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    Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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    Well, after a tonne of entries and a pretty intense sifting process, Le Web, the annual gathering of the tech tribes in Paris, has announced the names of the 16 startups that will present during the startup competition — organised for the first time this year in partnership with TechCrunch Europe.

    The companies selected are either existing companies launching new products or new startups entirely. As you can probably tell from the list, Le Web is very much going back to its roots. This is Le Web’s 6th edition and the startup competition has been going on since 2006 (the 4th edition is this year). So we’ll be using this platform to help some of the earliest stage companies get traction with their ideas. I think it’s going to be exciting to watch.

    We’ll also be running a pretty interactive event with Q&A of each startup and the opportunity for the audience to ask questions as well.

    Here is the list in alphabetical format, with just company name and URL. We’ll be fleshing this out on the day with some live blogging of the event on TechCrunch Europe & TechCrunch.

    Le Web will also give a standing table spot for each startup to show their product (for free btw) during the two day event, so if you don’t catch their pitch you’ll be able to catch them on their booth.

    • CloudSplit
    • FitnessKeeper, Inc.
    • FriendBinder
    • Kukunu
    • Mendeley
    • Shutl
    • Siteheart Inc
    • Sokoz
    • Sports Predictions
    • Storific
    • Stribe
    • Superfeedr
    • task.ly
    • the hyper words company
    • Wordy
    • Yeasty Mobs

    The judges for the startup competition this year will be:

    Nelly Barbault, Paris Development
    Matthieu Baret, Partner, AGF Private Equity
    Roberto Bonanzinga, Partner, Balderton Capital
    Laurent Chiozzotto, Sun Start-Up Essentials Program Manager, Sun
    Microsystems
    Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
    Julien Codorniou, Business Development Manager, Microsoft BizSpark
    Jean-Louis Constanza, CEO, Orange Vallee
    Saul Klein, Partner, Index Ventures
    Guillaume Lautour, Partner, AGF Private Equity
    Dave McClure, Startup Investor & Troublemaker
    Thomas Serval, Developer and Platform Ecosystem Lead,
    Microsoft France
    Mike Sigal, President & Chief Development Officer, Guidewire Group
    Bjorn Kvarby, Head of International Business, Shopping.com
    Stephane Folliet, European Business Development, Shopping.com

    In addition, TechCrunch has managed to secure a handy 250 euros discount on a Le Web ticket for anyone out there, with the code TechCrunch – the direct URL is here.

    • http://viralcurve.com Ricardo

      Wish I was there, seems like a really cool event.

      Hey Mike, how about a small one paragraph write-up of these companies? That would be great.

    • http://twitter.com/taskly task.ly

      Hey, thanks for the post!

      Could you change the link for task.ly to “http://task.ly” instead of “http://task.ly/teaser”?

      The teaser page is not really ready for all the traffic just yet. :)

    • http://twitter.com/taskly task.ly

      Scratch my last comment, we fixed it.

    • http://www.gamecreds.com Tim

      We should have applied…. :(

      Gratz anyway to the winners! :-)

    • http://foodik.ru Aleks

      Can’t wait for task.ly to launch.

    • http://www.shutl.co.uk tom allason

      Looks like judges had a field day on the Ss. Not that we are complaining…

    • Fred

      What are the companies from outside France? Why is there no startup from Germany, Europe’s strongest and most innovative economy?

    • Peter

      “Yeasty Mobs” has to be one of the worst names I’ve ever heard.

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