Congratulations to our Startup Competition winners!

1st Place Winner - Beintoo

2nd Place Winner - HeyCrowd 

3rd Place Winner - Babelverse

People's Choice Award - Echo Labs Limited 

1st Place Winner - Beintoo

Beintoo is the first gamification of app development for web and mobile developers.

2nd Place Winner - HeyCrowd

You can download their app for free in the Appstore now to find out what crowds around you think

3rd Place Winner - Babelverse

Babelverse puts people and companies that need real time translation together.

People's Choice Award - Echo Labs Limited 

Echoer is a new app that enables you to shape and explore a world of thoughts around you.

We enjoyed seeing all 16 of you present during our sessions Day 1 & 2, and want to congratulate all of the teams that participated. 

Thank you to Guidewire Group that helped us select, coach, and host this portion of LeWeb.

Each of the 16 finalists presented on our Eiffel Stage in front of a panel of top judges, and the final 3 presented their pitch before a panel of select judges on the mainstage.

The People's Choice Award winner was chosen with the help of your votes on our YouTube channel created in collaboration with Google. 

Thank you to our wonderful panel of judges for the finale:

• Jean-David Blanc, Entrepreneur & Business Angel, Founder of AlloCine
• Jacques-Antoine Granjon, Founder & CEO, vente-privee.com
• Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder, PROfounders Capital & Founder & Executive Chairman,
• mydeco
• Pierre Kosciuscko Morizet, Co-Founder & CEO, PriceMinister & Co-Founder of ISAI, The
• French Entrepreneurs' Fund.
• Xavier Niel, Founder of the Iliad Group, Free’s parent company; Vice‐President and Director of Strategy, Iliad
• Marc Simoncini, Founder & CEO, MEETIC

 

 

Posted by Michelle Chmielewski

 

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