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23 Ltd.

Esromgade 1,4.tv.
City Copenhagen N
Esromgade 1 2200
Denmark
www.23people.com

Founder:
Thomas MADSEN-MYGDAL

Company Description:
We’re photo geeks, parents and bloggers. We love photos because they are about stories and relationships.

Our goal is to build the world’s best photo sharing service—giving you the best range of possibilities to share and use your photos. As many others we've seen an explosion in the number of photos we take without having any tools to easily share and organize all the pictures.

We love photos because they’re about people, stories and memories. They are our life stories—they are a representation of who we are.

Product: 23 PHOTO SHARING
23 is a new global photo sharing service for those who wants to do more with digital photos than just print them. Offering unlimited storage and unlimited possibilities. Upload, backup, send, share, organize, show, view, print or interact with your photos — the choice is yours.

Market Opportunity:
Worldwide, 325 million camera phones and digital cameras were sold in 2004. Only about 5% of households with digital cameras utilize photo services at this point.

Competitors:
Kodak, Webshots, Snapfi sh,Yahoo, Shutterfl y, Sony Imagestation

Advanced Digital Design S.A.

CEEI Aragon
1 C/Maria de Luna 11, nave 7
Zaragoza E-50018
Spain
www.advanceddd.com

Founders:
Alfredo SANZ-MOLINA, Jose Ignacio GARCIA-NICOLAS

Company Description:
ADD is a company dedicated to design and to commercialize digital electronic systems. We focus on communication systems using narrow band Power Line Communications (PLC).

Product: ADD1010
This technology is applied to a System On Chip (ADD1010 digital integrated circuit) for electric power meters. This SoC includes the metering function and Power Line Communications. The PLC allows remote reading of the consumption and the implementation of any kind of remote control function.

Market Opportunity:
We target the electrical power meters market, providing integrated circuits to the electrical power meters manufacturers. The market is huge because the life of a meter is around 20 years. In Spain more than 750 thousands of meters are replaced by new ones every year, in the EC the number of replacements is in the 10 millions. Moreover, the liberalization of the electrical market in all Europe could force electrical meter substitution of all the meters in Europe in five years. With average prices of $17 unit this supposes a market of about $3400M.

Competitors:
ITRON, IAD, AMS, ST Microelectronics, Analog Devices

AGNITIO

Centro Empresas
Ctra. A-3 Km 7,300
28031 Madrid
Spain
www.agnitio.es

Founders:
Joaquin GONZALEZ, Javier ORTEGA, Emilio MARTINEZ, Javier CASTAÑO,
Daniel TAPIAS.

Company Description:
Voice is part of a human biometric signature. We use it to make life safer and simpler. AGNITIO’s products can verify a person’s identity or find a person in a large database of audio records. Biometric Speaker Recognition technology allows identity verification in situations where only the voice is available. Scientific police use AGNITIO’s products for crime investigation, where voice traces such as telephone conversations are found, or for forensic verification reports. Contact centers can use it to increase security in phone transactions at the same time that it reduces the need for remembering passwords and PINs.

Product: BATVOX AND BATPHONE
BATVOX is a product designed for Scientifi c Police and Forensic Labs. It provides tools to perform thorough research on voice records, fi nding or confi rming the identity of the unknown speaker. It complements experts’ forensic reports in several countries. BATPHONE integrates into Contact Center platforms, providing quick and easy authentication over the phone. After a simple registration of a user's voice, the system provides automatic identity verifi cation in subsequent calls. It can also be used for background speaker recognition while talking to a phone operator.

Market Opportunity:
Speaker recognition market is currently above US$70 million, with an expected annual cumulative growth of more than 40% in the next 5 years.

