VentureRadar New Companies May 2011

new companies on our radar

Our pick of recently discovered companies

May 2011

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indexing thousands of European innovation and growth companies. Here

are 10 interesting companies we recently added that are typical of the

new companies we are discovering...


Playmysong (Loistava Interactive)

“Playmysong started with the simple

question: "Why cannot I play my favorite

song at this bar I am in?" Playmysong

uses your existing iTunes song library

to create what we call a Social Music

Player. With the Playmysong iPod

hooked to the bar's sound system,

everyone can choose songs to be

played with their own mobile phones.”

Keywords from various sources. Image by Tagxedo.

Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Helsinki, Finland

Website: www.playmysong.com

Other info: Playmysong is the first

service offered by Loistava Interactive

Oy Ltd (www.loistava.com)

New Company 1/10

http://www.playmysong.com/

http://www.loistava.com/


NovaParking

“NovaParking’s wireless micro parking

meters detect where vehicles are

parked and where there are free

spaces. Our mission is to make parking

intelligent for the parking operator and

the driver. In our vision for 2015,

through the unified NovaParking

platform, drivers are seamlessly guided

to parking and pay automatically.”


Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Cambridge, UK

Website: www.novaparking.com

New Company 2/10

http://www.novaparking.com/


hurence

“All of today’s businesses are now

facing huge amounts of data. Our

ambition is to make the development of

Big Data solutions as simple and as

competitive as possible using our Big

Data Suite. [It is] about making sense of

tera to petabytes of data (text, video,

streams of sensors, scientific and

financial data).”

Keywords from company website. Image by Tagxedo.

Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Grenoble, France

Website: www.hurence.com

New Company 3/10

http://www.hurence.com/


MAXAM Medical

“MAXAM Medical is developing a

medical device for diagnosis and

treatment of pelvic floor dysfunctions,

with business opportunities in the field

of Gynecology, Urology and Sexuology.

The system is currently being validated

in a clinical study at the department of

Urology of the Leiden University

Medical Center.”


Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Delft, Netherlands

Website: www.maxammedical.nl

New Company 4/10

http://www.maxammedical.nl/


BrimBase

“BrimBase is a technology company

with software that monitors content

generated about the various products

being offered by retailers online and

creates a ranking to determine which

products are on customers 'wish lists'.

This can then be used as competitive

intelligence to gain a picture as to what

customers are currently purchasing.”


Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Cork, Ireland

Website: www.brimbase.com

New Company 5/10

http://www.brimbase.com/


Lumatix

“Lumatix has developed software that

simulates how natural light behaves in

the real world. The simulation takes only

a few milliseconds, instead of minutes

or hours as in the past. This is a feature

needed by anyone who visualizes 3D

data on a computer, including interior

designers, 3D visualization specialists

and the makers of 3D movies.”


Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Erlangen, Germany

Website: www.lumatix-technology.de

Other info: Market entry is being

planned for the summer of 2011.

New Company 6/10

http://www.lumatix-technology.de/




Synpromics

“Our technology centres on the

exploitation of a cell’s unique gene

expression profile, which changes

depending on the environmental setting

in which the cell resides. Synpromics

has acquired the means to create

synthetic gene regulators that are active

only under that specific profile.”


Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Edinburgh, UK

Website: www.synpromics.com

New Company 7/10

http://www.synpromics.com/


Semarchy

“Semarchy is building a broad vision in

the Master Data Management (MDM)

market to enable MDM applications as

one of the pillars of Enterprises'

infrastructure.”

Video on MDM: http://bit.ly/klk2ia


Founded: 2011

Headquarters: Tassin La Demi-Lune,

France

Website: www.semarchy.com

New Company 8/10

http://bit.ly/klk2ia

http://bit.ly/klk2ia

http://www.semarchy.com/


MicroTek

“MicroTek has developed a technology

specifically designed for opaque liquids

such as Orange juice, Milk and other

non transparent and viscous drinks and

liquids, which are impossible to treat

with more conventional systems. The

PurePulse system kills bacteria whilst

retaining important nutrients.”


Founded: 2010

Headquarters: London, UK

Website: www.microtekprocesses.com

New Company 9/10

http://www.microtekprocesses.com/

http://www.microtekprocesses.com/


Checkthis

“Instant publishing without the clutter.

Checkthis is a beautifully simple

publishing tool designed for the new

web. No set-up. Optional sign-up. Just

publish and share the link in seconds.”


Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Brussels, Belgium

Website: www.checkthis.com

New Company 10/10

http://www.checkthis.com/

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VentureRadar New Companies May 2011

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