Abaque
Abaque is a french software company dedicated to client-friendly and sales-effective catalogs. Abaque's latest product, IntuiCat, is the first on-line catalog featuring an AJAX multi-criteria search engine.
With IntuiCat, shoppers find all in one place: selection criteria, number and list of matching products. Vendors can widely expand search criteria to fit all buyers' expectations without risking 'dead-end' searches where shopper leaves without finding anything.
IntuiCat fulfills the needs of the ever-growing market of on-line distributors, where catalog efficiency is a key success factor.
ADS-click SA
ADS-click, founded in January 2004, is a privately held company headquartered in Switzerland. ADS-click is a major player of the search & contextual advertising market. The company has developed a search and contextual match advertising technology marketed in a private labeled mode that is used by main Internet players in Europe, Japan and Australia.
ADS-click is about to release a new product SKY-click, which, is an easy to use Skype Video, IM and VOIP call centre. It is 100% web based which means no implementation costs. Thanks to SKY-click, companies of any size can benefit from a fully featured call centre in record time.
AllPeers
Funded in March 2003, AllPeers develops a software platform for the sharing of information and data over the Internet. A privately held company, AllPeers has its headquarters in Oxford, United Kingdom and a software development centre located in Prague, Czech Republic. AllPeers has 10 employees spread across the UK and the Czech Republic.
AR Networks
AR Networks is one of the leading providers of services for tools that enable groups of people to communicate electronically, whether by email lists, blogs, etc. and toempower them to create digital communities, e-commerce environments, social networking, etc.
CLICMOBILE
ClicMobile is a mobile software company that provides white-label, ready-to-implement solutions for mobile social networking. ClicMobile allows communities and on-line social networks to extend their services from the PC to the mobile phone, while providing mobile operators with the capability to add social networking to their offer. Their star product is a “buddy finder” which combines location-based services (LBS) with mobile social software (MoSoSo).
The Connectivity Warehouse S.L.
TCW is an Andalucía based licensed Telco/ISP that owns their Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone network, their Internet backbone network and is currently implementing an innovative local wireless network infrastructure that combines 2.4GHz MESH multi-point-to-multi-point technology with 5.4GHz point-to-point backbone infrastructure. This resilient and scalable infrastructure topology enables TCW to deliver the “last mile” connection and reliably deliver, support and maintain their own range of broadband Internet and VoIP telephone services to individuals, communities and business customers.
TCW has chosen technologies that conform to industry standards (MESH, SIP, 2.4GHz and 5.4GHz wireless) so our networks are deployable today (unlike WiMAX), future proofed, scalable and require no special customer premises equipment to connect. TCW’s network rollout plans are realistic, low cost and rapid to deploy, thus our minimum number of subscriber to deployment criteria is low. This, combined with the demonstrable unfulfilled demand for broadband Internet and telephone services, means an extremely high potential audience and an extremely attractive potential return to investors.
Our vision is to make Andalucía (Spain) the first wireless enabled region of Europe and to extend the availability of telephone and Internet to everyone.
Digislide
Digislide holds a portfolio of patents covering proprietary technologies ranging fromvideo projection to telecommunications merged solutions. Digislide Holdings is an R&D and manufacturing company with a production facility in Adelaide, Australia, and corporate offices in the US, UK, and Singapore.
Digital Healthcare Ltd
Digital Healthcare was established as a spin-out from the University of Cambridge in 1994, and is a leading producer of advanced digital imaging software and electronic patient care management systems for the healthcare market. They now have offices in Maryland, USA. Digital Healthcare is the leading supplier of Ophthalmic and Diabetic Retinopathy Screening solutions to the NHS with over 100 installations in hospitals and optician practices. Digital Healthcare solutions are used to screen over 500,000 patients world-wide every year for diseases such as glaucoma, retinopathy, cataracts and advanced macular degeneration.
Encienda SL
Encienda SL is a joint venture between Knowledge Systems Design, a provider of expert systems in Los Angeles, and Grupo Llorens Torres, a legal and financial services firm based in Alicante, Spain. Constituted as a Spanish LLC (Sociedad Limitada) in November 2003, Encienda builds cooperative information systems for the GlobalMedia and Entertainment Industry. Encienda's mission is to facilitate international co-production and distribution of film, television, and digital games by automating contract management between parties in a supply chain. Encienda SL has establishedpowerful ties with potential clients such as guilds, producers, content aggregators, collection societies, distributors, and network operators.
EQO Communications
EQO Communications is the market leader in mobile presence management technologies, and extends online communities, social networks, and instant messaging networks to mobile devices.
Goa Internet Services, S.L.