Competitors:
Persay, Nuance, Scansoft, Loquendo, Voice Vault

Asavie Technologies Ltd

24 Herbert Lane
Dublin 2
Ireland
www.asavie.com

Founder:
Ralph SHAW

Company Description:
Asavie Technologies is a leading provider of customer remote access solutions for mobile and fixed line operators. By using Asavie solutions, operators generate higher revenues by delivering innovative new products to their customers. Passbridge is a product that simplifies the once-complicated process of connecting remote users to their offi ce network. It supports a wide range of client devices and access technologies. Passbridge is completely deployed from a web site and can be provisioned in minutes. Passbridge provides a full Virtual Private Network (VPN) experience to remote users connecting from laptops, home PCs, PDAs and cell phones over broadband, WiFi, GPRS and 3G.

Product: ACCESSMYLAN
Asavie’s mission is to be the leading provider of seamless and secure remote access for people on the move. With its primary focus on mobile operators, fixed-line operators, ISPs and enterprise software vendors, Asavie deploys a subscription based managed service that removes barriers to VPN deployment. No cables, no hardware and no hassles, this application increases ARPU and dramatically reduces churn.

Market Opportunity:
The Yankee Group states that “mobile service revenue is expected to rise from $121Bn in 2003 to $142Bn in 2007, with 30% ($42Bn) coming from mobile data.” Analysis Research states that the sweet point in the market is SMEs expecting “Western European businesses to be spending US$10Bn across all mobile data services by 2008, and for SMB to account for 78% of that spend.” Data services and applications are essential to slowing or reversing the slide in average revenue per unit (ARPU) associated with the voice side of the business, IDC anticipates data will grow to better than 15% of total service revenues in the years ahead.

Competitors:
GotomyPC.com, Logmein.com, Research in Motion (RIM), Cisco Systems

BuildOnline

85 King Street
Maidenhead
Berkshire Sl6 1DU
United Kingdom
www.buildonline.com

Founders:
Brian MORAN, Mark SUSTER

Company Description:
In the 1990’s large companies installed in-house document management systems to deal with the explosion of fi les created with the mass adoption of the PC. These expensive systems often required 12-18 months to implement, required a large number of IT professionals to customize and install them, and required expensive hardware to operate. Importantly they only solved the problem of how to manage information “inside the fi rewall” at a time when most companies were increasingly relying upon trusted supply-chain partners to help them deliver value. BuildOnline was developed as an On-Demand document system to allow rapid rollout though the supply chain.

Product: BUILDONLINE
BuildOnline’s On Demand document management and collaboration platform allows teams from different departments, companies or countries to manage corporate knowledge without the need to purchase hardware, install software or perform an expensive implementation. Our 100% Internet-based solution was designed from day one to work across the fi rewall and has therefore revolutionized the way large physical asset managers work on a daily basis with their supply chains. It has been used by some of the large civil engineering projects in Europe including the London Underground, SNCF, the Highways Agency, the Ministry of Defence and BAe Systems

Market Opportunity:
BuildOnline’s target markets are those that require document sharing, collaboration and workfl ow across large and complex supply-chains. Our core markets include transport, utilities, health care, retailers, oil & gas, defense and construction civil engineering. Gartner Dataquest predicts that global revenues for document management software will reach $1.7bn by 2008 and those for collaborations will reach $1.1bn in a similar time period. It also estimates that that by 2010 30% of software revenues will not be derived from packaged applications but from a “payas-you-go” externally hosted approach. BuildOnline is a leader in this new breed of “On-Demand” software for document management and collaboration.

Competitors:
Documentum, Opentext, Hummingbird, Filenet

Creative Intermedia Associates

Calea Mosilor 288, Bloc 32
Sc. A. Et. 6, Ap. 23, Sector 4
Bucharest 70000
Romania
tel: +0040723027384
www.creative-intermedia.ro

Founder:
Markus J.B. VRIELING

Company Description:
Creative Intermedia SRL. is the development company of CI-CIS, the Corporate Information System that works entirely over IP. Creative Intermedia is based in Romania and provides R&D, system maintenance and help desk services for CI-CIS users. Creative Intermedia is also the Romanian sales representative offi ce for local CI-CIS users.

