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Prague, June 4, 2013, Demo Day for 6 teamsTRANSCRIPT
StartupYard 2013 Demo Day
Tue 4th June 2013MeetFactory
Prague
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Table Of Contents Program
Warm-up
Welcome Note
Y Combinator Lessons Learnt by Andrej Pancik
Pitches & Judges Q&A
Pitch Feedback by Judges
Wrap-up and Awards
Networking & Afterparty at MeetFactory
Program 3
Partners 4
Wilken Bruns / Peter Fabian 5
Amit Paunikar / Michael Schuster 6
Michael Truban / Andrej Pancik 7
AirCharts.co 8
Hlidacky.cz 9
StartitUp 12
Travelatus 13
Works.io 14
Yummy Food 15
Thanks To 16
Our Favorite Entrepreneurs and Companies 17
6:00pm
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6:25pm
6:35pm
7:45pm
8:00pm
8:05pm
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Wilken Bruns Wilken is the Co-Founder & COO Startupbootcamp Berlin. He is a German entrepreneur, born and raised in Africa. He designed an accelerator program for Maastricht University, co-founded 3 Day Startup Maastricht, was COO of Startup Camp Berlin ‘12, and board member of the Entrepreneurs Club Berlin e.V. Just for fun he sells monkikoys online. He loves his job, so besides startups he doesn’t really have any hobbies.
Peter Fabian Peter currently serves as a VP of Business Development at Zaelnorth LLC, a Silicon Valley consultancy firm that advises companies on business operations. He started his career in the software industry, eventually becoming COO of iPharro Media, a video fingerprinting startup and a successful spin-off from the Fraunhofer Institute. More recently, Peter was the Managing Director of Rocket Internet USA, an American branch of the most successful European startup incubator. His latest engagement was as a VP of Operations at Talenthouse, the world’s leading platform for creative collaboration where he restructured the core business operations. Peter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research from Princeton University and an MBA from Stanford University. In his spare time he enjoys independent overland travel, most recently to destinations in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Partners Judges
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Judges
Amit Paunikar Amit is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mediastudio. A seasoned product manager, he has over 12 years of experience delivering innovative and highly scalable products for big and small companies. Prior to Mediastudio, he was the VP, Products at Marketshare and helped launch their flagship product. Prior to Marketshare, he spent time in product organizations at Google and Yahoo! where he worked on advertising, search and video. In AdWords he launched a new bidding product
that quickly ramped up to over $300MM in annual run-rate, earning a mention during Google’s quarterly earnings call. He also spent time as the lead Product Manager for Google Video. Amit holds an M.S. in Computer Networks from University of Southern California and a B.S. in Computer Technology from VJTI, University of Mumbai. He holds 4 patents in the field of computer networks, advertising and analytics.
Michael Schuster Michael is Partner at Speedinvest, an early stage Business Angel Fund in Vienna, Austria. He built Social Publishing Services when Blogger didn’t exist, helped the European Media Industry understand and use semantic technologies and ended up in the wonderful role of working with entrepreneurs all day long. Within Speedinvest he is responsible for all startups in Media / Publishing, Semantics / Search, Enterprise Software and Food / Beverages. When not busy with looking at pitchdecks or judging at Demo Day, he helps the portfolio companies in very hands-on fashion to run and grow their business, most likely in operative roles in Corporate and Business Development, that is, huh, Sales and Operations. He loves good food, good music and good friends.
Judges
Michal TrubanMichal is a serial entrepreneur and manager with a passion for business, internet, startups, blogging, marketing, UI/UX and customer service. He has built Websupport.sk from scratch to lovemark the biggest webhosting company in Slovakia with branches around Central Europe. He has built Websupport.sk from scratch to lovemark the biggest webhosting company in Slovakia with branches around Central Europe. Apart from passionate blogging about business and startups, he does triathlon, plays ultimate frisbee, reads a lot and parties hard at times.
Andrej PancikAndrej received a bachelors degree in Applied Informatics from Masaryk University. After that he spent time at the University of Nottingham playing with portfolio optimisation. Recently he dropped out of his D.Phil studies in Computer Science at The University of Oxford focused on computer vision of intelligent systems to pursue entrepreneurship. Among his work experience one can find technology divisions of CERN laboratories, investment bank UBS, or corporate Microsoft. He is currently trying to change the world with Prizeo (Y Combinator – the batch of Winter 2013) – new fund rising platform that connects celebrities, charities, brands and the public to do a lot of good things together.
Speaker
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AboutWe bring to Google Analytics what Apple has brought to UX.
SolvingTime-consuming and complex set up of web analytics
MoneyFreemium and monthly subscription plans based on a number of unique visitors
The biggest achievement in the past 3 monthsPivot from HowDoI Tutorials to AirCharts, beta version of a Chrome Extension allowing Google Analytics data retrieval and displaying it as an overlay on your website, got an advisor
Lukas Haraga, Jiri Otahal, Michal Pustka
AboutWe connect caring parents with trustworthy babysitters.
SolvingIt is hard to find trustworthy babysitters with a few clicks of the mouse.
MoneyCommission from babysitting
The biggest achievement in the past 3 months80 babysittings. Checked! 200 babysitters. Checked!
David Hrachovy, Petr Sigut, Vaclav Kuna
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AboutWe help startups build successful businesses.
Solving9 out of 10 startups fail.
MoneyMembership
The biggest achievement in the past 3 monthsReached 1200 startups
[email protected]@startitupco
Edward Liu, Yitao Sun
AboutWe simplify travel to music, sport and other events by providing easy search and booking combined with a recommendation system.
SolvingLost time and opportunities when planning a trip
MoneyBooking commission
The biggest achievement in the past 3 monthsLaunched beta, got user flow, accepted to participate in Demo Europe and PhocusWright Innovation Summit, got an advisor.
[email protected]@Travelatus
Valentin Dombrovsky, Vitaliy Korobkin, Denis Volkov
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AboutLinkedIn + Etsy for Fine Art
SolvingArtists’ professional / career needs
MoneyFreemium & Marketplace
The biggest achievement in the past 3 monthsFrom prototype to public beta with over 100 artists from 12 countries, and more than 1000 art works added
[email protected]@works_io
Abe Han, Patrick Urwyler
AboutFood delivery and catering for business centres
SolvingHelping busy people to eat quality lunch at the desk
MoneyDirect sale (online payment, invoice, subscriptions)
The biggest achievement in the past 3 monthsWe executed in 6 weeks.
Kristina Sediva, Vasek Riha
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A Special Thanks ToOndrej BartosVojta BednarMichal BlahaDavid BoothDamian BrhelZdenek CendraTomas CuprVaclav DejcmarMarek DobryPavel DolezalStepan DoubravaMilos EndrleBarry EvansViktor FischerLukas FittlFilip FranekKarel FuksaNathan GoldJan HabermannMichal HanusMarcel van der Hei-jdenFrancis HellyerLukas HrdlickaPetra HubacovaLukas HurychImre Hild
Vit HorkyMichal IllichPetr JohanesJaroslav KabelePeter KadasMartin KoptaAndrej KiskaAdam KurzokPetr KrajicekTomas KozubekTamas LaszloCedric MalouxBarnabas MalnayPetr ManasPavel MatousekJakub NesetrilOlda NeubergerLudovic NeveuTomas NielsenKarel OblukPetr OcasekPetr OlmerAndrej PancikJosef PaculaAmit PaunikarRoman PeskinPeter Polgar
Robin RaszkaDiane RobertsEmily SampsonHenning SchwarzMichal SchusterJan SedivyPetr SidloRoman SmelyRoman SmolaJaroslav SoucekJan StanekPetr StanekPavel StovicekFrantisek StruplRoman StupkaDavid SzilagyiCharrise TayJaroslav TrojanAriel TseitlinRastislav TurekJan UrbanTomas VavrdaDusan VitekTomas VrbickyIrena ZatloukalovaAdam ZbiejczukPavel Zima
And thank you to anyone we might have missed. We couldn’t have done it without your support along the way!
Some of Our Favorite Entrepreneurs and Companies
Google Elon Musk
37signals
Canonical
AHOLDElon Musk
Tim Ferriss
Mark ShuttleworthAirbnbSpaceX
Paul Graham
Eugene ChichvarkinDominik Ziingg
Steve Jobs Henry Ford
All quality restaurants and food providersFood startups
Roman Vanek
Zdenek PohlreichJamie OliverKaikai Kiki
Kyle McDonald
Space for Your Thoughts Space for Your Thoughts
www.startupyard.cz
@startup_yard