Seedcamp London is coming up next week, and it’s going to be a record breaker on multiple levels; We had a record number of applications, there are a record number of teams coming (22), and there will be a record number of mentors attending.
Due to the high numbers and high quality of applicants, both judging and selection were particularly challenging, driving us to admit two more teams than usual to Seedcamp London.
This is the complete list of selected teams for Seedcamp London:
24symbolsfrom Madrid, Spain: One-click reading. Have instant access to eBooks on the internet with your friends for free or a fixed fee
Archifyfrom Vienna, Austria: helps you find everything you’ve ever seen in your browser
Bodymap.mefrom London, UK: Gives everyone the power to use their own body-measurement data to buy clothing online that fits
Checkthisfrom Brussels, Belgium: is a platform that enables anyone to instantly publish and share webpages to sell an object, write an open letter, showcase a creative project, set up a quick poll or advertise a job opening.
Ideedock from Amsterdam, The Netherlands: is a tool to organize idea contests.
mashpanfrom Madrid, Spain: Can’t find your stuff? mashpan intuitively organizes your information in the cloud, regardless of its location.
Modelo3from Lisbon, Portugal: is an insanely easy online tax service
Pingpanel from London, UK: Twitter for Q&A – hosted panel-based Q&A for brands to create fast dialogue with fans & customers
Playbankfrom London, UK: a virtual universe where kids can play games, learn & go on adventures
Property Detectivefrom London, UK: A tool that gives homebuyers answers to 100+ important questions about their prospective purchase
Pultfrom Tallinn, Estonia: Easiest way to connect your cloud services with TV screen. No cables. No cryptic setup.
Sendsy.comfrom London, UK: is a network of international personal shoppers. Get anything from anywhere
Shapesmithfrom London, UK: is an open and powerful design tool for 3D printing – in your browser
Sittifrom London, UK: a smart tool for busy professionals to help live, work and sit better
Six3from London, UK: video messaging with the convenience of SMS
Snap Fashionfrom London, UK: a fashion-focused search engine that finds clothing online using just a photo
StyleChifrom London, UK: a social e-commerce fashion site that rewards customers for their loyalty and interaction
TRAININGBOOKfrom Riga, Lativa: your virtual motivator in living active and healthy life
Xylyxfrom London, UK: Automated payment processing: reducing the cost of manual payment and opening new routes to market
Yossarian Lives!from London, UK: New knowledge creation through metaphorical search
Zonearfrom Tampere, Finland: provides an easy quality assurance service for HTML5 developers
Seedcamp London will follow the standard format, with initial presentations from the teams, followed by mentoring sessions and a panel discussion. We are excited to have Rags Gupta of Brightcove and Rob Jonas of inMobi sharing their insights on building truly global businesses. The talk will be moderated by Juan Lobato – who is currently scaling Seedcamp company Basekit internationally, and should therefore have some very interesting insights of his own.
We’d like to thank our yearly sponsors Bizspark, Qualcomm, and Google, and we’d like to extend a special thank you to our Event Sponsors, iStockphoto for their support and TalkTalk and eOffice for hosting us on January 31.
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Firstly: A Happy New Year, we hope 2012 will be a great year for you and your startups. The team here dispersed to all corners of the world for the Christmas break, now we’re back full of energy and enthusiasm for the year ahead.
As you know true entrepreneurs never rest and we’ve certainly witnessed this first hand over the Christmas break, an astonishing number of startups have already applied to our first 2012 event taking place on the 31st January. Then again, it’s not just the entrepreneurs looking forward to rolling up their sleeves: the mentors are pretty keen to get stuck in, too. We were super fortunate to have hit 100 mentors sign ups in record time with a pretty extensive waiting alongside it. Startups – these awesome mentors can’t wait to meet you! As you know our core principles are all about building an ecosystem in Europe for start-ups to be nurtured and blossom into the likes of Skype, Spotify, Tweetdeck etc. Mentors play a critical role in this process, they’re skilled, experienced, knowledgeable, networked and above all keen to help the next generation of talent succeed. Looks like we’re all set for an awesome SeedcampLondon.
If you’re a startup and still dithering if all this is worth you taking time out of your hectic schedule to apply, then here are some of the people you’ll be meeting. Not often are they all to be found in one room for your benefit:
We’d like to extend a huge thank you to our Event Sponsor for Seedcamp London, iStockphoto and Event Partner eOffice, their contribution is invaluable. Likewise extending our appreciation to our yearly sponsors; Microsoft BizSpark, Google and Qualcomm who make it possible for us to run all of this for Europe’s entrepreneurs.
