-collecte - FRANCE
Kaltura - USA
MyID.is Certified - FRANCE
Nimbuzz - NETHERLANDS
Popego Inc. - USA
Producteev Inc. - USA
Publing - FRANCE
Radionomy - BELGIUM
Samedi GmbH - GERMANY
ShoutEm Ltd. - CROATIA
Silentale SAS - FRANCE
SquareClock - FRANCE
Tellmewhere - FRANCE
Trendiction - LUXEMBURG
Viewdle, Inc - UKRAINE
Westcom, s.r.o. - CZECH REPUBLIC
Zavedenia.com - BULGARIA
Zipipop Ltd (Zipiko) - FINLAND
Zoover Holiday Reviews - NETHERLANDS
The companies get 7 minutes each to pitch to the judges on the day. There’s also a new element - a special Start-up Competitors’ Lounge where companies will have a chance to informally network with interested parties. Here’s how they were selected.
The judges who will be judging the competition at the actual event will be:
Ola Ahlvahrsson - Result
Roberto Bonanzinga – Balderton Capital
Mike Butcher - TechCrunchUK
Laurent Chiozotto – Sun Microsystems
Julien Codorniou - Microsoft
Don Dodge – Microsoft
David Hornik –August Capital
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet - Price Minister
Simon Levene – Accel Partners
Om Malik - GigaOM
Dave McClure - 500Hats
Freddy Mini - Netvibes
Marc Samwer – European Founders Fund
Alex Schmiegelow – Sevenload
Gary Shainberg – British Telecom
Megan Smith – Google
Pascal Thomas - Orange
Martin Varsavsky - FON
via techcrunch.com
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