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TechCrunch London recap

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On September - 25 - 2009

Yesterday I attended TechCrunch London, an event put together by TechCrunch Europe.

I couldn’t live blog the event, as there was no working wi-fi. Other than that, I think the event was a success. The venue was very nice, the talks were inspiring and the startups who presented were very interesting.

You can find pics of the event on Facebook and Flickr (different sets).

These are the companies that launched yesterday.

Fiabee is a spanish company that presented an online backup solution that focuses on security and ease of use.

Notion Learning is an e-learning web application developed by two London-based students. They have some tough competition, but they had some fairly unique points. Keep an eye on them.

Audioboo is an audio microblogging platform, much like Twitter, but with audio. Posts are kept to at most three minutes long, though for most of us, that’s all we need.

WinnerFestbuzz provides crowsourced reviews about festivals (starting in the Edinburgh area). They’re making the traditional Festival word-of-mouth digital

Kohive is an online collaboration tool with a desktop-like interface. It has many applications and is going the freemium way (plus iphone app). The interesting part is they are building a platform for other developers, and thus have an app store.

Kyubid was a fun presentation. They are developing a new dating site based on bidding (but not with real money, put it away).

Aware Monitoring is, as the name suggests, a monitoring service. It’s SaaS based and it goes behind your login monitoring every component of your web application.

3rdSocial Safe is an application that lets you back up your Facebook friends, photos and profile to your computer. You can keep track of all your posts, and finally own your content.

Yoomoot facilitates mass online discussions which are focused and navigable. Yoomoot merges comments, wikis, forums, blogs and social bookmarks into one simple and flexible format.

En-twyn.com presented a complete high speed networking solution that enables you to connect your media devices and your environmental management devices to the same network running through the power sockets in the home. Think wi-fi and hdtv all around your place.

Mywidz.se is a mobile service that gives users worldwide the power to collect, share and create mobile widgets, independent of subscription, phone brand or nationality. Think an app store for every phone.

2ndMixcloud’s vision is to be the YouTube of radio with on-demand radio shows spanning music and talk and truing to make it make it more social, personalised and ‘democratic’.

After those pitches, and some other inspiring talks, the Seedcamp folks came along and we rocked it all night long with a very nice party and networking event.

(pics credits to BitchBuzz)

TechCrunch London live stream

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On September - 24 - 2009

Here is the live video stream of the TechCrunch London event, brought to you by Hermione Way

Live Broadcasting by Ustream

Original TechCrunch post.

TechCrunch London live blogging

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On September - 24 - 2009

At 3:00pm GMT TechCrunch Europe will be hosting the TechCrunch London event, in partnership with Seedcamp.

I will try to live blog the event, profiling and reviewing the startups that will pitch.

Why London is the place to be

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On September - 16 - 2009

I am Flying to London on Sept 23rd. This will be my schedule.

I have nothing else to add.

Let me know on twitter if you’ll attend any of these events and want to meet up!

theStartup Weekend Reading #Europas edition

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On July - 18 - 2009

tc_europas82Last week I attended the Europas award ceremony in London. The event was hosted by Mike Butcher of TechCrunch Europe, and I must say was really interesting.
I still haven’t had time to write my proper thoughts on it, but I will soon. In the meanwhile I’ll post what others think of the european startup scene after the event.

European Tech Awards, The Europas. Voting opens.

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 24 - 2009

tc_europasAt the beginning of the month, TechCrunch Europe announced The Europas, an event that “will honour the best tech companies and startups across the web and mobile scene from across the continent of Europe.”

Today voting opens, you can choose for each category the 5 finalists that will then compete to get the award.
These are the categories:

  • Best Web Application Or Service (EMEA)
  • Best Design
  • Best Bootstrapped Startup (less than 3 years old)
  • Best Social Innovation (which benefits society, EMEA)
  • Best Enterprise / B2B Startup (EMEA)
  • Best Cleantech / Environmental Startup (EMEA)
  • Best European / Real World Gadget (EMEA)
  • Best Entertainment Application or Service (EMEA)
  • Best Mobile Startup (EMEA)
  • Best Mobile Application (EMEA)
  • Best Startup Founder(s)
  • Best Investor (VC or Angel fund, EMEA)
  • Best Investor Personality (EMEA)
  • Best New Startup, Summer 2008-2009

Vote for your favorite startup!
The awards ceremony will take place in London from 6pm Thursday, July 9, at Delfina and will have a calvalcade of tech stars attending from the tech scene, including, amongst others:

  • Michael Birch, co-founder of Bebo
  • Stefan Glaenzer, co-founder of Last.FM
  • Sarah Lacy, author & TechCrunch editor
  • Tariq Krim, founder of Netvibes.

I will be in London for the event, please contact me if you plan on attending and would like to meet.

Be sure to buy your tickets.