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Roundup of STARTup Live Graz #1

Part of our team stayed at the same place as our guests from Prague and Slovenia, getting to know them pretty well. Those guys are great!

As at the last event in Vienna, the founders talk was really interesting. The subject was on the real life of entrepreneurs, an open discussion with 2 winners of Seedcamp from Austria and Slovenia: Lukas Fittl of The Efficient Cloud and the eminent Tomaž Štolfa of vox.io.

The winner was selected by the experts panel consisting of old and new economy, entrepreneurs and experts in the mobile space. This time around, the winner got tickets for STARTUP WEEK 2011, taking place in Vienna in October! The whole team will be able to participate in the whole conference!

Companies and Ideas

Ok enough pla pla, now for what you have all been waiting for! The startups that presented on Sunday evening!

Let’s start with… tam tam tam taaaaaaaaaam… the WINNER!

• Pitchers:
  Christian Haintz, Matthias Musenbrock and Karin Pichler
• Tagline:
  Recreate the world
• Description:
  Imagine a Puzzle Game where the earth is the game board and there are hundreds of millions of puzzle pieces made out of the earth surface. The result is a real-world mobile game targeting the question “Can the worldwide smartphone community bring all puzzle pieces of the earth back to its origin just by traveling with the virtual pieces and trading them to other players nearby?”
  
  Watch the clip on www.earthpuzzleproject.org to get a clue how this works.
  
  Moneys? Yeah they thought of that too, don’t worry But I don’t know if I can write about that so early in the process.
  
  During Sunday evening we also worked out the initial marketing strategy together. Gonna be great!

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BeeABee

• Pitcher:
  Caroline Augustin
• Tagline:
  Shop for each other
• Description:
  Being addicted to Swedish candy myself I totally get the need for this one. A community of international shoppers helping each other get the newest and most localized products. I’d get all the falukorv and gott & blandat I could handle! Rock on! Their strategy is to start small, focusing on a small batch of products in their communications and using the means that are there. Could be fun.

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Bike City Guide

• Pitcher:
  Daniel Kofler and Andreas Stückl
• Tagline:
  Bike optimized navigation system for touristic city trips
• Description:
  A mobile app, already working, which offers guided tours for bike trips in touristic areas. They are currently working on point-point-navigation, which should be available in a bit. Shortly before joining Live, their project got accepted to Science Park’s incubation program.
  
  The maps work offline and of course use audio to tell you what you are seeing as you bike around – you shouldn’t be staring at a 7-inch-screen while crossing the street!

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SOREEGA

• Pitcher:
  Bernd Bodiselitsch
• Tagline:
  in time and smart gas analytics
• Description:
  Bernd teamed up with August and what came out was awesome. One of them has been working on isotope identification and is opening up a private research institute in Austria. The other one has developed a portable just-in-time gas analytics device for use by industry, governmental agencies and military. Combine the two? And you get a tool big as a pack of cigarettes, able to tell from which source the cancerogenic gasses are coming from. Not bad at all. Will be exciting to follow this project

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orat.io

• Pitcher:
  Bernhard Hauser
• Tagline:
  Pro & Contra at first glance
• Description:
  There is an overload of information out there. Forum posts miles long, blog posts of 8k words, sentiments on twitter, facebook and… gah. Sometimes, all you need is a summarized listing of statements split totally black & white into pro and contra.
  
  By using orat.io, this can be achieved.
  
  Bernhard’s end presentation was great, rhetorical and short. In the next month, he will prototype it on a tech level and then gather input from the field. A team will be put together and we’ll see where he takes it from there.

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Bilbone

• Pitcher:
  Martin Aichholzer
• Tagline:
  Inspiring your Leisure Time.
• Description:
  Finding and sharing adventures. But not just bloody likes of your bungee-jumping, but the whole setup and research, resources and phone numbers, locations and utilities. All you need.

  Put the adventure together, share it with friends and find new ones – with and A-Z on what and how to do it.

  Next steps: Beta and beta launch event with some pretty damn cool sponsors! All set up. Hope Martin updates us with more info on when/where!

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Stenography Project

• Pitcher:
  Gregor Waltersdorfer
• Tagline:
  Write like a ninja
• Description:
  Sadly Gregor had to leave to pick up guests arriving by bike from France, so he didn’t have time to prepare a presentation! So, he did the the hard core way: using his dry humour and voice.

