START DUBLIN OCT 16 - 18 2012 START ATTENDEES ATTENDEE PHOTOS INVESTORS MEDIA CONTENTS 7 90 105 108 Adam Ghetti 69 Adnan Ebrahim 17 Alexandra Chong 45 Alexandre Passant 66 Alex Hawkinson 56 Ali Ahmed 45 Alice Taylor 46 Ambarish Mitra 15 Amer Mohammed 85 Andrea Girardello 7 Andreas Cser 80 Andrew Considine 86 Andrew J Scott 79 Anil Hansjee 23 Arash Houshmand 22 Benedikt Bingler 80 Ben Nunez 13 Bertie Stephens 31 Blaise Bayuo 62 Brendan Gill 54 Brendan ODriscoll 70 Carl Fritjofsson 87 Carl Waldekranz 79 Caroline Ghosn 78 Cathal Furey 7 Chris Morton 46 Chris Thr 54 Christoph Auer-Welsbach 40 Christophe Camborde 29 Christophe Primault 20 Cillian Kieran 33 Colin Hewitt 78 Damian Kimmelman 25 Daniel Hoepfner 60 Daniel Saks 9 Daphne Koller 23 Dave Kearney 32 David Moreno 38 David OLeary 63 David Osei 24 David Soloff 59 Dean Fankhauser 53 Dema Tio 84 Devrim Demirel 17 Dom Hofmann 84 Dustin Rosen 59 Ed Byrne 20 Edial Dekker 36 Edouard de La Jonquire 47 Elaine Cohalan 41 Name Index Eleanor Watson 58 Emin Okutan 37 Eran Ben-Shushan 14 Ethan Austin 36 Eugene Barulin 62 Fanuel Dewever 26 Florian Meissner 28 Freddy May 10 Gil Friedlander 76 Greg Lloyd 48 Hakan Bas 43 Hans Posch 50 Heiko Willers 22 Inge Andre Sandvik 69 James Gill 37 James Whelton 21 Jason Devenney 30 Jeff Lynn 65 Jen O Neal 82 Jesse Pickard 48 J.F. Groff 49 Joe Braidwood 32 Johnathan Agnes 33 John Sjlander 16 Jonathan Morris 83 Jonathan Ruane 27 Jordan Fantaay 29 Jorge Soto 18 Josef Dunne 11 Joshua Odmark 41 J. Paul Neeley 88 Juha Paananen 53 Kate Scisel 73 Katrin Buckenmaier 81 Kealan Lennon 19 Kenneth Shaw 76 Kiran Bellubbi 8 Kirill Sermyagin 28 Kobra Koskinen 64 K Young 50 Marc-David Choukroun 42 Maren Kate 89 Marius Lian 57 Marjolijn Kamphuis 34 Mat Munro 58 Matt Freckelton 88 Mattias Swenson 15 Matt Younkle 51 Maureen Scott 26 May Habib 60 Melinda Jacobs 31 Michael Defranco 44 Michael Woods 25 Michal Wendrowski 63 Mike Borras 82 Mike Levinson 87 Mike Newman 52 Mikko Martikainen 64 Morten E. Wulff 34 Nahema Mehta 10 Nasir Zubairi 77 Naveen Jain 73 Neil Costigan 12 Nicolai Watzenig 13 Nikolaj Kster 19 Nourrdine Rouibah 40 Olga Steidl 75 Oliver Segovia 11 Paolo Privitera 56 Patrick Bergels 18 Paul Quigley 52 Paul Rawlings 65 Paul Sandham 35 Pep Viladomat 47 Peter Coppinger 77 Peter Hopton 38 Petter Made 74 Philippe Laval 42 Phuong Do 43 Pieter Dubois 55 Pieter van Herpen 75 Ray Chan 8 Reda Berrehili 49 Richard Barnwell 24 Robert Johnston 70 Roberto Gil 61 Rodolfo Rosini 72 Ronan OMalley 30 Ronan Perceval 55 Ross Linnett 61 Saad Hussain 57 Sagar Babber 21 Salar al Khafaji 67 Shaf Choudry 83 Shahar Nechmad 71 Spencer Lazar 71 Steffen Reitz 68 Steve Greenwood 16 Steven Collins 74 Steven Drost 72 Taso Du Val 81 Tatsuo Sato 66 Thiago Diniz 27 Thibauld Favre 9 Tim Grimsditch 68 Tobias Gerlinger 39 Tomaz Stolfa 85 Tony Gauda 14 Trevor Parsons 44 Uldis Leiterts 39 Uzi Shmilovici 12 Vinay Gupta 86 Vincenzo Ruggiero 67 Vivek Sharma 51 7 START ATTENDEES Andrea Girardello Switzerland 42matters, with its Playboard app, is a pioneer in app-discovery solutions. 42matters offers innovative app-fnding solutions for smartphones. Our fagship product is Playboard, which is the Flipboard for app-dis- covery. Content is powered by algorithms and curated lists by third-party editors. Users can personalize the app, getting app-recom- mendations on what is really interesting for them. 42MATTERS AG Cathal Furey Ireland Crowd-sourced live event videos with great audio. Let the fans tell the story! 45sound solves the problem of awful-sounding fan videos of live music on YouTube. We help bands connect with their fans by automatical- ly matching fan-shot concert videos with a proper live audio record- ing so they sound great & can be watched back from different angles. Artists are happy, fans are happy & its a great marketing platform for brands. 45SOUND 8 START ATTENDEES Kiran Bellubbi United States We make magical mobile experiences. Our fagship product: Band of the Day has been downloaded over 3M times on the iPhone and iPad. It was voted App of the Year (Runner Up) 2011 by Apple. Every single one of our apps has been App of the Week or is in the Apple Hall of Fame on the appStore. 955 DREAMS INC. Ray Chan Hong Kong 9GAG brings more fun to the world. 9GAG is a Hong Kong based startup with an open and collaborative platform that brings more fun to the world by giving people the easi- est way to share and spread the fun they discovered or created. With more than 65 million unique visitors and a billion page views per month, 9GAG has the most actively engaged user community of any humor website. 9GAG 9 START ATTENDEES Thibauld Favre France Allmyapps is the 1st Personal App Store. Allmyapps is the 1st App Store for PC. Providing you with personal- ized app recommendations, Allmyapps helps you discover great apps that youll love. Every app you install is automatically saved in the cloud to enable easy app synchronization between your devices and you get notifed as soon as app updates are available. ALLMYAPPS Daniel Saks United States Were fundamentally changing the way businesses fnd, buy and use software with. Software is eating the world. Weve created a marketplace platform that makes it easy for consumers to buy and manage that software. Whether its hardware manufacturers selling apps for their products, or telcos looking to sell cloud-based apps to their customers, were changing the way consumers and businesses discover, buy and man- age software. APPDIRECT 10 START ATTENDEES Freddy May United Kingdom Mobile App development in your browser for developers of ALL skill levels. 15 years ago over 70% of all business applications were written in Visual Basic. In todays mobile world there is nothing that lets devel- opers of all skill levels build proper Apps. Application Crafts com- pletely new approach to development empowers those who have never coded before as well as companies like Coca-Cola who certainly have! APPLICATION CRAFT Nahema Mehta United States The democratization of fne art. Want acclaimed art without the sticker shock? Meet Art Remba, an online community allowing Members to discover and borrow fne art at accessible monthly rates. Collectors love us because we make accessing fne art easy. Galleries and artists love us because we place art they cant ft on their walls directly onto the walls of desirable audiences. ART REMBA 11 START ATTENDEES Oliver Segovia Philippines AVA is an e-commerce platform for premium brands in the Philippines. With 34 million internet users and growing double digit year-on-year, the Philippines is the #2 internet market in Southeast Asia. The local fashion industry is a $5 billion market. AVA helps brands disrupt tra- ditional retail by going direct to users. At the same time, AVA helps in- creasingly affuent consumers access coveted brands online. AVA Josef Dunne Ireland Babelverse is the people- powered universal translator of the spoken word Multi award winning Babelverse is the 1st crowd-sourced solution for speech translation in any language. Machine translation is un- reliable Babelverse preserves quality, context, cultural relevance. Multilinguals and professional interpreters gain a new source of in- come. It is to language barriers what the aeroplane was to geographi- cal barriers! BABELVERSE 12 START ATTENDEES Uzi Shmilovici United States Base is a CRM/Sales Tracking application for small businesses. For small businesses that need a simple way to manage their sales, Base provides an intuitive 4-step process. The application allows us- ers to manage their deals and add notes, tasks and contacts. A report system and an effective dashboard help managers stay on top of their sales process and understand what are their next actions. BASE CRM Neil Costigan Sweden Continuous authentication for web&mobile through patented behavioral biometrics. Delivering next-generation Web & Mobile security. We were selected by Gartner as Cool vendor 2012 for our patented technology which we have deployed with high-value paying customers TODAY. Our cus- tomers for our behavioural biometrics solution include international fnancial institutions, handset manufacturers, and US DoD (DARPA). BEHAVIOSEC 13 START ATTENDEES Nicolai Watzenig United Kingdom Link apps to payment cards. Birdback is a london based technology based startup, building an application platform on top of the payment processing network and provides card-linking capabilities for developers and merchants. The Birdback API enables third-party developers to build apps, link them to payment cards and distribute them through a large network of publishers. BIRDBACK Ben Nunez United States All your photos and videos in one place, searchable, and magically organized. Our photos and videos are a scattered mess. We cant fnd them when we want, theyre not archived, group sharing is hard, and we rarely relive them. Birdbox changes all of this, by aggregating and index- ing our media into a beautiful searchable interface, and by giving us a simple #hashtag based way of sharing private or public memories with groups. BIRDBOX 14 START ATTENDEES Tony Gauda United States Infnite storage paired with best in class security via client-side encryption. Bitcasa provides secure, unlimited storage on any device. Users can view their entire lifetime of photos, listen to their entire music library, store all of their fles and important documents and still have room for the contents of the Library of Congress. The data will always be acces- sible and shareable from any device. BITCASA Eran Ben-Shushan Israel Bizzabo makes event networking much easier, productive and fun. Launched in June 2012, Bizzabo has quickly become the leading event networking solution for events. Bizzabos multi event app was already used by world leading conferences (ad:tech, Uplinq, Grow, MLOVE, DWS, Internet Week Europe). Engagement metrics are impressive, with roughly 750 new LinkedIn and Twitter connections for every 1000 Bizzabo users. BIZZABO 15 START ATTENDEES Ambarish Mitra United Kingdom Blippar is an image recognition platform for brand to consumer interaction. Blippar is a revolution for traditional media and advertising offer- ing the power to turn every single piece of print collateral or physical branding in the real world into an