I love Internet startups. Why? Because they solve problems, often
creating innovative products and services enabling us to live our lives
in an easier and far more enriched way. All this, whilst trying to find
a revenue model that actually makes money- a hard thing to do a) on the
Internet and b) in the current economic climate.
There are loads of great startups coming out of the USA, but loads
more coming out of Europe. The tech world doesn’t revolve around
Silicon Vally you know?!
I’ve been lucky enough to hang out with some of these great
companies over the past few months and just been having a read of some
of the amazing startups pitching on stage at The Next Web conference in
Amsterdam next week …So i thought i would share and compile a little
list of some of the hottest startups in Europe right now…
I have put them in a few catagories- Seedcamp winners, Digital
Mission companies, Web Mission companies and friends’ companies- As you
can see the list is very long and that shows just how many great
start-ups there are coming out of Europe right now- Move over America
we are catching up and coming to get you!
Seedcamp 09 winners. (sponsored by Sun Startup Essentials)
About: “At Seedcamp, we believe Europe has the talent, the role
models, and the capital founders need to succeed. We want to provide a
catalyst for the next generation of great entrepreneurs and help you
take risks, think big, and succeed. Participating in Seedcamp will give
you enormous validation and access to a world-class network of advisors
to help you with every aspect of your business, plus a direct route to
seed and venture capital.”
uberVU: Tracking comments on your social media content
Kyko: Casual gaming inside MSN / Live Messenger
Basekit – Make building complex webapplications easy.
Soup.io – Personal publishing on the web made easy
Toksta – Provide instant messaging systems for social networks
Mobclix – iPhone analytics
StupeFlix – Smart video slideshows from photographs
Pitching at The Next Web 09 (sponsored by Sun Startup Essentials)
About: The Next Web 2009 is the fourth edition of the conference
that began in 2006. 900+ Internet professionals gather for 3 days to
enjoy Amsterdam, the conference and to do business.
yellowBird
Yellow Birds don’t have wings but they fly to make you experience a 3D reality. Launching at The Next Web Conference
Contextured
Contextured is the pain free SEO and SEM solution search marketers have been waiting for.
Prezi
Create stunning presentations that helps you to move beyond the slide
E
E connects people to people and people to services, all in real
life. It’s like having all your online identities in your pocket.
Launching at The Next Web Conference
Aroxo
Name your own price on thousands of items then negotiate! Launching at The Next Web Conference
Silentale
With Silentale, store all your personal conversations in one place
and access them from anywhere. Time travel through your message history.
Klomptek
Remote Device Management solution for mobile business phones. Monitor,
access, synchronise and control employees mobile phones via RCM Web
(administrator) panel.
Launching at The Next Web Conference
ShoutEm
Roll your own Microblogging or Mobile Social Network!
Quick TV
We provide revolutionary online tools & accountable video play-out
to media publishers looking to give their videos the interactive edge.
Launching at The Next Web Conference
Mimic Media
MimicMe enables online shoppers to fit clothes online with a
personalized 3d model and shop real time together with their friends.
Launching at The Next Web Conference
Yourtour
YourTour is a unique online solution for tailor-made holidays.
Plista
Personalize your internet experience. Launching at The Next Web Conference
Yunoo
Yunoo is a personal finance application where users can get insight
into their personal finance, discuss financial topics and save money.
Mendeley
Mendeley: Free academic software to manage & share research
papers and a network to discover research trends and like-minded
researchers
Huddle.net
Huddle is the world’s greatest collaboration app – beautiful, so
usable, open API and fully integrated with Linkedin, Facebook and more
Connect
IRL is the first visual social network on the web to map where your
friends are & what they are saying. See your social network on a
map. Launching at The Next Web Conference
Visibuild
Bring your architectural 3d to life in an online, interactive 3d
project environment. Create a true architectural experience with
Visibuild. Launching at The Next Web Conference
Tarpipe
Tarpipe makes it easy to share content across different social media applications.
CoTweet
CoTweet powers your brand on Twitter. Engage people across your
organization to tweet through your brand’s Twitter account as a team.
Yubby.com
Find, collect and publish from 30+ video sites
Kimengi.com
Advanced Recommendation Technology
Citisins.com
Personalized city guides with customized information.
Companies on Digital Mission 09. (sponsored by Sun Startup Essentials)
About: Specifically this is the “Digital Mission” – a kind of trade
mission, but with more sex appeal – to Austin, Texas for the South by
South West Interactive (SXSWi) conference from 12-18 March this year.
