As you could see from yesterday’s post, there has been a Startup Competition going on at LeWeb, in Paris. Mike Butcher, from TechCrunch Europe and the French Minister of Internet just announced the winners of the competition.
Here are the companies that got to pitch in front of more than 2000 attendees:
- 1st: Stribe
- 2nd: TigerLily
- 3rd: CloudSplit
This is one of the services I was looking forward to. It’s one of the first very useful ones, enabling you to create a social network platform on top of your website very easily.
In their own words: “Stribe is a plug and play service to instantly create a social network on any website”
This one was an unexpected surprise, it’s a set of facebook applications to help you manage your pages and make them more interactive. Presentation was a bit boring, slides where cool and product sounds good. In their own words: “Tigerlily is a set of Facebook apps for marketers who want to get more from Facebook pages.”
In their own words: “Real-time spending insight, real-time cost control.”
CloudSplit is a very cool product, targeting a real business problem. It’s a very comprehensive tool to monitor your cloud spending and see how much each application is costing you, and reduce your overall costs.
There were some very cool companies presenting this year at LeWeb and the choice was very hard for the judges. Please take a time to check the others companies that presented too!
Coincidence that 2 of the 3 finalists were French with award being presented to by French minister? Coming to think about it, the third company was Irish… perhaps they are trying to make up for the henry’s hand?