August 30, 2007

SeedCamp Finalists Chosen; Battle To Final Five Next Week

Michael Arrington

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Seedcamp, a European Y Combinator-like seed fund and mentoring program, has announced the final twenty candidates for funding. Next week, five of the twenty startup ideas will be funded, each receiving €50,000 to build out their business. We are one of the media sponsors of the program.

In all, 240 applications were received from 40 countries.

SeedCamp Finalists

Company	Location	Description
ArtFlock.com	UK	ArtFlock.com aims to be the foremost online destination for the sale and promotion of original art and craft by the worlds’ freshest artists and makers
Avenue7	London, UK	An online community for 12 - 17 year old girls to share ideas on the latest fashion trends & products, as well as their own personal styles
Buildersite	London, UK	Buildersite is a web-marketplace for construction services. We aim to provide homeowners and tradesmen with the largest and most trusted venue for transacting business online
Content Syndicate	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Helps content providers and buyers commission, distribute, buy and sell content, that’s exclusive, customised and personalised for their requirements
Debatewise	London, UK	Debatewise will enable people to compare the collective wisdom of one side of a debate with the collective wisdom of their opponents, to help them make up their mind about anything
Facecontact	Moscow, Russia	Facecontact.com is a simple and effective tool for referral tracking and reward administration for referring job candidates, clients, investors and other prospects
KillSushi	Cadiz, Spain
Krogos Software Development	Bucharest, Romania	Software development boutique
Kublax	London, UK	Online personal finance management service
Maple and Leek	London, UK	A social networking site aimed at inspiring like minded over 50s to build an online community of friends and fellow explorers
OpenEra	UK	Online real estate information systems provider and the developer of the new and exciting Reavia portfolio collaboration service
Picolex	Paris, France
Project Playfair	Edinburgh, Scotland	Our game is hypernumbers which will do to numbers what hypertext did to text
Price Delivered	London, UK	The place for consumers to discover and share genuine bargains
RentMineOnline	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Trusted online rental market
The School of Everything	London, UK	The place to come to find independent teachers and classes in anything and everything
Tablefinder	Sweden	Tablefinders’ mission is to aggregate the world’s online bookable restaurants through an awarding and open community
Tickex	London, UK	Tickex is a search engine for tickets to live events - concert, theatre and sports. In one search, Tickex aggregates results from all the major primary and secondary brokers
Wall Street Docs	Frankfurt, Germany	A provider of a sophisticated web-based document automation solution for complex capital raising transactions with a feature set tailored to the needs of issuers and banks
Zemanta		Content intelligence platform to automatically enhance content, making it web-ready

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Jay

August 30th, 2007 at 10:28 am

WTH? Why are a bunch of the links on TC blue instead of black? Looks gross.
Michael Arrington

August 30th, 2007 at 10:29 am

yeah, we’re fixing that.
Jay

August 30th, 2007 at 10:33 am

Ahhh, my eyes feel better.
Mario Ruiz

August 30th, 2007 at 10:41 am

Hi Michael,

I browsed almost all of them and only Zemanta is kind of a new idea.

The others are just more of the same. For example Tickets will compete with thefind.com. The worse is Krogos. They are a software factory.

Maybe if you explain little more, we get it.

Mario Ruiz
@ http://www.oursheet.com
Michael Arrington

August 30th, 2007 at 10:48 am

Mario, I haven’t seen them yet, just going through them now. The key will be to focus on the five finalists next week. More then.
Marino

August 30th, 2007 at 11:05 am

If these 20 startups are the best out of 240, then Europe is way behind the USA in startups.

BTW. I’m from Europe.
Rajesh Shakya

August 30th, 2007 at 11:14 am

Congratulations Guys! This is definitely a step move on the journey of entrepreneurship. You are lucky enough.

Rajesh Shakya
http://www.rajeshshakya.com
Helping technopreneurs to excel and lead their life!
jb

August 30th, 2007 at 11:33 am

several look like euro takes on u.s. ideas. could still be hits even if not globally novel.. europe’s a big market.
Reshma

August 30th, 2007 at 11:41 am

Actually, Krogos works under the name Urbee and they are creating a mobile application that works like a web service providing city guide info. So, we probably should have described the company better to Techcrunch. As Mike said… you’ll have much more clarity end of next week!
Peter Cooper

August 30th, 2007 at 11:42 am

This is a pretty key step, and will help placate some of those who have been whining about the lack of similar developments in Europe.