* AMEE
* Best Before
* BookingBug
* Ceros
* cxpartners
* dpivision
* ensembli
* Facultas
* Harvest Digital
* Hubdub
* Infurious
* Mixcloud
* Mobile Pie
* Mydex
* Myrl
* NixonMcInnes
* Plebble
* ProofHQ
* Rummble
* School of Everything
* Six to Start
* skive
* Short Fuze (Moviestorm)
* Snagsta
* Splendid
* Tactile CRM
* The Filter
* The iPlatform
* Traffic Digital
* Vizimo
* We7
* we are social
* Workhound
* Worldeka
* Yiibu
Companies on Web Mission 09. (Sun Startup Essentials Partner)
About: The Web Mission represents an amazing opportunity for the
best of entrepreneurial UK talent to visit Silicon Valley and learn for
themselves the differences that make the US a breeding ground for
innovation and, more importantly, successful execution of ideas.
* www.artesiansolutions.com
* www.businessitonline.com
* www.cereproc.com
* www.coclarity.com
* www.complianceandrisks.com
* www.concrete-media.com
* www.corebridge.com
* www.freshnetworks.com
* www.mtivity.com
* www.proofhq.com
* www.replify.com
* www.sift.com
* www.sosius.com
* www.tactilecrm.com
* www.viapost.com
* www.yuuguu.com
* www.zemanta.com
Two alumni from Web Mission 2008
* www.huddle.net
* www.trampolinesystems.com
Friend’s companies:
Some friend’s companies are already in the above lists!
Alex Tew- PopJam
Paul Walsh- Wubud
Robert Loch- Pureescapes
Michael Smith- MindCandy
David Langer- GroupSpaces
Joshua March- iPlatform
Sophie and Charlie Cox- Worldeka
kieran O’Neill- Playfire
Lucian Tarnowski- Brave New Talent
Michell Dewberry- Chiconomise
Geoff Hughes- Funditfrog
David Hathiramani – Asuitthatfits
Caroline Whitmey- MsBond
Anthony Eskinazi – Parkatmyhouse.com
Louise Campbell- http://www.myehive.com
Michele Obi- MyFashionLife
Michelle Gibs- Pout
Steve Kennedy- Talklets
Sam Mathews- UGame
Nick Halstead tweetmeme.com
Fabio De Bernardi -Ilikeucoz
Renate Nyborg- Madhousecollective
Simon Campbell- Viapost
Don’t forget our Spotify community site http://www.sharemyplaylists.com
Demian Turner – Doris – http://www.dorisapp.com
Ideally you should give the URLs for each of the companies, and Twitter names for all the friends
Great post. I will read your posts frequently. Added you to the RSS reader.
i know, i know…it takes a long time!…oh that’s a good idea…a Google/Twitter plugin that automatically searches what you’re writing…does it exist?
I mean, searches Twitter names or automatically inserts hyperlinks
Social Gaming Platform
philipp gloeckler – http://www.ecofashionjunkies.com
Not afaik.
You need to get to grips with WordPress formatting. It’s a pain, I know, but would make for far more parsable content.
Have you ever tried Zoundry? It’s a desktop WordPress platform: there are a few around which might help.
All the same; good info!
agree, require use of font bold and beeggr font dimension, my eyesite not so hotty..
WordPress formatting…like what? When i copy and paste text from word that’s nicely formatted why why does it come out differently when published even though it looks the same in the deck?
I am no WordPress expert but not sure WordPress keeps true to anything pasted from Word.
When i write a post I have to toggle around with the bold, font size, colour options above the post window..but if your stylesheet is set for a tiny font it overides this, you need to look at the css (styleshee) in your theme options on sidebar (copy and paste a copy in a doc so you have back up in case you mess up!) then look out for font names and sizes in the script and have a play with sizes etc .. when you save (you may need to empty your cache to see result?) you will see the effects of changing it across all your posts.
best
jules
annoying WordPress..like hello?!, it’s 2009..make it simple!
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
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C. Zoundry doesn’t work on mac… I am downloading http://illuminex.com/ecto/
lets see…
I have been using http://DesktopBudget.com to manage my personal finances for a few months now. Its the easiest to use free, offline personal finance manager I have seen so far.
honored to be in such awesome company! techfluff.tv is my fav
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have you tried this? http://www.zemanta.com/ looks like it could save alot of time blog posting etc. Firefox plugin.
Good site, admin.
Try Zemanta in your blogging platform. They automate adding links, etc. Not twitter yet.
Thanks for all the help..just installed Zemanta
Plenty of other places have great startups too, like NY, Phoenix and even Seattle. Great to see so many great companies NOT being tied to Silicon Valley by necessity.
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