Last week, we told you that some of Europe's top tech entrepreneurs, pundits and government officials will take the stage in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, on Monday the 21st of September at the European Innovation Day event.
Now only a week and a half away, the lets-get-to-know-each-other event is the highlight of a week-long trip ‘Startup Europe’ is undertaking to strengthen the tech ties between the Bay Area and the European Union. But what's a tech event without some good old pitching sessions?
A total of 15 'scale-ups' (which, depending on whom you ask, means startups with tractions that have the potential to morph into unicorns ...) have been selected to participate in the event.
All in all, the selected companies (see list below) represent 10 EU member states, including the UK, France, Germany and Spain but also smaller nations such as Belgium, Czech Republic and Ireland.
Cumulatively, the 15 companies represent approximately $60 million in revenue and 1,000 employees, and they range from SaaS/Paas to nanotechnology, e-commerce, digital advertising, online recruitment, IT software, maritime industries, advanced materials, online productivity and renewable energy.
Aside from pitching an audience expected to exceed 500 attendees, the selected companies will also showcase their products and services in a dedicated demo area in the venue.
Later in the week, they will also participate in a 'Scaleup Track' that includes roundtable discussions with corporations and industry experts, as well as meetings with prestigious investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Tim Draper (DFJ) and Google Ventures.
The companies were selected based on an open call, though there were certain criteria for entry.
Here's the full list for your perusal:
1. Commerce Guys – France
A second generation Platform-as-a-Service that provides high availability cloud hosting as well as a highly innovative continuous delivery workflow.
2. Entrade – Germany
Entrade has developed a mobile and modular Micro-Biomass Power Generator that provides decentralized heat and power supply anywhere on- or off-grid, up to 22 kW of electricity and 55 kW of thermal energy.
3. Graphenea – Spain
Graphenea is a graphene materials manufacturing company that develops optimized graphene materials for industrial and research needs.
4. JobandTalent - Spain
Jobandtalent matches professionals with the most suitable job opportunities in the market. In a Tinder-like interaction, top matching jobs are currently shown to over 6,5M users worldwide.
5. Laros – Greece
Laros is an innovative platform for condition monitoring based on smart sensors’ wireless technology that changes the way marine departments communicate, collaborate, and operate bringing compliance and efficiency.
6. Miradore - Finland
European pioneer in managing diverse IT environments and supporting Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies. Miradore supports the entire IT lifecycle, including purchasing, installation, maintenance, replacement and retiring devices – eliminating a large share of manual work.
7. Mosaicoon - Italy
A full-stack company integrating the whole process of the online video through a technological platform: from creation to production, distribution and tracking of performance. Mosaicoon connects top brands, creatives, video makers and publishers in a "Sharing Entertainment" model.
8. Realeyes – UK
Through automated facial coding, Realeyes can measure the emotional reaction of anyone online with a webcam as they watch video content, anywhere in the world.
9. Shopgate - Germany
Shopgate offers everything online retailers need to be successful in mobile. Their software-as-a-service (SaaS) enables online stores to easily create, maintain and optimize native apps and mobile websites for iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones and Android tablets.
10. Showpad - Belgium
Showpad is a mobile sales acceleration platform that delivers contextual content to sales teams or channel partners on any device.
11. STRV - Czech Republic
STRV is a top-tier, one-stop mobile app development shop working with top-tier startups from Y-Combinator and 500Startups, among others. They have developed more than 100 mobile apps for iOS and Android. With 50+ rock star developers on their team, STRV is the preferred partner of dozens of startups, which benefit from their high-quality code, sleek designs and super fast turnaround.
12. TVTY – France
TVTY is a company specialized in moment marketing. The technology allows to synchronize your digital campaigns (video, display, search & social) with the moments that matter: TV ads, geolocalized weather conditions and sport events.
13. Yodiwo – Greece
Yodiwo offers the most comprehensive environment for connecting applications and devices with the power of the cloud.
14. Versarien - UK
Versarien is is an IP-led advanced engineering and materials group which utilizes proprietary technology to create innovative new engineering solutions. Versaries game-changing products' are designed to impact a broad variety of industry sectors.
(Editor's note: the initial list was 15, but one company has withdrawn its participation since)
(Full disclosure: yours truly is a tiny shareholder in Showpad, one of the selected companies, from before tech.eu. I had no influence over the above selection of the startups whatsoever.)
