The Next Web Conference is in two weeks and over a thousand attendees from all over the world that share a passion for the mobile and Internet scene will attend. For 3 days, and right before the famous Dutch national holiday Queensday, Amsterdam is the place to be for people and businesses that shape the future of the web.
Two months ago we got Paypal X on board as the official sponsor of The Next Web Paypal X Startup Rally and off we went. We’ve reviewed 245 startup submissions, we’ve looked at 73 one minute video pitches and finally we selected 45 companies for the interview round. Last week, Zee and I have sat through back to back interviews with each of the semi finalists. The quality of the competing startups has never been this high (this is the fifth year we’ve run the startup rally) and the final selection was difficult.
“We are excited by the list of great finalists, look forward to meeting them in person and helping make their innovations financially successful” Amina Belghiti, EU Platform & New Ventures at PayPal
During the conference 25 companies will get the chance to show their company on the main stage to a worldwide audience consisting of the Jury of Experts, industry journalists, VC’s (amongst others our VC partners Fidelity Growth Partners and Acton Capital), bloggers, potential users, potential exit partners and the thousands of people that watch the on demand videos afterwards. You can imagine that this is an important moment for the selected startups.
In the previous editions we’ve had many great startups that presented at The Next Web Startup Rally, like Netvibes, Zyb, Plazes, Netlog, Widsets, eBuddy, Wakoopa, Mendeley, Huddle, CoTweet, Yunoo and last years winner My Name is E.
All finalists will launch a new service or announce new a major update at The Next Web Conference. There is room for 2 more startups on stage. The attendees of The Next Web Conference will select one startup per day from the other startups that are present with a small booth in the Startup Arena.
I can’t begin to explain how much I’m looking forward to the conference, it’s going to rock!
So with pride, I present the first 23 finalists of The Next Web Paypal X Startup Rally (in no particular order):
Tribe of Noise
Pitch: A free worldwide music community connecting artists to multi billion dollar industries in need for Ready to Share Music.
Tag: Music
Remark: Launching new stuff at TNW Conference
Inbox2
Pitch: Inbox2 is an email application brings your email & social network account messages, documents & contacts, calendar in one convenient place.
Tag: Communication
Remark: Announcing new stuff at TNW Conference
Fashiolista
Pitch: Think fashion meets twitter, with a stylish twist. Imagine an army of fashionistas searching every corner of the web.. for your inspiration
Tag: e-commerce, fashion
Remark: Launching at TNW Conference
MailSuite
Pitch: Unified access to all messages, any time, any location, any device. Mobile compression saves time & $$, time management saves your sanity.
Tag: Communication
Remark: Launching new stuff at TNW Conference
Pipio
Pitch: The easiest way to start, share, and organize conversations.
Tag: Communication
Remark: Announcing new stuff at TNW Conference
Distimo
Pitch: Distimo provides app store analytics; insight in the fragmented mobile app store market for developers, handset manufacturers and carriers.
Tag: mobile, statistics
Remark: Announcing new stuff at TNW Conference
Twittercounter
Pitch: The number one statistic app on top of Twitter
Tag: Statistics, communication
Remark: Launching new stuff at TNW Conference
Ecwid
Pitch: Ecwid adds online store to any web site in less than five minutes.
Tag: e-commerce
Remark: Announcing new stuff at TNW Conference
DoubleDutch
Pitch: Build your own geolocation check-in app.
Tag: Location, mobile
Remark: Announcing new stuff at TNW Conference
English Attack!
Pitch: English Attack! is the first 100% entertainment-based method of learning English.
Tag: e-learning, entertainment
Remark: Launching at TNW Conference
Fits.me
Pitch: Fits.me is a virtual fitting room for online clothing retail. Solving the single biggest problem, it increases sales dramatically.
Tag: e-commerce, fashion
Remark: Launching at TNW Conference
NextWidgets
Pitch: Transactional banners for webpages, Facebook pages and mobile apps. First ever viral shopping platform for Facebook. Alternative to AdSense.
Tag: e-commerce
Remark: Announcing new stuff at TNW Conference
Feest.je
Pitch: Find where your friends are, find hot places and gives the word serendipity a new meaning.
Tag: Location, mobile
Remark: Launching at TNW Conference
22tracks
Pitch: 22tracks provides a quick overview of the latest music, promotes new artists and lets you discover new genres. No registration, no hassle.
Tag: Music
Remark: Announcing new stuff at TNW Conference
Sogeo Company
Pitch: Sogeo enables businesses to build location aware communities around their brands, products and services both on mobile and web.
Tag: Location, mobile
Remark: Launching at TNW Conference
Peecho
Pitch: Peecho provides cloud printing as a service. Merchants can create their own application to sell personalized products through our platform.
