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Here Are The Pitch-Off Contestants For Our TC Barcelona Meetup

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I’d like to announce the pitch-off entrants for our event in Barcelona next week. They are a group of interesting Euro startups with the chops needed to make it globally. If you didn’t make the cut, do not fear: just find us at the event and tell us a little about your startup. We’re happy to take cards and follow up.

Contestants will have two minutes to pitch and four minutes of questions from TC Editors and a local judge. The winner will get a table at TC Disrupt Startup Alley in New York and the runner-up will get two tickets to the event. The contestants are:

Fueloyal
Kompyte
Avegant
Swytch
rendeevoo
Hirestack
EveryLayer
FACEmeeting

Note: the event is sold out. We’re expecting an amazing turn out. I hope you bought your tickets early.

Date: Tuesday March 3, 2015
Time: 19:00 – 22:00. Pitch-off at 20:00.
Details: With open bar and tapas/snacks between 19:30 until 21:30 CET (last round).
Location: Ailaic, Passatge Utset 14, we will team up with the Dutch Mobile Networking Event that is the host.
Cost: €5.50
BUY TICKETS HERE

Thanks to the kind folks at DutchMobileNetworking this year’s Barcelona Meetup And Pitch-Off will be amazing. It’s great to have such a responsive and understanding partner. That said, they are handling all the sponsorship and still need your help. Please email myself at john@beta.prod22.techcrunch.com or Caroline at caroline at dutchmobilenetworking.com.

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ExoClick is a self-funded start-up launched in 2006 by CEO Benjamin Fonzé which he now runs with his brother Adrien (COO). Based in Barcelona, Spain, ExoClick is an innovative global ad network serving 125+ billion geo-targeted ads a month to web and mobile advertiser/publisher platforms via its proprietary software. The company is currently ranked as the 5th largest ad network in the world by W3Techs and is the only Spanish company to be ranked three times in the Deloitte Fast 500. ExoClick is also positioned at number 11 in the Top 20 Best Workplaces in Spain in the category of companies with between 20-49 employees (PYMES).

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Backed by Andreessen-Horowitz, Samsung, Intel and others, BlueStacks is the leader in Mobile Marketing Automation. Started in 2011 and based in Silicon Valley, the company has offices in London, Tokyo and Beijing. BlueStacks’ App Player software enables any mobile app or game to run on PC. Pre-loaded on Lenovo and Asus computers, App Player recently crossed 85 million downloads worldwide.

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On Monday 2nd of March the networking event accommodates 300 Dutch-speaking visitors from the telecom industry that have access through a controlled guest list. The majority of the DMNE visitors are C-level decision makers in the procurement of telecom services, software and hardware. Besides the traditional successful networking event (Monday 2nd of March) DMNE offers visitors a place where they can retreat during event days. It is also possible to organise your own event here in consultation with the organisation. Registered visitors can also attend round table discussions and presentations from this location. Content (like trend updates) from the Mobile World Congress can be followed through the channels of mediapartners Executive-People and Dutch IT-Channel through news feeds, interviews and video updates.

Would you like to sponsor our event? Please contact Caroline at caroline[at] dutchmobilenetworking.com. She has helped organize the entire event so far and is handling the food, drink, and jazz (!!). We look forward to seeing you!

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