We are a Spanish limited liability company based in Barcelona, Spain, but with aspirations to access key European and Latin American markets.
GTP Solutions
GTP Solutions is a startup company located in Greece. Established by three scientists and professionals with significant experience in Information Technology, its main area of expertise is the utilization of advanced computational intelligence techniques ininformation retrieval. Currently, GTP Solutions is a limited partnership, but may be incorporated if the economic environment warrants it. Prior to Feeds 2.0, GTP Solutions developed NOISIS (Neural Optimized IntelligentSearch Information Server), a content-based search engine, which has been recently introduced to the local market as an integrated corporate knowledge management solution.
Independent Feedback Forum
We are a small group of serial innovators, technicians and entrepreneurs.
We promote direct customer/supplier conversation. We intend also to promote the Feefo technology within trade groups, and to invite large organizations to assess branch or division performance through customer reaction.
KEWEGO
Kewego enables everyone to watch and create personalized television programs. The company is operating a complete range of products from turn key broadcasting tools to web based video sharing platform and automatic television advertising systems. Kewego is operating in Europe with more than 1,000 corporate clients, over 70 television channels and several millions users to its internet and mobile services.
Mobease
mobease® was funded in early 2006 by a mobile industry expert that brought together one of the biggest successes in mobile gaming.
Florent Pitoun now brings his experience and knowledge of the traditional computing and wireless markets to mobease® to deliver innovative software concepts and selling mechanisms.
mobease® delivers mobile software & services that ease the day to day experience on mobile phones, thus creates better end user satisfaction and higher revenue generation for wireless carriers.
NAVX
NAVX provides services for GPS devices that are currently used as automobile navigation devices. With NAVX, navigation devices become smart terminals, with its unique Dynamic Routing technology that optimizes time, security, comfort and cost through real-time personalised and location-based content. The founders of NAVX are serial entrepreneurs, who previously developed K-Mobile/Kiwee and have extensive experience marketing high-tech services.
Netvibes
Netvibes is a company created in 2006 and specializes in Web 2.0 applications. Its leading service, a customizable homepage, attracted more than 1 million users in just a few months. Based in London with offices in Paris, Netvibes has a team of more than 10 talented developers from Europe.
Nooked
Nooked is the market leader in RSS Marketing solutions. Thousands of Marketers worldwide are using the web-based RSS marketing solution that enables marketers to easily create and manage RSS marketing campaigns with no technical expertise required. Nooked is affordable, easy to use and includes a free trial at www.nooked.com.
Otodio Limited
Otodio is a software package and service which let publishers send selected text orcomplete publications to mobile phone users. Consumers then read and listen to publications at their speed, in their language while easily navigating the content.
Panda Software International S.L.
Panda Software is a leading developer and provider of integrated security solutions tocombat viruses, hackers, Trojans, spyware, phishing, spam and other Internet threats.With its state-of-the-art TruPrevent™ Technologies, Panda Software's innovative solutions offer a higher return on investment by keeping customers protected, even against new threats which have not yet been identified. PandaLabs, the fastest laboratory in the industry in releasing complete updates to users, provides 24x7, year round response to malware worldwide.
PAOGA Limited
PAOGA was formed in 2002 to address the growing concern about misuse of personal identity and the increasing costs and complexity of corporate compliance with national and international legislation and best practices. PAOGA provides individuals with their own ‘Digital Vault’ to manage their identity and information/documents. PAOGA acts as an ‘Identity Transaction Broker’ allowing organisations to get up-to-date information from consenting individuals. The individual gets convenience with control; the business gets accurate data and enhances their reputation and relationship with their customers. The PAOGA service is operational today with UK/European roll-out scheduled for 2006 and global roll-out in 2007.
ReadSpeaker
ReadSpeaker is the European leader of Voice on the web. Founded in 1999 in Sweden, it has expanded into Europe during the last 3 years and into Asia in 2006,and has offices in eight countries and a market presence in twelve countries. ReadSpeaker has developed a new and innovative way of increasing accessibility to website content for people with special needs by speech enabling the text. ReadSpeaker has speech enabled more then 400 websites so far including large government and public sector companies.
Rebtel Networks AB
Rebtel AB is a global mobile telecommunications company for individuals, micro-business professionals, and cord-cutters inside small and large businesses, who regularly call international suppliers, customers, partners, their workforce or friends and family. Unlike mobile telecom carriers that charge exorbitant rates to recoup high customer acquisition costs, Rebtel offers consumers ultra low rates for global calling. Rebtel was created with the aspiration to shrink the world; make it a friendlier place and bring people around the planet closer together by making all telephone calls local. Our charter is to take the phony out of the telephony, and create a genuinely good, honest, and trustworthy global mobile telecommunications service that will save users money.