instantaneous, interactive experi- ence. Already embraced by many global brands and projecting rapid growth with a view towards becoming the default lens and the verb to blipp. BLIPPAR Mattias Swenson Sweden Discover & follow your favorite blogs. We build Bloglovin to help blogger enthusiasts to follow their favorite blogs without going through the tedious process of opening up doz- ens of bookmarked websites. Bloglovin has over 1,6 million members worldwide and 3.8 million monthly unique visitors, who mainly use the service to follow & discover fashion content & blogs. BLOGLOVIN 16 START ATTENDEES Steve Greenwood United States Personalised address book app. Download the app. Connect it to google apps, facebook, twitter, four- square, linkedin, and soon a bunch more services. Brewster builds you a new address book that runs on your phone and also in the cloud. This new address book knows a lot more things about your relation- ships than you have ever entered into your address book and it is adapting. BREWSTER John Sjlander Sweden Burt creates apps for media companies to better understand and monetize content. Burt is the only mobile and web analytics platform that puts all the data media companies need to understand their customers and make smarter decisions in one place, using the companys unique combi- nation of simple apps running on powerful analytics cloud capable of collecting, connecting and processing billions of digital media events per day. BURT 17 START ATTENDEES Devrim Demirel Turkey BusinessDB is a business information company. The company provides a vertical business search engine, a semantic business directory providing classifed information about companies, products, services and locations. BusinessDB contains more than 4 million international companies in its index as well as 80.000 prod- ucts and services. BUSINESSDB Adnan Ebrahim United Kingdom Car Throttle makes car discovery fun again. Car Throttle makes car discovery fun again. Were the new Top Gear aimed at a younger core demographic and we produce digital media (news, reviews, opinions and videos) that established motoring pub- lications dont dare to. As a YouTube Partner, we also help car man- ufacturers target trend spreaders whilst increasing their customer lifetime values. CAR THROTTLE 18 START ATTENDEES Patrick Bergels United Kingdom Chirp is a new way to share your stuff using sound. Chirp sings information from one iPhone to another. Share photos, webpages, contacts: all from your built-in speaker. The app uses spe- cial electronic birdsong to chirp information over the air to your friends. Every chirp is a little song that links to anything you want to share. It can quickly send data to multiple devices at once without them needing to be either paired or have a wireless connection. CHIRP Jorge Soto Mexico Share with your community. CitiVox is a new way to share and keep in touch with the communities you create or belong to. At CitiVox we want to change the way we re- late to our cities collectively, through collaborating & discussing with the people living around us, sharing advice and strengthening the val- ue of being connected. CITIVOX 19 START ATTENDEES Kealan Lennon Ireland Cleverbug recognises life events through personalised printed cards. Weve created highly engaging, unique, customised content using pho- to-montage technology with integrated social sharing features, allow- ing friends & family to send printed personalised cards anywhere in the world from your mobile phone, powered and infuenced by your social network. Our suite of products connect Facebook with the of- fine world. CLEVERBUG Nikolaj Kster Denmark The frst taxi aggregator to provide truly international coverage for the world. There are a lot of taxi apps out there, but only Click A Taxi gives you global and nationwide coverage. We provide the kind of service that allows our users to throw away the fve different localized taxi apps sitting on their home screen, confdent that they can simply use Click A Taxi to get a high quality taxi service wherever they happen to be. CLICK A TAXI 20 START ATTENDEES Ed Byrne Ireland CloudVerticals mission is to make the Cloud more effcient. The Cloud is not Pay-As-You-Go, its Pay-as-you-Provision. Across the 3,000 users CloudVertical serves, from Internet companies to Pharmaceuticals & a spectrum of budgets; people only use 30% of what is deployed. CloudVertical helps understand capacity, usage & costs, and how to minimise the gap between whats being used, and what is being paid for. CLOUDVERTICAL CloudWork Christophe Primault Spain CloudWork is the seamless way for any business to connect their apps. CloudWork is an hassle-free service to connect business apps in the cloud. It uses APIs to enable SMEs to automate their key business pro- cesses in the cloud in an easy and affordable way. Through the acqui- sition of Tarpipe, CloudWork is a service of Nubera, the company that is operating the largest marketplace for cloud apps GetApp since 2010. CLOUDWORK 21 START ATTENDEES James Whelton Ireland Global movement of coding clubs for young people. CoderDojo is an open source, community lead movement of free cod- ing clubs for young people. Professionals volunteer to run and mentor these Dojos. CoderDojo was founded just over a year ago and to date has over 110+ Dojos globally located in US, Europe, Asia and more. GitHub and Twitter have CoderDojos in their offces CODERDOJO Sagar Babber India A communication & collaboration platform to manage your entire work effectively. Collaborate Cloud is an integrated platform to facilitate communica- tion, collaboration & workfow management. Powered with an App Builder & Store it lets you manage your entire organisation more ef- fectively. We got apps for every business function & if you dont see something you need, build it in minutes. Get things done faster and save more time. COLLABORATE CLOUD 22 START ATTENDEES Heiko Willers Germany Content Fleets technology assists online publishers to write. Our technology revolutionizes content creation for online publishers. A sophisticated Big-Data backend system identifes those topics and trends that will attract new audiences. Content Fleet also increases the effciency of editorial teams, resulting in a greater number of hits and lower editorial outlay for online publishers. CONTENT FLEET GMBH 10 Stamps Arash Houshmand Germany Connecting local merchants big or small with their customers Local merchants such as restaurants and hairdressers ranging from small to big companies use 10stamps to start, understand and devel- op a relationship with their customers. While the app is free to users, partners pay a subscription fee for 10stamps services. 10stamps is al- ready live in more than 1000 partner stores. CONTIGUA GMBH 23 START ATTENDEES Daphne Koller United States Combat the rising costs now endemic to higher education with web-based solutions. Not-for-proft company committed to making the best education in the world freely available to any person who seeks it. Online courses in- clude short video lectures on over 100 different topics. Coursera have partnered with 33 college including Stanford and Princeton COURSERA Anil Hansjee United Kingdom Creandum is an early stage Nordic based venture capital frm. Between us, we have started some 15 companies as entrepreneurs, invested in close to 50 technology companies as investors and angels, and have operational experience from leading positions in all areas of a growing international technology company. These companies in- clude Spotify, Wrapp, iZettle, and Videoplaza. CREANDUM 24 START ATTENDEES Richard Barnwell Ireland Cross platform hardcore social games developer. VC backed games studio leading in a new generation of true simulta- neous cross platform gaming. Irelands largest Independent game de- veloper and home to the Digit Game Incubator. Focused on developing games with new unseen game mechanics and AAA production values targeted at the highly valuable niche hardcore social/mobile audience. DIGIT GAME STUDIOS David Osei Ghana We provide a replacement for contact buttons with a widget to analyse messages Using Dropif, companies can see incoming message trending data in relation to industry metrics, see the demographic and social media profles of the message senders, analyze the real emotions behind the messages they receive and easily integrate with their existing CRMs and other popular services including WordPress. DROPIFI 25 START ATTENDEES Damian Kimmelman United Kingdom The data backbone of fnancial services. Theres a $250B shortfall in SME fnancing across Europe every year, and the defcit in other regions is at least as large. Duedil is address- ing this shortfall by transforming private company data and making it discoverable. DUEDIL Michael Woods United States We make the toys that make makers. What makes you who you are today? It wasnt your schools or your jobs, but the frst toy that made you question how the world works. Everyone has the spark of curiosity within; few have the opportunity to grow it into a burning passion. More should. We make the toys that make makers. E&M LABS 26 START ATTENDEES Fanuel Dewever Ireland Crowdfunded visual journalism On Emphas.is photojournalists pitch their projects directly to the pub- lic. By agreeing to back a story, for a minimum contribution of $10, you are making sure that the issues you care about receive the in- depth coverage they deserve. In exchange you are invited along on the journey. EMPHAS.IS JOURNALISM EXPERIENCES LIMITED Maureen Scott United Kingdom Ethers Quick Publishing Platform connects mobile readers and writers globally Ethers Mobile Quick Reads are a new Mobile Content Category; orig- inal made for mobile content of <6,000 words from living writers. Ether discovers new writers globally and publishes their work in <10 minutes. Ether takes reading and writing mobile, global and social. Ether monetises content through in-app purchase; and has 4 revenue streams. ETHER BOOKS 27 START ATTENDEES Thiago Diniz Brazil Eventick is a simple way to manage your event. Eventick is a simple way to manage your event. It permits events or- ganizers to maximize their benefts with online subscriptions. In few minutes, organizers can create a