  The idea: we are all slow. By using stenography, we’d be up to 66% faster! So, we should all learn it. He intends to implement a smart phone app helping you learn the system of steno, and also a notepad for stenography interpretation – teaching and enabling you to write like a ninja.

We are still waiting for the data on the last pitch, there is one missing. The guys who Gregor had to pick up, from France, also got to pitch their project at the live. Awesome people with the goal to interview school children on their way from Paris to Beijing, doing a documentary on their project. Will tell you more as we have more data

So what’s up next? Well, STARTup Live Hagenberg and Vienna of course!

Thanks to our partners

We have been working with a number of partners to bring together the startup community of Graz over a weekend. Awesome people! The Gründerservice is the bank to hit if you have questions and need some help in finance, and the Science Park is the academical incubator of Styria, helping students to take their ideas to the market. Konica Minolta we met a few weeks ago, and they jumped on the project! Awesome to see another company getting the fact that a grass root movement of startups is needed!

Platinum partners

Gold partners

STARTup Live Vienna #4 Roundup

Companies and Ideas

And now, please welcome the teams and their ideas!

Rico – WINNER of Best New Venture Award @ STARTup Live Vienna #4

• Pitcher:
  Michaela Gimpl
• Tagline:
  Simple help for spastically challenged children
• Description:
  By combining the three devices always needed by spastically paralyzed children into one, cutting prices and going modular – this system will be of great help for the customers and their families. As a winner of the Best New Venture award, Michaela and her team can now move into their new office at Sektor 5 – coworking spaces, in 1050, Vienna – just around the corner from STARTeurope HQ! Also, Michaela got a ticket for the Erste Bank Gründercamp by our partners at Erste Bank!
  People had tears in their eyes as the award was accepted. Wow.

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Warrantify – WINNER Best Startup Award of STARTup Live Vienna #4!

• Pitcher:
  Hari Tamvada
• Tagline:
  Product warranties. Simplified.
• Description:
  Warrantify.com is a global service platform for warranty management which will give easy access and digital storage for all consumer product warranty related data and services, a one stop shop for all product warranties. With the help of Warrantify we hope to release people from collecting paper receipts in order to be eligible to receive their consumer electronics support or warranties.

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clearKarma.org – WINNER of the Crowds Choice Award

• Pitcher:
  Sylvie Chin
• Tagline:
  Make safer choices
• Description:
  300 million people worldwide suffer from food allergies. Reading the small print on each product is just too difficult and too time consuming.
  
  
  
  clearKarma.org offers a mobile application and an information website. People with food allergies see, based on personal allergies immediately the impact of their buying decisions on their personal health. The magic lies in barcode scanning and checking against a community maintained, commented, database.
  
  
  
  As a winner of the Crowds Choice Award, Sylvie will head to the Founders Workshop – sponsored by Erste Bank!

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Scribando

• Pitcher:
  Albert Griesmayr
• Tagline:
  Making publishing social
• Description:
  Scribando provides a place, where books evolve through the power of community.

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Twingz

• Pitcher:
  Werner Weihs-Sedivy
• Tagline:
  Twitter of thingz
• Description:
  Things (e.g. electronic devices) are enriched with communication features. Users on the go can check back state and healthiness of devices that sit at home. Devices can actively pop up with urgent news (e.g. stove overheat, fridge getting warm, espresso needs decalcifying) – users are enabled to interact with devices via short text (twingz, twitter, facebook, SMS).
  User can also check on the go which supplies fits the printer or if the game console of interest can be connected to the home entertainment center.

  @marketers: enrich your social media campaigns on consumer electronics by devices that are enabled to communicate!”

  @starteurope: @mycoffemachine make me a cappucino please!
  @mycoffemachine: @starteurope seriously!? You haven’t decalc’d me for AGES! *grumble* coffe is ready in a min :/

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Playmakers Industries

• Pitcher:
  Philippe Greier
• Tagline:
  Change the world via games
• Description:
  Ok, change the world. Easy. Let’s just start another orga focused on this. Or… Make people do what they should be doing: play together!

  By smacking together startups, industry leaders and the great bureaucracies of the world in an environment where they have to let go of their tightly held assumptions – this gang wishes to change the world. Their plan is to create these environment together with the coworking spaces of the world – leading to the STOPeurope-game (yeah baby!!). Starting with a workshop on 3.11, at the Hub Vienna.