Scytl Secure Electronic Voting
Scytl is a highly specialized software company that commercialises the most secure electronic voting products currently available. These products incorporate unique cryptographic protocols that carry out all types of electronic voting processes or elections in a completely secure and auditable manner. Scytl targets all the segments within the electronic voting market; this includes remote voting through telecommunication networks and poll-site electronic voting through touch-screen voting terminals. Scytl’s e-voting technology is protected by a portfolio of international patents and has received numerous international awards.
SeeWhy Software
SeeWhy is the world’s first real-time business intelligence (BI) software company. Unlike current approaches to BI, SeeWhy does not rely on databases for its data, but analyses streams of events flowing through integration software or directly from networks. This approach extends the $12bn BI market by bringing real-time business intelligence into the heart of business operations. Now processes can be optimized,customers upsold, risks assessed, and problems detected automatically and in real-time.
SemaWorx
Until now, SemaWorx has been a completely self-funded two-person software development project, pursued while working daytime jobs. With a reliable business concept and a working prototype, we are building a company.
Skinkers
Headquartered in London, Skinkers develops and markets push technology solutions,designed for blue-chip organisations to improve communication with employees andcustomers. The company’s software bypasses overburdened email systems to providea direct delivery channel for priority content. Skinkers’ solutions are used by businessesand organisation in four main areas – marketing promotions, e-CRM, News/RSS andenterprise communications. Clients include BBC, Cisco Systems, Virgin, MicrosoftXbox, FT.com, Wall Street Journal, Sky, London Stock Exchange.
VIOLET
Violet opens the age of object-based communication with Nabaztag.
Violet was founded in June 2003 by Rafi Haladjian (founder of FranceNet, France’s first ISP,and more recently of Ozone, the first Pervasive Network provider), Olivier Mével (web-agency BaBeL Co-Founder), Christophe Rebours (InProcess Founder and CEO) and Sylvain Huet (Cryo Networks Co-Founder).
Our mission is to develop technologies, products and services to turn today’s inanimate objects into tomorrow’s "smart" communication items. Our work plays a part in the emergence of post-PC electronics and smart environments initiated in the early 2000s.
Our objective is to provide technologies, management platforms and know-how to all content publishers and industries that seek to implement and market object-based services.
Violet objects are the first of their kind: they address needs in terms of user-friendliness yet are fully customisable for individual requirements. They blend into your life seamlessly, they are messengers of emotion and they create a new way of communicating.
VirtuOz SA
VirtuOz designs intelligent conversational agents that offer Internet users an easy to use, intuitive and humanized chat interaction while actually understanding and solvingtheir problems. By creating a friendlier and interactive yet automated communication channel between the brand/product/service/company and its customers, companies can reduce drastically CS costs while improving brand goodwill.
Video Publishing on Demand & Television
Vpod.tv is an easy online video editing and publication platform for the web and mobile devices aiming at the global consumer market, enabling massive new user-generated content and personal TV-channels. It brings a real convergence between fixed and mobile devices such as computer screens, TVs, mobile phones, and portable mediaplayers. Vpod.tv was launched in September 2005 by two experienced European entrepreneurs,after they experienced the complexity of creating and publishing video online for the mass consumer market. The 9-people company is headquartered in Paris, France, and has a branch office in Madrid, Spain.
Visokio
Visokio was founded in 2002 to develop new data visualization, analysis and reporting applications unmatched in power, usability and accessibility. Privately funded and supported by a core group of clients, Visokio launched Omniscope in January 2005, and followed up with the release of FeatureFinder in June that same year. Based in London, Visokio is focused on creating applications that enable non-programmers to publish data in entirely new ways; via portable Omniscope files, or FeatureFinderFlash® DataPlayers pasted into web pages and documents. Clients include the London Stock Exchange, Morgan Stanley, leading hedge fund GLG, Sky Sports, and many others.
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Warp Networks, S.L.
Probably the fastest growing Spanish Open Source based company, Warp Networksoffers development, consultancy, and training services specialized in GNU/Linux customisation and integration of systems, networks and communications with Open Source platforms. Founded less than two years ago, Warp Networks has an outstanding curriculum with the development of projects such as eBox Platform or Teruel Digital's Linux distribution, active participation in international projects such as Debian, Ubuntu, KDE or Gnome, taking part in AENOR's Working Group for Interoperability with Open Source Software and counts some of the world’s most important software and communications companies among its customers.