website for their events where people can subscribe, access their ticket on mobile devices and are encour- aged to call their friends to subscribe via social medias. EVENTICK Jonathan Ruane Ireland Making wedding management more enjoyable for couples & more proftable for venue. Our online software is revolutionising the way venues and their cus- tomers (engaged couples) plan and manage weddings. The market is highly fragmented, ripe for innovation and worth 70Bn per year. Our 100 paying customers across 6 countries includes the likes of K-Club & Old Course St Andrews EVENTOVATE 28 START ATTENDEES Kirill Sermyagin Germany Excursiopedia lets you organize your own adventure connecting with locals. Tours and Activities are the fnal frontier in the area of travel, and there is limited capability to pre-book standard tours and activities as tickets. No one addresses the opportunities to design and organize your own trips, excursions, or connecting local providers to interna- tional travelers - and we are here to change it! EXCURSIOPEDIA Florian Meissner Germany The iStockPhoto of the smartphone generation. In the age of the connected camera, we are creating a food of pho- tos that are spread across multiple platforms and lack relevant data. EyeEm offers a cross-platform photo-sharing service that automat- ically categorizes similar photos into topical and location-based al- bums, creating a superior search for social photos and eventually a marketplace. EYEEM 29 START ATTENDEES Christophe Camborde France Bigdata applied to Adtech. Ezakus provides an innovative service to qualify and target online audience. We are an online technlogy company : 25 Internet and Marketing specialists based in France. We have raised 2,2M from IdInvest, a venture fund focused on innovative and technological start ups (such as Criteo, Dailymotion, Viadc, Deezer, Meetic). EZAKUS Jordan Fantaay United Kingdom Future of email: where your messages are represented by relevant pictures Were making email fun, an experience by enabling people to visualize their messages, by associating relevant and personal pictures to the message protocol. A Flipboard for messages! Intelligent time predict- ing which enables users to know the time to read and reply to messag- es, making for blazing fast productivity. FANTOO 30 START ATTENDEES Jason Devenney Ireland farmfo making farm management easier for farmers - farming in the cloud! farmfo provides farmers with an easy to use, cloud based farm man- agement solution with the aim of making farm management part of the farmers daily working routine. It allows farmers to manage their records, meet government regulations, provide transparency of costs and in turn improving their farms performance. FARMFLO Ronan OMalley Ireland Eye-gesture controls for apps. Eye-gestures, like winks, are more discreet than Siri and do not re- quire space like Kinect. Our software-only solution sits in any app, analysing eyes through the camera. Starting B2C, Wink Camera for iOS was featured on TheNextWeb and reached top 25 paid apps in 3 countries. The ultimate goal is to license to devs and OEMs. FIXATIONAL 31 START ATTENDEES Melinda Jacobs The Netherlands We help clients increase awareness, engagement and retention of their audiences. We believe in the power of engagement in games. However, we dont believe its game mechanics alone that are key. Rather its the con- text created by the game. Applying game context allows us to design with intent; we look at how all the parts relate to each other and how each contributes to the purpose of the experience. This is our secret weapon. FLIGHT 1337 Before you buy it, flubit Bertie Stephens United Kingdom Flubit creates bespoke offers on the exact products our users demand. Flubit inverts the traditional marketplace. Rather than pushing deal after deal to catch the eyes of passersby, Flubit creates a better offer for our users on products theyve demanded. Our users come to us, demand what they want, and they receive a bespoke offer just for them on exactly that product, created by Flubit. FLUBIT LTD 32 START ATTENDEES Joe Braidwood United Kingdom Fluency Labs creates tools to break down the barriers between people and data. Our mission is to break down barriers between people and data. We created SwiftKey, the worlds bestselling Android app, which uses AI to learn how you write and make smart predictions as you type. But its not just about keyboards. Our goal is to use intelligent engineer- ing to make technology more intuitive, productive and creative for everyone. FLUENCY LABS Dave Kearney Ireland Our frst product, Fluid UI is a mobile app prototyping tool. Our prototyping software is fast, user friendly and very intuitive. It has been designed from the ground up with one aim, to save us- ers time and money when prototyping and gathering requirements. Flesh out an idea and actually interact with it on a mobile device to aid testing and design in a matter of minutes. No code or technical skills required. FLUID SOFTWARE 33 START ATTENDEES Cillian Kieran United States A marketplace empowering anyone to easily buy and sell digital fles and content. Folio is a marketplace with a huge vision. To be the app store of digital fles/content for regular users and breaking open the Getty images model. Empowering content creators and users to buy and sell digi- tal assets with the ease of a song purchase applied to everything from photos and video through to Excel, Powerpoint and Word templates. FOLIO Johnathan Agnes United Kingdom E-commerce tools for packaged consumer goods purchases. We build tech that encourages shoppers to start their journey towards a weekly supermarket shop by engaging with web & mobile apps (and content) centred on food, wellness, beauty & parenting. As they in- teract were able to gauge their consumer profles and their purchas- ing intent, then help brands & retailers to infuence their habits & purchases. FOODITY 34 START ATTENDEES Marjolijn Kamphuis The Netherlands Foodzy is your personal food & health journal. Foodzys website and mobile apps for iPhone and Android help people all over the world keep track of what they eat and drink. Well turn your food check-ins into sweet statistics and dashboards to analyze your habits, award you with badges for healthy living and enable you to hook up your Withings and Fitbit accounts to get even more insights. FOODZY Morten E. Wulff Denmark Empowering developers to create data-driven games to maximize retention. Analytics - entirely for games. GameAnalytics is SaaS that works across all platforms and on any device. Easy to implement - yet able to handle the most data-intensive games. 2500+ game studios have signed up to experience the power and beauty of GameAnalytics e.g. the deep integration with Unity. FREE plan for all indie developers. GAMEANALYTICS 35 START ATTENDEES United States An achievement- based social street cred builder. Born in San Francisco, Geekli.st is an achievement-based social street cred builder for bad-ass developers where they can communicate, share, brag and get found. GEEKLI.ST Paul Sandham Wales We make apps with maps. Geosho develop location based systems and applications for SMEs, ex- tending the potential of existing mapping technologies to new sectors by using an innovative web mapping platform and mobile/web API. Our apps have realistic pricing and payment terms, no prohibitive content rights issues and increased accessibility to content or data via mobile. GEOSHO 36 START ATTENDEES Edial Dekker Germany Gidsy is a community marketplace for authentic experiences. Gidsy.com is place where anyone in the world can explore, offer and book things to do. We are connecting locals with travelers and other people whore looking for things to do. From walking tours, to wine tastings, to truffel huntings and other authentic experiences. Gidsy is trying to become the Lonely Planet 2.0. GIDSY Ethan Austin United States Crowdfunding for medical expenses. GiveForward provides crowdfunding pages for friends and loved ones out-of-pocket medical expenses. The company is on pace to do $25 mil- lion in transactions in 2012 and expects to do $100 million in 2013. It recently won an Edison Gold award as the best new social innovation in the US. It is backed by Founder Collective and First Round Capital. GIVEFORWARD 37 START ATTENDEES James Gill United Kingdom GoSquared provides real- time web analytics to online businesses. GoSquared was founded by Geoff Wagstaff, James Gill and James Taylor in 2006 at the age of 14. GoSquared analyses real-time and his- torical data to deliver insightful reports, visualisations and powerful APIs to online businesses. 20,000 websites have registered to continu- ally optimise + iterate their online presence for better results. GOSQUARED Emin Okutan Turkey A data storage, sharing and visualization system built for researchers. Gradibus aims to make it cheaper for hospitals and researchers to store data on the web and access it anywhere. Gradibus is a web appli- cation that makes it easier to store,share and visualize data. Gradibus also makes it easier to collaborate on data collection by forming and joining research institutions. GRADIBUS 38 START ATTENDEES Peter Hopton United Kingdom Iceotope develops servers using next generation liquid cooling technology. The data centre industry is growing at 19% per annum, currently set to exceed emissions of the airline industry. Iceotope manufacturer an advanced liquid cooled computing solution with the lowest possible energy consumption. Our technology not only saves on energy but on capital costs , it has the potential to revolutionise the industry. ICEOTOPE David Moreno Spain A fnancial platform to manage your investments smartly. Impok empowers the retail investor by placing the activities based on trust, like portfolio management and fnancial advice, away from the banks. It offers a portfolio tool to take control of your money and a so- cial platform that allows you to identify the best investors and mirror their portfolio, building a P2P portfolio management platform. IMPOK 39 START ATTENDEES Tobias Gerlinger Germany Infernum is a developer and publisher of next generation online games. Why free-to-play online-games? Because its not about picking hits