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


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”

• 2nd: TigerLily


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.”

• 3rd: CloudSplit


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!

The third batch of startups presenting at LeWeb:

• Kukunu
• Kukunu is a new travel startup, focused on helping you find the best places. They are targeting non tech-savvy users, and obviously has all the now mandatory social features. Monetization will be through commissions.
• Sports Predictions
• Sports Predictions’ product, Get In, provides the user with free scientific premier league recommendation. They claim to have a 50-70% success rate.
• FitnessKeeper, Inc.
• FitnessKeeper is the company behind RunKeeper, the awesome iPhone application that tracks all your running experiences. They are announcing a new and improved iPhone application and a web platform where you can compare to peers with the usual social features. They are announcing also a $400k outside financing round.
• Liqpay
• Liqpay is a new startup in the mobile payment space. They have the concept that a mobile phone number can be a unique payment ID. To use the service you don’t need to sign up, register or have an account. It’s very easy to use. They are also launching a KILLcoin.org initiative.

Here is the second bunch of startups presenting at LeWeb.

• CloudSplit
• 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.
• Sokoz
• Sokoz is a new type of auction-based website. They played a cool video and then went over time.

• Storific
• Storific is a set of tool for stores to manage their real time communication, on Twitter Facebook and of course Storific. They also offer cool tools for retails stores to help them get online with their tools.
• Shutl
• I can finally unveil this, after having signed an NDA. Shutl is trying to disrupt the shipping industry. Since ecommerce was born, the shipping methods are still the same, no changes, no innovation. Tom Allason, Shutl CEO, is changing that with a new web-service. In their own words: “Real-time delivery for the real-time web”. Shutl offers instant delivery (90 mins) in London or Convenient Delivery in a 1h time slot 24/7.

I’m at LeWeb in the Startup Competition room.

This has been the first batch of presentations :

• FriendBinder

Friendbinder is another social aggregator, too bad I didn’t arrive in time to hear their pitch as I wanted to understand what is setting them apart from all the other webapps that let you keep all your friends in one place. In their own words: “FriendBinder brings together your friends from different social networks. It lets you keep track of all your friends in one place, saving you time and lets you post updates and replies.”

• Stribe

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”

• Tigerlily

This one 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.”

• Task.ly

Task.ly is trying to re-invent task management applications, the product looks very cool. Heavy bashing of all other to do apps such as remember the milk and things.

LeWeb ‘09 looks more promising than ever. With the recent news of Queen Rania Al Abdullah attending on Dec 10th, the speakers’ list gets even more exciting.

To see the complete list of speakers you can either check the official list or follow the twitter list. As you can see the most famous internet stars will be there, and you should too.

I am an official blogger of LeWeb, and with many others I will be covering the event on twitter and on this blog. I suggest you follow the official bloggers’ twitter list.

The early bird ends on november 10, you can get a 10% discount on top of that with the following code: BLOG09.

Here is a video of the organizers, Loic and Geralindine, explaining the theme, program and speakers of LeWeb ‘09.

I’ll live blog the event, but I’d prefer to meet each and everyone of you over there!