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 TechnologyPioneer Candidate for the class of 2010, as a result of being finalist of the Global Entrepreneurship Competition of HIT Barcelona.”
65 business plans participated in the Innovation Marketplace tournaments and the Global Enterpreneurship Competition.
BMAT, Barcelona Music and Audio Technology, has become a technology partner in the new program of SESAC, the US’s second oldest and fastest growing performing rights organization (PRO) representing songwriters, composers, and publishers.
SESAC will utilize BMAT’s digital pattern-recognition algorithm known as Vericast to capture performances of its repertory in programming on broadcast and cable television.
popIn is an interface that finds the information you need while browsing and displays it right in the page you are already viewing. It has been one of the Global Entrepreneurship c0mpetitors.
Dusan Belic was there and this is his review in intomobile.com: “Well, they say they’re also working on mobile clients. Initially, they’ll launch for iPhone and Android and if that flies I’ve no doubts they’ll expand to other platforms, as well. Personally, I believe that can be very useful and effective, as I get tired of site’s opening new windows/tabs on my mobile phone”.
“Los ganadores de la Global Entrepreneurship Competition que han propuesto temas relacionados con la biotecnología han sido los siguientes:
# Tercer premio de 10.000 euros: Polyskin (India), desarrolla productos innovadores a partir de material biológico para su aplicación en quemaduras y otras heridas.
# Premio a la Mejor Presentación de 5.000 euros: Echopixel Technologies (México), enfocada en el cuidado de los pacientes proveyendo soluciones innovadoras con imágenes tridimensionales no invasivas para detectar, diagnosticar y tratar mejor las enfermedades.” /www.biotecnologica.com
“HiT Barcelona – World Innovation Summit, announced the 15 finalists of its Healthcare Innovation Marketplace Tournament. All participating companies are in an advanced stage of development of products or services in healthcare delivery, medical technology, therapeutics and diagnostics and seek support from partners with the objective of achieving market penetration.” www.evaluatepharma.com
“Spanish company Bmat won the first edition of the Global Entrepreneurship Competition, a unique tournament that brought together high growth start-ups from around the world at the HiT Barcelona global innovation summit. The Broccoli Project and Polyskin were the second and third place startups in this global competition.” www.22barcelona.com
“Pixable es una aplicación online creada por dos españoles del MIT, Iñaki Berenguer (que podemos ver en el vídeo en el que nos cuenta sobre este nuevo proyecto) y Patricio Martínez, junto a dos de sus colegas, Andrés Blank, Alberto Sheinfeld. Esta nueva aplicación o servicio online, Pixable, permite pasar los álbumes de fotos de Facabooka soporte físico, de manera sencilla y con la calidad adecuada.” gonzalosoto.bligoo.com
“Spanish Company Bmat, Winner of the Hit Barcelona’s Global Entrepreneurship Competition, the first ever truly international tournament that brought together at HiT Barcelona“. www.biospace.com
“Woices selected as one the three more promising TIC startups by ACC1Ó. Woices present at the 2009 World Innovation Summit”. blog.woices.com
Pixable, finalista de Hit Barcelona 2009, RevistaEmprendedores.
“Han asistido casi 2.000 congresistas, el 35% de los cuales han venido de fuera de España. Ha demostrado el valor añadido de una fórmula única que ha unido en un mismo evento las herramientas y conceptos necesarios para innovar en el ámbito empresarial junto con un punto de encuentro que ha reunido a los mejores proyectos empresariales y a inversores en busca de buenas ideas.” 39ymas.com
“Con la innovación como tema central, las primeras ediciones de Hit Barcelona y La Red Innova sirvieron de escaparate de cientos de proyectos de startups en busca de inversores.”
“Acambiode.com, como plataforma empresarial innovadora, participó como colaborador oficial del evento y contó con un stand propio desde donde dio a conocer los beneficios del intercambio empresarial para emprendedores y profesionales.”
