On the 19th of October, during Investor Day finalists of start-up contest presented their projects to the jury. In the evening of the same day the winners were selected in each of two nominations:
- Seed Stage – the project is on the level of idea or early prototype, needed investments – from 50 to 150 thousand Euro.
- Early Growth Stage – the company has already started selling products/services and has a stable growth, needed investments - from 500 thousand to1 million Euro.
The winners of the contest are projects Hippocrat (Seed Stage) and ClienteQ (Early Growth Stage). The first project is a social network for those who care about their health; the second is a CRM solution for joined work of companies and their clients. Both winners received invitation to attend Silicon Valley Open Doors 2008. However, the most important results for all winners and finalists were the opportunities to contact with investors, to present them their ideas and receive evaluation and feedback from venture business professionals.
10 finalists of start-up contest have been chosen to present their projects on the 19th of October during Investor Day. Below you can find the list of finalists with short description of each project. There were 126 applicants for the contest from Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova and Romania. According to the rules, 30 semi-finalists were selected, reviewed and assessed by contest experts. All projects which did not make it to the final will receive expert feedback and recommendations, as well as will be able to make presentations on Blogcamp and participate in panel discussions and presentations during Investor Day.
On the 19th of october jury will choose the winner in each of two nominations (Seed Stage and Early Growth Stage). There are also winners of other international contests among finalists, therefore a very serious competition is expected. The winners will receive invitation for a SVOD 2008 conference which will take place on the 20-21st of November in California.
Finalists of Start-up Contest (the list is published in alphabetical order):
Seed Stage
DomVsem
DomVsem is a real estate portal and search engine that will deliver flexible search, accurate results, eyecatching property visualization, advanced mapping and a range of features to help real estate agents and agencies do their jobs more effectively. DomVsem claims to change the way users search for real estate and the way agents and agencies advertise online by qualitatively shifting expectations of what the user experience should be.
Hippocrat
We have received about 80 applications for participation in Investor Day start-up contest to be held on Oct. 19th at Blogcamp CEE. These 80 projects represent 5 countries, namely Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Romania and Moldova.
We were also asked by start-up teams to put off the application deadline. Blogcamp organizing team have made a decision to extend the application up to 9th of October to give their projects an opportunity to participate in the contest.
The shortlist of contest finalists invited to present as Investor Day will be released on October 13th.
Start-up contest also welcomes experts who have recently joined our board - Alex Gurevich of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (USA), Evgeny Pilyankevich – TechInvest (Ukraine), Sergey Grebenyuk and Mykhaylo Lopatin of DolphinStrategy (Ukraine). We have now 27 investment experts on board representing Ukraine, USA, Poland, Russia, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Great Britain and Norway.
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