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"The Europas" -
The TechCrunch Europe Awards 2009
TechCrunch Europe will, on July 9, hold the first Europe-wide awards
ceremony for technology innovation. "The Europas" - The
TechCrunch Europe Awards 2009 - will honour the best tech companies
and startups across the web and mobile scene from across the continent
of Europe.
It will recognise and celebrate the most compelling technology
startups, Internet and mobile innovations of the year, with the tech
community invited to have a say in which entrants should be
recognised. Leading lights of the the tech community will be invited
to give away the awards to the winners, so you'll have the opportunity
to meet your tech heroes and heroines. The initial filtering will be
done by public vote online, with the final Award winners to be
determined based on the popular votes received through website voting
and The Europas Judging Committee.
You'll be able to vote shortly.
The Awards Ceremony will take place in London from 6pm Thursday, July
9, at Delfina. It's in one of London's coolest parts of town with 300
places going for the attending audience.
Award categories
Best European Web Application Or Service
Best Design
Best
Bootstrapped Startup (less than 3 years old)
Best in Social
Innovation
Best Enterprise Startup
Best Cleantech/Environmental
Startup
Best Hardware / Real World Gadget
Best Entertainment
Application
Best Mobile Startup
Best Mobile Application
Best
Startup Founder
Best New Startup in 2008/9
Best European
Investor of the Year (VC or Angel fund)
Best Investor
Personality
Best Overall Winner
Join the awards ceremony!
On the evening itself we will have a handful of opening speeches in
the "GeeknRolla" format of quick-fire
information. These will be followed by a pitch competition. To be
considered for the pitch competition you need to email TechCrunch
Europe Editor Mike Butcher, with a one side of A4 text-only pitch, and
also include the URL of you company/project/startup etc on CrunchBase
(you can add your company onto it if it is not already there).
Include: The market “problem” you are solving with your
startup, your solution, your competitors, your team, and what
you’re looking for (Series A round, etc).
The TechCrunch Europa Awards ceremony will then follow at approx 8
pm, with awards given out by Europe's leading lights in the tech
scene. The awards ceremony will be followed by the party - also at The
Delfina. There will be a DJ, drinks, finger food and other fun surprises.
And finally... there will be a special announcement during the
evening of the launch of a new innovation from Techcrunch Europe...
Tickets
To attend the event, tickets will be £60. Attendee
identification will be checked at the door. Due to strong demand for
tickets, we regret tickets are not transferable and not refundable. If
you use your name to purchase multiple tickets, your guests must
arrive with you to check in at the door. If you show up at the event
without a valid ticket, TechCrunch Europe reserves the right to charge
the full ticket prive £60 plus £15 administration fee to
allow access to the event subject to availability.
Dress code
Dress to impress!
Sponsorship opportunities
Sponsors will be able to be creative with their sponsorship, with a
pre-award video announcing the finalists and winners. Opportunities
include sponsorship of individual award categories, sponsorship of the
awards ceremony, after-party, drinks and more... Please contact Petra
Johansson petra(at)twistedtree.co.uk for further details.
Press
If you are a member of the press wanting to cover the event, please
contact Rassami Hok Ljungberg on rassami(at)rassami.com
Editorial/Awards/Programme
Editorial
queries related to the awards, the programme and the pitch competition
should be directed to Mike Butcher, http://uk.techcrunch.com/about
Accommodation
If you need
somewhere to stay near the venue, why not try www.HotelMap.com/The-Europas.
This will guarantee that you get the lowest leisure rate on any
available hotel rooms in Central London.
Sponsors
TECHCRUNCH PITCH! SPONSOR
UKTI
UK Trade &
Investment is the government organisation that helps UK-based
companies succeed in the global economy. We also help overseas
companies bring their high quality investment to the UK’s
dynamic economy – acknowledged as Europe’s best place
from which to succeed in global business.
UK Trade &
Investment offers expertise and contacts through its extensive
network of specialists in the UK, and in British embassies and other
diplomatic offices around the world. We provide companies with the
tools they require to be competitive on the world stage. For further
information please visit www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk or telephone +44
(0)20 7215 8000.
AWARD CATEGORY SPONSORS
Best Design Category
Viadeo
Founded in
June 2004, Viadeo quickly established itself as the place to be for
professional networking in Europe and beyond. Since then, with more
than 8.5 million members (as of June 2009). Follow them on
Twitter
@viadeo. Viadeo is essential for those who want to:
•
Increase their business opportunities (to discover new clients,
staff and
business partners)
• Enhance
their visibility and their online reputation
• Manage
and develop their network of professional contacts
Viadeo’s
members consist of business owners, entrepreneurs and managers from
a diverse range of businesses both start-up and well established.
Each day Viadeo attracts more than 10,000 new members;
40,000 new
connections are made and over one million profiles are viewed. Based
in Paris (head office), Viadeo also has offices and teams in the UK
(London), Spain (Madrid and Barcelona), Italy (Milan), China
(Beijing), India (New Delhi) and Mexico (Mexico City). The company
employs 200 staff worldwide. www.viadeo.com
Best Bootstrapped Startup Category
Bootlaw
Bootlaw is a
free boot camp for emerging technology, internet and digital
businesses and the professionals working in them who want to learn
more about the legal issues they face. Its brought to you by Barry
Vitou and Danvers Baillieu the friendly lawyers at Winston &
Strawn in London. For more information go to www.bootlaw.com
Best European Investor Category
Quick.tv
www.quick.tv
is a web-based ‘Video-as-a-Service’ platform, allowing
the injection of dynamic and interactive features into online video
clips. Aimed at business users, productions
created through Quick.tv transform the viewer experience by
prompting them to click on items within the video.
