Startup 2.0 2012 focuses on Gaming to give fledging game developers from all over Europe the opportunity to participate in this Contest.

Aimed since 2007 at promoting technology based entrepreneurs, Startup 2.0 is back here in 2012 and registration  for game developers is opened from May 14th to 30th for startup companies and individuals.

The 5 finalists, voted by online users on facebok and by a gaming expert international Jury, will again present their projects in Nonick, the International Internet Trends Conference to be held in Bilbao in June 15th-16th. The organisation will cover all travel, accommodation and allowance expences to come and stay in Bilbao.

All the information about submission, online voting and prizes is HERE.

Along with the opportunity playing a leading role in Nonick, this year we are delighted to offer different prizes to the winners:

ArcticStartup will offer to the winning team 2 free tickets to Arctic15, the annual conference for Nordic and Baltic growth entrepreneurs that will be held in Helsinki in October 17th and 18th, which includes a startup competition.

The 5 finalists will receive a 60% discount on tickets to The Next Conference in Amsterdam 2013.

Microsoft Bizspark Spain will reward one of the developers with a Nokia Lumia 800. To be eligible for this prize, game must be native applications of Windows Phone, applications Metro of Windows 8 or with its backend hosted in Windows Azure.

Wayra will also provide finalists with an special present.

Beaz, The Regional Innovation Agency, will rewrad one of the participants with a special prize consisting of financial support for investment, business plan advice and logistic help for its office establishment in the county of Bizkaia.

Carlos Polo knows his startup by heart, we can clearly notice it. He goes to the point when it comes to introduce Doocuments, the company he founded.

He came up with the idea of “The evolution of pdf” when 3 years ago his former company “won a project because we had the competitors proposals printed over my table…I’m no proud of it, but that’s how we thought that it would be very useful for companies to track in a very detailed way and control the VIP docs they send over te e-mail“.

And what is a VIP document? you would be wondering. Easy: “Confidential information, business quotation, marketing collaterals…whatever you want to get controlled” he stats.

Although they have been focused on the author of the e-mail side since the outset if the project in 2010, their aim is to evolve towards the reader-understanding of the doc-side.

P.S. : It is free for enterpreneurs  Check out the interview if you want to learn more about them:

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.

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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 is a project of the young Serbian entrepreneur Mladjan Antic: the winner of this 2011′s 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: