European Competition of Mobile Apps

The serbian application Taksiko, presented and defended by Mladjan Antic, gave it his best shot and convinced the audience of Nonick to choose him as The best European Mobile Application. Mladjan was proudly awarded his “txapela” of the champion.

Taksiko -the easy, fast and secure way to “call” a taxi- was claimed the best application in Europe, Trambus won the second position and Nightbits classified third. Mobitto and EdukidsApps also made it tougher to win this exciting competition.

We would like to thank the 143 mobile applications that have taken part in this year’s edition for their time and commitment, it is you who make it high-quality  Facebook users were also important to choose the 20 finalists and of course an special mention to the international jury for selecting  the 5 winners that came to Bilbao on Friday, June 17th to present their projects in Nonick.

Startup 2.0 compettion’s results are reported in varoius european media like the basque news channel Eitb.com (where you can check a video summary of Nonick 011) or the web eastern european business blog Netokracija, and many others!

Thank you all and see you next year in Startup 2.0 2012!

The award giving ceremony to choose the best Europe’s mobile application was held at the closing ceremony of nonick. Nonick was held from June 17th-18th in iTB’s Multibox venue in Bilbao and it was jointly organised by eitb.com, the Basque Government’s Department of Industry via its public company SPRI, in association with CBT. Jason Titus was in charge of closing this year’s Nonick, the third international conference of its kind focusing on internet trends.

Titus is Shazam‘s Chief Technology Officer. Shazam is the application that allows the user to search for the title of any song they hear, by capturing a 10-second caption of that song and cross-checking it at a central database.

The president of Mozilla Europe, Tristan Nitot, kicked off Nonick2011 conference on Friday and he took the opportunity to present the most recent free platform for mobile phone applications which bosses at Firefox’s famous internet navigator are developing in response to opposition posed by Android Market (Google) and the Apple Store.

Jose Simoes, the founder of Mobitto, recommends us to use it together with friends as it is a lifestyle mobile application.

Why does he say so? Because you can not only use it in the street but also at home you can check all the cool discounts nearby even identifying them by the type of offer. Once you discover your best suitable offer, you can share with you friends to enjoy the city together.

A few days after interviewing at Startup 2.0 final event, this portuguese living in Berlin, joined the european startup accelerator Madrid Startupbootcamp, to be held during this summer.

A presentation video of Mobitto:

Mobitto v0.2 from Mobitto on Vimeo.

Taksiko, a project of the young Serbian entrepreneur Mladjan Antic has created the winner mobile application of Startup 2.0 2011 edition.

This innovative service aims to change the way you can call a taxi. A geolocation system and a simple interface allows you to call a taxi at the touch of a button and in a few seconds, the user receives a message with the collection point and time. The application can also indicate special needs, as a generously sized vehicle with particular equipment and so on…

Want to know him? We interviewed him before receiving the honourable “Txapela” of the Champion

Want to give the app a try?

Meet Taksiko from Godzilion on Vimeo.

Integrated with Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter, Nigthbits community allows you to browse the events that are happening around you.

Muharrem Yildirim came from Turkey to Bilbao to explain us how you get detailed event information, see attending friends, get directions to the venue location and read twitter feedbacks with only one app.

We seized the opportunity to make him explain it in detail in front of our camera:

Discover the app yourself!

Sven Kapudija is only 18 and has already launched a mobile application. He hasn’t even joined the University yet!

He came up with the idea of  Trambus one year ago (he was 17 ) and although the project is “still in development and trying to bring some new features to it,like visualizing maps and augmented reality”, people from Zagreb (Croatia) are already using its Android and Mobile version. And it won’t stop in Zagreb, he told us he “would like to connect all the country” in the close future and many others such as Serbia.

Here you can see the whole interview with him after his presentation at Nonick Conference:

Did you like his project? Want to check it out? Here you can:

We tend to think about inspiring ideas that could revolutionize market. Some of them they end up so complicated that eventually nodoby seems to find it as useful as we had thought at first.

