There are lots of amazing startups, however, which did not make the cuts this year and have a great future ahead. Connecting great projects to potential partners is what we do at dotopen. That is why we are driving an initiative to give all startups who participated to the MPA an opportunity to virtually showcase in front of selected investors.

For investors:

All the investors who request it will receive a document with links to the startup profiles and a temporary login so you can easily get to understand what the hottest startups in mobile do.

There are dozens of investors already using dotopen, discovering and following companies not only as potential investments, but also to do some competitor analysis for the companies in their portfolio, to understand trends and to look around for the unexpected.

If you are an investor and would like to receive for FREE! the list of the startups that participated in this year’s competition can send us your email address here.

For startups:

dotopen is a great tool for showcasing your startup company to potential investors. It has a lot of information that investors need for a first evaluation and supports specific documents and media which usually have no place on the company’s website (i.e. a video pitch, information on the projects you are working on, or even what you are looking for).

With that in mind, if you want to brush up your profile, you can log in here.

We continue to look for ways to further contribute to the innovation ecosystem and add value to our members. If you have some ideas you can send them our way.

Mobile Premier Awards

The Mobile Premier Awards announced the 20 finalists to the Mobile Premier Awards in Innovation: The best grassroots startup innovation chosen by their peers in partnership with MobileMonday, the global community of mobile professionals.

The finalists were chosen by an international jury of the most recognized mobile industry experts who will pitch their idea, application or project at the Mobile Premier Awards event that takes place in Barcelona, at the Petit Palau of Palau de la Musica on February 15, 2010 in front of investors, operators, media companies, peer entrepreneurs, and press and influential bloggers.

Registration to attend the event is now open. Get your ticket at http://www.dotopen.com/mobile-premier-awards.

Mobile Sunday Barcelona

The fifth annual Mobile Sunday – an unofficial, informal and generally cool and funky gathering of mobile bloggers and their chums – will be taking place in Barcelona on the eve of this year’s Mobile World Congress on Sunday, February 14, 2010, starting at 7pm CET.

This year, the event takes place at one of the coolest new bars in Barcelona, the VINTAGE – around the corner of the venue last year – for more space and a jazzy, loungy athmosphere, with different rooms and salons. We’ll be able to host 500 people in a relaxed atmosphere with drinks and bites, including lots of sofa’s, private salons, four screens, a heated terrace and a dancefloor for the ones who like to kick off the  busy week with a swing.

Attending Mobile Sunday is free to all registered users of dotopen.com who will also get their company’s logo and pitch shown on the many screens visible at the event.

How to register

Log in to dotopen.com and click on attend this event in your toolbox. If you’re not a dotopen member yet, then register and publish your profile, it’s FREE! Non-dotopen members can purchase a ticket to Mobile Sunday at Amiando here.

We recommend not to wait last minute to book your tickets. There are limited seats and both events sell out every year in advance!

We hope to see you in Barcelona!

Ever heard of Linux, MySQL or IRC? Nokia ring a bell? All of them came from the slush… Could it be that slush is the missing ingredient? At least you will not find much of it in Silicon Valley. Or in any of the other wannabe Silicon Valleys. You will find many new companies in the slush that you never heard of. Most of them built by entrepreneurs with names you can’t pronounce.

Slush Helsinki provides you with a perfectly safe, guided tour to this amazing, cold and dark habitat of cool new startups. If you’re a cool new startup, you should be there!

Go to dotopen.com/Slush-09 to find relevant info about the event on November 3-4 in Helsinki, Finland. dotopen members have a one-click access to register their startup for a demo table at Slush*. Selected startups might also get selected for a special Talkoot Treatment and get an opportunity to pitch to a board of experts organized by Slush.

So, what are you waiting for? Login or register to dotopen to apply for this exciting opportunity! The deadline for submission to Slush is 30.10.2009.

We hope to see you there!

the dotopen team.

* The demo table doesn’t cost you anything extra, but you still need to get your Slush ticket.

We selected five of the most interesting, creative, touching, weird or exciting applications in mobile to be showcased to the PICNIC audience in mini-presentations lasting 3 minutes each.

Alex Kummerman presenting Soundwalk

The presentations went well, most of the presenters went for the daring task to do a live demo on stage and the audience just loved it. Here below the pictures of the presenting startups, you can check their profile on dotopen by clicking their links. You can follow these companies as a dotopen member and stay up-to-date on their latest moves.

Stefanie Hoffmann – aka-aki, Georg Broxtermann – Orbster

Andie Nordgren – RjDj, Peter Vesterbacka – Ball-IT

We’d like to remind all startups in mobile to join the Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley Launch Pad!

Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley provides a platform for pre-A round and A round start-ups focusing on mobile applications and services looking for funding, trade press, tech blogger and early-adopter attention. Click here to apply for Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley Start-up Launch Pad in San Francisco on October 15th, 2009 – any start-up with a mobile service or application can apply for jury selection.

We’re happy to announce the partnership between dotopen and Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley.

The MOBILE 2.0 Silicon Valley brings together experts and thought leaders from all aspects of the mobile ecosystem, including startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, and mobile application developers and web technologists. The conference is an opportunity for companies to connect to industry leadership and startup innovation and broaden your C-level relationships. The MOBILE 2.0 conference is a two-day event on October 15th and 16th, 2009 focusing on new Mobile Applications and Services, the Mobile Web and Disruptive Mobile Innovation presented by the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee.