WeeWorld
Saw-You is the creator of the WeeMee, the world's leading visual identity. The company's vision is to create a new way for every person in the world to represent themselves throughout their digital lives. Creating a WeeWorld of users, which allows everyone to express themselves, personalise their online and mobile lives, and find and communicate with others. Saw-You leads the world in providing Internet and mobile users with aunique, fun and entertaining way to make all of their activities, conversations and contacts more personal and part of their real lives.
Innovate!Pitch Camp
The pre-conference Innovate!Pitch Camp is tailor-made to help you refine your business proposition and your product presentation skills before pitching at Innovate!Europe 2006.
Your audience: potential investors, industry influencers, and the some of the world’s leading business and technology media.
Your coaches: Guidewire Group analysts, a team of advisors from Venture Capital, PR and consultancy firms, and selected Innovate!Europe sponsors.
What you can expect: Expert training from experienced industry professionals and feedback in a low-risk environment. It’s a great opportunity to network with market influencers, share and profit from experience, and exchange ideas with fellow innovators.
What you’ll learn:
• How to develop and give your 90 second ‘elevator pitch’
• How to refine your full company pitch for investors and partners
• How to give a first-class 10 minute company pitch
• How to design the ultimate slide presentation
What you’ll get:
• Insight and advice from leading industry professionals
• The expertise and confidence to present your company in the most
visible and memorable way
• A ‘road-test’ for your corporate presentation to investors
The opportunity: At the Pitch Camp ‘Graduation Ceremony’, you’ll give your newly-tuned pitch to a pre-event audience of investors, customers, and partners.
To give the best possible presentation at Innovate! Europe 2006 (and beyond), sign up for Innovate! Pitch Camp now. Places are limited (a maximum of 25 companies are invited). Please email Robert Norum to reserve your place, or for more information.
Meet Europe's Innovative Startups
The caliber and number of innovative startups is skyrocketing throughout Europe, and Guidewire Group is bringing more than 30 of the best of startups from across Europe to showcase their innovations at Innovate!Europe. Selected Innovators to date include:These companies are disrupting traditional telco businesses. They are embracing the opportunities to deliver new software through Web 2.0 models. They are addressing the challenges of system security, enhanced commerce, and business intelligence. They all have global aspirations, a clear understanding of the challenges and competitors of the international marketplace, and a strong plan to achieve growth and worldwide recognition.
Come meet the Innovators at Innovate!Europe 2006!
Innovate!Showcase
In 2005, Guidewire unveiled Innovate!Europe – the only (and ultimate) stage to showcase your company before an audience of the most influential players in the technology ecosystem. Today, this event is the most anticipated on the calendar. By letting businesses like yours interact with industry leaders in the most natural way imaginable – by talking, sharing, networking – this exclusive event extends the reach of your audience like never before. In other words: direct to where business deals are born.
Companies selected to participate in the Innovate!Showcase 2006 will present their products to:
• Entrepreneurs
• Senior executives
• Investors
• Potential Customers
• Global press
Your company will also receive:
• official recognition as one of Europe’s most innovative product developers
• face time with key professionals capable of introducing your business globally
• exclusive stage time to present your product in an interactive forum
• valuable feedback from key investors and customers
• elite Guidewire Group Global Innovator status in the Event Program and on the website
• your company’s profile and event presentation on a branded blog, hosted on the Guidewire Group website
• the opportunity to simultaneously podcast your presentation
Participants in this year’s Innovate!Showcase will be selected by Executive Producer, Chris Shipley. For more than twenty years, Chris has identified breakthrough technology products, and has earned a global reputation for successful introductions of early stage companies and their products to industry leaders. As a result, she has helped propel hundreds of companies to success.
To participate in Innovate!Showcase, your company and/or product will be evaluated by its:
• initiative and strong differential in the market
• innovation in state-of-the-art technology, business models, or design
• potential product importance and market opportunity
• implications in, and for, the global technology market
• agility to move the product/service to the global stage
The Innovate!Showcase 2006 is a rare opportunity to witness compelling technology product and service companies at their best. If you believe your product or company could be one of them, complete the Innovator Application form.
Because there are no barriers to technology innovation, there are no fees for this premiere event. If your company is selected as as a Global Innovator, you need only register your company participants as delegates for the conference. The conference registration fee will cover your exhibit table, signage, Internet connection/power, and a full registration pass for you and your delegates (you can register up to 2 additional delegates).
Innovator!Days
Chris Shipley and our Guidewire Group analysts will be visiting a number of cities throughout the Spring to meet with early-stage technology companies as part of our Global Innovator Program.
If your company is interested in meeting with us, please click on this link to complete an application. There is no cost to apply or to participate at Guidewire Group briefing meetings.
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