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British startup PlayCanvas became the best in Europe

Ukrainian project LeadScanner ranked second

On December 5 in Kiev, during the Startup AddVenture conference, the best startup in Europe was identified. They became the project PlayCanvas (UK) - a cloud platform for developing 3D games. The winners received an investment of € 25,000 and a real boxing champion belt.

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A total of 350 teams have applied for participation in Startup Competition. Applications were accepted and reviewed through AngelList . The jury consisted of 20 investors, business angels, representatives of venture funds from the USA, Europe and the CIS. The jury was headed by Dave McClure - the founder of the largest venture seed fund in the world, 500 Startups (USA) and Kausal Chokshi - President of the Cross Border Angels Foundation (USA). The finalists of the competition passed an intensive three-day pitching course based on the Happy Farm business incubator .

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Ukrainian startup LeadScanner took second place and received $ 25,000. LeadScanner offers a new generation of tools that helps small and medium businesses to increase sales by finding customers in social networks. With the help of special algorithms, LeadScanner finds social network users who want to buy certain products or services, and then provides their contacts in social networks to interested companies. Service developed by YouScan team under the direction of Alexey Orap.

Brief information about the Startup Competition finalists:

Landingi (Innovation Nest, Poland) - an application that allows you to create landing pages for marketing campaigns without the involvement of a designer and web developer. http://www.landingi.com

Advice Wallet (Happy Farm, Ukraine) is a mobile loyalty program. It enables local businesses to attract, support and understand customers. In turn, she offers gifts to customers in places that they like. http://www.advicewallet.com

Limk (Turkey) is a platform for content distribution and discovery, allowing sites to increase traffic at the expense of the maximum audience involved. http: //www.angel.co.limk

InHiro (Slovakia) - helps your company find employees - create a visually appealing job posting with a “smart” mechanism for hiring and distributing, managing incoming CVs using Social X-Ray and attracting the best candidates. http://www.inhiro.com

Concept inbox (Wyra, Spain) is a solution for remote collaboration of design teams. http://www.conceptinbox.com

Jumpido (LAUNCHub, Bulgaria) is an exciting series of educational games for primary school. http://www.jumpido.com

PlayCanvas (TechStars, UK) is the world's first cloud platform for developing 3D games. http://www.playcanvas.com

Pricelessly (TechPeaks, Italy) - the service helps to raise funds for charity with the help of celebrities. http://www.priceless.ly

Moku (Italy) is a web platform on which students can collect documents, share them and write annotations in documents on transparent layers without disturbing their privacy. In addition, the team has developed the technology "doku", which converts documents (PDF, office and others) into pure HTML5. http://www.moku.io

LeadScanner (Skolkovo IT Cluster, Ukraine) is a new generation of tools that helps small and medium businesses increase sales by finding customers in social networks. With the help of special algorithms, LeadScanner finds social media users who want to buy certain products or services, and then provides their contacts in social networks to interested companies. This program was developed by the YouScan team, a leading social media monitoring company in Russia and Ukraine, with extensive experience in database analysis and linguistic analysis. http://www.leadscanr.com

About the Startup AddVenture Conference
Startup AddVenture (Europe Venture Summit) is the largest international startup conference that took place on December 4-5 in Kiev, at the NSC Olimpiysky, with the participation of 50 stars of the startup industry and venture business in the US and Europe. The event gathered more than 1500 IT entrepreneurs, venture investors, business angels and incubators from Ukraine, the CIS, Europe and the USA. The conference program consisted of panel discussions, interactive workshops, Expo and Startup Competition. The conference is organized by Happy Farm Business Incubator . The next Startup AddVenture conference will take place on December 3-4, 2014.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/205358/


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