At this year’s SBOC - Startup battle of the cities 11 participants we’re pitching their startups and their cities.
1. Paris
Roger Voice is an App that allows the deaf to make phone calls via voice recognition. It’s a mixture between Siri and Skype.
Why found in Paris? When you’re looking for a place to found a startup you want to make sure to have fun over there. That’s why Oliver thinks that Paris is the city!
2. Vilnius
The Trackduck-Team has been working on their Startup for 1,5 years. They already have 10 000 user worldwide and they are giving out free versions for students! So if you’re interested you can always contact the founders at [email protected].
Why found in Vilnius? Low taxes and low living costs, there is a big talent pool, everybody speaks at least two languages: Russian and Englisch and the infrastructure is pretty good. Furthermore the city is beautiful and it has the second best broadband internet connection in Europe and it has a lot of nice places to go out!
3. San Francisco
San Francisco dealt with the problem that many countries in the world are suffering from a severe drought, especially caused by the tremendous amount of water used by the agricultural industry to grow crops.
One solution for this problem is provided by personal farming systems. They are more efficient than the industry, since they only require around 60% of the amount of water the industry uses on average.
The farming systems are available for families or bigger communities. This solution was realized with the help of great investors and mentors who can only be found to that degree in San Francisco.
4. Stockholm
Sprinkle generates automated content recommendations. They founded in 2013, have 3 offices and generate around 1 billion recommendations each month. The Sprinkle-Team believes that content will flow freely around publisher sites. The needs of the publishers will change: they need efficiency, curation and new money. That’s where Sprinkle comes to help.
Why found in Stockholm? Of course because it’s the most beautiful city of the world. It’s the best place to start and run a startup. There are already a lot of swedish starts because Sweden is a innovative country and they love new things there. Don’t forget about all the blondes and last but not least, Sweden has the best VCs in the world: you get paid for going to university so you have more time to focus on your startup!
5. Cologne
Cologne was represented by two young founders who just started their company “evopark”. The main idea is to simplify parking by using their app which shows in realtime all available parking lots in your surrounding area. Their city is supposed to be the best startup hub, since a founder can benefit from the industry, the talents and the capital the city has to offer.
6. Santiago de Chile
Terivu provides the solution for hiring! Consisting out of a great and very diverse team, they are a salesforce for hiring referrals. Planning to go global, their services are already available in english and spanish. The best thing for hiring is referrals, people know by your employees etc. That’s why you would use terivu.
Around a third of Chile’s population is living in Santiago de Chile which is a wonderful city and has a beautiful landscape. Not only the food but also the nightlife and the cultures are amazing.
There is a startup accelerator run by the government, with the goal to make Santiago the Chile the startup hub of latin america for high potential founders. You will get a temporary visa to come.
7. Copenhagen
Copenhagen offered the “airbnb” for bikes. Bike rentals have a tough job trying to answer the demand during peer seasons, furthermore, many people don´t feel comfortable calling a bike rental in a foreign country. The solution is as follows: private persons offer their bikes on cyclister.com, the customer pays online and cyclister receives 10% of the price. Launched three weeks ago, cyclister already has 300 offers online.
8. Dublin
Coindrum allows you to spend unwanted coin currencies before going to another country.
Passengers end up stuck with local coin currency and the sellers in airports don’t sell enough. Coindrum help both sides. You can deposit your coins and either get a duty-free voucher or you can donate them to charity. „Use coins you can’t spend later.“
According to Forbes, Ireland is best country in world to make business. Ireland has a young and educated population and low red tape and tax.
9. Mauritius
Mauritius gave us an insight on what is known as the good life. White sandy beaches, drinks from a coconut and palm trees all over the place. To finance this lifestyle, you need a cashflow machine, great thing you don´t even have to pay any taxes. In this case, the idea was to match “airbnb” to the african market. Well, actually the market for luxury home rental in africa. Today the company Sleepout lists more than 150 extraordinary homes, including even a castle.
10. Chisnau
V1ntage - smart art that suits you
Most artists don’t have skills in Sales and PR. V1intage helps artists to sell their artwork to company. Expansion is a big goal of V1ntage, they rent and sell art and have a goal to get 32M revenue by 2017. The team is very diverse.
Chisnau has a lot of advantages, mistakes come at a very low cost and you can for example hire affordable workforce.
11. Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv is already aware of the upcoming trend “3D printing” the company Pzartech created a platform for the private person to use. If you need to reproduce an Ersatzteil or such, you go to the website, choose your design and they will send it to you.
„Work hard, play hard. Tel Aviv is a modern Sin City on the sea. There are more bars than synagogues. God is a DJ and everyone’s body is a temple“ - Lonely Planet
We are happy to announce that Mauritius is the winner of this year's SBOC!