but about making hits by permanent optimization based on user analyses. The holy grail? Virtual worlds that are available anytime, anywhere across PCs, smartphones and tablets. This will result in a much broader gaming experience and permanent community bond- ing. We will get it. INFERNUM PRODUCTIONS AG Uldis Leiterts Latvia A web based infographic creator. Create interactive infographics and charts with a few clicks, then place them in your article, blog post or share with friends. With more than 100 000 users and some 200 000 infographics created, its the fastest growing data visualization community on the planet. INFOGR.AM 40 START ATTENDEES Christoph Auer-Welsbach Austria Interactive Enterprise Funding & Investment Management Platform. INISMO is a secure and interactive platform for both, investors and entrepreneurs to manage their entire funding activities effectively with web-based tools and services. Founded in 2012, INISMO is dedi- cated to solve todays problems of information asymmetry and ineff- cient processes of funding negotiations. INISMO n a r TM Nourrdine Rouibah Switzerland ZMS is next generation mobile messaging - at the right time, in the right place! ZMS is the next generation Social mobile messaging application ena- bling people to communicate, interact and surprise others from their mobile, by adding location and time to the messages. inZair, the ZMS platform, is built on strong geo-location integration & full respect on consumer privacy. inZair, founded in 2011, has offces in Switzerland. INZAIR 41 START ATTENDEES Joshua Odmark USA iSell.com is a hyperlocal online classifeds platform. iSell.com is a hyperlocal online classifeds platform that seeks to dis- rupt the industry by signifcantly increasing distribution through decentralization. By placing classifed ads on 3rd-party websites and paying them per click with patent-pending technology, iSell.com will create distribution that trumps all other classifed websites, combined. ISELL.COM WORLDWIDE, INC. Elaine Cohalan Ireland MOBi-LEARN develops interactive language learning content for mobile channels. The best way to learn a language is through immersion in a native speaking country. Only 1% ever achieve this. The remaining 99% hence have less possibility for attaining fuency. Our solution: Mobile applications and services for individuals and schools that are native teacher-led, speech-focused, portable, fast and customisable. ISENGUA LTD, TRADING AS MOBI-LEARN 42 START ATTENDEES Philippe Laval France We automagically keep your address book up-to-date. Keeping up with all your contacts can be tough. People move, change their phone numbers, and otherwise outdate your address book all the time. WriteThat.Nam keeps your address book and CRM always up-to-date by scanning your Inbox.Works with Gmail, Outlook, Lotus Notes, Salesforce. KWAGA Marc-David Choukroun France Group buying to local farmers La Ruche qui dit Oui ! is an e-commerce platform where users group themselves around communities to buy food directly from their local farmers. Its also a complete infrastructure to make local commerce more effcient, increase the income of farmers and lower prices for consumers. In one year, 150 communities opened for commerce all through France. LA RUCHE QUI DIT OUI ! 43 START ATTENDEES gloss layer Phuong Do The Netherlands Revolutionalising app production. The apps use the latest technologies of Apples iOS. Amongst others, full-text-search, Facebook- and Twitter integration, audio, video, YouTube are available. After creating an app with LayerGloss your reader can download your app and immediately start reading. LAYERGLOSS Hakan Bas Turkey Turkeys leading online jewelry store. Lidyana.com is a celebrity endorsed vertical e-commerce site, offering the worlds most exclusive brands and custom designs of jewelry and accessories. Lidyana.com was selected as one of the hottest 100 Start- ups in Europe (#1 in Turkey) in the September 2012 issue of Wired Magazine. LIDYANA.COM 44 START ATTENDEES Trevor Parsons Ireland Logentries, Log Management and System Intelligence as a Service. Logentries is an easy to use, pro-active log management solution. Think proactive CCTV for your systems. Logentries unique system intelligence proactively warns user out of the box so that their sys- tems do not fail silently. Thousands of organisations across the globe use Logentries every day to manage their log data and ultimately their systems. LOGENTRIES Michael Defranco United States Simple communication & coordination for mobile workforces. Lua is the simplest way for mobile workforces to effectively commu- nicate, coordinate, and stay accountable. Were centralizing commu- nication in massive industries that still rely on antiquated tools like walkie-talkies, paper scheduling, and shouting. LUA 45 START ATTENDEES Alexandra Chong United States Luluvise is a social and communications platform for women. Luluvise is creating an innovative space, just for women, where you can get quick feedback from your handpicked friends. Now you can showcase your newest outft, catch up on the latest gossip, review your current crush, all from one safe place. Share what matters to you, directly with the girls who matter to you most. LULUVISE Ali Ahmed United Kingdom Lutebox is the easiest way to chat and share with friends while shopping. Say youre shopping online or in-store, and fnd a pair of jeans you like, but want your best friends advice. With Lutebox, simply snap a photo of the product, add your friend and just like a walkie-talkie, click push to talk and leave them a quick voice message. Theyll see the product instantly and respond, giving you quick actionable feedback. LUTEBOX 46 START ATTENDEES Chris Morton United Kingdom Lyst is a social curation platform thats changing the way people fnd fashion. Lyst.com is a social shopping site that helps you discover the best fash- ion for you. Follow your favorite designers, boutiques, bloggers and stylists to get their latest updates in your stylefeed, so you can stay on trend and never miss a sale. Search and shop from all of your favorite stores in one place and get instant sales alerts on products. LYST Alice Taylor England 3D printed toys. Makielab is fast becoming one of Londons most admired tech start- ups... Tech City Insider (Sep 2012) Its a world frst: toys designed by the customer, printed on demand, and manufactured in London. Customisable, playful and hackable, these toys disrupt the traditional mass manufactured, box-and-retail model to offer something com- pletely new. MAKIELAB 47 START ATTENDEES Pep Viladomat Spain We make people visible for their professional uniqueness. We help professionals discover their real worth and connect them to job opportunities using the most advanced tech. We focus on the can- didate and by doing so, we serve companies better. We have developed proprietary measuring tools of soft and hard skills, and build a rating based on market demand. MARKETYOU Edouard de La Jonquire Belgium Be in the know, everywhere, in real-time. mention is a media monitoring application that allows SMB to track in real-time and react to whats said about their names, products, com- pany, brand or competitors on the web and social networks. mention basically puts Google Alert on a turbo-charge. MENTION 48 START ATTENDEES Jesse Pickard United States MindSnacks creates bite-sized educational games for iOS users of all ages. MindSnacks has been releasing engaging learning apps since 2010. We currently boast a portfolio of 14 language acquisition and test prep apps for iOS that routinely rank in the top 10 in the App Stores Education category. Apple named MindSnacks Spanish app one of the best education apps of the year in its 2011 App Store Rewind. MINDSNACKS Greg Lloyd United Kingdom Mixlr gives artists, brands and tastemakers with the tools to interact with their fans. Using live audio and real-life social dynamics, Mixlr provides a unique set of tools for artists, brands and tastemakers to engage with their fans. 12,000 monthly active broadcasters use our crowd view, re- al-time chat and other powerful social features to build lasting rela- tionships with their fans and followers. MIXLR 49 START ATTENDEES Reda Berrehili France Mixotv is the frst social and personalized TV guide. Yesterday, watching TV was easy. You could easily choose a movie or TV Show thanks to a TV guide. But today, you have access to more than 200 channels+VOD+Catchup TV.Lot of content and no tool to help you flter.Mixotv brings technology into TV guides. We have been developing a great recommendation engine for 3 years thatll disrupt media discovery. MIXOTV chocolat jaune dor R 90 V74 B66 R 252 V149 B61 we move money J.F. Groff Switzerland We enable mobile payments for 5 billion people. We believe that each citizen of the world should be able to effortlessly send and receive money with their phone, no matter where they live, which telco they use, whether they have a bank account, a credit card or just cash in their pocket, no matter how much they earn and what they buy. Mobino delivers the future of money, available today. MOBINO 50 START ATTENDEES Hans Posch United States Meet new people through music & places! David Guetta or Green Day? Dancefoor, Coffee Shop or Pub? moosify will connect you with new people, new places & music! Mobile-frst moosify is a fun & easy way to meet new people who share your pas- sion for the same music and similar places - its like match.com meets spotify meets foursquare. MOOSIFY K Young United States Rails for data pipelines. Data pipelines are lifeblood to many businesses, but they havent matured in decades. There are no engineering standards, nor gener- al purposed frameworks for aggregation, correlation, NLP, ML, etc. Inspired by what Rails did for web applications, Mortar brings struc- ture, predictability, repeatability, easy maintenance and deploy to data pipelines. MORTAR 51 START ATTENDEES Vivek Sharma United States Movable Ink allows marketers to make emails as dynamic as webpages. Movable Ink is a revolution in email marketing. It enables marketers to make emails as dynamic as a web page, something that has never been possible before. Emails become containers for live content that can personalize to a