Tag: e-commerce, printing
Remark: Launching at TNW Conference
PressDoc
Pitch: PressDoc offers dynamic and interactive online press releases for companies, organizations and individuals.
Tag: PR2.0, Social Media release
Remark: Launching new stuff at TNW Conference
next2news
Pitch: Advertising platform to put ads to news related content (in Dutch only)
Tag: advertising
Remark: Announcing new stuff at TNW Conference
Buildor
Pitch: Buildor’s mission is to facilitate the manipulation of HTML through the browser, bringing full design and editing control of the web to the cloud.
Tag: web design
Remark: Launching new stuff at TNW Conference
SubMate
Pitch: SubMate is social commuting: discover the familiar stranger you see everyday in and around your subway commutes!
Tag: Location, mobile
Remark: Launching at TNW Conference
Rapportive
Pitch: We all need to stay connected with increasingly many people. It shouldn’t be this hard. Rapportive helps by giving you the context you need.
Tag: Communication
Remark: Announcing new stuff at TNW Conference
Shutl
Pitch: Shutl lets retailers offer consumers immediate/convenient delivery of online purchases. Consumers shop online & get in 90min or within 1 hr time slot of their choice.
Tag: transportation, e-commerce
Remark: Announcing new stuff at TNW Conference
Brainient
Pitch: We help video publishers make more money with their video content by attaching affiliate links to products in their videos.
Tag: Video advertising
Remark: Announcing new stuff at TNW Conference
The startups are looking for partnerships, investment, media and PR opportunities. See you in Amsterdam! Grab the last tickets
“The Next Web startup rally gave use quite the amount of benefits in relation to media coverage, user base and eventually finances. Winning the competition doesn’t mean you’re done, but gives you a firm push to achieve your goals faster and come out as a stronger company. We hold a special place in out startup hearts for The Next Web.” Renato Valdes, My Name is E, Winner Startup Rally 2009
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Are you coming to the Next Web? Vote @Playlistify for the joy of wonderful playlists, worldpeace and more!
Congrats to all the finalists! Too bad I didn't make it with http://Playlistify.org and stranded in the semi-finals… however I hope we will win one of the wildcard finalists, by public vote, therefore I ask you:
Are you coming to the Next Web? Vote @Playlistify for the joy of wonderful playlists, worldpeace and more!
Congrats to all the finalists! Too bad I didn't make it with http://Playlistify.org and stranded in the semi-finals… however I hope we will win one of the wildcard finalists, by public vote, therefore I ask you:
Are you coming to the Next Web? Vote @Playlistify for the joy of wonderful playlists, worldpeace and more!
Congrats to all the finalists! Too bad I didn't make it with http://Playlistify.org and stranded in the semi-finals… however I hope we will win one of the wildcard finalists, by public vote, therefore I ask you:
Are you coming to the Next Web? Vote @Playlistify for the joy of wonderful playlists, worldpeace and more!
Congrats to all the finalists! Too bad I didn't make it with http://Playlistify.org and stranded in the semi-finals… however I hope we will win one of the wildcard finalists, by public vote, therefore I ask you:
Are you coming to the Next Web? Vote @Playlistify for the joy of wonderful playlists, worldpeace and more!
Congrats to all the finalists! Too bad I didn't make it with http://Playlistify.org and stranded in the semi-finals… however I hope we will win one of the wildcard finalists, by public vote, therefore I ask you:
Are you coming to the Next Web? Vote @Playlistify for the joy of wonderful playlists, worldpeace and more!
Congrats to all the finalists! Too bad I didn't make it with http://Playlistify.org and stranded in the semi-finals… however I hope we will win one of the wildcard finalists, by public vote, therefore I ask you:
Are you coming to the Next Web? Vote @Playlistify for the joy of wonderful playlists, worldpeace and more!
Congrats to all the finalists! Too bad I didn't make it with http://Playlistify.org and stranded in the semi-finals… however I hope we will win one of the wildcard finalists, by public vote, therefore I ask you:
Are you coming to the Next Web? Vote @Playlistify for the joy of wonderful playlists, worldpeace and more!
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About Emi Gal, owner and CEO at Brainient.
This guy was sued for not paying bills and salaries.
His company from Romania, Brainient Media SRL is bankrupt.
He abandoned that company and started Brainient Ltd in London.
Be aware of this “entrepreneur”.
Wow! Talk about blantant nepotism.Twittercounter and PressDoc are owned by the talking head that founded The Next Web (Boris and Arjen co-founded Twittercounter and Boris founded PressDoc) Probably should have been disqualified from being finalists because of that fact alone – but I guess some people don't have a sense of right or wrong. Not very cool. #fail
Good luck to all the other start ups that made it in on their own merit and technology!
@Andrei (or should I say Cristi) – you should move on man, it's been about a year and a half since you got fired, and spreading gossip about Brainient won't make us hire you again. Oh, and it won't make our clients or investors trust us less either, because we deliver and that's what they care about ;).
