18 top tech startups selected to represent Europe at the Startup Europe Comes to Silicon Valley (SEC2SV) program September 12-20.
With total funding of over $60M and 1000 employees, they cover verticals such as e-commerce, healthcare, security and storage.
Mind the Bridge and EIT Digital today announced the finalists for the second edition of Startup Europe Comes to Silicon Valley (SEC2SV) - the premier program for future European startup unicorns to engage with main US industry players for sales, funding and collaboration opportunities in order to rapidly scale up on the other side of the Atlantic. CEOs from top leading European tech startups have been invited to San Francisco for a week of local presentations and meetings kicking off on September 12 with the European Innovation Day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
The latest and most innovative tech companies from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK, will be in the Silicon Valley to engage with the US market in their respective industries. With total funding of over $60M and 1000 employees these promising tech companies cover verticals such as e-commerce, healthcare, security and storage.
"These companies really epitomize European Innovation—the next TomTom, Spotify, or BlaBlaCar - and we are convinced that their participation in SEC2SV will strengthen the two-way bridge between the European and the Bay Area ecosystems creating value and jobs for both continents," stated Marko Turpeinen, Director of EIT Digital's Silicon Valley Hub.
"We've already seen impressive results from the startups that participated in SEC2SV 2015. For example, JobandTalent (Spain) raised $42M in Series B after the event and Mosaicoon (Italy) raised $8 million," explained Marco Marinucci, CEO Mind the Bridge. "I expect equally impressive results from this year's cohort," he added.
15 scaleups were selected to represent Europe in the program, based on proposals by Silicon Valley-based partner organizations focused on a EU country or region. The requirements to be considered for the SEC2SV competition is to have had at least 10 employees 3 years ago and to be growing more than 20% year-over-year in revenue or number of employees. The final selection was made by a group of investors composed of Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) Investors Forum members and U.S. investors.
In addition to these 15 scaleups, five fast growing tech companies supported by EIT Digital Accelerator will join the delegation.
The chosen tech companies are:
BELGIUM:
AWINGU (CEO Walter Van Uytven; Capital raised: $18M; employees: 27) is a web-based platform that allows easy access to files, applications, and software thus offering a concrete solution to demands for Mobility and ‘Bring your own device' (BYOD) trends.
FINLAND:
FIRSTBEAT technology (CEO: Joni Kettunen; Employees: 75+) turns heartbeat data into rich, personalized and actionable insights on exercise, stress, sleep and recovery. It is used by sports teams, corporations and consumers worldwide to improve their performance and wellbeing. Firstbeat has been selected by the EIT Digital Accelerator.
FRANCE:
AB TASTY (CEO: Remi Aubert; Capital raised: $7M; employees: 70) a SaaS solution that helps data-driven marketers ease the process of A/B testing, personalization and re-engagement to boost conversion rates.
QARNOT (CEO: Paul Benoît; Employees: 27) has created the first computing heater using embedded microprocessors. Remotely computing for companies, it produces free heat for buildings. With no need for a data center, Qarnot provides the greenest and cheapest Cloud platform. Qarnot has been selected by the EIT Digital Accelerator.
GERMANY:
MeisterLabs GmbH (COO: Oliver Huebler; Capital raised: $550k; employees: 21) is the publisher of MindMeister, a collaborative online mind mapping software solution & MeisterTask, a simple and intuitive task management solution.
ICELAND:
CONTROLANT (CEO: Gisli Herjolfsson ; Capital raised: $2.5M; employees: 24) specializes in wireless temperature monitoring and asset tracking - currently the company provides services to pharmaceutical, food, industrial and logistics companies.
ITALY:
NEGENTIS (CEO: Paolo Cianchi; Capital raised $5M; Employees 14) offers an applications development platform enabling enterprises to manage the entire life-cycle of their IoT/IoE, integrating operational and business processes with field sensors and machines. Negentis has been selected by the EIT Digital Accelerator.
SHOPFULLY (CEO: Stefano Portu; Capital raised: $22M; employees 125) is the leading smart shopping platform used by over 13 million users worldwide when getting ready to go shopping in their neighborhood.
LUXEMBOURG:
ETIX EVERYWHERE (CEO: Charles Antoine Beyney; Capital raised: $17M; employees: 47) provides IT housing services and constructs scalable data centers.
NETHERLANDS:
SCISPORTS (CEO: Giels Brouwer; Capital raised: $1.5M; employees: 36) uses mathematical models and deep learning to analyze and predict the quality and potential of football players and teams. With their new innovation BallJames, they revolutionized the way how sports data is generated by transforming video footage into real-time 3D data.
ROMANIA:
T-ME STUDIOS (Co-founders Laurentiu-Victor Balasa & Matei Pavel, employees: 60) is a mobile publisher with more than 6,000 published apps in Google Play in the personalization and gaming categories, with tens of millions of users across their products.
SLOVENIA:
VENDOTEL (CEO: Samo Omerzel; Capital raised: $5M; employees: 109) is a fully integrated Pay Phone and Vending Machine that provides a centralized inventory, a basic prerequisite for effective inventory control, demand / supply management and control over goods distribution, retail and wholesale operations.
SPAIN:
BEBEE (CEO: Javier Camara Rica; Capital raised: $6.5M; employees: 55) is an affinity social network which allows users to connect with other people who share the same interests and experiences.
KANTERON SYSTEMS (CEO: Jorge Cortell; Capital raised: $3M; employees: 19) is the next Generation Enterprise Healthcare IT for Clinical Data and Workflow Integration.
SWEDEN:
FURHAT Robotics (CEO: Samer Al Moubayed) is a hardware and software platform for social artificial intelligence (AI). Furhat is a robot whose face displays unique expressiveness and emotion, and whose brain produces sophisticated and context aware spoken interactions. Furhat has been selected by the EIT Digital Accelerator.
GLEECHI (CEO: Jakob Johansson) has developed the first software that enables developers to create natural hand interaction in virtual reality. The software is also used in robotics to enable real-time interaction for robot hands and grippers. Gleechi has been selected by the EIT Digital Accelerator.
UNITED KINGDOM:
MENIGA (CEO: Georg Ludviksson; Capital raised: $6,5M; employees: 100) is a provider of personal finance software for European banks and financial institutions.
METAIL (CEO: Tom Adeyoola; Capital raised: $19,5M; employees: 47) has 6 patents granted and thirteen pending and is a fashion technology company that allows shoppers to try on clothes online. After inputting three basic body measurements and in less than ten seconds, customers can create their own 'MeModel' which is up to 96% accurate of their own shape.
PCA PREDICT (CEO: Guy Mucklow; Capital Raised; mployees: 58) Is best known for its market-leading address validation technology used to quickly complete your address when buying online. The company's range of services, all delivered via the internet, are specifically designed to boost business efficiency.
STREAM TECHNOLOGIES (CEO: Nigel Chadwick; employees: 32) is the company behind IoT-X, a Connectivity Enablement, Management & Billing platform (CMP).