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MG

• Pitcher:
  Matjaz Gorjup
• Tagline:
  Efficiency is only part of the equation
• Description:
  With a number of years as a manager in larger corporations, Matjaz saw the need to make people feel that the effort they put into their work actually has an effect. Said and done – MG is a task management and delegation system which kicks ***. Simplified, reduced and optimized to take as small a part as possible on the side of the users. The missing puzzle piece is addressed by adding game mechanics to the equation.

  The team worked on the game system and visualizations during the weekend – now all they need to do is implement.

  By the by, game mech’s is the social web of the next decade according to Seth Priebatsch and Jesse Schell, among many others.

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DreamaTV

• Pitcher:
  Manuel Gruber
• Tagline:
  A channel for entrepreneurs and visionaries
• Description:
  Entrepreneurs and visionaries are blossoming – DreamaTV will be their channel and show. By equipping coworking spaces with access to the channel and curating the content which is generated, coworking spaces, entrepreneurs and the world gain in PR, publicity and visions. Aggregating all these grand changers and building a show of the greatest ideas of the month – DreamaTV will be a high quality producer of visionary, crowd-sourced material.

  They already have 2 customers, gained during the weekend! How’s that for bloody traction?

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Runtastic

• Pitcher:
  Florian Gschwandtner
• Tagline:
  Makes sport fantastic.
• Description:
  This was the third time that Runtastic entered the foray. As winners of STARTup Live Vienna #2, these guys now decided to implement a badge/achievement system into their sports-platform. All in one weekend. Said, and done. Wait for the next release! The whole team of 7 people travelled to Vienna for the weekend – was great to see them again! Awesome guys!

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TarifAgent

• Pitcher:
  Philipp Etzlinger
• Tagline:
  The comparison pays
• Description:
  This team decided to tackle the jungle of cell phone tarifs. Crazy – do you know how many different combos of prices and packages there are in Austria alone? 45k. Done, and done. Since 2008 they have mapped and enabled running evaluations of all providers in Austria – and on their platform they allow users to check what combo would be best for them. All in all, that has made out 1.8M different combos mapped since 2008.
  
  This weekend, they sketched and started developing an Android app to automate the comparison.

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Life Missions

• Pitcher:
  Benedikt Glatzl
• Tagline:
  Start playing, start living.
• Description:
  As we’ve already seen, many are going in the direction of games. The pitcher presented at the last STARTup Live Vienna too, and this time, they went on to prototype their vision. Working with designers and experts from the field of sports they made heaps of progress. By designing common goals as achievements in a game – people are motivated to actually take the next step – rising in level as a tennis player, cook, marathon runner or being a good guy/gal. The UI prototype looks friggin great, gonna see if we cannot get a screen of it.

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2-topf

• Pitcher:
  Christoph Bergthaler
• Tagline:
  traditional food – urban taste
• Description:
  Fresh food based on traditional recipes – available in several locations. The prototype of this restaurant chain to be is to be built close to a university in Vienna. By combining “Grandma” and “Zotter” – traditional food with urban trend – the opportunity will be addressed. Next steps: design concept, customer interviews and research, dish prototypes.

  Christopher Bergthaler is a chef since 10 years and worked with a team fro Austria and Germany on refining the concept. The pitch was something totally different than the presentation – which we love. Pivots ftw.

3TO – pharma and Success Time are still missing, but should pop up in here in a day or 2

What can one say. We had a blast. Teams were awesome and our feet still hurt from dancing at the afterparty. Who would have thought that Manu would be on par with Marius when it comes to shaking it! WOW!

The teams are now working on realizing their next milestones, until November 27, which is when the next STARTup Lounge takes place @ Sektor 5. During the afternoon, they get to show their shiz and if they have made it, they will have the opportunity to enter our mentoring program and get an office for a few months!

Us, we are receiving emails to go all over Europe!
What the hell should you do if one is called STARTeurope?
Well.
Go there.

Live From The Field

Talking about the real Life as a startup entrepreneur. Awesome…

Live From The Field

STARTup Talks

DJ L.A. Pinsch on the decks

Microsoft Track started

Max Knor talks about development for the New Windows Phone 7 in the Executive Lounge of Microsoft Austria

Marius Starcke

Team formation