Product: CI-CIS
CI-CIS is a web-native modular information system, developed to work entirely over IP using web servers rather than local servers. The system covers virtually all areas of activity in a company or organization. It provides solutions for Human Resource Management (HRM), Customer Relationships Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Accounting. CI-CIS is especially suitable for small and medium enterprises and NGOs. By supporting collaboration throughout the system, the system lets business partners cooperate and share data in an easy and effi cient way, allowing companies to produce at lower costs and be more competitive.

Market Opportunity:
The unique architecture of CI-CIS is especially designed for—yet not limited to—the European markets, providing a true multi-lingual solution for Information Management and making cooperation between organizations easy and effi cient. The all-in-one solution provides powerful applications without the need to interface with other programs. CI-CIS is a hosted solution and has a competitive price per user per month. With CI-CIS the second generation of Software on Demand programs is available for a broad range of clients and extremely well suited for small and medium enterprises, thus addressing the largest markets.

Competitors:
Siebel, Peoplesoft, SAP, Salesforce.com, Exact Software

CYPAK AB

Funckens Gränd 1, Box 2332
103 18 Stockholm
Sweden
www.cypak.com

Founders:
Lennart HANE, Stina EHRENSVÄRD, Jakob EHRENSVÄRD

Company Description:
Cypak is a Swedish technology innovator turning simple objects and packaging into secure data capturing devices. Since the company was founded in 1999, the technology has enabled a range of new products, including intelligent and disposable pharmaceutical packaging, electronic tape with time-tagged tamper detection and contact-less smart cards with integrated PIN pad—all in use by customers today Our business is to license our technology, sell components and provide design services.

Product: CYPAK TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
Cypak technology combines RFID with microprocessors and printable sensors enabling timetagging of events within the object itself; open seal, broken seal, pressed surface etc. It could also be combined with external sensors such as chock, blood bio sensors etc. When placed on a contactless reader, a Cypak powered object can automatically connect to the Internet, identify and authenticate itself and transfer event data with highest level of security.

Market Opportunity:
Growing need for secure authentication and monitoring of people and shipments both in the digital and physical world, where we see RFID as an emerging technology.

Competitors:
No direct competitors

Dartfish

Route de la Fonderie 6
Case postale 53
1705 Fribourg 5
Switzerland
www.dartfish.com

Founders:
Jean-Marie AYER, Serge AYER, Victor BERGONZOLI, Martin VETTERLI,
Emmanuel REUSENS

Company Description:
Dartfish specializes in the development of performance enhancing video applications. The technology was originally developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Today the company has a staff of 30 employees, is headquartered in Fribourg, Switzerland and maintains fully owned subsidiaries in Atlanta USA and in Nice France. In addition, Dartfish is represented in all continents through distributors.

Dartfish is currently concentrating on broadcast and training solutions. The company has an installed base of over 7’000 clients in the sports, educational and physical medicine markets. The company has also partnered with a large number of the high performance sports organizations

Product: DARTFISH SOFTWARE SUITE
Dartfish software integrates video into training and education. It uses video during training for immediate visual feedback and as a basis for trainer-athlete communication. After training tools analyze, compare and highlight performances, techniques, trajectories, and positions and allows shared analyses across different formats.

Market Opportunity:
The untapped market of process and performance improvement using video technology in a number of market segments such as sports expert markets, physical education, classroom education, physical therapy and recovery, and podology markets.

The company is currently concentrated in the development of the high-end expert markets. It then plans to “move down” market to larger consumer markets, this in close interaction and cooperation with its expert clients. It will then integrate content and “domain knowledge” into its product and market range.

Competitors:
Pinacle Systems, V1, Astar, Gasp, Simi

e.story

73, Rue de la Petite Hollande
Marcq en Baroeul 59700
France
www.linkedminds.net

Founders:
Jean-Michel FORESTIER, Gerard CHALOM

Company Description:
To truly communicate with someone, you need to share the same references and the same culture. The Internet considerably increases the volume and the speed of communications, but does not provide a shared context. How do we select among voluminous content, how can we be sure we’re understood?
This question may be divided into simpler questions:
1. How do we represent computer-based knowledge in a durable manner?
2. How do we share it?
3. How can we integrate Internet exchanges into everyday life?
The answer: e.story’s LinkedMinds

Product: LINKEDMINDS
LinkedMinds indexes and discriminates on search engine results. Results are presented in a global view with spheres and bubbles. This helps to select documents, or to eliminate the documents that are not relevant. Emails are analyzed and presented the same way. Work can be shared and directly emailed along with the dictionaries and indexes. Emails and documents are synchronized independent of the computer on which they were received. “For your eyes only” prohibits forwarding or printing. “Mission : Impossible” destroys emails after they’re read.

