Think it all happens in Silicon Valley? You’re totally wrong! My list of Europe’s hottest startups in 2009!

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


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  2. 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 :-)

  3. Great post. I will read your posts frequently. Added you to the RSS reader.

  4. hermione says:

    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?

  5. hermione says:

    I mean, searches Twitter names or automatically inserts hyperlinks

  6. L1AD says:

    Social Gaming Platform

  7. C. says:

    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!

  8. abdu'l a jafeez says:

    agree, require use of font bold and beeggr font dimension, my eyesite not so hotty..

  9. hermione says:

    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?

  10. jules says:

    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

  11. hermione says:

    annoying WordPress..like hello?!, it’s 2009..make it simple!

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  14. hermione says:

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    lets see…

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    Good site, admin.

  19. Reshma says:

    Try Zemanta in your blogging platform. They automate adding links, etc. Not twitter yet.

  20. hermione says:

    Thanks for all the help..just installed Zemanta

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