Europe’s biggest annual event for the tech industry is looming once more, and this year Le Web’s regular startup competition – run alongside the conference itself – has attracted 30 companies from Europe, and a few from the US, across a wide range of sectors. This year the overall organisation for the competition is being handled by the Europe-wide early-stage investor SeedCamp. They are (in alphabetical order)…
2Win-Solutions – FRANCE
3scale networks S. L. – SPAIN [TC50 Demopit]
Apture – USA
Box.net, Inc. – USA
Brozengo SA – FRANCE
Charge Ventures – Malta
Cmune – CHINA
ConTrust – ISRAEL
DoctorSIM – SPAIN
Edicy – ESTONIA
Haploid – FRANCE
IZI-collecte – FRANCE
Kaltura – USA
MyID.is Certified – FRANCE
Nimbuzz – NETHERLANDS [Reviewed]
Popego Inc. – USA
Producteev Inc. – USA
Publing – FRANCE
Radionomy – BELGIUM [Reviewed]
Samedi GmbH – GERMANY
ShoutEm Ltd. – CROATIA
Silentale SAS – FRANCE
SquareClock – FRANCE [Reviewed]
Tellmewhere – FRANCE
Trendiction – LUXEMBURG
Viewdle, Inc – UKRAINE [Reviewed]
Westcom, s.r.o. – CZECH REPUBLIC
Zavedenia.com – BULGARIA
Zipipop Ltd (Zipiko) – FINLAND
Zoover Holiday Reviews – NETHERLANDS
The companies get 7 minutes each to pitch to the judges on the day. There’s also a new element – a special Start-up Competitors’ Lounge where companies will have a chance to informally network with interested parties. Here’s how they were selected.
The judges who will be judging the competition at the actual event will be:
Ola Ahlvahrsson – Result
Roberto Bonanzinga – Balderton Capital
Mike Butcher – TechCrunchUK
Laurent Chiozotto – Sun Microsystems
Julien Codorniou – Microsoft
Don Dodge – Microsoft
David Hornik –August Capital
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet – Price Minister
Simon Levene – Accel Partners
Om Malik – GigaOM
Dave McClure – 500Hats
Freddy Mini – Netvibes
Marc Samwer – European Founders Fund
Axel Schmiegelow – Sevenload
Gary Shainberg – British Telecom
Megan Smith – Google
Pascal Thomas – Orange
Martin Varsavsky – FON
Also, don’t forget that TechCrunch readers get a 20% discount code via this link. Techcrunch is throwing a closing night party – details about tickets will be announced in due course, and sponsorship opportunities are still open (email Ouriel AT techcrunch.com).
So glad to be part of this list! FYI Producteev.com was also at the TC50 DemoPit
well done! now impress us on stage!
Congrats Ilan !
congrats iLan and all the 30 finalists!
Hope i finally get it to the party this time…
Not a single UK startup in the list… what’s with that?
Hey guys,
Just an editorial note about one of the judges: Alex Schmiegelow
is actually Axel Schmiegelow, CEO sevenload.
Hey guys, PLEASE FIX POPEGO’s LINK
http://www.popego.com
I will be there!!!
Why Greece doesn’t have a participation
I’m really excited for Popego and SquareClock, seems like a lot of potential in both.
For what its worth, the Apture link seems to be a bit off.
Slow News Day huh?
We are very excited that we were selected to come to present in the event!
All of us at Apture are excited about being selected and are looking forward to presenting and meeting everyone else.
Can Sar, CTO, Apture
I know times are hard, but I think it is a shame that LeWeb charges entrance for those presenting. Sure it is slightly discounted, and much cheaper than Demo, but it would be nice to see them follow the Techcrunch 50 example.
when I click on Apture link it takes me to official Firefox page.WTF
Links should be fixed now.
Hi Mike. Cmune is based in China, not France. Our HQ is in Beijing and our team counts 7 nationalities so far, including French, Australian, American, Canadian, Chinese, German and Korean. Thanks!
Hey mike,
Like I mentioned earlier, Producteev is a TC50 DemoPit Company, thanks
At Doctorsim we are so glad to be one of them!! See you all in Paris!
Paris je t`aime!
So excited to have been selected! Looking extremely forward to meet everybody in Paris.
2win solutions and kaltura are israeli companies
Oh btw, Charge Ventures is a start-up based in “Malta” not UK
We are very excited that we were selected to present at LeWeb08 Startup Competion.
Looking forward to meet you all
…FWIW, Popego is based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina.