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Seedcamp, the major european startup programme, has just announced its finalists. (Techcrunch Europe was the first to report it).
As you can see, the majority of the teams are based in London and other parts of the UK, that was pretty much predictable.

There are quite a few teams coming from eastern Europe and that’s very nice, unfortunately there are none from Italy, Spain, Greece, France and just one from Germany.
The teams who aren’t already in London, will move there for a 3 months period, where they will get mentoring, advice and funding.

Here are the 21 finalists:

Advertag – London, UK
Boxed Ice – Bromsgrove, UK
Brainient – Bucharest, Romania
Codility – Warsaw, Poland
Comufy – London, UK
Erply – Estonia
Joobili – Budapest, Hungary
Kukunu – London, UK
Loc8 Solutions – Edinburgh, UK
Patients Know Best – Cambridge, UK
Petsicon – Berlin, Germany
Plug in SEO – London, UK
ShoutEm – Zagreb, Croatia
T27 Systems (Pearl Systems) – Bristol, UK
Talasim.com – Amman, Jordan
Teachable – London, UK
Vooices – Wigan, UK
VouChaCha – London, UK
Wondergraphs – Leuven, Belgium
World on a Hanger – London, UK
YubiTech – Ramat Gan, Israel

Update: List with descriptions

Update2: The official blog post

Seedcamp Week London 2009: Call for Startups

Stefano Bernardi — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:20:03 +0000

If you already know what SeedCamp is and can’t wait to apply, please do so right here.

Seedcamp Week will be held from 21^st to 25^th September at UCL in central London. It is a weeklong programme that connects 20 early stage web tech startups with over 400 highly experienced and sought after entrepreneurs, investors, marketers, product and developer experts. Along with current board members Saul Klein and Reshma Sohoni, the chosen teams will also have access to Seedcamp’s recently appointed board members who have been selected for their broad range of entrepreneurial experience and international background in order to help Seedcamp deliver its mission to build a world-class, sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Just to name a few:

Fred Destin, partner at Atlas Ventures
Charles Grimsdale, co-founder of Eden Ventures
Alex Hoye, co-founder of GoIndustry plc
Christoph Maire, Head of Maps & Explore Unit, Nokia Services
Dave McClure, Founders Fund
Richard Moross, founder and CEO, Moo.com

The week will include interactive panel discussions, master classes and several informal 1:1 sessions. Teams will gain invaluable insight and a solid foundation to help kick-start a viable business in Europe today.

“The beauty of Seedcamp is that a start-up can fill his or her Rolodex in one day with quality business contacts that it would normally take five years to build. We want to help entrepreneurs experience the whole rainbow, not just the pot of gold at the end.” Reshma Sohoni said.

At the end of the week Seedcamp will invest up to €50K each in 5 teams for a small equity stake (5%-10%). That’s enough money to move to London for 3 months and start building the product and the company. It’s not just work: weekly dinners, topical lunches, conferences, and continued mentorship, culminating in further Demo and Investor Days will make the stay invaluable as well as unforgettable. A trip to the Valley is also planned.

You can check the highlights of the 2007/2008 editions and follow Seedcamp on Twitter. If you missed the application link, here it is.