Winners of the European awards ceremony for the best startups of The Europas 2011

Yesterday, November 17, the annual awards to the best startups, The Europas , took place. The choice of 22 nominations was carried out both on the basis of an expert vote, and on the basis of 40,000 votes from theeuropas.com visitors.

More than 500 guests attended the ceremony held in London this year. Presentations of participating companies and awarding of winners lasted all day, from 9:00 am and until 8:00 pm. This is the third event of this kind, and its scale continues to grow: the number of unique votes in the Internet voting has increased by 7,000 compared with last year.

We present you the list of winners in all nominations (you can familiarize yourself with the full list of participants at the link ):
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Best startup support (legal, financial, PR):

Orrick is one of the world's largest law firms, with more than 1,100 lawyers in 23 offices around the world, representing over 800 companies, including young companies from GreenTech Media Top 50 tops Greentech Startups, The Wall Street Journal's Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies and BusinessWeek's 50 Best Tech Start-Ups.

Best production or business startup:

Podio is a service that provides remote workplaces to its users. The site offers a huge number of applications that simplify and streamline the work of both colleagues and clients. Corporate mode support allows you to coordinate the work of teams or organizations.

The best startup in the field of advertising and marketing:

Conversocial is a service that allows “in one window” to manage brand communications with clients in social networks, respond to feedback and analyze interaction with the audience.

Best startup accelerator:

Seedcamp . The company holds monthly events presentations for startups. During the year, Seedcamp selects the 20 most promising projects that receive a starting investment of $ 50,000 in for a small share of 8-10% of the project.

The best tool for developing:

Pusher is a cloud-based tool that allows developers to quickly and easily add functionality to web applications.

Best Mobile Application Project:

Amen is a fun application for voting: with its help, the user writes a certain statement that his friends see and answer “Amen” or “Hell No!”, Agreeing or disproving his opinion. The system sorts these data, making on their basis various ratings.

The best entertainment startup (music, video, etc.):

Mixcloud is the largest base of radio content including radio broadcasts, DJs and radio presenters. Support services for communication between users adds to the project similarities with YouTube.

The best gaming or social startup:

Nordeus Top Eleven is a game in which the user can become the manager of a football club, buy players at auctions, train them, develop game tactics, etc. The first and most successful project of the Danish company Nordeus, which made a name for itself on games for social networks.

The best social platform:

Peer Index is a universal ranking system for users of social networks. Based on their algorithm, they calculate the user's “credibility” (by analogy with Google page rank). On the PeerIndex website, you can drive in your nickname, for example, on Twitter, and the system will display your result.

Best educational or recruiting media project:

Busuu.com - the site offers unique methods for learning nine different foreign languages ​​and provides constant communication between users of each other's native language, which serves as the best anchoring of more than one hundred and fifty video tutorials also offered by the service. Among the languages ​​studied there is Russian.

The best startup in the field of finance and payments:

iZettle is a miniature card reader and an iOS application that allows you to receive payments by bank card yourself — just connect the card reader to the standard connector of your iPhone or iPad.

The best project about health, recreation and sports:

Endomondo is a social service that allows you to track your progress in active sports (running, cycling, etc.), analyze them using the website toolkit, compare it with the results of your friends and compete with them. Using the downloadable application, you can link your account with a mobile device.

The best project about culture, art or fashion:

Lookk is a fashion site that provides direct contact of clothing and accessories designers with consumers and manufacturers. This makes it possible to read reviews about new projects at the stage of creating a concept, weed out uninteresting ones and refine those that have potential.

Best Travel & Entertainment Project:

OneFineStay is a service that gives an opportunity to rent an apartment or a room for a private person instead of a hotel, which will not only save on the trip, but also get acquainted with the living conditions in the visited country and possibly make interesting acquaintances.

Venture investor of the year:

Accel Partners - the company invested the largest innovative projects, including Facebook, BBN, Macromedia, QlikTech, etc.

The most successful sale of the year:

Lovefilm - one of the largest services for watching movies and TV shows online and ordering DVD and Blu-ray from a list of more than 70,000 titles - was sold to Amazon for $ 328 million. Amazon acquired all rights to this site on January 20 of this year.

Best Business Angel:

Christophe F. Maire is one of the largest European investors involved in raising projects such as Plazes, StudiVZ, Imedo, Autoki, TooStep, Bookpac. At one time, he became the founder of the project gate5 AG (navigation system for mobile devices) and initiated the creation of CyberCinema, the first European network of electronic cinema halls.

Best Mentor:

David Noel , Soundcloud , the evangelist for the SoundCloud project, who, joining the company in May 2009, helped the service audience grow from 100,000 to 6 million registered users.

Best Venture Company Manager:

Nic Brisbourne , DFJ Esprit - currently manages the company's investment in Zeus, Axiom Systems, SRC, Cityspace and Tribold projects. In the past, he was noted for the successful investment support of Buy.At and its sale of AOL.

The best founder / founders of a startup:

Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss with the SoundCloud project - a platform that allows you to download, record and share tracks.

The prize for the coolest startup from Europe:

Rovio for Angry Birds is an independent game development company established in 2003 and having established itself as a producer of popular, collecting a large number of award-winning games for mobile platforms. Rovio managed to participate in the development of such major publishers as Electronic Arts, Nokia, Vivendi, Namco Bandai and Mr. Goodliving / Real Networks.

The Grand Prix

The main prize of The Europas 2011 was the Peer Index .

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