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SeedRocket offers a complete Seed Funding Venture Program for Entrepreneurs with technology-based startups. They provide the initial investment and they work together with the founders through the early development stages.

You can apply now to the Entrepreneurs Camp, an intensive 8 day event held in Barcelona on May 2010. SeedRocket provides an incredible experience for the selected teams, with a full program including training sessions and workshops. They also have a mentor network of senior entrepreneurs and venture capitalists that will help the selected teams put together the foundations of a viable business.

They are looking mainly for companies in the following sectors: consumer internet, mobility (android, iphone), cloud computing or internet among others.

In the Closing Session of the Entrepreneur Camp, you will have the opportunity to present your company to investors and Venture Capital Firms, and they will make the funding decision to invest in three teams.

Those teams will be asked to relocate in the SeedRocket facilities to take part on the six month mentoring and support program that is designed to help the startups get to the next leve and prepare to close a larger investment round: SeedRocket provides access to investors and business angels with a strong focus on technology-based startups at a seed stage.

SeedRocket has finally announced the finalists for the third edition of its Entrepreneurship Campus that will take place in Barcelona, July 7th-15th.

During the campus, the entrepreneurs will attend different workshops hosted by some of the most famous and successful spanish entrepreneurs. The classes are divided per day with the following subjects: marketing and communication, business development, finance, community, internet, business administration. They’ll also have the opportunity to get tips from the mentors regarding their business plan. Eventually, on July 15th the teams will pitch their projects to an audience of mentors, SeedRocket team and, of course, investors. The winning projects will be awarded a €20,000 funding and a 6-months stay in their incubator.

TheStartup is an official media partner for the event.

You can find the program (in spanish) embedded at the end of the post.

The are still too many “social networks” in my opinion, but I think there are a few very interesting and innovative products in the list. Here they are:

• and.roid.es, an android-focused developers community with its proprietary framework.

• Arpamet is using the power of videoconference for customer support, consulting, education, etc.

• BioWallet, a very cool android biometric authentication system.

• Blinkast, a green digital platform, e.consumer social network.

• bluewalks, an online trip planner.
• ElMejorPrecio, real life price comparison.

• Laralia, social network for home decorators with nifty app.

• Shoppeer, group e-commerce.

• Transket, freelance translators network.

The mentors for this edition will be some of the biggest names in the spanish scene:

• Vicente Arias, cofounder of SeedRocket.
• Jesús Monleón, cofounder SeedRocket.
• François Derbaix, founder of toprural.com
• Jaume Gomà, general manager at Segundamano.es
• Eneko Knörr, founder Hostalia.
• Mario Brüggemann, founder of OcioJoven Networks and AsesorSeguros.com
• Nacho González-Barros, founder of InfoJobs.net and Salir.com
• Carlos Domingo, manager at Telefónica I+D.
• Yago Arbeloa, founder of sync.es.
• Román Martín, founder of Interbel.
• Josep Mª Tribó, COO of MediaContacts.

Seed Rocket Program

In July 2009, 10 teams will have the chance to attend the third edition of  SeedRocket in Barcelona.

Inscriptions are officially open. The 10 selected teams will fly to Barcelona from the 8th of July to the 15th to be mentored and helped with the launch of their company or product. They will attend workshops and get to talk with some of the most important spanish startup gurus including folks from Telefonics, Infojobs.net, Trovit.com, BuyVip.com, eyeOS and Hostalia.
The workshops include topics about Facebook application development, MySQL, Flex and Cloud Computing.

The best projects will obtain €20.000 in funding with the possibility of a €100.000 grant.
The application in open to both european and non-ue entrepreneurs with a working prototype of their product.

We hope to see some great startups at the event!