Market Opportunity:
The 2005 KM market is forecasted to reach $13 B USD (IDC) LinkedMinds is a Personal Knowledge Network, desktop solution. Gartner, Inc. defines personal knowledge networks as “individual knowledge worker’s solutions to networking and knowledge sharing” that provide role-, device- and location-based connectivity and information.

By 2009, personal knowledge networks will be the predominant channels for KM in enterprises.
Through 2007, three-quarters of enterprise productivity gains will be attributed to KM and other knowledge-work enhancements.

Competitors:
No direct competitors

Eleksen Limited

Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Road
Iver Heath
Bucks SL0 0NH
United Kingdom
www.eleksen.com

Founder:
Robin SHEPHARD

Company Description:
Eleksen Ltd. is the world leader in smart and interactive textiles for consumer electronics. Eleksen’s unique fabric knows where it is being touched and how hard it is being pressed and can translate those actions into instructions for electronic products. The company’s core product, ElekTex, is based around a patented conductive material that is 100% fabric. It contains no wires or buttons and as a fabric it is durable, washable and easily tailored to meet a variety of challenging applications where hard sensors would fail to perform. Eleksen licenses its technology for incorporation into the products of electronics manufacturers and also sells its own solutions.

Product: ELEKTEX
The company’s core product, ElekTex, is based around a patented conductive material that is 100% fabric. It contains no wires or buttons and as a fabric it is durable, washable and easily tailored to meet a variety of challenging applications where hard sensors would fail to perform. At only 0.6mm it is lightweight, low power and can be configured for purposes ranging from postage stamp size up to the size of a tablecloth. This flexibility sets it apart from more brittle flexicircuits and less predictable conductive polymers and makes it more adaptable than solid-state sensors.

Market Opportunity:
The market for smart and interactive textiles is growing with applications in wearable consumer electronics, industrial and military applications, telematics, healthcare and toys.

Competitors:
No direct competitors

Fractal:Edge

131-151 Great Titchfield Street
London W1W 5BB
United Kingdom
www.fractaledge.com

Founder:
Gervase CLIFTON-BLIGH

Company Description:
Fractal:Edge develops visualization software to help you access and understand large, complex or fast-moving information sources quickly and accurately. Founded in 1998, the company is backed by private and institutional investors and was recently selected as one of the Red Herring’s top 100 European private companies. Fractal:Edge’s technique is unique, allowing users to see the detail, overview and intermediate summaries of data all in one picture. This helps them understand overall performance more completely and see areas of concern more quickly resulting in better analysis and decision making. The company has patents granted in the USA, UK and other territories.

Product: FRACTAL:INTELLIGENCE
The volume of data that can be processed and delivered has grown exponentially but the ways in which this data is presented have not kept pace. This creates a bottleneck for any data-intensive activity. Better data visualization is the answer and Fractal:Edge offers the “class-leading” alternative according to a recent report by The Butler Group. Fractal Edge products are based on a patented visualization technology that allows huge volumes of data to be displayed onscreen. The technology improves access speeds and comprehension resulting in a faster, more accurate line from data to decision.

Market Opportunity:
The Fractal Edge visualization software is in essence horizontal in applicability – in any area where large amounts of complex or fast moving data must be understood there is an existing and growing need to represent this data more effectively. While Fractal Edge has focused on the Financial Services market to date – pull is now coming from industries as diverse as Telecom, Retail, Transportation, Manufacturing and Policing for financial, sales, IT, inventory and process management purposes. A recent report by analysts IDC forecasts a potential data visualization market of $6.7bn by 2007. Of this, data driven interactive tools, like Fractal Edge’s technology, were estimated to comprise $2.2bn.

