On the 6th December we’re hosting the final Mini Seedcamp of 2011, and what better way to end the year than hosting Mini Seedcamp Paris in the same week as the brilliant Le Web! Some great mentors will be in town, and many will be joining us.

We’re also excited about teaming up with Le Camping to host a party during the evening courtesy of 360 Capital Partners. A great extension to the day event for networking informally with no doubt a well deserved drink in hand.

Here is a selection of a few big names who will be mentoring some of Europe’s hottest new companies:

• Anil Hasjee, Ex-Google M&A
• Christoph Janz, Seedcamp investor and successful entrepreneur
• Christophe Maire, founder of Gate5 and angel investor
• Collette Ballou, founder of Ballou PR
• Francois Tison, Partner at 360 Capital Partners
• Jan Borgstädt, principal at BDMI
• Mark Esiri, partner at Venrex Capital Management
• Mike Sigal, founder and CEO of Guidewire Group
• Sean Park, founder of Anthemis Group
• Stefan Tirtey, partner at Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures
• Xavier Lazarus, partner at Elaia Partners
• Yossi Vardi, angel investor

2011 has been a great year for Seedcamp for loads of reasons. The number of startups applying to Seedcamp increases year-on-year, and 2011 has been no exception. We’ve also had numerous high calibre investors and funds joining the Seedcamp family. On top of that, lots of great new mentors have taken part in our events, new Mini Seedcamp locations, new sponsors and local partners have helped us make this our best year yet.

We’re therefore very excited to end the year with a bang at Mini Seedcamp Paris; we have over 70 incredible mentors, now we just need 20 awesome startups to complete the package.

This could be you! Are you building a super cool new web service? Are downloads of your mobile app going through the roof? Are developers chasing you to use your cool new tools? Answer yes to any of these questions and you should definitely apply to Mini Seedcamp Paris!

Applications are open until midnight Wednesday 16th November so make sure you don’t miss out.

We look forward to seeing you in Paris!

On the 16th November we’ll be hosting our penultimate Mini Seedcamp of 2011.  This year startups seems more keen than ever to participate in the unique opportunity to be mentored by over 70 European key players in the fields of entrepreneurship, VC’s, biz dev and corp dev.

As always we’re excited to announce the line up of the awesome teams who’ll be joining us in Barcelona:

• Arambla Marketplace, Tartu, Estonia – is trying to solve the problem of lack in non-monetary market segment for the wide range (public) of use
• Creonomy, Milan, Italy – launching a web-app for designers to collaborate with clients
• Ecommerce Software, Middlesbrough, England – The next generation hosted ecommerce Platform
• footTraffic, Haifa, Isreal – has pioneered an innovative location-based performance marketing platform based offline Pay per Sale
• Ilustrum, Tarragona, Spain –  allows users to play, learn, enjoy and create their own collectibles and share them with the world
• Medopad, London, UK – a break though mobile health communication platform, now patients data comes to you
• musicplayr.com, Berlin, Germany – is the music play(e)r for free web music
• Outline.com, London UK – Collaborate better with an enterprise social network created automatically from your inbox and data
• PEMBL, Gothenburg, Sweden – a new way of shopping
• pitch.me, London, UK – helps you get in touch with a high profile figure whilst raising money for charity
• Plumpl, London, UK – lets you create your own page on which anyone can easily leave a message
• Qustodio, Barcelona, Spain –  helps you protect your kids online. See how they use the Internet, set healthy access limits and protect against online threats
• ReallyLateBooking, Madrid, Spain – is an smartphone application, that allows users to get same day deals for the best hotels
• ResearchNation.net, London, UK – provides user-generated reviews for market research reports
• Serendipio, Cordoba, Spain – wants to transform the way consumers and merchants relate to each other and how they experience the city they live in
• SocialBro, Cordoba, Spain – Socialbro is a suite of tools focused on analyzing and managing social communities, with a CRM perspective
• Sportize.me, Madrid, Spain – motivates you to exercising by turning into fun, social & easy your daily fitness, whatever your goal & profile
• StamSted, Copenhagen, Denmark – Apps as a Service for dedicated take-outs
• TouristLink, Nagpur, India – is a social platform bringing travelers closer to the people, destinations and services they are looking for
• Vixer, Moscow/Berlin –  is a simple mobile video application that addresses two major users’ demands: content should be interesting and available anywhere.

A couple of noteworthy things, 10 geographies are represented, with teams traveling from as far as India, Israel and Moscow. Secondly this is certainly one of the strongest local representatives we’ve seen at any Seedcamp this year with a whooping 6 Spanish teams! We were also very pleased to see that pitch.me made it into the top 20 teams. Pitch.me was created at our First (and so far only) Seedhack event on September 23rd.

We look forward to seeing you all on the 16th November in Barcelona! We also want to thanks ESADE, who is hosting us for the day, and eDreams, the leader in cheap flights, who are inviting the teams for drinks afterwards.