Get a special rate on tickets
Go to dotopen.com/mobile-20 to find relevant info about the event and benefit a $50 disount on the standard ticket price for dotopen members only. dotopen offers 100 discounted tickets to its members for the Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley Businees Day event in San Francisco ($249 instead of $299). Log in or register at http://www.dotopen.com to find your discount code in your dotopen toolbox. Don’t wait too long to book your ticket since this event is always fully booked well in advance.

Startups in mobile: join the Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley Launch Pad!
Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley provides a platform for pre-A round and A round start-ups focusing on mobile applications and services looking for funding, trade press, tech blogger and early-adopter attention. Click here to apply for Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley Start-up Launch Pad in San Francisco on October 15th, 2009 – any start-up with a mobile service or application can apply for jury selection.

We hope to see you there!

the dotopen team.

We’re happy to announce the partnership between dotopen and PICNIC Amsterdam 2009.

Go to dotopen.com/PICNIC to find relevant info about the event and pick up the goodies we have prepared for dotopen members.

Startups in mobile: join the PICNIC Mobile Bites!

On Thursday September 24, PICNIC and dotopen organise a short but sweet PICNIC Mobile Bites:
Five of the most interesting, creative, touching, weird or exciting applications in mobile will be showcased to the PICNIC audience in mini-presentations lasting 3 minutes each.

Do you have a really cool mobile application that you would like to demo or pitch during PICNIC ‘09?  Then this might be your chance! Apply exclusively through dotopen. Go to dotopen.com/PICNIC to participate, before September 10 midnight CET. *

Get a special rate on tickets

Dotopen members get a 15% discount on the PICNIC tickets. Log in or register at http://www.dotopen.com to get your discount code.

PICNIC is Amsterdam’s leading annual international event, highlighting creativity and innovation, particularly in media, entertainment and technology. PICNIC brings together and disseminates the ideas & knowledge of the world’s best creators & innovators. PICNIC ‘09 will take place from 23 to 25 September 2009 in a unique location, the Westergasfabriek, a former gasworks fabric.

dotopen is a social platform for decision makers to connect & collaborate. dotopen is open to any organization interested in developing its ecosystem in order to advance its business and innovation.

We hope to see you there!

the dotopen team.

* PICNIC and dotopen will review all applications based on the applicant´s profile page on dotopen. The selected companies will be notified by September 14. We will provide you with a free all day Festival ticket** that will allow for access to all the Festival activities that take place on September 23, 24 and 25!

**The Festival ticket does not give you access to the PICNIC Conference. Travel and hotel fees are not included.

dotopen is aimed and open to any organization interested in developing its ecosystem in order to advance business and innovation.

No matter how large or small your organization is, you can create one or multiple profiles on dotopen to present your business and be discovered by others. You can add your different company streams to share your news and activities with other companies. Once registered, you will be able to follow any company that interests you, creating a filtered, personalized business stream.

In our effort to continue to build valuable opportunities for our members, we are pleased to announce our first partnership with GigaOM’s Mobilize 09 event.

Check out the Mobilize 09 event page on dotopen at http://dotopen.com/mobilize09.

dotopen members get a 20% discount on the Super Saver Ticket (on sale till August 14). Log in or register at http://www.dotopen.com.

About GigaOM’s Mobilize 09: The Future of the Mobile Web

Mobilize 09 is a one-day conference that brings together the thought leaders and practitioners of the mobile web and telecoms ecosystem for talk, demonstrations and debate. “We’ll examine what it means to have wireless broadband speeds at the Gigabit scale and how the explosion of open platforms and hardware beyond traditional handsets create new opportunities, for entrepreneurs, investors and consumers. Join us for a look at emerging devices, from netbooks to smartphones and beyond. Examine the potential presented by application stores and the rapidly expanding variety of mobile tools. Sort through information on users and their needs. We will find the early indicators for opportunity in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the mobile web. We’ll also identify bumps in the road ahead — and help players in the wireless ecosystem see the opportunities they present.

At Mobilize 09 you’ll be able to network with 50 speakers and 500 delegates. Companies include Dell, Motorola, Sony Ericcson, frog design, Adaptive Path, Intel, ATT and a slew of mobile startups. We have over 40 confirmed speakers to date, including Sanjay Jha the co-CEO of Motorola as our Keynote.”

Our post was the 3rd most popular post on TechCrunch of July 24 out of 23 posts published that day, and only advanced by a post on the announcement of the Apple Tablet and a post on Twitter cracking down some spam accounts (always immensely popular!). Other posts left behind our announcement included posts with news and announcements on Facebook, FriendFeed, Yahoo, Nokia (acquiring our friends at Cellity), Microsoft, Google, Verizon, AOL, and others…

Well, believe it or not but we can live with that as a starter

1,775 unique visitors from USA, UK, Spain, Germany, India, Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, France and Belgium came to our site during the day. We counted some + 6k pageviews, not bad for a 1st day, no?

In only a couple of hours, we had some 350 companies registered to dotopen.

Thanks to all our friends and followers out there who made this happen and supported us, in the end the dotopen platform is all about… YOU and your organization!

We will keep working, listening to the feedback and suggestions of our members, users, and visitors improving the service and bringing more organizations to use the platform.

Stay tuned and subscribe to our blog feed, more news and announcements to come soon again. You can also follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dotopen.

dotopen fosters an open business community that values transparency, authenticity and cooperation. If that’s also you, join us today.

We’ll use this space to explain what dotopen is about, who’s behind it, how to use it, how to get the most out of it, and we’ll include links to what other people think about it.

We’ll be back soon!