recipients time, location, device, social context, and business rules. Real-time relevance generates real-world results. MOVABLE INK Matt Younkle United States The future home of your music collection. Murfe offers music fans a no-compromises home for their music col- lections. Collecting at Murfe means full ownership, letting our mem- bers enjoy unparalleled playback quality, diverse access and choice of format. Thousands of collections drive network effect music discov- ery in a liquid marketplace of new and used music buyers, sellers and traders. MURFIE, INC. 52 START ATTENDEES Mike Newman United Kingdom One login for all sites & improved security - no hardware, software or plug-ins. my1login enables users to access all their password-protected accounts and sites from any device, with a secure 2-step login process. my1login completely eliminates the need to memorise multiple usernames and passwords at the same time helping users increase their online se- curity by generating strong, unique passwords for each individual account. MY1LOGIN Paul Quigley Ireland NewsWhip is a live stream of the worlds most social news. Theres too much Internet and not enough time. So NewsWhip uses so- cial signals to show exactly what the worlds favorite stories are, right now. Consumers use NewsWhip to fnd the best stories each day, and newsrooms - including CNN, BBC and NBC - use our pro tools to get ahead of whats trending every hour. NEWSWHIP 53 START ATTENDEES Juha Paananen Singapore NonStop Games makes instantly accessible social games you can play on any device. NonStop Games makes instantly accessible social games you can play on any device. NonStop Games is disrupting the app distribution model in a totally novel way with games that can be distributed as links and played on any device. This enables new gaming experiences based on context and instant accessibility. NONSTOP GAMES Dean Fankhauser United Kingdom Nuji is building the Internets Department Store with social built at its core. Nuji helps you discover items tailored to you and earn discounts at stores you like. Our users already saved 700K items from 25K stores and, last month, we delivered 35K clicks to retailers with an average eCPC of 1.32. We already signed Adidas and 70 other retailers and are about to let any store claim and manage their store page on Nuji. NUJI 54 START ATTENDEES Brendan Gill United Kingdom OpenSignal creates accurate and independent coverage maps of mobile signal. Our goal at OpenSignal is to bring accuracy and transparency to mobile coverage maps. Using data from our smartphone applica- tion we are creating an independent survey of wireless signal. Our OpenSignal app has been downloaded by over 2 million people and is now the worlds largest independent assessment of wireless coverage. OPENSIGNAL Chris Thr Finland Guitar Hero for real guitar! Get hooked on practicing on your real instrument. Ovelin is changing the way how people learn to play a musical instru- ment. Our frst game WildChords is played with a real guitar on the iPad (no special equipment needed). The guitar learning game has won numerous awards including best European learning game, iPad game of the year, Sunday Times award and was #1 music app in 34 countries. OVELIN 55 START ATTENDEES Pieter Dubois Belgium Paycento makes paying for online content easy as a Facebook(tm) Like Paycento provides patent-pending frictionless payments for on- line content, using your social network identity, Twitter(tm), Facebook(tm), LinkedIn(tm), Google(tm), etc. Paycentos bridges the world of the free advertisement supported model and the paid-for subscription model closing the gap that exists in the middle of the freemium business model. PAYCENTO Ronan Perceval Ireland Open Table for Hair and Beauty. Phorest is changing the way salon owners run their business. Our web based platform currently manages 3.5m clients for 1000 salons in the UK and Ireland. Last year the platform processed 6.4m appointments and we are now preparing to launch in the US. PHOREST 56 START ATTENDEES Alex Hawkinson United States SmartThings gives the physical world an API, adding intelligence to daily life. The next major phase of the web will be the physical graph; the easy, open connection of everyday things to the Internet and each other. SmartThings enables this revolution by making it frictionless for us- ers, developers, makers and distributors. We give the physical world an API, and changing how software can make our everyday lives smarter. PHYSICAL GRAPH CORPORATION Paolo Privitera Italy (team), US (company) Retargeting via Automated Market Research. Retargeting via automated Market Research - big data for opinions Pick1 is an end-to-end solution linking advertisement and market re- search, based on questions, insights and actions. Engage your users in multi-touchpoint, collecting opinions and multi-dimensional social analytics to retarget the audience and critically improve ROI. PICK1 57 START ATTENDEES Marius Lian Norway Quickest and simplest way to send links to friends, family and co-workers. Ping.it is the quickest and simplest way to send links to friends, family and co-workers. It is a crowdsourced browsing platform, where peo- ple point each other to content they fnd helpful or interesting. Its a place where you get suggestions that matter, coming from people just like you. PING.IT Saad Hussain United States All the pictures and videos in the world, on any screen, wirelessly! We believe the TV industrial complex (boxes, cables and remote con- trols) is outdated. Our goal is to get rid of everything physically con- nected to the TV. Our products allow laptops & mobile devices to be- come the box. Users interact through an app interface on laptops & mobile devices to search, discover and play the desired content on the TV. PLAIR 58 START ATTENDEES Eleanor Watson The Netherlands / UK Developed technology for imaging and measuring the body in 3D. Poikos is a computer vision systems house which has developed a rev- olutionary patent-pending technology for imaging and measuring the body in 3D, using consumer grade hardware such as smartphones, tablets and PCs. We are developing a platform for the delivery of our technology to partners within the health, bespoke and e-commerce sectors. POIKOS Mat Munro United Kingdom We make decision social! Making decisions can be hard! At Pollarize we take the pain out of that process. We help our users distill their question down to their simplest form - Yes/No, A/B - and publish them to a network of users with discernible authority in order to make the best choice. POLLARIZE 59 START ATTENDEES Dustin Rosen United States Pose captures and enhances the in-store shopping experience. Poses mobile application allows users to add products to a personal style feed, share their fnds and start a conversation. Pose is some- thing special for women. Simply says that Pose.com is a posing and stylish images from the users. Shop and explore your personal fashion magazine. POSE David Soloff United States Premise is real time data for a streaming global economy. Premise builds the machinery to improve global economic transpar- ency and measure whats happening with the collective enterprise of the human race. We collect noisy, sparse data streams from around the world and distill them into real time, reliable macroeconomic in- sights. We are backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures and Harrison Metal. PREMISE 60 START ATTENDEES Daniel Hoepfner Germany PressMatrix develops technology to create and monetize tablet publications. PressMatrix develops and operates a smart publishing and distribu- tion platform for magazines and catalogs to market digital issues on tablets. We offer a white labeled service and works directly with the Publishers. No need for hiring a team of digital publishing experts. 6 of the Top10 German Publisher and more than 100 publishers are us- ing us. PRESSMATRIX May Habib UAE Crowd-sourced content creation and digital publishing platform. Qordoba is a content creation company based in Dubai. We have built a web-based platform that makes creating professional high quality language content fast, reliable and scalable. We now employ 550 lin- guists, writers and editors in 30 countries. Languages offered: Arabic, Turkish, English, French, Spanish, Farsi, Russian, Mandarin, Urdu. QORDOBA 61 START ATTENDEES Roberto Gil Spain A new way of travel. Get discounts to 70% for the best hotels, for the same day ReallyLateBooking is a mobile application for booking hotels on the same day with big discounts. We select only the best hotels and you can make the book with just 4 taps, ITS THAT SIMPLE. RLB app is free and users pay nothing for to use it. We want to grow up and change the way of travel for all European people. Are you a LateBooker too? REALLYLATEBOOKING Ross Linnett United Kingdom Recite is an online accessibility tool that makes websites accessible to anyone Recite accessibility software can make any website accessible to any- one from anywhere. Its a software as a service system that allows vis- itors to a site who have visual impairments or learning diffculties like dyslexia, to have content read out aloud. They can also view them in adjustable text only views. RECITE 62 START ATTENDEES Eugene Barulin Russia ResumUP shows who and what you need to know to achieve your career goal. Creating a path to your dream destination has never been so simple and transparent for young talents who are searching for a maximizing their potential. ResumUP offers cutting edge online recruiting solu- tions, flling the gap between visualization technologies, data science, network recruitment approaches and professional social networks. RESUMUP Blaise Bayuo Ghana We create software that helps online merchants promote their products through comparison shopping engines. Online merchants face a complex sales environment. Increasingly, shoppers are using comparison-shopping engines to fnd products and compare prices. To remain competitive, merchants need to keep up with these trends. RetailTower offers plug-and-play solutions to meet the needs of this growing merchant base. RETAILTOWER 63 START ATTENDEES David OLeary Ireland Design bespoke plugins to deliver Social