Hit Barcelona | World Innovation Summit Blog

“Project TriCardics has been nominated as a World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Candidate for the class of 2010, as a result of being finalist of the Global Entrepreneurship Competition of HIT Barcelona.

The Technology Pioneers Community is one of the most widely recognized initiatives of the World Economic Forum. To be selected as a Technology Pioneer, a company must be involved in the development of technology innovation and have the potential for long-term impact on business and society.

Programeter, entrepreneur project at Global Entrepreneurship Competition, has new advances. “Programeter launches tight integration with Google Code giving users an option to easily setup monitoring of code repository, tasks and issues of any open source projects hosted at Google Code.”:

Programeter has started as a tool for Open Source contributors. We believe in Open Source and try to support it as much as we can. This makes announcement of integration with Google Code very dear to us.

This Estonia-based startup behind the online analytics tool for software projects, switched to freemium SaaS business model in july.

“Cordatec n.v. was present at The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) Geneva promoting it’s A-View® catheter. In order to promote it’s A-View® balloon catheter, directors, Mr. Rosa and Dr. Nierich, presented their innovative device at the EACTS.

After this, we had good news: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the A-View® balloon catheter to be marketed in the United States of America.

“A lot has happened over the past two weeks and we wanted to share the good news.

On October 9, we launched Pixable to the public and it was received more positively than we could have imagined.  Within the week following the launch we were covered by the New York Times, ABC News, and several other tech blogs on the web; in the New York Times, we were in the cover of the technology section; we were even named website of the day at Geeksugar.com and had plenty of buzz on Facebook and Twitter.

The surge in interest not only continues to affirm our own confidence in Pixable, but has also piqued the interest of new investors, other companies that want to sign partnerships, and of course the public: our users.  The number of Pixable users tripled over the course of two days following the articles in the press: from 400 to 1200.  We continue to receive many positive comments from them, and while their nice words are great to hear, their feedback regarding bugs have been just as welcome, enabling us to find and fix any remaining bugs all the more quickly.

Stay tuned because we will be releasing news

Like our users, our team has also grown in size and we hardly fit in our apartment.

Aside from improving our site we have also been developing Facebook applications that will supplement our other viral marketing efforts (we call them Pixable Apps) and also help to position ourselves as the top of mind company for photos and your social graph.

Our strategy to acquire customers is changing and we want to use these simple Pixable Apps related to photos for two reasons:

1) Lead generation: we expect to have thousands of users in each of these apps. It’s ambitious but we are confident.

2) Branding: as you know, our vision is to become the top of mind company when you think of photos and your social graph (photobooks and printed material is just the beginning).

We are still here in New York and are waiting to move into the incubator at 160 Varick Street. Although we had been accepted, the move in process has unfortunately not been so smooth with delays in furnishing and other logistics. We hope to move in sometime next month.

With the new press, surge in popularity of our site, and continued positive feedback we’re only more convinced that Pixable will be a success. If you haven’t done so yet, we invite you to create your first photobook for free at www.pixable.com. Just use the coupon NEWSLETTER at checkout.

Feel free to contact us at any time.”

Andres, Inaki & Alberto
Co-founders
www.pixable.com

Intuitive automata, an audience favorite innovative start-up present at Hit Barcelona 2009, has been recognized and difunded after then by blogs and media:

“Un robot para perder peso” BBC/Mundo.

O’Reilly Radar, the O’Reilly network’s tech blog, posts a link to Intuitive Automata’s product page.

The popular robotics blog plastic pals posted information about the new Autom™ prototype and a brief Q & A session with Dr. Kidd.

The Hong Kong Trade and Development Commission featured Autom on their site and a recent webcast.

Horizon Discovery (Horizon) announced it has signed a commercial service agreement with Global Pharmaceutical company; GlaxoSmithKline relating to its X-MAN technology.

Horizon Discovery was one of the entrepreneurs projects of the audience favorite Global Entrepreneurship Competition, at Hit Barcelona 2009.

Horizon Discovery (Horizon) is an Anglo / Italian translational medicine company providing R&D tools that enable the development of a new generation of drugs that target the unique genetic profile of an individual patient’s cancer.

With his 25-year experience in business innovation -experience he himself describes as full of ups and downs - investor and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki just released a set of 10 commandments for entrepreneurs, an absolute must-read.

Empresaemergente.com, a portal of articles about businesses, now features a compilation of entrepreneurs networks we believe worth sharing.

Electro Power Systems (Italy), winner of the Telecom Innovation Tournament at Hit Barcelona 2009: “Premio Start up dell’anno PNICube“.

ElectroPS, design and manufacturing of hydrogen fuel cell systems for back-up power, already has a field proven product family of fuel cell systems for backup applications covering the range from 3 to 15 kVA. These products will be soon available with an innovative and modular on-site hydrogen generator to ensure the fast refilling of the vessels and thus changing the economy of back-up power.

“Electro Power Systems, azienda italiana operante nel settore dei sistemi a fuel cell a idrogeno per le applicazioni di backup energetico, è stata insignita del Premio “Start up dell’anno” da parte di PNICube, Associazione degli Incubatori e delle Business Plan Competition accademiche italiane.”

The Broccoli Project (South Africa), winner of the Global Entrepreneurship Competition, also has good news:

“South Africa: Talia Sanhewe and her camera-man Travers Andrews have scooped up the Vodacom Journalist of the year award 2009, Western Region, in the category Television General News for “The Broccoli Project”, a newsclip aired on CNBC Africa in early May.”

Now, it’s candidate for WEF Davos Technology Pioneers 2010. “The Technology Pioneers Community is one of the most widely recognized initiatives of the World Economic Forum. To be selected as a Technology Pioneer, a company must be involved in the development of technology innovation and have the potential for long-term impact on business and society. In addition, it must demonstrate visionary leadership, show the signs of being a long-standing market leader – and its technology must be proven”.

“Pixable was the startup with the highest number of votes for the audience favorite award with over 350 votes. Thanks to everyone for voting! The best part of the congress was the networking events and the PR coverage (together with Ray’s talk). We were interviewed by reporters from the BBC, CNN, or El Pais. Now we have been nominated to the World Economic Forum Davos Technology Pioneers 2010.” Iñaki Berenguer, http://mitsloanblog.typepad.com/inaki/

“Pixable has been nominated as a World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Candidate for the class of 2010, as a result of being finalist of the Global Entrepreneurship Competition of HIT Barcelona.”