startups

Procter & Gamble, world leader in consumer-goods products, is searching for innovative startups to collaborate with them on new IT solutions and services. P&G would like to meet the startups during the Lift Conference which will take place in Geneva from 2 to 4 February 2011. Please contact Filippo Catalano (catalano.fi@pg.com) to sign up for a meeting with the P&G managers on 2 February in Geneva and maybe have a chance to count one of the world's largest company among your first clients :)

This call for projects is reserved to companies active in one of these 4 areas:

• Information visualization techniques
• Mobile applications development platform
• Mobile Business Intelligence solutions
• Real time/right time Information

For further information on each of these subjects, please click on each link above to see what P&G is looking for precisely.

We are awaiting your applications.

PS: startups enlisted in the Alp ICT Venture Program will also be proposed this opportunity if they are active in one of the fields requested.

^{Edouard Lambelet of paper.li presenting at Lift10.}

The AlpICT cluster and a group of organizations promoting Swiss entrepreneurship have teamed up with Lift to facilitate access to the 2011 edition of the conference for:

• companies based in Western Switzerland (read below if you are outside of that region)
• no size/age restrictions are in place this year, startups AND larger/older companies can apply

Tickets and much more!

This year's package includes:

• Two tickets for the full conference. One ticket offered by Alp ICT & partners (value: CHF 1800)
• You will present during the Alp ICT venture night on the Lift stage alongside legendary blogger Robert Scoble.
• Optionnal: You can also reserve a dedicated space inside the networking zone where you can demo your product. For companies offering online and event solutions, your services could be used inside the conference if they add value to conference participants (value: CHF 3000).
• Coaching by an Accenture consultant to perfect your presentation.
• Coverage of the initiative in ICT journal

Prices for these packages

Option 1: 2 tickets + presentation at the venture night: 1'000chf.
Option 2: 4 tickets + presentation at the venture night + booth : 2'500chf

To apply, please download the application form and email it to info@alpict.ch

For companies outside of Western Switzerland, send us your application and we will offer you tickets and booths at a reduced price.

Supported by

As part of our focus to create diversity in the people attending the conference, we setup a huge startups operation in partnership with Alp ICT, Canton de Genève, The Ark, Creapole and the CTI. These entrepreneurship promotion organizations teamed up to offer young companies of Western Switzerland a chance to attend Lift at a discounted price, and to demo their products and services inside a startup corner and during the venture night.

You will meet the following companies at Lift10:

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  Did you ever wish you could send a message that would reflect your mood or let you express the more creative side of your personality? Well, now there is an... » view more
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  HyperWeek provides the next-generation platform for companies & institutions to socialize their content assets and enable their consumers and employees... » view more
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  Arimaz has developed a technology platform to enable the creation of interactive objects, connected with Internet. The mydeskfriend robot, a desk companion... » view more
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  Atizo administers a growing web-community of creative thinkers, who are characterised by their user, consumer and special knowledge. For the mobilisation of... » view more
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  Fairtilizer is a « Do it yourself » music club.

  We have created tools that allow people or businesses with audio files to centrally manage them... » view more

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  IceCube.Net is an intuitive content management system heavily using drag&drop to produce content. Simple for the contributors in terms of content... » view more
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  SalsaDev SA is a software company specializing in Semantic Search technology, with strong areas of expertise in cognitive sciences, data mining and computer... » view more
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  3/4 of leisure’s activities are based on peer recommendation. The marketing costs of an event are between 15% and 25%. On one hand mixin helps users to... » view more
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  New Technologies working for the fun and design such is our vision. The pattern of consumption of media is in full revolution with the arrival of the... » view more
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  SECU4 develops for its client new protection solutions for valuables and people based on wireless technologies.

  The BlueWatchDog is a personal alarm... » view more

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  Simpliquity creates a new type of computer, Interactive Lamps, based on novel interfaces such as paper documents and physical objects. They replace... » view more
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  Through a turnkey service platform, ShopAlive gives retail business operators a better way to blur the lines between their real and virtual spaces. Based on... » view more
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  What happened while you were gone?

  sobees helps you make sense of your world and the world by combining them together.

  sobees makes it easier... » view more

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  ICT Generics SA develops, markets and widely distributes low cost innovative technological solutions that can offer user functionalities similar to... » view more
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  Creators of paper.li or how to read any Twitter stream as a daily newspaper - more on www.smallrivers.com.

The Alp ICT cluster and a group of organizations promoting Swiss entrepreneurship have teamed up with Lift to facilitate access to the 2010 edition of the conference for:

Startups based in Western Switzerland
Founded less than four years ago
With less than twenty employees

If you think your project fits the above description, you can apply for one of the fifteen packages that include:

Two tickets (one of them offered by Alp ICT and its partners) for the full Lift10 conference (value CHF 1700).

Dedicated space inside the Alp ICT startup corner where you can demo your product. For startups offering online solutions, your services could be presented on the Lift website if they add value to conference participants (value: CHF 3000).

Bonus: eight of the fifteen companies will be chosen to present during the Alp ICT venture night on the big stage alongside legendary investor Neil Rimer of Index Ventures.

Price for this package: CHF 1'250.- HT.

To apply, please download the application form and email it to info@alpict.ch.

Please note:
• If you would like to benefit from this package and already registered for Lift10, contact us and we will cancel your earlier ticket.
• This offer is made possible by organizations promoting entrepreneurship in Western Switzerland. If you are a young company from somewhere else in the world, get in touch to see how we could facilitate your participation to the conference.

Supported by

The amazing presentations we had yesterday, as well as stephanie's speech this morning all give the same message : if you have an idea, go ahead !

Among you, who thinks he will be on stage next year or just like yesterdays finalist, preparing a pitch ?

Here are the posts on yesterdays presentations :
http://blog.profession-web.ch/index.php/459-mixin-ease-your-social-life
http://blog.profession-web.ch/index.php/458-clipperz-protect-your-intern...
http://blog.profession-web.ch/index.php/457-holistis-concentrating-on-yo...
http://blog.profession-web.ch/index.php/456-viewdle-searching-through-vi...
http://blog.profession-web.ch/index.php/462-pixelus-real-time-animation
http://blog.profession-web.ch/index.php/463-wuala-stored-and-encrypted-p...
http://blog.profession-web.ch/index.php/464-io-making-interface-visual

Add your own venture in the comment list if they are by any chance linked or inspired by the conference :