Northern StartUp DEMO 3

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on Mon, 2008-02-11 17:43

Start: 2008-06-16 18:00
Finish: 2008-06-16 21:00
Northern StartUp DEMO 3 on 16th June 2008 at eOffice Manchester

PROGRAMME:

Doors open at 18:00 hrs.

VENUE:

eOffice Manchester

North of England's premier event for Northern Digital Startups to present their businesses to an audience of like minded individuals made up of entrepreneurs, investors, deal makers and service providers, in an informal setting. We have the pleasure of welcoming Reshma Sohoni, CEO of Seedcamp to the North. Seedcamp is where Europe's top young founders come together in one place.

Is this event for you? Be part of the Northern ecosystem

Northern StartUp 2.0 is North of England's premier event series for Digital Startups to meet, learn and share experience with like minded individuals made up of entrepreneurs, investors, deal makers and service providers, in an informal setting. Are you a startup or early stage digital technology company? Or have you got a killer idea with some early code you want to tell others about? Are you looking for seedcorn or second round of funding, team members, mentors, partners, and/or ideas to commercialise your product? Do you need help writing your business plan? Have you got loads of money and love to invest in startups? Do you provide support services (e.g. PR)? Are you a blogger or journalist looking for breaking news? Or do you just like to hang out with startups? Or do you want to know how to leverage technologies to achieve a competitive advantage? If so, this event is for you.


Programme:

18:00 to 18:30 Registration & Networking
18:30 to 19:00 Keynote Speech
19:00 to 20:00 Presentations by Northern Startups
20:00 to 21:00 Table top demos to audience and Networking
Kro bar (opposite venue) for networking till early hours

Keynote Speech - Reshma Sohoni, CEO, SeedCamp

Reshma will share her thoughts on SeedCamp and European Startups. Seedcamp is an intensive week long event held in September in London targeted at young entrepreneurs from across EMEA. Seedcamp provide seed funding and world-class connections for startups. Companies funded in 2007 include:

* Buildersite - the “clicks and motar” company, is a web-marketplace for construction services.
* Hypernumbers.com - making a spreadsheet out of the web and doing for numbers what hypertext did for text.
* Kublax - synchronizes personal financial data and presents the info in a visual, user-friendly format.
* Tablefinder - a search and booking engine for restaurant tables and a marketing platform for restaurants.
* Rent Mine Online - a web-marketplace facilitating the renting of private property and belongings.
* Zemanta - a ‘content intelligence’ platform to enhance content, adding useful links, keywords and images.


Company Presentations

1. Kagtum
2. edocr
3. nTrail
4. NetRecords
5. Simul
6. HobbySpace
7. Mgami
8. phonefromhere

Attendance Fees (inclusive of VAT):

£10 for students
£25 for eOffice Community (must inform prior to event)
£30 for all others

Please bring correct amount in cash, cheque (payable to eveo Ltd) or bank transfer directly to Account No. 21281917 Sort Code 40-17-06. Please use reference "NS20DEMO3"

Note: Annual subscription is £250 inclusive of VAT

Speakers

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Reshma Sohoni
Seedcamp

Reshma joined Seedcamp from the Venture team at 3i. Prior to 3i, Reshma spent over 3 years at Vodafone in their Commercial Strategy team, working across the Europe and Japan footprints in marketing strategy and pricing functions. Reshma started her career in the US in investment banking (Broadview) and venture capital (Softbank).

Seedcamp is a Europe-wide initiative to provide a catalyst for the next generation of young/first-time entrepreneurs in Europe to gain access to seed capital and a world-class network of mentors.

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Kagtum
Kagtum

Imagine:
* a website where you & your community can add and edit stories about your neighbourhood
* a news website that learned what you were interested in and tailored content automatically
* a media outlet that gave you direct access to the original source material, every time
* a tailored calendar showing events that will affect you in the future
* a discussion consisting of quality editorial from people who are respected experts in their field

You won't have to imagine for much longer. Kagtum will be launching the first cut at this event.

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edocr
edocr

Dubbed YouTube, iTunes, Amazon and SpeedDating for business documents (DocCasting), edocr's mission is to make business document interactivity a reality today. Our concentration at present is helping businesses to generate leads through their documents (you heard right, lead generation through pdfs). Why not open a free account and give your business documents a new leaf of life today! Be pleasantly surprised!

LinkedIn Profile
nTrail
nTrail

nTrail is a comprehensive Service Management CRM System, a pure web based implementation. Designed specifically to help SME leverage towards corporate standard functionality at a lower cost. The application consists of major CRM components: Account, Contact, Incident, Problem, Change, Sales, Opportunity and Asset management. Service management components follow the ITIL principles

With simple and easy to use user interface, nTrail brings standard cooperative processes that results in improved visibility and customer satisfaction. Information is shared with teams while retaining accountability resulting in rapid and speedy resolution.

Customer participation is key, with nTrail customers can see the progress of any issue they have raised and contribute in successful conclusion.

Now “Enjoy the benefits that were once only affordable by the corporate sector”

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NetRecords
NetRecords

Net Records is the number one social networking site on the web for musicians, songwriters and performers. An interactive community tailored towards unsigned musical talent. If you love playing or listening to new music then Net Records has a wealth
of resources to meet your musical needs.Artists can upload their music and videos to their very own space on the web. Artists will also have access to a fully editable
profile which includes band description, history, gigs, links and photos. Music fans can search for the latest sensation and download tracks and videos at their leisure. They can make bands or other listeners their 'friends' and start their own little music community based around their own specific musical tastes. Don't be fooled by other social networking sites that cater for musicians and music fans - this is a dedicated resource run by people who care about music.

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Simul
Simul

Simul is a technology framework for games and simulation software. The principles of Simul are flexibility, useability and abstraction. The framework itself doesn’t do anything, we use it to rapidly develop technology like the Simul Clouds SDK.

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HobbySpace
HobbySpace

HobbySpace is a free social networking service launched in the UK in August 2007. The tag line for HobbySpace is …get involved.

The aim of HobbySpace is to encourage people to take part in activities in their free time and helps people with similar interests to find clubs and societies and meet and socialise with one another. This is particularly true in the case where an individual moves to an unfamiliar part of the country, looks to start up a new hobby or wishes to partake in an activity that they have since lost touch with.

The initial idea for HobbySpace was based around trying to find sports clubs and teams and for sports clubs to promote themselves and keep in touch with potential and existing members. This initial premise was expanded because of the observation that a large proportion of activities and pastimes aren't sport related and that the same person that plays a sport may also have a keen interest in other pursuits such as music or literature.

As a result, the current format has the lists ten different categories in which clubs should associate themselves with. The names and the main divisions of the categories are based around the way that The University of Sheffield's Union of students chose to categorise their clubs and societies. This is due mainly to the fact that three of the four co-founders of HobbySpace attended The University of Sheffield.

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Mgami
Mgami

mGami are building the next generation open mobile gaming platform. mGami help independent game development companies and web-developers to create, and monetize, casual multiplayer games for mobile phones. mGami is VC backed with investments from Rising Stars and South Yorkshire Investment Fund. mGami is actively recruiting software developers and we're looking for creative individuals/companies to beta test our platform

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phonefromhere
Westhawk Ltd

PhoneFromHere.com delivers instant, verbal communication to Web users and online communities with no requirement for the end-user to surrender personal information, use a phone or download software. The service includes end-user analysis and custom integration into an existing Website. PhoneFromHere.com gives Web users the opportunity to leverage person-to-person or person-to-group speech within the context of a Website, enabling the Webpage to become the handset. PhoneFromHere.com can contribute to increasing your Websites traffic and stickiness by delivering worry-free, live voice chat opportunities.

* Speech offers a more effective means for communication (i.e. voice inflection, pitch, tone, etc.)
* Increases Website stickiness due to duration of live voice chats (i.e. increasing user residency time on the Webpage)
* Platform/Browser agnostic (i.e. 25% of the market use browsers other than Internet Explorer)
* Customisable to fit the theme, look, feel, and objectives of the host Websites and online communities