A full range
of intuitive drag’n’drop tools include hotspots for
e-commerce, real-time voting and graphs, RSS feeds for live data,
forms for viewers to apply for offers, hyperlinked text and image
overlays, chapters for ease of navigation and
more.
The end-to-end
service delivers file transcoding and storage, player and play-out
options and detailed analytics both on the video itself and the
viewers’ use of the interactive features. It even has an
editing tool to re-cut video clips online.
Templates and
style sheets make the deployment of large numbers of interactive
videos easy, leaving users free to monitor the increased
monetisation and viewer engagement benefits the service has to
offer.
Best New Startup Category
Zendesk
Zendesk
provides an integrated on-demand helpdesk - customer support portal
solution based on the latest Web 2.0 technologies and design philosophies.
The product
has an elegant, minimalist design implemented in Ruby on Rails and
provides seamless integration of the back-end helpdesk SaaS to a
company’s online customer-facing web presence, including
hosted support email-ticket integration, online forums, RSS and
widgets. This is unusual, because most SaaS helpdesk solutions focus
exclusively on the backend helpdesk and treat the Web as an afterthought.
The system
also leverages Web 2.0 ideas on the backend, such as tag based
categorization throughout instead of the usual pre-defined drop down
lists, RSS feeds for every customized view and a complete REST/JSON
API for virtually every entity in the system. www.zendesk.com
Best Entertainment Platform category
Skimlinks
Skimbit helps
website publishers monetise their content in ethical and
user-friendly ways.
We love the
internet, and want good websites to be able to sustain themselves.
Display
advertising alone may not be enough, and can be intrusive to users,
and affiliate marketing can be difficult to do well.
We want to
help publishers earn incremental revenues from their editorial and
user-generated content in a way that doesn't compromise editorial
integrity or interfere with the user-experience and adds value to publishers.
Our flagship
product is Skimlinks which aggregates more than 7000 international
merchants across 18 affiliate networks to make affiliate marketing
easy, Skimbuzz is an innovative community builder aimed at forums,
while Good.ly and skimthat work to monetise Twitter.
Skimbit has
recently been recognised by some of the major authorities in the
affiliate marketing industry; with three gongs at the A4U Affiliate
Marketing Awards 2009 for Innovative Publisher of the Year, Best New
Entrant in Affiliate Marketing and Best Use of Technology within
Affiliate Marketing, two trophies for Best New Business and
Technological Innovation at the NMA Effectiveness Awards 2009, as
well as runners-up awards in the Technology Genius and Best New
Publisher categories at the US Linkshare Golden Link Awards 2009.
Our CEO Alicia
Navarro has also been shortlisted for the National Business Awards
Entrepreneur of the Year 2009.
Best in
Social Innovation category
Moonfruit
Moonfruit has
been providing tools for people to build ‘Beautiful websites,
simply.’ since 1999. To date 2.1m+ websites have been built by
small businesses, communities, families, designers, crafters,
freelancers and individuals who just want to express themselves.
Moonfruit is passionate about creativity and simplifying technology
for everyone.
The Flash and Flex based platform provides our users with a
unique drag and drop interface and ability to quickly design and
customise their sites. The latest release of Moonfruit offers a free
product with no ads as well as excellent premium packages for those
who require extra bells and whistles e.g domains, shops and space.
It also includes Moonfruit 'People' which supports businesses and
communities who want to manage their customers or members more
easily, plus social media integration with Facebook and Twitter.
Moonfruit is part of Gandi Group which includes sister company
Gandi.net, the ethical domain name registrar and virtual hosting
provider. www.moonfruit.comwww.gandi.net
AWARD PRIZES SPONSORS
Latitude
Latitude is a
leading digital marketing agency who deliver their expertise in
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO ), Pay Per Click (PPC ), social
media , online display , affiliate marketing and conversion
analytics to clients including Tesco Personal Finance, Bet 365 and
The Independent. Our whole approach is built on performance. Our
conversion analytics expertise ensures that, once visitors get to
your site, they convert from prospects to customers. We are
confident that we can demonstrate a significantly better ROI on
marketing spend. In fact, we’re so confident that we offer
many of our clients performance-based pricing, so you only spend
money when you’re making money.
Park Lane Champagne
“Park
Lane Champagne: bringing the ability to source single bottles of
champagne, personalised as you like, through their new online site
at www.parklanechampagne.co.uk . Check it out and if you like what
you see, do blog about it and tell the World”.
DRINKS & PARTY SPONSOR
oneDrum
oneDrum is a
free, lightweight desktop application that can turn any application
into a rich, collaborative environment. The first release of
oneDrum, available to the public from July 2009, is the only
platform on the market that takes the compromise out of
collaborating in Microsoft Office.
It enables:
*
Simultaneous, multi-author document creation and editing in
PowerPoint, Excel and Word
*
Effective communication, coordination and control of change
*
Secure, synchronised file sharing and version management.
oneDrum is
headquartered in London, England and was founded by Jasper Westaway, CEO
DJ SPONSOR
Mixcloud
Mixcloud aims
to be the YouTube of Radio. The company’s vision is to be the
definitive platform online for on-demand radio shows - from music to
talk and everything in between. Mixcloud describe themselves as
re-thinking radio, building a platform that connects radio shows (or
what they describe as Cloudcasts) to listeners much more
effectively. The unit of value for Mixcloud is the show rather than
the song or the station. Mixcloud provides radio content creators
with a toolkit to host, promote and distribute their content across
the web, solving the frustrations associated with file sharing
services or the complications of Podcasts. For listeners, Mixcloud
helps them filter the content easily to find what’s relevant
to them - e.g. what’s popular or what their friends are
listening to.
