The Europas are set to honour the best startups from across Europe later this month, and as the Berlin awards ceremony approaches, the shortlist that the winners will be chosen from has been announced.
Over 1,000 nominees were assessed in more than 30 categories, and judges included representatives from Kleiner Perkins, Accel, Index, Google Ventures and Crunchfund, entrepreneurs including YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, Wonga co-founder Errol Damelin, and Bebo co-founder Michael Birch. From The Next Web, Robin Wauters, Jamillah Knowles and I were on the judging panel.
So, who did the panel select as the finalists in each category? Well, it’s essentially a who’s who of Europe’s tech scene. You can explore the list below.
Meanwhile, there’s still time to vote in the People’s Choice award. The Europas’ organisers (the same team behind the Dublin and London Web Summits) say that there have been 147,321 votes to date, and the current leaderboard sees hot German gaming company Wooga in the lead. The deadline for votes is this Friday, January 11th.
The Europas award ceremony takes place in Berlin on 22 January. If you’d like to be there, tickets are still available.
Best Lightweight Startup
Changers.com / Blacksquared GmbH
Infogr.am
Keeeb
LazyPub
Maily
Memoto
Sketchfab
Snap Fashion Ltd
Substance
Teddle
Best Middleweight Startup
CurrencyFair
Duedil
Gidsy
GoSquared
Love Home Swap
Mobino
Pusher
Readmill
Swiftkey
Tado
Tjobsrecruit
TransferWise
Best Heavyweight Startup
DataHug
Datasift
Delivery Hero
HAILO
Housetrip
iZettle
Mind Candy
MyTaxi
Skillpages
Supercell
Wonga
Wooga
Wrapp
Zalando
Best Transport, Travel or Environmental Startup
AlterGeo
BlaBlaCar
Gidsy
Love Home Swap
Masabi
Milk The Sun
Powerkiss
Shutl
Wattics
Best Culture (Fashion, Art, Music, Media) Startup
Housebites
24symbols
Emphas.is
LiveMusicStage
Lyst
Ovelin
Scoopinion
Skoobe
Soundrop
Zoobe
Best Commerce, Finance or Payments Startup
Balluun
Commerce Guys
Dashlane
Freespee
Lyst
Mobino
Nutmeg
Seedrs
Tictail
Toshl
Yotpo
Best Education Startup
Memrise
24 symbols
Agile Education Technologies
BraveNewTalent
Busuu
Eedu
Examtime
Infogr.am
Lernstift
Scolibri
Best Gaming or Social Games Startup
Big Bite Games
BragBet
FanDuel
HitFox Group
Makie Lab
Playmob
Plumbee
Swrve
Vescape
Zeptolab
Best Entertainment, Audio or Video Startup
Anghami
Car Throttle
Crane.tv
FanDuel
Fixational
Intellitix
Magine
Pictarine
Sketchfab
Tape.tv
Wirewax
Conversocial
Datahug
Everplaces
EyeEm
Infogr.am
Jolicloud
Qubulus
Scandit
SocialBro
Swiftkey
Zeebox
Babelverse
Bonusbox
Conversocial
Datahug
Dropifi
Duedil
Geckoboard
Hojoki
Nutmeg
Qamine
Adeven
Adzuna
BonusBox
buyapowa
Conversocial
Intellitix
PeerIndex
scrazzl Ltd.
Skimlinks
Socialbakers
SuperExpo
Teleportd
Zoopla
Adzuna
BraveNewTalent
Concept Cupboard
GooodJob
Intern Avenue
JobandTalent
MBA&Co
Mercury Puzzle
NeedleOnline
WYGU
13th Lab
Chirp.io
DashLane
EyeEm
Geckoboard
Infogr.am
Mendeley
Shutl
SocialBro
Tado
Tictail
Fastlane Ventures
Le Camping
Munich Startup Accelerator
Seedcamp
TechHub
GammaRebels
Openfund
Springboard
Startup Sauna
Startup Weekend
StartupBootCamp
Team Europe
Wayra
Balluun
Folloyu
Licensario
Markafoni
Mikro Odeme AS | 3pay
Nutrino
Opara
Paymentwall
WalkMe
Zapier
DataHug – Connor Murphy & Ray Smith
Hailo – Caspar Woolley, Terry Runham, Russell Hall, Jay Bregman & Ron Zeghibe
Huddle – Andy McLoughlin & Alastair Mitchell
Mendeley – Jan Reichelt, Paul Foeckler & Victor Henning
Mind Candy – Michael Acton Smith
Poikos – Eleanor Watson
Songkick – Ian Hogarth
SoundCloud – Eric Wahlforss & Alexander Ljung
Tictail – Siavash Ghorbani, Birk Nilson & Kaj Drobin
Transferwise – Taavet Hinrikus & Kristo Kaarmann
Wonga – Errol Damelin & Jonty Hurwitz
Zoopla – Alex Chesterman and Simon Kain
Alex Farcet
Chris Grew
Jeremie Berrebi
Lukasz Gadowski
Max Niederhofer
Neil Rimer
Nic Brisbourne
Philipp Moehring
Sitar Teli
Stefan Glaenzer
Face.com to Facebook
Fizzback to NICE Systems
Llustre to Fab
Moonfruit to Yell
Nik Software to Google
OneDrum to Yammer
Podio to Citrix
Pulpfingers to 500px
Qype to Yelp
Sparrow to Google
Viewdle to Motorola
We7 to Tesco
2Pears
33Seconds
Ballou PR
Berlin Partner GmBH
Brown and Rudnick
Mercury Global Partners, LLC
Orrick
Spark PR
Taylor Wessing
TechHub
Early Bird
DFJ Esprit
DNCapital
Accel Ventures
Team Europe
Atomico
Balderton Capital
Index Ventures
Mangrove Capital
Passion Capital
DeskTime
GovFaces
Infogr.am
Jilion
NextStories
Oneloudr
Panamav
Tjobs S.A.
Toshl
VetCloud
AlterGeo
Flocktory
iMall.eu
Lectrio
Oktogo.ru
RicoTio
Teamo.ru
Tracks Flow
ZeptoLab
Zingaya
Eye Tribe
FOAP
GuidePal
Instabridge
MePIN
Nordic Telecom
Ovelin
PowerKiss
Soundrop
Tictail
Transfluent
Warrantify
Wisembly
Qunb
Bime
BlaBlaCar
Clever Cloud
Jolicloud
Storific
Teleportd
Trendsboard
WriteThat.name
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