Starting today, Tiburon-TV will be publishing a new Monday series „The Top 5“. We picked the five most promising German Startups to kick off this new weekly series: Plista, barcoo, Twidox, Yoose and hiogi.
Berlin-based startup plista.com, co-founded by Dominik Matyka, offers a personalized Internet user-experience and helps you discover new relevant content. It works on every channel as well as cross-domain as an item independent browser extension. Plista’s CIO Andreas Richter presented the startup at the Plugg Conference’s Startups Rally.
Another startup from Germany’s dynamic capital city is barcoo.com, co-founded by Benjamin Thym. Barcoo’s mission is to offer transparency to consumers during shopping: The product’s 1D-barcode can be scanned with the barcoo application on one’s mobile
and the consumer gets test ratings, local price comparisons and recommendations as well as ecological information on the scanned product.
Wiesbaden-based startup twidox.com – founded by twin brothers Nicholas and Daniel MacGowan von Holstein as well as Jan Deppe is a free online library of documents that allows users and organizations to upload, share and manage their documents with direct access to any documents that can be found. The company focuses on large organizations within the European market and cooperates with Amazon, the United Nations and Creative Commons.
Twidox has won third place of the best start-ups at this year’s Nonick conference in Bilbao and has been selected for the elevator pitch at next09.
Yoose.com will be launching very soon its mobile coupon platform in Berlin with a very localized offering for Berlin-based retailers. „As soon as we have the first returns out of that launch, then we’ll take it quickly to other German cities and later on we’ll go international“, says founder and CEO Christian Geissendoerfer and adds „we’ll look into Asian countries since they are very open to new technology.“ The German startup teamed up with Aloqa and presented its service at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February.
Question & answer portal hiogi.com offers high-quality mobile answers for all mobile questions. All questions via the mobile portals or wireless email are free. To learn more about the startup, please watch hiogi's pitch from Le Mobile 2.0 as well as a mini video with hiogi’s co-founder and CEO Björn Behrendt.
Please note that in next Monday's "The Top 5" we will be presenting "The 5 Most Promising Swiss Startups"
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Viktoria’s first interview from MobileCamp Dresden is with Benjamin Thym, co-founder and CEO of Berlin-based startup barcoo.com: „It is our mission to offer transparency to consumers during shopping.“ In a short presentation, Benjamin starts the barcoo application on his mobile and scans a barcode. After the product is identified via internet on the phone, he gets test ratings, local price comparisons and recommendations as well as ecological information on the scanned product. Benjamin points out that „it is a barcoo innovation to use 1D-barcodes, which are already on every product unlike other mobile startups that are doing 2D-barcodes.“
Barcoo’s three co-founders all grew up in Tuebingen, a traditional university town in Southern Germany. In order to found the mobile startup at the end of 2007, they all quit their jobs and moved to Berlin. Barcoo is self-financed with additional support from the EU and will be receiving investment at the end of this year. Benjamin explains: „We do mobile marketing and context sensitive advertising as well as shopping provisions. On top of that we offer premium information to costumers, i.e. ‚traffic lights’ for groceries with too much fat or sugar in it.“ The barcoo app works on Nokia, Sony Ericsson as well as on Google Androids and will be offered quite soon for Blackberries and iPhones.
Barcoo is still looking for partners with interesting information for shopping consumers and will most probably be offering a revenue share – so go for it...
More interviews from MobileCamp Dresden will follow in the days to come here.