Congratulations to the G-Startup SV 2012 Winners!

Seed Stage Winner:
Disherence — Russia

 

Disherence shows you the best dishes in any restaurant. It’s a discovery engine for dishes based on analysis of citations of dishes in millions of restaurant reviews. demo.disherence.com

Seed Stage Runner up:

NaleBe (Cubbying) –Chinese Taipei
Cubbying helps you to take back your content. Please keep your precious memories you have been made in your lifetime. www.cubbying.com

Growth Stage Winner:

Placed–USA
Placed has created a new class of analytics focused on location. Leveraging mobile devices, Placed anonymously measures, aggregates, and analyzes the paths and places people visit in the physical world. Preferred URL: http://www.placed.com

Growth Stage Runnerup:

Moglue–Republic of Korea
Moglue provides a desktop platform that allows publishers, authors, and artists a way to create interactive stories. The books can be published to the Apple app store and Android,markets as a stand alone app, using MoglueBuilder. http://moglue.com

Beginning with 125 applications from 24 countries, G-Startup narrowed down the pool of startups competing at GMIC SV to the Top 20 on Day 1.

 TOP 20

Seed/Early-Stage Contestants:

  • DestinationDoc—USA
  • CheckInOn.Me—USA
  • Mugeda—China
  • Disherence—Russia
  • Prosbee —Japan
  • MixerBox Inc.—USA
  • Yadget—Egypt
  • NaleBe— South Korea
  • OOifme—Brazil
  • BadSeedEntertainment—Italy

 Growth-Stage Contestants:

  • SnapDish–Japan
  • SnapCrowd—USA
  • Star Arcade Ltd–Finland
  • Moglue–South Korea
  • Buddy Up–South Korea
  • Scandit–USA
  • Omyconf!–Russia
  • 2600hz—USA
  • MILA– Switzerland
  • Placed—USA

G-Startup Seed Stage Winner: Disherence. Disherence is an early-stage company from Russia and shows you the best dishes in any restaurant.

G-Startup Growth Stage Winner: Scandit. The growth stage company from Switzerland provides a best-in-class barcode scanning technology, product data, and analytics services.

GMIC SV 2012 is proud to have partnered with AXLR8R, InnoSpring and Plug and Play Tech Center

   

 

G-Startup Prizes:

  •   A 5-7 minute pitch on the GMIC Main Stage
  •   A chance to join InnoSpring, Chinaccelerator, or Plug and Play incubation program

Service Prize offered by ChinaNetCloud:

Platinum Certificate worth $3600USD for one year management service for one server
Gold Certificate, worth $2000 for 6 months of free management service for one server

 

Special thanks to our G-Startup judges:

  • Azita Arvani, Head of Innovation, Nokia Siemens Networks
  • Ajay Chopra, General Partner, Trinity Ventures
  • Jeff Clavier, Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
  • Cyril Ebersweiler, Founding Partner, Chinaccelerator
  • Nicole Glaros, Managing Director, TechStars
  • Jonathan Greechan, Partner, The Founder Institute
  • Ken Gullicksen, COO, Evernote
  • Dr. Ossama Hassanein, Chairman, Rising Tide Fund
  • Ethan Kurzweil, Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners
  • Wei Liu, Partner, CBC Capital
  • Aaron McDaniel, Sr. Director Global Strategy & BD, AT&T Foundry
  • Akio Tanaka, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Infinity Venture
  • Rakesh Sood, Venture Advisor, DoCoMo Capital
  • Gaurav Tewari, Director, SAP Ventures
  • Rob Trice, Venture Partner, Swisscom Ventures
  • Eugene Zhang, CEO, InnoSpring

Mentors for the G-Startup participants:

  • Canice Wu, President, Plug and Play
  • Terrance Phillips, VP, Silicon Valley Bank
  • Pascal Finette, Director, Mozilla Open Innovation Group
  • Tony Huang, Venture Partner, WI Harper Group
  • Philip Johnson, ChinanetCloud

 

About the G-Startup Competition 

20 Startups  + 2 Tracks = One Winner in Each Track

20 pre-selected finalists will pitch at the G-Startup Competition, engage in a round of Q&A, and be judged by a panel of top level venture capitalists and angel investors.

Map:

Schedule:

October 19
8:00-9:20 Registration
9:20-9:30 Opening Address
William Heathershaw, Director of Marketing, GMIC SV

9:30-9:50 Fireside Chat
Jeff Lawson, CEO, Twilio
Moderator: Scott McGrew, TechNow

9:50-10:30am Panel 1
Ossama Hassanein, Chairman, Rising Tide Fund
Ethan Kurzweil, Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partner
Canice Wu, Chairman, Plug and Play Tech Center
Eugene Zhang, CEO, InnoSpring
Moderator: Sanjiv Parikih, Former VP, HTC

10:30-11:20am Seed Stage Competition I
Judges: Eugene Zhang, CEO, InnoSpring
Ossama Hassanein, Chariman, Rising Tide Fund
Jonathan Greechan, Partner, The Founder Institute
Nicole Glaros, Managing Director, Techstars

11:20-11:25 Break

11:25-12:15 Seed Stage Competition II
Judges:
Ash Fontana, AngelList
Cyril Ebersweiler, Founding Partner, Chinaccelerator
Gaurav Tewari, Director, SAP Ventures
Wei Liiu, Partner, CBC Capital

1:00-1:50 Growth Stage Competition I
Judges:
Ethan Kurzweil, Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partner
Akio Tanaka, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Infinity Venture
Aaron McDaniel, Sr. Director Global Strategy, AT&T Foundry
Azita Arvani, Head of Innovation, Nokia Siemens Networks

1:50-2:10 Fireside Chat
Jeff Clavier, Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
Moderator: Peter Young, Director of Silicon Valley Global Studies, SJSU

2:10-3:00 Growth Stage Competition II
Judges:
Jeff Clavier, Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
Rob Trice, Venture Partner, Swisscom Ventures
Ken Gullicksen, COO, Evernote
Rakesh Sood, Venture Advisor, DoCoMo Capital

3:00-4:00 Panel Discussion II
Panelists:
Jude Gomila, Co-Founder, Heyzap
Cyril Ebersweiler, Founding Partner, Chinaccelerator
Rajiv Taori, Founder & CEO, MobileOps
Vijay Sharma, Founder, One97.net
Moderator: Richard Robinson, President, Yolu Co., Inc.

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6pm: “GMIC Night” Networking @ appSpace A

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October 20 – Main Stage

10:00-10:10am: Interview with Winner of G-Startup at GMIC Beijing 2012
Mika Heikinheimo
10:10-10:20am: Announcement of G-Startup at GMIC SV 2012 Winners