Posts Tagged ‘startups’

Bringing the best global mobile startups and investors together

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

A few days ago we closed registrations to the Mobile Premier Awards competition, the largest in the industry, with over 600 submissions! The local nominees were great and the finalists selected are sensational.

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.

dotopen partners with Slush! 09

Friday, October 16th, 2009

We’re happy to announce the partnership between dotopen and Slush!

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.

Mobile Bites @ PICNIC09

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Last Thursday we hosted the Mobile Bites @ PICNIC09, a showcase dotopen organised to give young talented startups in mobile the chance to pitch their idea to a new audience. The startups could apply to demo through the dotopen.com/PICNIC participation page.

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.

Soundwalk Mobile Bites Pitch @ PICNIC09Alex 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.

Startup Pitches @ Mobile Bites PICNIC09Stefanie 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.

Deadline for submission is October 5th, 2009 at midnight PST.

dotopen members can register with a one-click access. Once filled in your company data, you don’t need to enter your data again for every event.

dotopen partners with PICNIC Amsterdam 2009

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

dotopen - PICNIC partnership

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.