Intelligence with proprietary insights. Ripple helps businesses to make decisions in real-time. No other plat- form offers the same easy deployment experience with minimal tech- nical expertise. There are no limits to the number of plugins you can deploy.We have a clear development vision to accelerate our capabil- ities to outstrip competitors. Ripple is 20% cheaper than comparable platforms. RIPPLE TECHNOLOGIES LTD. Michal Wendrowski Poland Rublon makes registering and logging in to websites easier and more secure. Rublon increases website usability and security by replacing pass- words with decentralized mobile cryptography. Scan Rublon Codes with your mobile phone to log in without having to remember any- thing. Were disrupting a fundamental part of IT that hasnt been glob- ally improved since 40 years: the login process to computer systems. Users love it. RUBLON 64 START ATTENDEES Mikko Martikainen United Kingdom / Finland Virtual shopping made real. Sayduck provides an augmented reality-based mobile app with an underlying platform for showcasing brands and retailers products in the homes of their customers. This takes the guesswork out of imagin- ing what the item will look like. For the merchants it offers a new and unique sales channel to engage with their customers. SAYDUCK Kobra Koskinen Finland Scoopinion is the last.fm of reading. Scoopinion crowdsources quality journalism and makes the content matter again. It tracks what and how you read and automatically rates the articles according to the way they are read. Youll get recommend- ed articles that people like you have read thoroughly. With Scoopinion even procrastination is now useful. SCOOPINION 65 START ATTENDEES White on Blue Background Blue on White Background Paul Rawlings United Kingdom Screach is a revolution in interactivity for broadcast. Screach is the next generation in interaction technology, allowing au- diences to engage with any screen or content via their mobile device, and allowing brands to understand and instantly reward their au- dience like never before. Screach is working with brands including Channel4, CBS, Bauer and Cadburys to revolutionise broadcast and advertising. SCREENREACH Jeff Lynn United Kingdom Seedrs is an online platform for investing in the startups you choose. Seedrs revolutionises the world of seed-stage fnance. We allow inves- tors to invest between 10 and 150,000 in the startups they choose, and we allow entrepreneurs to seek up to 150,000 in equity capi- tal from friends and the crowds, all through a simple, online plat- form. Seedrs is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. SEEDRS 66 START ATTENDEES Alexandre Passant Ireland Your music discovery assistant. Seevl is your music discovery assistant. Using cutting-edge R&D, it provides a unique user experience by combining social discovery, artist connections, personal recommendations, and facetted search. seevl is currently available as a free browser extension for YouTube, letting music lovers discover the best tunes among millons of YouTube videos. SEEVL.NET, BY MDG WEB LTD Tatsuo Sato France Travel, travel, travel! Shiroube is all about connecting locals and visitors. Shiroube is the micro local guide marketplace that connects local res- idents and travelers, offering guides and services for travelers (P2P Travel). The service has grown since its launch, covering more than 3,000 cities, is the largest network in the market. SHIROUBE 67 START ATTENDEES Vincenzo Ruggiero Belgium The awesome way to sell stuff online. Grab your smartphone, take a picture of something, describe it and sell it. That only takes 30 seconds and your item is on the Shopigram marketplace! Receive orders, ship your stuff and earn money through Paypal. You can also share your items with your friends, discover products around you and discover what your friends like and what they sell.. SHOPIGRAM Salar al Khafaji The Netherlands Silk is a new way to create and consume structured collections of content. Silk allow users to create structured collections about any subject and allowing them to browse, visualize and flter through all that data. Silk is already being used for fnancial data, entertainment, data jour- nalism and we expect to become the leading platform for data on the web. SILK 68 START ATTENDEES Tim Grimsditch United Kingdom A next-generation video sharing & messaging service. Todays video sharing and messaging services are dull clones of Instagram or SMS. Young video natives want a truly social video platform. One that blends personal, group & public sharing. Using their existing channels. Fast, beautiful & simple. Six3 is an award winning, London-based startup delivering the worlds best social vid- eo service. SIX3 Steffen Reitz Germany Paperwork, magically done. smarchive frees your life from paperwork - and leaves you more time for the funny things. Thanks to its smart semantics software, it under- stands any documents content and helps you accomplishing all tasks within seconds - with automatically sorted documents, seamlessly paid bills, reminders ahead of cancellation deadlines, expense track- ing etc. SMARCHIVE 69 START ATTENDEES Adam Ghetti United States We put the enterprise back in control of their data and users. Social Fortress enables enterprises to leverage cloud and mobile tech- nologies with confdence by redefning the data and access control landscape while reducing end-user friction. Backed by Christopher Klaus (Founder, Internet Security Systems), Phil Dunkelberger (Founder, PGP), and Ken Levine (CEO, NitroSecurity / SVP, GM - McAfee) among others. SOCIAL FORTRESS, INC. Inge Andre Sandvik Norway Soundrop allows people to discover, share and enjoy music together with friends. Soundrop is the best way to discover, share and enjoy music in Spotify. We let anyone create a collaborative social listening destina- tion that can be shared in real-time with friends or other fans. The model works. We have streamed more than 300 million tracks and have an average listening time of three hours. SOUNDROP 70 START ATTENDEES Brendan ODriscoll Ireland Tracking what songs people are listening to & where in realtime With Soundwave, users can easily see in realtime what songs people are listening to all around them and globally. Users can create charts based on particular locations (offce, street, city or country), friends, celebrities or groups of people (family, teammates, rocker friends) and flter the results by time and genre to discover new music. SOUNDWAVE SPONSORSHIPS MADE SMARTER Robert Johnston United States SponsorHub makes it easy for brands to discover and manage sponsorships. SponsorHub is indexing the $60 billion sponsorship industry (like Google did for online ads). We provide a platform and marketplace for brands to discover, manage and score sponsorship opportunities rang- ing from events and venues to athletes and digital sponsorships. We provide brands with a native, authentic way to connect deeply with customers. SPONSORHUB 71 START ATTENDEES Spencer Lazar United States A simple way to create & send amazing messages. Spontaneously is the developer of TwistPics, a simple way to create & send amazing messages. Whereas most innovation in mobile com- munication has been about increasing effciency (lowering cost and improving speed), TwistPics is focused on making conversation richer and more fun. SPONTANEOUSLY Shahar Nechmad Israel Where fans and bands rule. There are more than 2.1 billion yearly missed engagement points around live events between loving, paying customers and the enter- tainment brands behind them. Stagedom platform is a 360 degrees solution, enhancing and extending the life of live events, and provid- ing real time data, marketing and monetization tools to the entertain- ment industry. STAGEDOM 72 START ATTENDEES Steven Drost Scotland stipso engages brands with their audience via live infographics stipso delivers market engagement for your brand via live infograph- ics. 1. engage your target audience with beautiful live infographics. 2. gather user-contributed data that gives you research insights into your market 3. extend your inbound marketing funnel via sharing 4. build brand visibility and brand trust in the social web STIPSO Rodolfo Rosini United Kingdom Online Games. Storybricks is a platform that lets gamer developers build their own games. Users write a story using a drag and drop UI, then they push a button and we bake a game with our special sauce. Easy peasy, really. Storybricks is not sold as middleware, instead we partner with game companies to bring unique games to the market. STORYBRICKS 73 START ATTENDEES Naveen Jain United States Build great websites and apps with content from anywhere. We enable you to realize an APIs potential by restoring focus on the incredible content and functionality they offer. Forget costly integra- tions and plugins that make your website slow. We make discovering API content as easy as Google search expanding access to everyone. Get reliable, full access that scales to achieve any idea. STORYTELLER Kate Scisel Poland We put e-shops on mobile in 5 minutes. Risk free for the business. Online retailers dont have time to innovate. Mobile is exploding but people cant buy on mobile yet because majority of shops either dont have a mobile presence or do it wrong. Sungentum fxes this by making mobile buying easy. If you have an e-shop and you sell on- line, Sugentum will create for you a mobile version of your shop in 5 minutes. SUGENTUM 74 START ATTENDEES Petter Made Ireland SumUp enables every small business to accept card payments SumUp is the easiest way for small businesses and sole traders to ac- cept credit and debit card payments securely, even on-the-go. Using only a free, portable card reader and an app available for iPhone, iPad and Android, merchants are now able to accept credit and debit card payments anytime, anywhere. SumUp means card payments for everyone. SUMUP LIMITED Steven Collins Ireland The worlds frst mobile app optimization platform Were dedicated to helping the mobile app and game developers turn short-term hits into long-term, sustainable growth. Our technology is already being used by some of the worlds leading app and games developers, and handling over 1 billion