Cheers!
Emi Gal doesn't deny what I said about the Brainient Media SRL bankruptcy.
Because it's true and it's public information.
You can check on the Bucharest Tribunal's website about that.
The guy he speaks of is most likely the one who sued him.
It happens when the employer doesn't pay your salary and forges documents saying he really paid you.
Cristi, you sued Brainient Media, an outsourcing company that was going bust anyway, claiming you didn't get your salary for the last month with the company. You weren't able to prove anything, 'cause it wasn't true, and that's that. Deal with it.
We're massively getting offtopic, so if anyone wants to find out more about this story feel free to email me at emi@brainient.com. I'm off here.
Cheers!
Cristi, you sued Brainient Media, an outsourcing company that was going bust anyway, claiming you didn't get your salary for the last month with the company. You weren't able to prove anything, 'cause it wasn't true, and that's that. Deal with it.
We're massively getting offtopic, so if anyone wants to find out more about this story feel free to email me at emi@brainient.com. I'm off here.
Cheers!
Cristi, you sued Brainient Media, an outsourcing company that was going bust anyway, claiming you didn't get your salary for the last month with the company. You weren't able to prove anything, 'cause it wasn't true, and that's that. Deal with it.
We're massively getting offtopic, so if anyone wants to find out more about this story feel free to email me at emi@brainient.com. I'm off here.
Cheers!
Cristi, you sued Brainient Media, an outsourcing company that was going bust anyway, claiming you didn't get your salary for the last month with the company. You weren't able to prove anything, 'cause it wasn't true, and that's that. Deal with it.
We're massively getting offtopic, so if anyone wants to find out more about this story feel free to email me at emi@brainient.com. I'm off here.
Cheers!
Cristi, you sued Brainient Media, an outsourcing company that was going bust anyway, claiming you didn't get your salary for the last month with the company. You weren't able to prove anything, 'cause it wasn't true, and that's that. Deal with it.
We're massively getting offtopic, so if anyone wants to find out more about this story feel free to email me at emi@brainient.com. I'm off here.
Cheers!
Cristi, you sued Brainient Media, an outsourcing company that was going bust anyway, claiming you didn't get your salary for the last month with the company. You weren't able to prove anything, 'cause it wasn't true, and that's that. Deal with it.
We're massively getting offtopic, so if anyone wants to find out more about this story feel free to email me at emi@brainient.com. I'm off here.
Cheers!
Emi Gal is getting desperate here.
I guess he didn't know you can check on the Tribunal's website what is going on.
http://www.tmb.ro/dosare_ecris.php
We have two lawsuits here:
- An ISP sued Brainient for not paying the bills.
That company won and Brainient was declared bankrupt.
- An employee, this guy Cristi, sued also.
The lawsuit has just begun so the past tense in “weren't able to prove” makes Emi Gal a little liar.
One thing I notice is that Brainient was declared bankrupt after it won the Seedcamp competition and 50000 euros. Basically he left one company bankrupt and started a new one with Seedcamp's money. It says fraud all over it.
Congratulations Patrick on choosing the 23 finalists.
Especially on Pressdoc & Twittercounter ! :)) I think they've got a great chance to win! :)
I've got 2 Qs:
- How were all startups rated & judged ? What point system ?
- Will semifinalist startups get feedback ?
I'm sure you will be doing a great service to all startups by doing so.
Good luck with TNW !
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Facts:
March 2009 – Brainient is sued for not paying bills
September 2009 – Brainient wins Seedcamp and 50000 euro
October 2009 – Brainient Ltd is registered in London, UK
November 2009 – the old Brainient is declared bankrupt
Emi Gal is obviously obsessed with his former employee.
I suggest psychological counseling.
Facts:
March 2009 – Brainient is sued for not paying bills
September 2009 – Brainient wins Seedcamp and 50000 euro
October 2009 – Brainient Ltd is registered in London, UK
November 2009 – the old Brainient is declared bankrupt
Emi Gal is obviously obsessed with his former employee.
I suggest psychological counseling.
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Agreed jennaleelee. Seems a bit much. I am curious, too, how they broke everything down and scored the startups.
Agreed jennaleelee. Seems a bit much. I am curious, too, how they broke everything down and scored the startups.
I agree, great event and I'd imagine it was very competitive but I know a few people that didn't get in and were a little upset by the lack of feedback.
I agree, great event and I'd imagine it was very competitive but I know a few people that didn't get in and were a little upset by the lack of feedback.
Yea, kudos to all the companies that made it in, but isn't it kinda funky that PressDoc is also an event partner of The Next Web '10?
I think they prefer to keep that a mystery in the hope they can do what they want, when they want. :) Would be interesting to see how they scored it and see how each TNW investor/founder scored their own investment. Baby steps I guess. :)