MindTrek Finalists Have Been Chosen

By Ville Vesterinen, September 26, 2008, 4 Comments

MindTrek Startup Launchpad finalists have been chosen. The following companies made the cut (in alphabetical order):

Floobs
HammerKit
MahShelf
One Did It
RunToShop
Star Wreck Studios
TripSay
Zipipop

There will be eight finalist in total in the pitch competition and each startup will have 6 minute pitch to present to the high profile jury. Read more about the Startup Launchpad here.

Congratulations and good luck to all the finalists!

The free bus ride for startups to the MindTrek and back from Helsinki on 8.-9.10.2008 will depart 8.10. Wednesday morning at 7.15am in fron of Kiasma (the bus has MindTrek sign on it).

The bus will head back to Helsinki on 9.10. Thursday at 4pm departing in front of Hotel Rosendahlin at Tampere. If you want to come along contact Hanne Lehtola at hanne.lehtola [at] culminatum.fi

Antti Akonniemi from Kisko Labs is also running an Ignite while we are driving up there. Antti wrote a short intro on what’s on offer for the ride up:

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? And what if your stage was an actual bus full of startup entrepreneurs? Fun of karaoke and excitement of Powerpoint combined. Sounds too much like the movie Speed? Introducing Ignite:Mobile. Join ArcticStartup’s bus trip to MindTrek and experience the first ever Ignite:Mobile.

There should still be plenty of room in the bus, so drop Hanne a mail and come along.

TOPICS antti akonniemi finland floobs hammerkit ignite mahshelf one did it runtoshop star wreck studios tripsay zipipop

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heleneauramo September 26, 2008

We are so excited to go there! Here is a link to two videos about our feelings at the Zipipop office now: http://about.zipipop.com/node/161

Memphis Dao, September 26, 2008

The free bus ride was such a nice activity to get acquainted with other startups. And Ignite:Mobile sounds fun too, we will take 3 seats for MahShelf team and probably have a good discussion before coming to MindTrek.

PS: thanks for organizing this.