Competitors:
Inxight, NeoVision, Panopticon, Compudign, Spotfire

GOTAPP

95bis avenue Foch
78400 Chatou
France
www.gotapp.com

Founders:
Jean Marc LEVY DREYFUS, Marc SACCHETTI, Haim MAMOU

Company Description:
GOTAPP’s Mission: Provide a web-based infrastructure that empowers sustainable development. GOTAPP is a software licensing company, partnering with ITC industry leaders, government institutions and NGOs, that is the trusted supplier of the first integrated web services infrastructure package, TAPP. TAPP transforms the Internet into a global transactional platform regardless of the terminal’s software or computing capacity.

Product: TAPP - THE TRANSACTIONAL ACCESS POINT PROTO
TAPP-based services make the Internet as simple, ubiquitous and secure to use as utility networks such as the telephone and banking system. TAPP-powered Transactional Internet services are delivered to each subscribed user regardless their hardware, software or computer skills. With TAPP-based services every user is empowered with a personal network anytime, anywhere, any device.

Market Opportunity:
Accompanying the mobile phone worldwide revolution (1.5 billion users now – 3 billion in 2010), TAPP reduces the digital divide by resolving the human adoption issues and unleashing easy and cost-effective sustainable and profi table solutions. For example, TAPP-powered virtual banking services provide each subscribed individual with a unique digital identity and an easy, costless way to benefi t from his personal secured digitized bank account. Each user may activate and use his services from any PC (web café), mobile phone (WAP) or even in a call or a face-to-face transaction with a teller.TAPP dramatically reduces individual cost of transactions, which unleashes new sustainable development patterns in the developing world – and for the people in developed societies who have no bank accounts (50 million in the US and 5 million in France).

Competitors:
No direct competitors

Interschool

Carretera General La
Laguna 174
Tegueste
38280 Sta. Cruz de Tenerife
Spain

Founders:

Company Description:
Interschool, helps raise awareness and expansion of global multilingual communication. Multilingual dimension and screen communication are changing language functionality. This linguistic revolution gathered a group of people together, with the intention of understanding the changes, their nature and communication uses, in this transforming society based in material values to a society based in multilingual knowledge and information.

Language is the natural means of human communication, the most effective way we have to express ourselves to each other. We use language in a lot of different ways, to explain complex ideas and concepts, to manage human resources, to negotiate, to make our needs known, to express our feelings, to narrate stories, to record our culture for future generations, poetry and prose. For most people languages are fundamental in all aspects of life.

For the first time learning pedagogical approach is based in the ‘basic frequency band’ enabling an innovation for the learning process. Screen communication made us aware of the immense possibilities for this pedagogical approach based on sound and not on intellect.

Product: INTERSCHOOL TELEMATIC TECHNOLOGY
This excellent telematic application innovation for language learning will optimize learner’s potential, broadens listening spectrum and analyze, control, and register phonics, listening, voice and progressive vocabulary. Acquiring the gist for foreign languages means acquiring a gift for listening. Interschool is an ambitious innovation contribution to improve language learning facilities.

This integrated Telematic system will be able to react promptly and efficiently in language learning processes, virtual telepresence, allocating the correct amount and type of resources, guarantying the community a service quality, minimizing a 50% the time needed.

Market Opportunity:
Interschool has important members, users, technological suppliers, that will ensure the success of the project. Validation and verification will take place at least in 8 test sites in 6 countries that will test the interoperability of the solution.

User Needs, new language learners, learning continuity, practice, professionals. Application areas: schools and colleges in urban highly populated, rural and isolated areas. The main idea is to retain foreign language acquisition in the proper language structure tone, overtones and rhythm.

