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Janetti Chon

Look out for these presenters on Tuesday, October 21st at Startup Ignite.

Held in the BCC main hall, 17:15 - 18:00.

This event is open to all Expo Hall and Conference pass holders.

aka-aki evolved from the founders diploma project at the University of the Arts Berlin. The aka-aki approach is to bring about the functions we know from internet communities into real life, where they’re much more useful than in the virtual space. Because real life does not just take place in front of a computer, it’s happening in the streets, on trains, at parties, in universities and in clubs. So aka-aki decided to enhance reality with functions we know from virtuality. That’s not science fiction. At Startup Ignite the company will give an exclusive preview of the aka-aki iPhone app that is to be launched within the next weeks.


Amazee is a more evolved social networking site designed to empower individuals and small groups to launch global initiatives. Amazee was built to channel activism and provides powerful tools to help project initiators organize, collaborate on, promote, and fund projects of any size with participants from anywhere around the world.


iDesktop.tv is an amazing modern dynamic web application for searching, watching, organising and now, creating custom players for Youtube videos. With over 15 different player and playlist types and over 300 options to customise, users can produce professional unique video players that reflect the style and design of their website.


plista is a user-centric personalization and recommendation network that works across multiple websites. It allows enhancing online experience by recommending more relevant content, products and advertising in real-time. It works as a widget, per API integration or browser plug-in where no site cooperation is needed. plista delivers on-site as well as cross-site recommendations. It allows the publishers to monetize websites, promote items and target customers individually.

SoundCloud is a brand new audio platform that makes is simple for people to manage and collaborate on their music online. Music professionals use it daily to receive, send & distribute their tracks. Some call it email for music, some call it flickr for audio others just call it kick-ass.

txtr.com is a platform facilitating connected reading it lets you follow what your friends read, enables you to send and receive interesting texts, and allows mobile access to your text collections. This might be your own private pile of books and news to read on a plane, or the documents your team has been working on and that you may need to access on the go. Wizpac Ltd., the company behind txtr, was founded in early 2008 by a group of serial entrepreneurs and book enthusiasts, including Andreas Steinhauser and Frank Rieger, who developed what is now Nokia Maps.

Janetti Chon

Thanks everyone for submitting to our Startup Ignite show!! It was a really tough decision but we’ve made our selections for final presenters.

Congratulations to aka-aki, SoundCloud, Amazee and iDesktop.tv!!

We have some runner ups and we’ll announce which of two of these four startups will get added to our show in the next 24 hours - Goojet, plista, Wizpac, Yoolink Pro.

Startup Ignite will take place in the BCC main hall on Tuesday, October 21st, from 17:15 - 18:00.

This will take place immediately after our keynotes so doors will open for general seating at 15:45.

(and I only missed my Wednesday announcement promise by an hour… but that really depends on what time zone you’re in…)

Janetti Chon

Hi everyone. We’ve received about 100 submissions for Startup Ignite. We’re thrilled at the enthusiasm for this program. Thanks for submitting!

We’re starting the review process so no more submissions will be taken, although the form my still be live.

We know we’re tight on timing so we’ll notify finalists as soon as possible - but no later than this Wednesday.

So maybe you want to start concepting your talk, in any case…

Thanks!