Rather sad that only 1 in 9 of the English ones is outside of London! People wonder why British work tends to be so samey.. but it’s no real surprise when 95% of the industry lives and works in the same (dull) town.. I sold Feed Digest, by the way, so perhaps in a few months I’ll be back on the wagon with another startup from the rural idylls of the merry old land!
Antonio Leonforte

August 30th, 2007 at 11:58 am

I was just anxious to see who did pass the first selection stage at seedcamp, as we did not. I think that many of the selected team might definitively have some killer technology under their belts, it’s really difficult to understand that from a one-line business descriptions.

Krogos, for instance, might have proposed a good platform to remotely manage the off-shore development process… sure if they were selected just for the idea of “developing software offshore” that would be just insane from my personal (possibly biased) point of view.

However I have to admit it’s quite a pain to discover that “An online community for 12- 17 year old girls” scored better than us. But it might also be a kind or relief, I don’t know really.
mathew johnson

August 30th, 2007 at 12:19 pm

content syndicate definitely sounds like the most useful/interesting to me. all of the others sound pretty ho-hum
Dragos

August 30th, 2007 at 12:41 pm

Hi Michael,

Krogos involvement with Seedcamp is urbee - a mobile application in a calendar format with city guide info. The actual krogos.ro link has nothing to do with the actual day-to-day company, we were just too lazy to change the website since a few years.

I would appreciate if you could make the changes - thanks.
Darren Stuart

August 30th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

Congratz to all I hope there are some winners in there.
Michael Arrington

August 30th, 2007 at 1:43 pm

Dragos - these are the official names and links as supplied by seedcamp. If there’s an error, the company should fix it with them.
Cyrille

August 30th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

Do you known what Picolex do ?
JohnN

August 30th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

They looked ok. Nothing grabbed my attention though.

And I am from Europe
Marino

August 30th, 2007 at 2:37 pm

JohnN, I totally agree with you.
Gonzo

August 30th, 2007 at 2:48 pm

The sites are just a sketch of what’s going to come. These are all seed stage startups and the text provided by SC is not complete and misleading.
Alberto

August 30th, 2007 at 4:11 pm

Just a comment: KillSushi is presenting Tagmore to Seedcamp http://www.tagmore.com
The Dude

August 30th, 2007 at 10:05 pm

anyone know what KillSushi is all about?
Prasun

August 30th, 2007 at 10:06 pm

Oh ! Where’s my India?
Eugene

August 31st, 2007 at 4:36 am

Just wondering… do they cover expenses for teams from places that are far away from London?
Abhishek

August 31st, 2007 at 4:38 am

Yea, where’s India? Somebody start a Ycombinator in India, pLz…
Rm

August 31st, 2007 at 10:27 am

It is a bit funny how none of the teams are from the USA, you would think they would get some people from here. We do have the all mighty silicon Valley. From what I see it looks like the people/teams are from the same area, if they were already in place why haven’t they done the startups already.
FR

August 31st, 2007 at 3:38 pm

I was just talking to a friend today about how so much money is going into the same old thing, and copycat apps. This shortlist just confirms it!

There’s so much innovation going on out there that’s under the radar.
Tom Adler

September 2nd, 2007 at 2:16 am

Hi!

1.) Interesting - none from US, India - but then isnt this targete at EMEA start-ups?

2.) I definetely see 2-3 entrants making serious money - the real estate start-up; ContentSyndicate.com - publishers will lap it up and the table finder idea good for the hospitality industry. Rest are all ‘cute ideas’; couldn’t find a serious monetary angle; or there are too many clones.

I guess, execution, money, processes, team, backing is 90%. 10% is idea.

Good luck to all finalists!
T
mario_KND

September 3rd, 2007 at 4:54 am

It actually is aimed at European-startups. I am rather wonder why there is only one from Germany!
I hope it is due to limited publicity of seedcamp in Germany and not due to the lack of innovative ebusiness-ideas…
Mark Sorsa-Leslie

September 3rd, 2007 at 3:58 pm

Hi,

We do have a live site, but it seems to be have “lost” somewhere between TechCrunch and Seedcamp. For more information on OpenEra and our Reavia product go to http://www.reavia.com

BTW the first day of Seedcamp was a blast. We are loving every minute of it!

t:M
Philip Wilkinson

September 3rd, 2007 at 4:17 pm

So - what do you reckon chaps - set up a UK / European business then launch in the US - or vice versa?