1. Paris
Roger Voice is an App that allows the deaf to make phone calls via voice recognition. It’s a mixture between Siri and Skype.
Why found in Paris? When you’re looking for a place to found a startup you want to make sure to have fun over there. That’s why Oliver thinks that Paris is the city!
2. Vilnius
The Trackduck-Team has been working on their Startup for 1,5 years. They already have 10 000 user worldwide and they are giving out free versions for students! So if you’re interested you can always contact the founders at [email protected].
Why found in Vilnius? Low taxes and low living costs, there is a big talent pool, everybody speaks at least two languages: Russian and Englisch and the infrastructure is pretty good. Furthermore the city is beautiful and it has the second best broadband internet connection in Europe and it has a lot of nice places to go out!
3. San Francisco
San Francisco dealt with the problem that many countries in the world are suffering from a severe drought, especially caused by the tremendous amount of water used by the agricultural industry to grow crops.
One solution for this problem is provided by personal farming systems. They are more efficient than the industry, since they only require around 60% of the amount of water the industry uses on average.
The farming systems are available for families or bigger communities. This solution was realized with the help of great investors and mentors who can only be found to that degree in San Francisco.
4. Stockholm
Sprinkle generates automated content recommendations. They founded in 2013, have 3 offices and generate around 1 billion recommendations each month. The Sprinkle-Team believes that content will flow freely around publisher sites. The needs of the publishers will change: they need efficiency, curation and new money. That’s where Sprinkle comes to help.
Why found in Stockholm? Of course because it’s the most beautiful city of the world. It’s the best place to start and run a startup. There are already a lot of swedish starts because Sweden is a innovative country and they love new things there. Don’t forget about all the blondes and last but not least, Sweden has the best VCs in the world: you get paid for going to university so you have more time to focus on your startup!
5. Cologne
Cologne was represented by two young founders who just started their company “evopark”. The main idea is to simplify parking by using their app which shows in realtime all available parking lots in your surrounding area. Their city is supposed to be the best startup hub, since a founder can benefit from the industry, the talents and the capital the city has to offer.
6. Santiago de Chile
Terivu provides the solution for hiring! Consisting out of a great and very diverse team, they are a salesforce for hiring referrals. Planning to go global, their services are already available in english and spanish. The best thing for hiring is referrals, people know by your employees etc. That’s why you would use terivu.
Around a third of Chile’s population is living in Santiago de Chile which is a wonderful city and has a beautiful landscape. Not only the food but also the nightlife and the cultures are amazing.
There is a startup accelerator run by the government, with the goal to make Santiago the Chile the startup hub of latin america for high potential founders. You will get a temporary visa to come.
7. Copenhagen
Copenhagen offered the “airbnb” for bikes. Bike rentals have a tough job trying to answer the demand during peer seasons, furthermore, many people don´t feel comfortable calling a bike rental in a foreign country. The solution is as follows: private persons offer their bikes on cyclister.com, the customer pays online and cyclister receives 10% of the price. Launched three weeks ago, cyclister already has 300 offers online.
8. Dublin
Coindrum allows you to spend unwanted coin currencies before going to another country.
Passengers end up stuck with local coin currency and the sellers in airports don’t sell enough. Coindrum help both sides. You can deposit your coins and either get a duty-free voucher or you can donate them to charity. „Use coins you can’t spend later.“
According to Forbes, Ireland is best country in world to make business. Ireland has a young and educated population and low red tape and tax.
9. Mauritius
Mauritius gave us an insight on what is known as the good life. White sandy beaches, drinks from a coconut and palm trees all over the place. To finance this lifestyle, you need a cashflow machine, great thing you don´t even have to pay any taxes. In this case, the idea was to match “airbnb” to the african market. Well, actually the market for luxury home rental in africa. Today the company Sleepout lists more than 150 extraordinary homes, including even a castle.
10. Chisnau
V1ntage - smart art that suits you
Most artists don’t have skills in Sales and PR. V1intage helps artists to sell their artwork to company. Expansion is a big goal of V1ntage, they rent and sell art and have a goal to get 32M revenue by 2017. The team is very diverse.
Chisnau has a lot of advantages, mistakes come at a very low cost and you can for example hire affordable workforce.
11. Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv is already aware of the upcoming trend “3D printing” the company Pzartech created a platform for the private person to use. If you need to reproduce an Ersatzteil or such, you go to the website, choose your design and they will send it to you.
„Work hard, play hard. Tel Aviv is a modern Sin City on the sea. There are more bars than synagogues. God is a DJ and everyone’s body is a temple“ - Lonely Planet
We are happy to announce that Mauritius is the winner of this year's SBOC!