Posts Tagged ‘Charles Nouyrit’

After introducing SIME last week, we would like to recommend another great event to you: LeWeb, the #1 European Internet conference that takes place every year in Paris.

The 6th edition of LeWeb will be held on Dec 9th and 10th 2009 and is all about the "Real-Time Web". LeWeb not only wants to be a tech conference but an event touching on more wide-reaching topics. Its main stage program will be featuring internet leaders and visionary entrepreneurs as well as world renowed voices like author Paulo Coehlo or designer Philippe Starck. To submit discussion topic ideas or speakers please click here.

Adjacent to the plenary stage, there are special Networking Zones (there even was a mobile sauna for tired conference attendees at LeWeb 2008!) Please click here to register to the conference.

As in the past, LeWeb 2009 will be running a StartUp Competition: The best 20 applications will be selected to make a 6-min-demonstration of a new product. To submit your company please click here.

Out of the many amazing and talented people that attended LeWeb 2008, Viktoria interviewed sevenload’s co-founders Ibrahim Evsan and Thomas Bachem, David Hornik from August Capital as well as eBuddy’s CEO Jan-Joost Rueb.



Leading global social media platform sevenload.com concentrates on modern internet television and User Generated Content. The new media company even helps pave your way to stardom by giving you your own show in one of the sevenload channels...

LeWeb is also great for meeting investors and VCs like David Hornik from August Capital. According to David who’s also an author and lecturer at Stanford and Harvard UC, August Capital will be raising a new fund despite the economic downturn.

Online messaging aggregator eBuddy.com offers a free Web Based as well as a Mobile Messenger that enable you to chat without downloads.

That's it for now - learn more about the Shift conference in next Friday’s edition of „Events2go“!

Here they are – the most exciting startups from beautiful France. Our „Top 5“ choice is: Goojet, Lingueo, Silentale, MyID.is and Webwag.

Only last week Goojet announced that it has raised €6 million in second round funding. At the same time, the French startup is coming out with an updated version of its mobile content and services suite. As Marketing Manager Cédric Giorgi explains: „Goojet enhances your mobile experience by aggregating a number of services and content offerings into one portal. Users can create their mobile world as well as select and customize the services they need.“

Language social network Lingueo offers courses with native speakers in 36 languages around the world. Prices of Lingueo’s one-to-one classes start as low as 10 per hour. The Global Connections specialist for Language Exchange has been founded by Arnaud Portanelli, Johann Querne and Guillaume le Dieu de Ville.

Paris-based startup Silentale allows you to store all your digital conversations in one place and access them from anywhere. To learn more about the internet startup that brought back the People’s Choice Award from LeWeb08, please also watch founder Laurent Feral-Pierssens pitching at the European Plugg Conference.

MyID.is is all about verifying your online identity: Founded by Charles Nouÿrit, the Digital Identity Certification Platform allows people to claim their real identity online. The site entered into public beta at the end of March and offers its service free of charge - users only have to pay a small setup fee.





Webwag is another startup that has been awarded public choice ( please click here to watch Webwag’s pitch from Le Mobile 2.0 conference). Co-Founder and CEO Florent Pitoun explains: „ Webwag is a powerful web tool that helps users create a personalized home page with data feeds and web 2.0 services accessible from any connected device.“ Webwag Mobile 2.0 offers a solution to easily access all your internet services and allows you to download mobile widgets for free.

To review recent episodes of „The Top 5“ please click here. Next monday is all about „The Five Most Promising Nordic Startups“.

Charles Nouyrit, founder and CEO of MyID.is, says he is „happy because he is doing serious business“. His company MyID.is has been founded in March 2007 and is privately held with Charles acting as a business angel. MyID is offering a digital identification platform where users can certify their ID worldwide and thus improve their trustability online. Charles points out: „It might sound naive, but we want to make the internet a better and safer place.“
Users pay only once between €2-5 in order to get access to MyId’s platform. With some thousand users today, MyID.is is still in the alpha version. According to Charles, the platform will be launched at the end of January.
Unlike MyId’s American competitor BeenVerified.com, where your ID is certified with your social security number, MyID’s verification process is based on your credit card and your bank as well as your personal address.
Charles has been working with the internet since 1983 – MyID is his sixth venture, with two companies in the telecoms and three in the internet business. Not all of his ventures have been successful, but Charles points out: „That’s part of the game. As an entrepreneur you take risks, so sometimes you fail. These are actually your best lessons since you only start analyzing when you failed. You will never learn from your success.“