SeedCamp is a European based startup incubator similar to Ycombinator or TechStars here in the USA. Google hosted the top startups from the program in New York City and Silicon Valley this week. Each startup pitched to an audience of VCs, Angels, and startup mentors. Here is a short overview of each company written in real time as they presented. Please forgive the brevity…they talk very fast.
Advertag - Tag based search for advertisements for job listings, stock photos, etc. Companies looking to hire people tag their ads with Advertag. Then the ads show up on their destination site. Sort of like AdWords for job listings. They improve SEO by automatically extracting tags from content to make the ads searchable. They aspire to be an ad platform (hard to scale), but are also looking at ways to aggregate and filter results from other sources. Looking to raise some seed funding.
Codility - Test job applicants for coding skills. Send candidates a link to Codility to take an online test. Get an evaluation report and a code listing of everything the candidate did. Great for screening hundreds or thousands of candidates based on coding skill, not resume writing skill. You choose the coding test and the preferred programming language. Codility presents the test to applicants but mutates it slightly so that candidates do not share answers to the test. It also detects cut and paste or other cheating techniques. Looking to raise $650K.
Brainient - Video advertising - Brainient’s technology helps video publishers monetize their content with affiliate marketing and interactive ad elements. Publishers select the best performing advertisement for their video and annotate the video to have an affiliate network link attached to it.
ERPly.net - Web ERP for retail and distribution, especially for small / medium businesses - includes billing, purchasing, inventory, and CRM. Great management dashboard to monitor your business. Has over 600 paying customers, ASP $60, Monthly rev about $40K. ERPly has a 30 day free trial, then various subscription packages. Plan to raise $500K to $1M
Joobili - Travel site recommendations based on time of year. Joobili starts with the date you want to travel, then suggests places you might be interested in based on events that are happening during your vacation. They have an enormous database of events. Freemium model. Free to list event, and free to use. Pay for premium listings. They also have collect revenue for advertising, and commissions on travel booked. Esther Dyson is an Angel investor. Looking to raise $1M to $2M
Kukunu - Travel planning, recommendation engine, social platform to include friends (Twitter & Facebook integrated) - Recommend cities to visit, hotels, restaurants, cultural events. People spend about 29 days planning their travel. Kukunu has a trip planning tool, recommendation engine, and incorporates your social network friends. Travel is a huge market with lots of revenue streams available. Looking to raise $500K for 9 months runway.
Kwaga - email inbox management - prioritizes your inbox, reminds you to respond to important emails, and reminds you to follow up on emails you sent to others. Uses semantic technology to parse your email and find messages that are important to you. They prioritize emails based on Todo requests, meeting requests, emails you sent with follow-up flag, telephone requests, passwords included in emails, embedded info like links, FYI (auto down ranks the email). Also available on iPhone, and soon Android. Works with Gmail. Freemium model. Raised $1M from grants and angels. Looking to raise $2.5M
Patients Know Best – Better communication between patients and doctors, allows online consultations, doctors upload test results to one place online, you get full access to your medical records. Track your test results over time. Make your test results and health records available to doctors you select. Helping patients with chronic disease. Chronic disease patients consume 60% of health resources.
Platogo - Development tools for social games, automatically publish games to multiple social networks. Platogo has tools for professional game developers to get games on Facebook. Ad supported, or white label to game developers with a subscription per user. They also share in the micro-transactions from the games. Social network abstraction so when Facebook changes its APIs or infrastructure Platogo makes the necessary changes. Also has modules to add high scores/achievements/challenges capability to your games. Usage statistics. Platogo provides hosting and database infrastructure.
Shout'em - Create your own mobile social network - mobile/LBS = location based Real Time microbloging. Find people who have similar interests based on your present location. They already have 11K networks running on Shout'em after one year. They describe it as Ning meets FourSquare. They have widgets for integration with Facebook, Ning, Twitter.
WonderGraphs - web based graphs and data. Allows people to create a graph, share with others, and get feedback. Viewers can click on the graph and drill down on the data, and make views of the same data. Easy to use drag & drop interface. They have lots of different visualization templates that make it easy to change the view. Targeted at high end power users that analyze lots of data. Works with Google spreadsheets.
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