new companies on our radar

Our monthly pick of exciting new European start-ups

July 2011

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brings you our monthly pick of exciting new European start-

ups (most are only one to two years old) that we think you

should know about...

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Peak Games

“Peak Games creates engaging and

culturally-relevant social games aimed at

players in emerging markets such as Turkey,

the Middle East and North Africa. With more

than 10 million active players drawn from the

world’s fastest growing social gaming

markets, Peak Games already ranks as one of

the 10 largest social gaming companies

globally.”

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Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Istanbul, Turkey

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SOFANT Technologies

“SOFANT Technologies is a provider of green

and smart wireless technology solutions. Our

antenna solutions for mobile devices will allow

the optimum wireless experience for users - the

end of dropped calls, weak signals, dead zones

and slow internet. This is in addition to the

benefits for the mobile operators and the

savings achieved in their infrastructure.”

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Founded: 2011

Headquarters: Edinburgh, UK

Other info: Spin-out from the University of

Edinburgh.

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Uplause

“Uplause is the World leader in developing

social games for big crowds, providing teams,

federations and sponsors a proven tool for

building a social dialogue and fan engagement

at events. Our patent pending entertainment

system includes multiple games with sponsor

customization, crowd interaction scoring, online

leaderboards, prizes and more. The Uplause

system can be plugged into any event with big

video screens and a sound system.”

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Founded: 2009

Headquarters: Helsinki, Finland

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BonAlive Biomaterials

“BonAlive provides innovative and safe solutions

to heal patients with bone defects. BonAlive®

bonds firmly to bone, and promotes new bone

formation while it naturally inhibits bacterial

growth. It is a fully synthetic, osteostimulative

silica-based bone graft substitute that is used for

bone cavity filling in orthopaedic and cranio-

maxillofacial surgery, including jaws.”

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Founded: 2010 (via a buyout)

Headquarters: Turku, Finland

Other info: Formed via a management buyout

from Vivoxid.

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Dressipi

“Dressipi is building a Situational

Recommendation Engine that maps products

to individuals, taking into consideration the

situational and emotional context of the

purchaser as well as more personal

parameters. The aim is to offer consumers a

personalised and context relevant filter of

products and store front - making shopping

simpler and more efficient.”

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Founded: 2010

Headquarters: London, UK

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Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation

“Sapiens is an emerging medical device

company whose mission is to deliver superior

solutions for deep brain stimulation (DBS)

therapy. Sapiens’ ambition is to provide a

unique, high-resolution, and MRI-compatible

DBS system that will improve patient comfort

and therapeutic outcome for a larger number

of patients with Parkinson’s Disease. ”

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Founded: 2011

Headquarters: Munich, Germany

Other Info: Spin-out from Philips research.

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InfluAds

“We are now consuming information

differently, through better quality and user

experience. But digital advertising isn't

able to match the quality needs of many of

those contexts. We don't like it and we are

set to change it. InfluAds provides the first

crowd-sourced Ad Network that is

powering the Quality Web.”

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Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Copenhagen, Denmark

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LeadIncentive

“LeadIncentive lets companies invest

marketing money directly in their satisfied

customers. This sparks a friendly, "helping"

eco-system. With LeadIncentive, companies

reward their customers and increase

customer loyalty, generate new demand,

and create the beautiful option of

contributing to charity.”

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Founded: 2011

Headquarters: The Netherlands

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Axilum Robotics

“Our mission is to develop and commercialize

robotized solutions to assist with medical

procedures. The first project is the development

of a robot to assist psychiatrists and neurologists

in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a

procedure which is currently under clinical

evaluation in drug-resistant major depression

and auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia. ”

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Founded: 2011

Headquarters: Strasbourg , France

Other Info: Spin-out from the medical robotics

research unit of the University of Strasbourg,

CNRS and INSA.

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Mancx

“Mancx is the first international marketplace

for trade with individual knowledge. Post your

business questions or get paid to answer other

people’s questions. We offer a patent-pending

business process, the possibility of trading

anonymously, a global payment system,

connections to the largest business networks

in the world, and workflow solutions for

professional users. ”

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Founded: 2009

Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden

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