Opvallend is dat elf van de 23 bedrijven een Nederlandse achtergrond hebben. Een van de voorwaarden om mee te doen aan deze competitie is dat de bedrijven iets nieuws moeten presenteren aan het publiek. Veel jonge bedrijven lanceren hun dienst voor het eerst voor het publiek tijdens The Next Web Conference en anderen kondigen nieuwe producten aan.
De Nederlandse finalisten zijn:
Tribe of Noise
Inbox2
Fashiolista
Distimo
Twittercounter
Feest.je
22tracks
Sogeo Company
Peecho
PressDoc
next2news
Tot de overige finalisten behoren:
Buildor
SubMate
Rapportive
Shutl
Brainient
MailSuite
Pipio
Ecwid
DoubleDutch
English Attack!
Fits.me
NextWidgets
Hieronder een volledig overzicht van alle Startups met een korte omschrijving :
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
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
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