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
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Company |
Location |
Description |
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UK |
ArtFlock.com aims to be |
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London, UK |
An online community for 12 |
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London, UK |
Buildersite is a web-marketplace for construction services. We aim to provide homeowners and |
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Dubai, United Arab |
Helps content providers |
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London, UK |
Debatewise will enable |
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Facecontact |
Moscow, Russia |
Facecontact.com is a |
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KillSushi |
Cadiz, Spain |
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Bucharest, Romania |
Software development |
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Kublax |
London, UK |
Online personal finance |
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London, UK |
A social networking site aimed at inspiring like minded over 50s to |
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OpenEra |
UK |
Online real estate |
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Picolex |
Paris, France |
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Project Playfair |
Edinburgh, Scotland |
Our game is hypernumbers which will do to numbers what hypertext did |
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London, UK |
The place for consumers to |
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RentMineOnline |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Trusted online rental |
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London, UK |
The place to come to find |
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Sweden |
Tablefinders’ mission is |
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London, UK |
Tickex is a search engine |
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Wall Street Docs |
Frankfurt, Germany |
A provider of a |
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Content intelligence platform to automatically |
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WTH? Why are a bunch of the links on TC blue instead of black? Looks gross.
yeah, we’re fixing that.
Ahhh, my eyes feel better.
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
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.
If these 20 startups are the best out of 240, then Europe is way behind the USA in startups.
BTW. I’m from Europe.
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!
several look like euro takes on u.s. ideas. could still be hits even if not globally novel.. europe’s a big market.
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!
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!
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.
content syndicate definitely sounds like the most useful/interesting to me. all of the others sound pretty ho-hum
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.
Congratz to all I hope there are some winners in there.
Dragos – these are the official names and links as supplied by seedcamp. If there’s an error, the company should fix it with them.
Do you known what Picolex do ?
They looked ok. Nothing grabbed my attention though.
And I am from Europe
JohnN, I totally agree with you.
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.
Just a comment: KillSushi is presenting Tagmore to Seedcamp http://www.tagmore.com
anyone know what KillSushi is all about?
Oh ! Where’s my India?
Just wondering… do they cover expenses for teams from places that are far away from London?
Yea, where’s India? Somebody start a Ycombinator in India, pLz…
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.
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.
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
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…
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
So – what do you reckon chaps – set up a UK / European business then launch in the US – or vice versa?