events per day. Wherever it counts - youll fnd Swrve. SWRVE 75 START ATTENDEES Pieter van Herpen The Netherlands Feeding the world with product data. Syndicate Plus gives websites and apps access to rich, structured con- sumer product data to build or enrich their online and mobile ex- periences. Right now theres no place that has every detail on every consumer product. Syndicate Plus intends to become that place by building the largest consumer product database in the world. SYNDICATE PLUS Olga Steidl Russia talkbits is locally-focused voice app that allows users to discover their area. Talkbits is an application whose goal is to connect people and explore the world through sound and voice; starting where you live. By col- lecting voices and events in a Walkie-Talkie style, talkbits gives users an opportunity to discuss trending and locally relevant topics such as personal news, local news, local events and global events. TALKBITS 76 START ATTENDEES Kenneth Shaw United States We personally handpick your match and set you up on Tawkify/Walkify/Mystery Date. Tawkify melds the engineering power of the web with the intangible intuition of fesh and blood matchmakers. We solve online dating by making it private, fun and timesaving. Our human matchmakers cu- rate matches, solve social ineffciencies of dating, and set customers together on a phone call, walk, and mystery date. TAWKIFY Gil Friedlander Israel tawkon encourages mobile users to control their exposure to mobile radiation. tawkon (as in, talk on) created a sophisticated mobile technology allowing users to minimize exposure to mobile phone radiation with- out reducing usage. tawkon monitors the level of radiation youre exposed to and provides simple real-time prompts to avoid radiation exposure just when necessary. TAWKON 77 START ATTENDEES Peter Coppinger Ireland Online Project Management that knocks the socks off the competition. TeamworkPM aims to be the best online Collaboration and Project Management platform in the world. We have thousands of customers all over the world including some very high profle names like Pepsi, Walt Disney and Ubisoft. Happily, our customers rave about us and we are growing rapidly thanks to social media referrals. Big plans ahead! TEAMWORK PROJECT MANAGER Nasir Zubairi United Kingdom Simple, low cost, automated and transparent international payment service. The Currency Cloud makes international payments and transfers sim- ple. We operate in the payments industry, delivering a service that enables businesses to send, receive, track and automate their cross currency payments process, signifcantly lowering costs, reducing ex- pensive payment failures whilst increasing control and transparency. THE CURRENCY CLOUD 78 START ATTENDEES Colin Hewitt Scotland Simple cashfow forecasting and budgeting for small businesses. The online accounting market is growing rapidly (500k users and dou- bling every 10 months). Float integrates into these packages to provide realtime forecasting based on live accounting fgures. This means that forecasts are up to date in minutes, and scenarios can be easily re- vised and shared. Float makes forecasting visual, simple and usable. THE FLOAT YARD LTD Caroline Ghosn United States Levo League is the leading community resource for Gen Y professionals. Levo League is the frst professional network designed to inspire and enable Gen Y women to build amazing careers. Levo League connects women in the frst ten years of their career path with resources to help facilitate personal and professional success. THE LEVO LEAGUE 79 START ATTENDEES AFL0I0 Andrew J Scott United States The digital tabloid about your friends: gossip will never be the same again. The Taploid is a digital tabloid for your social graph. Its created by taking the social data of your friends from the web and turning that data into a personalized highly interactive magazine, containing funny news and silly gossip all centred on you the reader, and your friends. Were revolutionising the traditional tabloid media industry. THETAPLOID Carl Waldekranz Sweden Start a free and beautiful online store and get daily marketing advice. Called The Tumblr of e-commerce by Wired Magazine, Tictail offers a free and easy way to start your own online store. Since beta-launch in May 2012, Tictail has been named one of top 100 startups in Europe (Wired) and the hottest startup in Sweden (IDG) and have already gained traction amongst thousands of online retailers all around the world. TICTAIL 80 START ATTENDEES Andreas Cser Romania TjobsRecruit is using technology to make recruiting processes more effcient. TjobsRecruit is a hybrid online/bricks-and-mortar business that com- bines the effciency of an online recruitment portal with a fast grow- ing proprietary network of over 500 recruitment agencies. We work on revolutionizing HR Services by vastly improving the effciency of recruiting processes for all stakeholders: employers, candidates and agents. TJOBS S.A. Benedikt Bingler Germany Toast is disrupting mobile gifting by creating highly social experiences. Toast is your social wish list and gifting service for making wishes come true. The aim of Toast is to provide a holistic gifting experience on mobile. By focusing on using social strategies in the gifting space, Toast can engage gift givers and recipients better than traditional e-commerce models. TOAST 81 START ATTENDEES Taso Du Val United States Online talent marketplace connecting freelance software developers to the world. TopTal prescreens developers using a combination of algorithmic tests, technical interviews, English/verbal interviews, and paired program- ming projects. Once developers are accepted into its network, they are eligible to work with TopTals clients on a full-time or part-time, week- ly basis. TOPTAL TM Katrin Buckenmaier Russia One of the top three online travel companies in Russia, and the Ukraine Travelmenus distinctive strength is its market-leading product offer- ing with connectivity to 250,000 hotels and 500 airlines, more than any of its local competitors, via Amadeus and XML API connectivity to 3rd parties. Travelmenu is offering a Lowest Price Guarantee on all of its hotel and package holiday product. TRAVELMENU 82 START ATTENDEES Jen O Neal United States Global community of travellers who believe cultural exchange betters the world. Tripping enables travelers to safely connect with locals for travel tips, a shared cup of coffee or even a home stay. Offering both web and mo- bile technology platforms, Tripping also provides easy access to travel resources to help site members make informed decisions when plan- ning their trips. TRIPPING Mike Borras Austria Central Europes largest social local search community. Tupalo.com is a proftable, 20-person social local search community reaching 4 million users per month. The company is headquartered in Vienna, Austria with satellite offces in Warsaw, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and is backed by strategic partnerships with some of the largest yellow pages publishers in the World. TUPALO.COM 83 START ATTENDEES Shaf Choudry United Kingdom People are talking about your brand right now, were listening for you. Social media isnt about tweets or stats, its about people and how you engage with them. In a world full of vanity metrics we tell you who is important to your brand. If you arent engaging with your brand ad- vocates or infuential haters, your competitors will be. And if theyre using Twocial, youre really screwed. TWOCIAL Jonathan Morris United Kingdom User.ly provides businesses with the means to make the best decision possible. User.ly is a subscription based online platform built to help start- ups and businesses of all sizes to make better decisions. The platform enables businesses quick and easy access to smart-end users in any demo-graph who give feedback on product development, pricing, marketing and messaging. In this way, businesses can verify before investing. USER.LY 84 START ATTENDEES Dema Tio Singapore Vibease helps couples to stay intimate by using app and personal massager. Vibease is a private social network app for couples with Bluetooth personal massager. Couples can use Vibease for chatting and share their moments. The womans partner can control her massager using a smartphone, even though they are separated. One of the top reasons for divorce is a lack of sexual intimacy in a relationship, especially in long distance relationships. With Vibease, distance doesnt matter. VIBEASE INC. Dom Hofmann United States Video has never been this fun. An incredible new way to capture and share beautiful videos using your iPhone. No editing. No rendering. No post-production. Video has never been this fun. Vine is currently in closed beta and will be re- leased for free this October on the App Store. VINE 85 START ATTENDEES Tomaz Stolfa Slovenia vox.io - making communication better. vox.io is the easiest way to communicate with your friends and fam- ily. vox.ios messaging, content sharing and calling make it simple to share experiences with those that matter most to you, wherever you are, wherever they are. Starting conversations on vox.io is as easy following a link - no numbers, no international rates. VOX.IO HEROES Amer Mohammed Sweden Healthy Heroes offers the worlds frst social gaming experience. Healthy Heroes is a fun, social gaming experience focusing on build- ing a game character through real life exercise. We do not emphasise calories, heart rates or resting pulses. Instead, healthy heroes en- courages players to unlock achievements, earn rewards and challenge friends. Healthy Heroes is like World of Warcraft meets health and exercise! WARMBREEZE STUDIOS AB 86 START ATTENDEES Rent the car next door. Vinay Gupta United Kingdom WhipCar matches up people who need a car with those who dont drive every day. WhipCar is the neighbour to neighbour car rental service. Since 2010, it has connected car owners with safe, approved drivers nearby. All cars and drivers are screened by WhipCar and every rental is covered by a globally unique comprehensive insurance policy, which tempo- rarily replaces the owners existing insurance for the duration of hire. WHIPCAR Andrew Considine Ireland Willstream makes life