Le Web3 Live

Israeli citizen Zvi Schreiber is CEO of G.ho.st (Global Hosted Operating System), a brand new startup which allows you to carry for free your desktop, data, settings, etc. to any browser in the world on the Internet. G.ho.st won the bronze medal in LeWeb3’s startup competition Wednesday… Read more

French “business angel” Jeff Clavier is the founder and managing partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed-stage investors in Web 2.O startups. Since 2004, he has invested in more than 20 consumer Internet companies developing new concepts or revisiting old ideas with new technologies. In 2007, he was recognized as one of the 13 “Web 2.0 King Makers,” by Business 2.0. A few minutes ago, he took a few moments to give us more details about his job.

Bordeaux-based start-up Agematis offers a good example of the coming evolutions of the Internet. A few months ago, it launched a personal online storage and sharing system called Steekr - a kind of revolution in the field of file-sharing. International business development manager Xavier Mazingue-Desailly told us more about it :

With Steekr, not only can you share your personal files - videos, broadcasts, texts - with people you do know but you can also see those files on your television or cellphone. This kind of convergence has already attracted about 500,000 Internet users.

Agematis was created in 2002 by three former engineers and developers from French international hypermarket chain Carrefour. Now that the start-up is thriving, the 38 engineers and developers working for it are getting more ambitious. After France, the next target for them - the “entire world”!

So … the winner of the Web3 Startup Competition has been announced! The prize goes to French startup GooJet (i.e. Good Gadjet). GooJet beat out around 120 other companies for the honour. GooJet has created different widgets for mobile phones, in order to give access to community services and tools.

GooJet is also a partner of the conference…

The startup announced three days ago that they raised 2.3 million euros from Partech International, Elaia Partners and IRDI.

The second and third prizes went to Plymedia and G.ho.st.

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30 start-ups compete today in a marathon-like happening. 3 of them will get a prize from French private TV channel TF1. An important way of recognition that often cruelly lacks to young start-ups, who need funds to develop their project. Each of the “startahtletes” has only 7 minutes to present its brand new concept… People who attended the morning presentations have mixed opinions on what they’ve just seen.

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