Competitors:
None cited.

invita networks

Marqués de Portugalete 5
Madrid 28027
Spain
www.invita.tv

Founder:
José Antonio PUÉRTOLAS

Company Description:
invita is in a unique position with an end-to-end Multimedia Services Platform bundled with a unique reusable set of Rich Multimedia Applications which will allow users to be at the center of the integration between IT and Telecommunications applications for B2C models. invita combines innovations at the different elements (Application, Device, Media and Service Platform) to create differentiating capabilities which lead to new unique service features. We have experience in all phases of the product lifecycle, from sales to deployment through R&D, and have worked on all network elements in a variety of organizations worldwide.

Products: IMSP™ - INVITA MULTIMEDIA SERVICE PLATFORM
invita offers a Unique Rich Multimedia Service Set and a Multimedia Service Platform. invita’s solution is based on highly available telecom-grade hardware and software and has the ability to support any number of subscribers. The system has the following main components:

Other components include:

Market Opportunity:
Markets are radically transforming, replacing network-centered organizational models with customer-oriented models and accelerating convergence. Broadband, new multimedia devices and IP-based technologies will lead to a rapid increase in services and applications where seamless use needs to be the center. The market sets a high bar for rich multimedia applications and infrastructure vendors have limitations on their strategy, fl exibility and offerings. Data ARPU/Total ARPU in Europe will increase 100% from 2003 to 2007 and UMTS subscribers will increase from 5,9 M in 2004 to 70 M in 2007 according to the Shosteck Group..

Competitors:
Siemens, Motorola, Alcatel, Ubiquity, IPunity

Kameleon Technologies

5 rue Frederic Bastiat
75008 Paris
France
kameleon-europe.com

Founder:
Fabien BECKERS

Company Description:
Kameleon Technologies is based in both Paris and Cambridge. It was incorporated in 2002 to develop products and services related to Bluetooth mobile applications. Kameleon’s innovation has been rewarded by six different prizes; including the 2002 Contest of Innovating Technologies. In 2004, the company implemented a series of successful tests in Europe and is now expanding services to the US market.

Products: BLUESPOT & BLUESPOT MEMORY
Equipped with a Kameleon BlueSpot, any object can communicate wirelessly with a standard mobile phone user (or a PDA user) using the Kameleon version (innovative and improved) of Bluetooth. Users can detect objects equipped with the Kameleon BlueSpot from their mobile phones and catch in “one click,” the associated information automatically, intuitively and instantaneously. For example, anyone will be able to watch the multimedia content associated with a billboard, a merchandise display, or a work in a museum. Kameleon will provide relevant information to the on-the-go mobile users where and when they need it. Kameleon makes your environment interactive.

Market Opportunity:
We have three major target markets: outdoor advertising, retail and dedicated environments. Kameleon extends the reach of outdoor companies as they offer multimedia interactivity in addition to their static billboards. Kameleon addresses retail chains and dedicated environments like trade shows by enhancing product information and promotional activities. In a city the size of Paris, the total market for this type of advertising ranges from 3 to 5B a year. Kameleon expects worldwide revenue exceeding 100m by 2009.

Competitors:
Hypertag, Wideray

MEDIASYSCOM

Savoie Technolac
12 Allée du Lac de Garde - HB 8
BP 239
73374 le Bourget du Lac - Cedex
France
www.mediasyscom.com

Founders:
Emmanuel BASSE, Patrice FONTAINE, Andre PORTIER

Company Description:
Mediasyscom develops and sells innovative software solutions to broadcast digital TV programs over IP networks. The company addresses audiovisual groups, telecom operators and Internet Service Providers interested in added value for existing and new television services. Mediasyscom suggests advanced interactive services for TV viewers such as televoting, Picture in Picture, Fast Zapping (patented technology), and Direct A La Carte—VCR functions on live programs. Our products are codec agnostic.

Product: LIGHT LOCAL TV
Mediasyscom offers a complete range of solutions for TV over IP including acquisition software from sources such as hertzian, satellite, and DTT. Mediasyscom also offers transport and management of Mpeg2 and Mpeg4 contents, delivery and display on different terminals such as PCs, television sets with Set top Box, PDAs and mobile phones (DVB-H / DMB-T). These solutions bring innovative interactive services such as pause, rewind, forward on live broadcasting, Picture in Picture, and customizable grid to the TV viewer.