simpler, better and more secure for the worlds migrants. Willstream is helping migrants to take control of their lives and their fnancial future. Weve developed a new online and mobile payments technology for a real-world need - enabling migrants living anywhere to connect with and pay hospitals, schools, utilities and even grocery stores for the beneft of their family still living at home. WILLSTREAM LABS 87 START ATTENDEES Mike Levinson United States A marketplace to fnd and build business apps in under an hour. WizeHive makes it easy for anyone to fnd and build cloud based busi- ness apps without involving IT. Choose from ready-to-install apps, or create an app from scratch. WizeHive apps work together to create a shareable database in the cloud that works from anywhere. WizeHive currently has over 500 customers running over 1500 apps. WIZEHIVE Carl Fritjofsson Sweden Celebrating your friend with gifts of real value - every day! Wrapp is the worlds leading social gifting service. Wrapp users send free and paid gifts to their friends from top brands, and retailers use Wrapp as a performance-based marketing platform to generate tar- geted store traffc in a non-intrusive way. We call it friend-2-friend marketing! WRAPP 88 START ATTENDEES Matt Freckelton United Kingdom Yatterbox specialises in tracking politicians online through social media. Yatterbox is a political monitoring company that specialises in track- ing politicians through social media. This information is then accessed through a web based monitoring platform that allows businesses to understand and drill down into the information. Yatterbox serves pri- marily Public Affairs, PR, lobbyists, Media and News organisations. YATTERBOX J. Paul Neeley United Kingdom YossarianLives! is a metaphorical search engine. YossarianLives! is a revolutionary metaphorical search engine that promotes lateral thinking across the Internet, helping people gener- ate new ideas and fresh perspectives, inspire innovation, and discov- er new connections. Instead of closely related results, our algorithms return possible metaphorically related content from entirely new domains. YOSSARIANLIVES! 89 START ATTENDEES Maren Kate United States Epic personal assistants for all of your work, life and concierge needs. Imagine having a second self. An assistant who knows your person- al preferences and your business needs. Now imagine them manag- ing your busy schedule, booking all of your travel and handling work tasks that you dont have time for. For $200 a month your dedicated Zirtual Assistant can do all of that and more. Our ZAs will rock your world. ZIRTUAL 90 ATTENDEE PHOTOS Adam Ghetti Social Fortress, Inc. Adnan Ebrahim Car Throttle Ali Ahmed Lutebox Alice Taylor MakieLab Ambarish Mitra Blippar Amer Mohammed Warmbreeze Studios AB Andrea Girardello 42matters AG Andreas Cser Tjobs S.A. Andrew Considine Willstream Labs 91 ATTENDEE PHOTOS Andrew J Scott TheTaploid Andy Hobsbawm EVRYTHNG Anil Hansjee creandum Arash Houshmand Contigua GmbH Ben Nunez Birdbox Benedikt Bingler Toast Bertie Stephens Flubit Ltd Brendan Gill OpenSignal Brendan ODriscoll Soundwave 92 ATTENDEE PHOTOS Carl Waldekranz Tictail Cathal Furey 45sound Chris Thr Ovelin Christoph Auer-Welsbach INISMO Christophe Camborde EZAKUS Christophe Primault CloudWork Cillian Kieran Folio Colin Hewitt The Float Yard Ltd Damian Kimmelman Duedil 93 ATTENDEE PHOTOS Daniel Hoepfner PressMatrix Dave Kearney Fluid Software David Moreno impok David OLeary Ripple Technologies Ltd. David Soloff Premise Dean Fankhauser Nuji Dema Tio Vibease Inc. Ed Byrne CloudVertical Edial Dekker Gidsy 94 ATTENDEE PHOTOS Edouard de La Jonquire mention Elaine Cohalan Isengua Ltd, trading as MOBi-LEARN Eleanor Watson Poikos Emin Okutan Gradibus Eran Ben-Shushan Bizzabo Ethan Austin GiveForward Eugene Barulin ResumUP Fanuel Dewever Emphas.is Journalism Experiences Limited Florian Meissner EyeEm 95 ATTENDEE PHOTOS Freddy May Application Craft Gil Friedlander tawkon Greg Lloyd Mixlr Hakan Bas Lidyana.com Hans Posch moosify Heiko Willers Content Fleet GmbH Inge Andre Sandvik Soundrop J. Paul Neeley YossarianLives! J.F. Groff Mobino 96 ATTENDEE PHOTOS James Gill GoSquared Jeff Lynn Seedrs Jesse Pickard MindSnacks Joe Braidwood Fluency Labs John Sjlander Burt Johnathan Agnes Foodity Jonathan Morris User.ly Jonathan Ruane Eventovate Jordan Fantaay Fantoo 97 ATTENDEE PHOTOS Jorge Soto CitiVox Joshua Odmark iSell.com Worldwide, Inc. K Young Mortar Kate Scisel SUGENTUM Kealan Lennon Cleverbug Kenneth Shaw Tawkify Kiran Bellubbi 955 Dreams Inc. Kirill Sermyagin Excursiopedia Kobra Koskinen Scoopinion 98 ATTENDEE PHOTOS Lenard F. Krawinkel zoobe message entertainment gmbh Maren Kate Zirtual Marius Lian Ping.it Marjolijn Kamphuis Foodzy Mat Munro Pollarize Matt Freckelton Yatterbox Matt Younkle Murfe, Inc. Mattias Swenson Bloglovin Maureen Scott Ether Books 99 ATTENDEE PHOTOS May Habib Qordoba Melinda Jacobs Flight 1337 Michael Defranco Lua Michael Woods E&M Labs Michal Wendrowski Rublon Mike Borras Tupalo.com Mike Levinson WizeHive Mike Newman my1login Mikko Martikainen Sayduck 100 ATTENDEE PHOTOS Morten E. Wulff GameAnalytics Nahema Mehta Art Remba Nasir Zubairi The Currency Cloud Naveen Jain Storyteller Neil Costigan BehavioSec Nicolai Watzenig Birdback Nikolaj Kster Click A Taxi Nourrdine Rouibah inZair Olga Steidl talkbits 101 ATTENDEE PHOTOS Oliver Segovia AVA Paolo Privitera Pick1 Paul Quigley NewsWhip Paul Sandham Geosho Pep Viladomat marketyou Peter Coppinger Teamwork Project Manager Peter Hopton Iceotope Petter Made SumUp Limited Philippe Laval Kwaga 102 ATTENDEE PHOTOS Pieter van Herpen Syndicate Plus Ray Chan 9GAG Robert Johnston SponsorHub Roberto Gil ReallyLateBooking Rodolfo Rosini Storybricks Ronan OMalley Fixational Ronan Perceval Phorest Ross Linnett Recite Saad Hussain PLAiR 103 ATTENDEE PHOTOS Sagar Babber Collaborate Cloud Salar al Khafaji Silk Shaf Choudry Twocial Shahar Nechmad Stagedom Spencer Lazar Spontaneously Steffen Reitz smarchive Steven Collins Swrve Steven Drost stipso Tatsuo Sato Shiroube 104 ATTENDEE PHOTOS Thiago Diniz Eventick Thibauld Favre Allmyapps Tim Grimsditch Six3 Tobias Gerlinger Infernum Productions AG Tomaz Stolfa vox.io Vinay Gupta WhipCar Vincenzo Ruggiero Shopigram Vit Horky Brand Embassy Vivek Sharma Movable Ink 105 INVESTORS INVESTORS AT START 212 Ventures Accel Partners ACT Venture Capital Andreessen Horowitz Atlantic Bridge Atomico Balderton Capital Battery Ventures Blumberg Capital CODE Advisors Connect Ventures Creandum CrunchFund Delta Partners DFJ Esprit Earlybird Venture Capital EC1 Capital Felicis Ventures Frontline Ventures Goldman Sachs Google Ventures Greylock Partners Highland Capital Partners Index Ventures Kleiner Perkins Mangrove Capital Partners New Enterprise Associates Oak Investment Partners Passion Capital Polaris Ventures Quotidian Ventures Sequoia Capital Silver Lake Spectrum Equity True Ventures Valar Ventures Wellington Partners X.Million Capital Ventures Youniversity Ventures There will be over 50 individual investors at Start. Below is just a selection of those attendees. 106 INVESTORS 107 INVESTORS 108 MEDIA JOURNALISTS AT START Alastair Cameron Startacus and The Employable Alexander Hsing Deutsche-startups.de Alexey Evlanov slon.ru, digitaloctober. com Alexia Tsotsis TechCrunch Amanda Webb spiderworking.com/blog Andrea Rungg G&J Wirtschaftspresse, (Financial Times Germany, Capital, Business Punk) Annie Lowney Yelp Anton Johansson fyranyanser.se Arda Kutsal Webrazzi Astrid Weber ver.di Germany, Eigenart UDK, Goethe Institute Ayegl Ataman Technostrategy Barry Adams StateofSearch.com Ben Rooney Wall Street Journal Europe Benjamin Hammer Deutschlandradio Candy Behunin mlove.com Charlie OConnor Silicon Ireland News Ciara Byrne Venturebeat Ciara O'Brien Irish Times Ciaran McGrath Trinity News 109 MEDIA Claudia Zettel Kurier & futurezone.at Damien Van Achter nest.lesoir.be & lab. davanac Daniel Laursen Trendsonline.dk Daria Batukhtina batukhtina.ru Darren McCarra The Sociable Darren Mulvihill Blog/Twitter/Often passed to TechCrunch and Business Insider David Rowan Wired UK Dilek Dayinlarli webrazzi.com Dimitris Kalavros- Gousiou Away.gr Dominik Grollmann Internetworld.de Dnal Connolly- Gorman Sunday Business Post Enda Leahy Irish Mail on Sunday Eric Eldon TechCrunch Fatih Guner sosyalmedya.co Frantisek Volar alian.info Gavin Daly The Sunday Times Gerald OConnor The Epoch Times Gilles Bruno LObservatoire des Mdias Haydn Shaughnessy Forbes Hercules Fisherman Foodity, lectrio, pwpark, ginicam, amoo, herxangels Ins Silva feedthereader.com Ingrid Lunden TechCrunch James Hughes cloudspring.com Jamie Smyth Financial Times Jamillah Knowles The Next Web Jennifer Hicks Forbes 110 MEDIA Jennifer Schenker Informilo Jens Tnnesmann Wirtschaftswoche, wiwo. de John Kennedy Silicon Republic Julian Blake techcityinsider.net Lea Weitekamp t3n Magazin, thenextwomen.com Leigh Herron Startacus.Net Liam Boogar The Rude Baguette Lisa OCarroll The Guardian Marco Ripanti social-media.com Marek Jalovec blog Margot Huysman IBTimes UK Martin Bryant The Next Web Martin Svoboda TyInternety.cz Matt Cowan Reuters TV Matthew Bishop The Economist Max Chafkin Fast Company Max Sullivan Trinity News Mic Wright Telegraph Michael Hayes RookieOven Michael McDermott Le Cool Michal Dragan Chilli Business Solutions Mike Butcher TechCrunch Momal Mushtaq The Voice of Youth Nick Bilton New York Times Nikolas Woischnik techberlin.com Om Malik GigaOm Paul OMahony Twitter, Audioboo, Google+, new company blog 111 MEDIA Phil Jeudy Diverse but Tech mostly Piers Scott The Sociable Reuben Murray Whelan blog.bullethq.com Rick O'Shea 2FM Robert Cookson Financial Times Robert Scoble Scobleizer Robin Wauters The Next Web Sabine Louet youris.com Sbastien Flury startupolic.com Seng Teong Uwe Chua Westphal iwantavideo.com Spencer Reiss Wired US Steve Nicholls Social Media in Business T. OConnor Silicon Ireland News Wire Tamara Korcak-Novicka telefonica O2 UK Tomas Vatrt midra.sk Tracey Carney In Business Magazine Tricia Lichfeld IPTV & Broadcast Trista Bridges Rude Baguette Vanessa Zainzinger Real Business Vukain Stojkov Startit Wessel Kooyman Rude Baguette William Murphy Streets Of Dublin Yoko Sueoka It Media Zuzana Fedorkova eastist.com WWW.START150.COM