Nazar Bilous, on the contrary, just had to look round to find out a real need: to improve his and his partners‘ kids way of learning. That’s how he launched Edukidsapp,  a set of early learning smartphone games for toddlers, pre-schoolers and Grade 1 kids. Beautiful artwork, original music and the educational content of the apps make learning fun, encouraging development of hand-eye coordination and promoting imagination and creativity.

He explained us the whole project after presenting it at the Final at Nonick Conference:

They already have versions for English, Russian, French, Spanish, Polish, Deutch, Ukranian, Dutch,  Italian, Norwegian kids. Here you can see a little demo:

Everything is ready to welcome the 5 finalists that will give it their best shot to win the “txapela” of the champion!

Jose Simoes (Mobitto), Sven Kapudija (Trambus), Nazar Bilous (EdukidsApp), Mladjan Antic (Taksiko) and Muharrem Yildirim (Nightbits) are on the way to Bilbao, where tomorrow at 13.15 they will defend their apps during 5 minutes in front of the Nonick audience!

But @Startup2 competition will not only be seen by  the conference assitants but also by everyone interested in watching Nonick2011 live from 9am from the Multibox room in the EITB offices in Bilbao.

The 5 mobile applications winners of the 5th edition of  Startup 2.0 will compete at Nonick, the International Conference on Internet Trends that will be held on June 17-18 at the headquarters of Eitb in Bilbao. Mobitto, Trambus, EdukidsApp, Taksiko y Nightbits are the projects to fight for the “txapela” of the champion.

143 mobile applications have taken part in this year´s edition. Facebook users have chosen the 20 finalists by voting their favorite 5 with an ad hoc application on the Startup 2.0 facebook page. After that, an international jury formed by 10 VCs and mobile experts from all over Europe have selected the 5 winners that will come to Bilbao next friday to present their projects in Nonick.

During the competition, the developers of Mobitto(Portugal/Germany), Trambus(Croatia), EdukidsApp(UK/Ukraine), Taksiko(Serbia) y Nighbits(Turkey) will have 5 minutes each to defend their application in front of the audience. The assistants will question them and select the winner by introducing their votes in a ballot box.

Gino Miccachi, founder and CTO of 2009 finalist Mobnotes, will co-moderate Nonick 2011. The location-based social network Mobnotes.com has just sold a 30% stake of his startup for €600k, after meeting his buyer Brainspark in Startup 2.0 in Bilbao. Gino tells us that “we really have a debt to pay to Startup 2.0, we met our buyer exactly two years ago during the Bilbao contest. So our exit was made thanks to Startup 2.0″. Since the first edition in 2007, different start-ups have been financed or acquired as a result of this contest : Sclipo, 5min, Nvivo, 11870 , Panoramio or Bubok are some of the successful cases.

We are glad to announce that the 2009 finalist Mobnotes.com has just sold his startup, after meeting his buyer Brainspark in Startup 2.0 in Bilbao.

Gino Miccachi, founder and CTO of the company, tells us that “we really have a debt to pay to Startup 2.0: we met our buyer exactly two years ago during the Bilbao contest. So our exit was made thanks to Startup 2.0″.

Mobnotes (‘mobile notes’) lets users locate nearby friends, shops and restaurants etc. and send location notifications. It has mobile apps for iPhone, Nokia (Symbian), Android and Vodafone 360 as well as a generic mobile site, and claims 150,000 registered users in Italy, “working in conjunction with the major mobile handset manufacturers and networks.”

The AIM listed investment company Brainspark has acquired a 30% stake in the Italian location-based social network Mobnotes. The deal will see Brainspark hand over €600k  equally split between cash and stock.

We are sure several startups taking part in 2011 edition will also succeed the same way!

Here we are again with Startup 2.0 competition.

In 2011, the contest call for european mobile application developers to propose their projects. We are sure this year´s competition is going to be very close!

As you can see in the web, registration and voting procedure will be opened from May 6th to 27th and the 5 finalists will take part in the International Conference on Internet Trends Nonick in Bilbao on June 17th, before a panel of investors, developers and specialists from all around the world.

Besides here in the blog, we also invite you all to share all the information in our new facebook page, where you can vote for your favourite apps.

We wish you all very good luck, may the bests win!