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Winners Of Startup Competition Announced

The winners of this years Gründerwettbewerb – a competition for multimedia startups funded by the Germany Ministry of Economy and Technology which runs since 2004, have been announced at consumer electronics trade show IFA this weekend.

Out of 157 participating companies 5 have been awarded a grand price of 25,000 Euro each, 13 companies won 5,000 Euro. Burda Digital Ventures sponsored 5,000 Euro for a special price for the most promising concept in Social Webs in Media and Commerce which has been picked up by shelfmates, a platform which lets users catalogue their books, CDs, DVDs in a virtual shelf space.

Winners of the grand price:

  • Ecointense – a web based system for environmental management for SMEs
  • emze – will provide photos for cars for presentations (heh)
  • Kardiovaskuläre Telemedizin – a medical research project
  • Luupo – a shopping game (see my review)
  • Mobile Box – a platform for the distribution of software for mobile phones

Winners

  • Actor3D – a authoring tool for 3D
  • device::context – a professional quality video server
  • Die fans – a community for sports fans
  • Ibambiboo – online shop for childrens books
  • imedo – a health portal
  • MagicMap – a system for collaborative geolocating via WLAN
  • myousician – a community for musicians and fans
  • ondux – a marketplace for services
  • ontonym – a semantic recommendations engine
  • pearlfection – a marketplace for self made jewelery
  • Tradoria – a multi-commerce platform
  • WhatMore – a portal for browsing web, tv and video content
  • yocapi – a social network for fitness fans

Congrats to all winners.

(This article originally was written for blognation Germany. Since blognation is gone I have reposted it here)

☍ 04.09.2007 # startups