Archive for December, 2008

Silentale wins “People’s Choice Award” at LeWeb08

We know we haven’t shared much of what we have been preparing behind closed doors. However, if you were lucky enough to be at LeWeb08 last week, then you may have had the chance to see a sneak peak of what’s coming.

In front of a full room, we had the pleasure of unveiling what Silentale will soon release. And the reactions were great. A couple hundred people or so, managed to find a seat for our 7 min. presentation and seemed to have liked what they saw; enough to have voted us as their favorite startup.

That’s right, Silentale is this year’s People’s Choice Award winner.

If you missed it, we have made the presentation available on slideshare. We are also waiting for LeWeb’s organizers (Loïc & Géraldine Le Meur) to review and edit the footage so we can make it available as well.

So, stay tuned, subscribe to our RSS feed and, if you haven’t already, register on silentale.com to get on the invitation list.

Thank you! The best is yet to come.

Pictures by @leafar & @rMen

Update (Feb 12, 2009): At last, the video has been made available. Enjoy.

Silentale to participate in LeWeb08 Startup Competition

We are pleased to announce that Silentale has been selected to present in front of a great panel of judges at LeWeb08. The conference will be taking place in Paris on December 9 and 10. 30 contestants will be presenting and the top 3 startups will then have the chance to present on the main stage. This will be a great opportunity for the winners to get some real time feedback from 1,500 people, including potential users, partners and investors.

If you’re planning on attending the event, then mark your calendar to come and listen in, as it will be Silentale’s first public presentation.

If you’re unable to attend, please feel free to contact me during or after the conference. And as usual, use twitter, SMS (+33672014787), Skype or email as me as a last resort.

Lastly, if you want to be one of the first to use Silentale, visit www.silentale.com to get an invitation, or reach out to us during the conference; Nicolas Fouché and myself will be there.

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The 30 companies that have been selected for the 2008 Start-up Competition are:

1. 2Win-Solutions – FRANCE
2. 3scale networks S. L. – SPAIN
3. Apture – USA
4. Box.net, Inc. – USA
5. Brozengo SA – FRANCE
6. Charge Ventures – Malta
7. Cmune – CHINA
8. ConTrust – ISRAEL
9. DoctorSIM – SPAIN
10. Edicy – ESTONIA
11. Haploid – FRANCE
12. IZI-collecte – FRANCE
13. Kaltura – USA
14. MyID.is Certified – FRANCE
15. Nimbuzz – NETHERLANDS
16. Popego Inc. – USA
17. Producteev Inc. – USA
18. Publing – FRANCE
19. Radionomy – BELGIUM
20. Samedi GmbH – GERMANY
21. ShoutEm Ltd. – CROATIA
22. Silentale – FRANCE
23. SquareClock – FRANCE
24. Tellmewhere – FRANCE
25. Trendiction – LUXEMBURG
26. Viewdle, Inc – UKRAIN
27. Webnode.com – CZECH REPUBLIC
28. Zavedenia.com – BULGARIA
29. Zipipop Ltd (Zipiko) – FINLAND
30. Zoover Holiday Reviews – NETHERLANDS

The judges will be:

Ola Ahlvahrsson – Result
Roberto Bonanzinga – Balderton Capital
Mike Butcher – TechCrunchUK
Laurent Chiozotto – Sun Microsystems
Julien Codorniou – Microsoft
Don Dodge – Microsoft
David Hornik –August Capital
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet – Price Minister
Simon Levene – Accel Partners
Om Malik – GigaOM
Dave McClure – 500Hats
Freddy Mini – Netvibes
Marc Samwer – European Founders Fund
Axel Schmiegelow – Sevenload
Gary Shainberg – British Telecom
Megan Smith – Google
Pascal Thomas – Orange
Martin Varsavsky – FON