Seedcamp, the European-wide competion for seed-stage startups, ended on a high this week, naming a record seven winners rather than the five they originally set out to award. The seven will each get €50,000 seed funding from Seedcamp’s conglomerate of venture backers, but the stake in each startup will vary, along similar lines to the Y-Combinator model.
Check out TechCrunch UK for a fuller write-up but the winners were:
BaseKit (UK)
This is a deceptively easy way to create complex web sites and applications, which saves time building simple apps and demos.
Kyko (UK) (no site yet)
Currently in stealth mode, but from what I’ve seen it’s pretty good for a 21-year old founder.
Mobclix (US)
A “comscore with an ad network for iPhones apps” said the judges.They were also a TechCrunch 50 company. They are considering moving to Europe where the mobile scene is hot right now.
Soup (Austria)
This is Tumblr for the rest of us. It has a Twitter-like interface enabling feed imports/ lifestreaming, bookmarklets, you name it.
Stupeflix (France)
This is similar to Animoto but where that site takes hours to convert video Stupeflix does it in real time on a massive scale.
Toksta (Germany)
This is white label IM and video for social networks, so socnets don’t have to create it themselves. This adds stickiness and increases user activity.
uberVU (Romania)
uberVU keeps track of context from all over the Web (responses, comments, trackbacks, diggs, etc.) around a story so you can see what people are saying about it on different sites and services. The founders say they are “mapping the conversational graph” - pretty cool stuff for three guys from Romania, not known for many startups.
The rest of the Seedcamp finalists were Zoombu, Szuku, Decisions for Heroes, Adtaily, Saplo , Yoose, Quillp, Entrip, scred.com, tickerTXT, Speedsell, ThoughtTrail, Tripwolf, Deepmemo, FDream.
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Seems like startup competitions and events are happening every now and then….really good for startup guys
Congratulations to the winners, and to everyone else. It has been a great event, with tons of energy and good connections!
Hope to meet you guys soon again!
Check also this one: Pikaba (http://www.pikaba.com/) is a new-generation social shopping community designed as a ‘reverse auction’ model where sellers bid for consumers’ shopping needs.
Amazing week - great ideas and great people. Thanks for the party last night Mike - good meeting you.
We’re giving away intensive workshops on brand, user experience and design to the 7 winners and have a limited number of places for people who wish to mentor the teams more.
check out http://weareswede.com/thoughts/?p=203 and tell us a bit about yourself.
Great event and week all in all. Very inspiring to share that time with just over 20 of the best, hottest startups in Europe plus the mentors and Seedcamp people were fantastic at helping us to really bring our business concepts to the next level. Thank you from everyone in the Scred team.
I miss eioba.com on that list
Amazing to see how far we have come in Europe. There was nothing like this in the 90s when “we” first started out.
Seedcamp is the dilly.
Any Spanish start-up there?
I am really glad a Romanian start-up won.
Was a good, fun week overall. Interesting format, pretty laid back, and awesome location. Recommend it to Euro startups..
Hey Mike, the EnTrip link seems broken (space at the end)
Thanks for the write-up!
Go uberVU!! That is sweet for me too because I was involved as one of the advisors for them and I am Romanian.
I hope other Romanian startups which addresses the worldwide market will pop out soon…
i also wanted to congratulate the winners again and thanks to TC for the party
it was friggin awesome meeting all those people and getting the vibes of seedcamp in live mode
lukas
congratulations! they went out, exposed their ideas, sharpened their focus, trained their presentations, got publicity and contacts. perfect for any start.up in my opinion. i do even think it is a necessity to go out and challenge your ideas, before you bout out and start pitching venture capital: http://startupict.blogspot.com.....efore.html
and even if some, like dan kaplan do not agree about the winners (http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/19/seedcamp-08-in-a-pack-of-copycats-two-start-ups-shine/), the are still the winners! they got the exposure, they took the risk and won. sounds like they are just entrepreneurs, aren’t they?
I’m glad that a start-up from easter europe won. This may act as a wake up call to the “old europe” (It has been sleaping for long time now).
I’m from Italy and people here are not ambitious, they are just crying how bad the economy is but they do nothing about it!
congratulations!
Congrats to all the winners.