Market Opportunity:
Our products are already in operation by major French companies and operators: Bouygues Telecom, Neuf Telecom, and France Television. Now, we are aiming to sell our products on a European and worldwide scale, because they can be sold as software global solution or separate units, with true value-added services, innovative, attractive and easy-to-use both for our customer and their end users.

Competitors:
Envivio, Optibase, Tandberg

Movelis

Zamora 31
Vigo
36203 Pontevedra
Spain
www.movelis.com

Founder:
Manuel NÚÑEZ

Company Description:
Our mission is to help organizations improve their productivity and competitiveness through wireless technologies. Our business model is based on distributing and deploying industry-specific mobility solutions in medium and large organizations through a network of partners in the European market. Movelis is the specialist provider of Extended Enterprise Resource Management systems. Our products offer a complete solution to an organization's mobility needs through an efficient system that allows management of all fieldbased processes. This system facilitates the transformation of companies into high performance organizations, reducing costs and increasing operational efficiency.

Product: MOVELIS EERM (EXTENDED ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT)
Movelis allows the integrated management of all mobility requirements of an organization and offers a single integration point with the company’s back-end systems for all fi eld-based activities. Mobile users have functionality adapted to their business needs while out and about, and back-end users have a comprehensive reporting and dashboard tool that allows business information analysis related to field-based activities. This functionality is provided by the Functional Modules, which provide out-of-box support to industry specifi c requirements and the underlying Movelis Platform, which manages all mobile communication needs.

Market Opportunity:
AMR Research estimates 35% of all workers are currently mobile, and their numbers are rapidly rising. IDC predicts 66% of the work force will be mobile by December 2006. Only 13% of all Spanish companies have defi ned their mobility roadmap. The remaining 87% are planning to deploy mobility solutions, and 3/4 will provide mobile devices to employees in the next year. There are 30 million mobile workers in Europe, 7 million in Spain. 67% of the companies are planning to extend the scope of their mobile data applications. More than 50% of all organizations that do not currently have mobile data solutions are planning to start a deployment in the short term, in most cases the delay has been caused by the lack

Competitors:
Aligo, Extended Systems, Vaultus, iAnywareSybase, Orsus

Nooked

Business Innovation Centre
Institute of Technology
Sligo
Ireland
www.nooked.com

Founder:
Fergus BURNS

Company Description:
Nooked, RSS marketing made simple, offers a simple way to create RSS feeds with the Nooked FeedWizard. As easy to use as email, the Nooked FeedWizard creates RSS feeds for any website, which can then become part of the Nooked RSS Search Engine. The Nooked RSS Search Engine has two components: the Nooked Corporate Search and the Nooked Deals Search. Corporate Search is a search engine and directory of corporate RSS feeds for journalists, analysts, and investors and the Deals Search is becoming an RSS search engine for consumers looking for special deals.

Product: NOOKED RSS SEARCH
With the recent spate of SPAM issues and the CAN-SPAM act in the United States, the marketing and communications industries are beginning to embrace RSS as another form of communications. The problem is that there are no single sources for corporate RSS feeds, no place to fi nd RSS feeds on news, products and deals that interest the public. The Nooked RSS Search Engine is the solution that offers marketing and corporate RSS feeds on one page, without the noise of blogs.

Market Opportunity:
With the growth in online marketing spent worldwide, and the issues marketing executives have in relation to Email and Search engine investments, RSS is gaining momentum as a marketing distribution channel for corporations. Nooked has created a series of product offerings based on RSS that maximize the business value of this new technology for online marketing.