We’re excited to announce the teams attending Mini Seedcamp Prague, once again we had some very technical, ambitious, and creative teams applying to participate. This time we received entries from a total of 31 countries! As a result this will be our most international Mini Seedcamp yet with 16 countries being represented on the day. We have more than 70 mentors signed up to spend the day with these twenty teams – check out their sites and services:

• Answhere.me, Milan Italy; is a quick interactive tool to access the information around you
• AppScale, Yekaterinburg, Russia; is an automatic tool for social apps Developers to market their products globally
• Brand Embassy, Prague, Czech Republic; Helps companies to talk to customers on internet
• BsC-i, Madrid, Spain; Mobile Business Intelligence apps for iPad. ”The Control of  your business in your Hand
• CHAKKR, Oberhausen, Germany; Shipment 2.0 – Smart way to transport what you buy and sell, through couriers and travelers already on the road nearby
• Facekrypt, Cambridge MA, USA; addresses privacy concerns within public social networks by adding a layer of “secrecy” on top of existing access controls.
• Frestyl, Rome, Italy; helps you spread the word about the līve music events you’re passionate about.
• Globe, London, UK; Globe helps you tell your travel stories.
• Ideedock, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; A tool to organize idea contests among your employees in a simplified way.
• indoors, Vienna, Austria; provides accurate localisation inside buildings. GPS works outside – indoo.rs inside.
• Lokus Digital, Finland; makes mobile games that enrich people’s real lives with surreal experiences
• Margn, Tartu, Estonia; is super easy and affordable accounting software
• Milk.ly, Amsterdam, Netherlands; is a real time marketplace for products and services. Helps you buy and sell with people nearby.
• Mixgar, Budapest, Hungary; helps people listen to music what they like in a place: bar, houseparty, restaurant or festival.
• NeedleFound, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Online analytics – automated.
• Qminder, Tallinn, Estonia; An affordable and easy to install queue management system for venues and an app for end users to take their ticket
• TeamMatch, London, UK; help users to create or sort people into balanced teams to improve teamwork with matchmaking technology
• TradersNow.com, Dublin, Ireland; develops specialsed software for the financial trading markets.
• Universator, Brno, Czech Repulic; a social activity of getting incoming students together and showing them previous experience and other relevant data
• WhoAPI, Rijeka, Croatia; Providing advanced domain data (like advanced whois output, server uptime, spam blacklist, and many other) on a massice scale

We’d like to thank our Event Sponsors in Prague for making this possible: Google, Credo Ventures, White&Case, Krajicek&Associates, PI Europe, Kaiintaa and our Event Partners, Gug.cz, Cevro Institut, TechSquare and tyinternety.cz

Seedcamp Prague is our first Mini Seedcamp to take place after Seedcamp Week and we’re looking forward to see some new faces in October. This year the strength and quality of applications has increased with each event we’ve hosted so we had high expectations for Prague. Perhaps it’s due to startups not been able to apply to a Mini Seedcamp since August or maybe it’s down to the location? Either way we’ve been blown away by the demand, so far we’ve received more application for Mini Seedcamp Prague than for almost all other events this year. If this is anything to go by Mini Seedcamp Prague is going to rock for sure! Mini Seedcamp Prague is taking place on the 20th October and we have a great list of mentors joining us who are looking forward to meeting the top 20 selected teams. To give you a small teaser as to who could be mentoring you here are some of the mentors joining us:

With Seedcamp Week around the corner, it is with great excitement that we open applications for Mini Seedcamp Prague today. We will find the first companies for the Seedcamp class of 2012 in October.

As always, we will have awesome Europe’s internet technology mentors invited, mentoring the participating 20 startups, giving their feedback to improve chances of success, and networking like crazy. Applications are open – go here and apply to let us know about your company and team. The deadline is 28 September, and as we’ve seen time and again – it’s a good idea to finish your application early, so you don’t have to rush it on the last day (or even through the night).

Prague is in a great location to attract founders from all over Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. If you are working on a company or cool product in Poland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, the Baltics, you are in the right place. Judging by the quality of applications for Seedcamp London in July (and Ljubljana in June), the Balkan states will also supply a large part of applicants, as will France and the UK, as we’ve come to expect. After all, it’s just a short flight away, and the mentors will be from all over Europe.

We’re partnering with Startupyard and TechSquare, and Seedcamp Prague will be sponsored by Credo Ventures, White & Case and Google.

Why should you apply?

This will be our second visit to Prague and if it follows the trend of our other 2011 Mini Seedcamps the quality of teams and mentors simply gets better and better with each visit.  Then of course there is the fact of the Seedcamp Investment, year-long support, and access to the founders’ pack of offers from our Seedcamp Founders Sponsors.

Find out more about our process on our new website, read up on how to prepare a kick ass application, and make sure to apply on time for Seedcamp Prague – Deadline is 28th September