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Seedcamp winners 2008

A couple of minutes ago the winners of this years Seedcamp have been announced and toksta is very proud to be on of them!

Congratulations to the other 23 teams with whom we have spend an incredible week in London and special congratulations to the other winners:

  • Ubervu (Romania),
  • Kyko (UK),
  • BaseKit (UK),
  • Soup.io (Austria),
  • Mobclix (USA),
  • toksta (German),
  • Stupaflix (Fran.)

More info comming soon…

Exclusive Seedcamp coverage from toksta

As I will take off to Seedcamp tomorrow (Michael is already in London), I just wanted to remind everyone that you can follow us through the usual suspects: Twitter (toksta) of course and our Blog.

We will do our best to meet and also (video-) interview as many of the great mentors (e.g. Nikklas Zennstrom, Michael Birch or Loic Le Meur - just to name a few) as possible and keep you posted. So stay tuned…

toksta goes Seedcamp

It’s official: toksta will attend Seedcamp London next week (see official press release here)

We are looking forward to an exciting week in London! For updates, Seedcamp coverage and latest news follow us on twitter (toksta) and read our Blog.

Seedcamp London

Just got great news: We’ve been selected for the next round of Seedcamp and therefore will go to London on September 3rd.

Check out the following 2008 application zeitgeist - very interesting:

Question: What are you creating?

Question: How will you make money?

Question: What tools will you use?

Looks like a whole lot of Online-Advertising-built-on-MySQL ;-)

1 Billion Euro Seedcamp Berlin

Wow! Seedcamp Berlin just closed its doors but at least I am already looking forward to Seedcamp London in September.

The event was great from the beginning: After the registration and a short welcome note, all startup teams (see list below) had the possibility to present their idea/concept to the mentors (see list below). Saul Klein pointed out to use this opportunity not to pitch, but rather give the information necessary to get the most valuable feedback possible. Well, there was no doubt, that quite some know-how was in the room but venture capital wasn’t missing as well: A 1 billion Euro (= 1.000.000.000) venture fund (combined) is also quite impressive.

List of mentors:

  • Pratik Sharma (Core Objects)
  • Sean Glass (Pikum)
  • Charles Grimsdale (Eden Ventures)
  • Salman Farmanfarmaian (Index Ventures)
  • Stewart Townsend (Sun)
  • Andreas Noth (Corporate Finance Partners)
  • Andreas Schlenker (Partech International)
  • Marcus Wagner (i5invest)
  • Mattias Ljugman (Atomico)
  • Olivier Schuepbach (Wellington Partners)
  • Steffen Höellinger (Investor)
  • Andreas Wuesthoff (SJ Berwin LLP)
  • Katja Thuemmler (SJ Berwin LLP)
  • Christopher Grew (HellerEhrman, Venture Law Group )
  • Carter Adamson (former General Manager, Desktop Products, Skype)
  • Christian Stein (VC Creathor Ventures)
  • Ron Hillmann (Iven-Hillmann)
  • Simon Schneider (High-Tech-Gründerfonds)
  • Arndt Kwiatkowski (Immobilienscout24.de)
  • Jochen Ramelow (MP MarketingPartner AG)
  • Patrick Paulisch (Captain Ad, Linklift, Datango)
  • Alain Falys (Omnis Mundi)
  • Markus Schott (Holidaycheck.de)
  • Thomas Bindl (refinedlabs.de)
  • Lukasz Gadowski (Spreadshirt)
  • Jan Beckers (JB-Ventures GmbH)
  • Julia Derndinger (Dreamware GmbH)
  • Andreas Haug (diligenZ)
  • Prof. Sven Ripsas (FHW Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft)
  • Marcel Otto Yon (Odeon Venture Capital AG)
  • Christian Kapteyn (FoundersLink.com)
  • Fabian Hansmann (FoundersLink.com)
  • Marc Samwer (European Founders Fund)
  • Alexander Piutti (Entrepreneur)
  • Philipp Westermeyer (G+J New Media Ventures)
  • Alexander Kolisch (Holtzbrinck Ventures GmbH)
  • Sven Janszky (Forward 2 Business)
  • Alexandera-Fee Beyer (AF Beyer Startup Marketing)
  • Wolfgang Seibold (Earlybird)
  • Ulf Baecker (Start-Up Consultant)

Startup teams:

  • GroupDNA/ tickertxt.com (<– 1st. Place - CONGRATULATIONS !!!)
  • toksta* (<– 2nd. Place)
  • mixxt (<– 3rd. Place)
  • tracksandfields.com
  • OpenSolutionSales
  • GrowVotes.org
  • Directed Edge
  • Objeckt.me
  • My Bookings Ltd
  • tunesBag.com
  • smaboo
  • mjam
  • homestaybooking.com
  • RapidRabb.it
  • barcoo
  • Zsaqa
  • Twidox
  • Soup.io
  • Justaloud.com
  • shouldido.it
  • quillp
  • AntexX
  • GERROS
  • BTW Betaface (<– thanks for the reminder!)

After the startup presentations we had a panel discussion with Lukasz Gadowski, Oliver Beste, Max Niederhofer and Prof. Sven Ripsas from the FHW Berlin followed by 2×10 Breakout sessions where mentors and startup teams could get into deeper discussion. Especially this part of the event was very valuable considering the great amount of knowledge and experience brought in by the mentors.

And last but not least we had a friendly competition among the startup teams with Mixxt on a great 3rd place and GroupDNA/ tickertxt.com on 1st. place (we made second place). All in all a great event, so thanks again to Saul and the rest of the seedcamp team as well as all the mentors bringing the seedcamp in Berlin. Hope to see you in London…

toksta* @ Seedcamp Berlin

Techcrunch UK is on tour through Europe since a couple of weeks, and now Seedcamp hits the road as well: So if you are in Berlin this friday, don’t miss out on the Seedcamp Berlin. We will be there to check out the vibes for the upcoming seedcamp in London. Seedcamp Week is set for Sept. 15-18 2008 in Central London at UCL.