Competitors:
Simplefeed, Feedburner,Syndicate IQ

Otodio, Ltd

Otodio Ltd.
Suite 611
27 Austin Friars
London EC3N 2QP
United Kingdom
www.otodio.com

Founder:
Peter BOND

Company Description:
Otodio is pioneering the new global open standard for conditioning text and transmitting the content for transmission to satellite and digital radios, mobile phones and other devices. Otodio specifi es the restructuring of complex printed publications to enable easy, standardized navigation with is consumed audibly without any visual interaction. The privately held company is headquartered in the UK, with offices in Virginia, USA.

Product: OTODIO
Otodio is a global standard system for taking documents that were originally designed to be read and repurposing them for easy “Eyes-Free” audible consumption and navigation; anytime, anywhere. Otodio provides a new digital distribution channel for the newspaper, magazine and journal publishing industry, delivering content to Otodio-enabled digital radios, mobile phones or other devices. Corporate documents, such as training manuals, can also be sent to Otodio-enabled devices as can documents with location specifi c information like tour guides. Otodio will also be of great benefit to the visually impaired.

Market Opportunity:
Otodio is a genuine mass-market proposition. It is the “killer app” for digital and satellite radio and has tremendous support from the industry, but its reach is much greater. Otodio provides an entirely new mass market digital distribution channel for the newspaper, magazine and journal publishing industry, delivering content to Otodio-enabled digital radios, mobile phones, portable audio players or other devices.

Competitors:
No direct competitors

Swyx Solutions

Joseph-von-Fraunhoferstr. 13a
44227 Dortmund
Germany
www.swyx.com

Founder:
Wolfgang SCHROEDER

Company Description:
Swyx is focussing on VoIP technology and its integration into the PC and networking world. The company’s headquarters are based in Germany with a secondary engineering center in Latvia and operates sales offi ces in the UK and the US. Swyx currently employs a total staff of 80. The company focuses on the European marketplace and has 60% of its revenues outside Germany. Swyx follows a totally indirect sales concept with about 250 European resellers and 2 major OEM customers (in Germany and UK)

Product: SWYXWARE
SwyxWare is an IP-PBX application turning a standard Microsoft Windows server into a full-featured PBX, voicemail and conference server. Designed primarily for the SMB enterprise markets, SwyxWare is scalable from 5 to beyond 1000 users. Open standards compliance, true voice/data application convergence and an uncompromising IP architecture have been key design targets. The product offers all features of high-end PBX systems as well as ACD, CTI, UMS and call center functionalities. Its SIP-trunking capability makes SwyxWare the only full featured “software-only, downloadable PBX.” Communication cost savings, self administration, fl exibility and its value as a productivity enhancement tool have been key decision arguments for more than 3000 SwyxWare enterprise customers.

Market Opportunity:
Competing primarily against traditional PBX manufacturers defending their legacy PBX market shares with “me-too” IP-PBX solutions, Swyx has all the advantages of a fresh starter with a disruptive technology in a quickly changing communications world. Focusing on European SMB enterprises offers Swyx the opportunity to become a major player in the new enterprise IP-telephony markets. With the current and accelerating VoIP acceptance, Swyx expects to be able to get a 8-10% market share of the European IP-PBX markets growing from 400 million to above 3bn over the next 5 years.

Competitors:
Cisco, Siemens, Avaya, Alcatel, Panasonic

Total Immersion

22 rue Edouard Nieuport
92150 Suresnes
France
www.t-immersion.com

Founders:
Bruno UZZAN

Company Description:
Total Immersion is a software company specializing in development and sale of realtime video images with abilities for interactivity offering the highest technologies available today. Total Immersion aims to be the pioneer and the leader in Augmented Reality visualization solutions that perfectly immerses real-time 3D data into live video sources on PC platform.

Product: D’FUSION
D’Fusion software is providing real-time overlay of synthetic 3D objects on digital 2D video. This lets a computer produce synthetic 3D objects perfectly merged with the video images moving and interacting in real time.

Market Opportunity:
Total Immersion is focusing on vertical applications such as design & maintenance, entertainment, and events and broadcast. We have introduced our innovation and convinced users of the benefits in each of these markets. We are also exploring other markets to continue our technology leadership. Medical and games are part of our near future.

Competitors:
Metaio, Siemens, Public research

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