ACCIÓ, the Agency for the Competitiveness of the Catalan Company and, specifically, Startup Catalonia, offers 10 previously selected startups the opportunity to be present at The Next Web 2018 (TNW) and thus gain visibility and notoriety by connecting with the European technological ecosystem.
This May 24 and 25, those flying to Amsterdam are: BigleLegal (Sergio Esteve de Miguel), ByHours (Guillermo Gaspart), Carnovo (Ferran Jove), Deliberry (Gemma Sorigué), Factorial (Jordi Romero), Mammoth Hunters (Oriol Roda), Marketeer (Rudy Bianco), Shoppiday (Juan Luis Rico), Kompyte (Pere Codina) and Validated ID (Daniel Translateur).
Bigle Legal is a software that allows companies to automate the process of creating their legal documents, eliminating human errors and saving time and money. With its solution, the time to complete a contract is reduced from 120 to 10 minutes and the risk of human error is mitigated by 95%. The entire process is automated: from contract creation, review, sending, digital signature, and storage.
What do you hope to achieve from TNW 2018?
Sergio Esteve de Miguel Anglada (Co-founder and CMO of Bigle Legal).- "TNW is one of the most important conferences in the startup world. Our great interest is to create a network to build our international client base and seek investors.
BYHOURS is the first and only international online hotel platform and mobile APP that allows booking micro-stays in more than 3,000 hotels in packs of 3, 6 and 12 hours.
BYHOURS introduces the pay-per-use system in the hotel sector. Now, the user can decide the check-in and check-out time of the room for 24H and pay only for the time spent in it.
What do you hope to achieve from TNW 2018?
Guillermo Gaspart (Co-Founder – Byhours).- "Startups must always have an open mind and be connected within the ecosystem. You never know where a good idea might come from that helps improve your product, companies you can collaborate with, or investors. Events like TNW allow you to present your product, talk to competitors, seek synergies with other companies, and finally, find investment to grow and expand Byhours. Without a doubt, even if we are digital, I highly value face-to-face interaction, and I believe everything starts by connecting with people who represent companies."
Carnovo is the first new car offer comparator in Spain. The idea began in early 2016 to digitize the process of buying a new vehicle. Transparency, convenience, and speed characterize the user experience with Carnovo, because they can configure their desired car and receive the 5 best and closest offers. Afterwards, they can finalize the purchase conditions with the dealership anonymously via chat or phone. Once they have bought the vehicle, they can rate the dealership, helping other users who are also looking for a new vehicle. The average saving per car is more than €4,000, transforming the process of buying a new car into a fast, economical, and transparent one.
What do you expect to achieve from TNW 2018?
Ferran Jove (CEO –Carnovo) "At TNW we hope to be able to contact and share best practices with the best startups in Europe and introduce Carnovo to potential investors, at a time when we are negotiating a funding round."
Deliberry is the leading food marketplace in Spain, with a disruptive model that is changing the mass consumption sector and shopping habits. Its mission is to save customers time so they can do what they most desire while Deliberry shops for them.
Deliberry is a technology company that offers a platform connecting supermarkets with customers, to whom they deliver their purchases in record time, in just 1 hour. Combining the personal touch of #mamashoppers and #papashoppers and highly usable technology, it manages to offer an agile and simple solution to customers so they can save time and shop at supermarkets and stores they trust.
What do you expect to achieve from TNW 2018?
Gemma Sorigué (CEO – Deliberry) "We hope to get to know the Dutch market and build synergies with mass consumption companies there, as well as with investors."
They democratize human resources for small and medium-sized companies, offering the first solution on the market that integrates human resources software, payroll generation, and social benefits management on a single platform.
What do you expect to achieve from TNW 2018?
Jordi Romero (CEO – Factorial) "TNW is the perfect stage to present Factorial. One of the priorities is to secure funding and conduct a market study to understand how European companies manage human resources."
Mammoth Hunters is a virtual health and fitness advisor. The programs are designed to make life simple for people, with workouts that last 15 minutes and can be done at home, or with easy-to-follow nutrition programs. It is based on 3 pillars: providing knowledge to users, giving a 100% personalized service, and promoting actions that change habits.
What do you expect to achieve from TNW 2018?
Oriol Roda (CEO – Mammoth Hunters).- "We are going to TNW with the goal of networking with the European tech ecosystem. On one hand, we are interested in contacting investors because we intend to open a funding round at the end of the year. On the other hand, we are also looking for companies, for example, linked to corporate wellness, with whom to establish new synergies."
Marketeer helps users find answers and products in real time using artificial intelligence. Marketeer is a proactive self-service tool that helps companies offer better customer service, which improves engagement with the least amount of resources. Marketeer is the result of years of experience in customer service automation solutions and a deep understanding of their needs. It is ready for startups and SMEs with launch plans from €44 / month, up to large customizable corporate solutions already integrated into multichannel platforms.
What do you expect to achieve from TNW 2018?
Rudy Bianco ( Founder & CEO – Marketeer).- "One of the objectives of going to TNW is to find investors to help us complete the funding round we have open. We are therefore looking for Smart Money to help us boost our growth and strategic partners to facilitate our entry into new markets."
Shoppiday wants to break the way people shop by giving a real benefit to the consumer. Cashback platform with more than 600 online stores and 900 street-level stores. The user who shops in stores through Shoppiday earns money from their purchases (% of the money spent). Shoppiday gets a commission from the store which it shares with the user. The user accumulates money in their Shoppiday account and when they want, they transfer it to their bank account or use it for payments with the application in street-level businesses.
What do you expect to achieve from TNW 2018?
Juan Luis Rico (CEO – Shoppiday).- "Having a presence at TNW is the ideal occasion to do networking and find contacts, both investors and corporations, that allow us to boost Shoppiday's growth as well as learn from other startups with great potential."
Kompyte is a platform that tracks and analyzes the online strategy of the competition in real time. It automates the search for competitors and improves competitive information and comparison.
Validated ID is a startup born in Barcelona with the aim of offering trusted services in a digital environment through two solutions: ViDSigner (electronic signature) and ViDChain (digital identity based on Blockchain). ViDSigner, with more than 380 clients and partners as important as DocuSign (with whom it recently closed an international electronic signature integration unique in Europe), has solidified constant growth in Spain with a SaaS BtoB model where the client (business that needs signature solutions for highly secure, legal and usable digital environments) pays based on their signature needs (fee per number of signatures, fee per device used to sign).
For its part, ViDChain, Validated ID's identity solution, still in prototype phase and in the piloting process, stands out for milestones such as obtaining a Seal of Excellence as part of the H2020 SME Instrument of the European Commission, as well as winning the Cuatrecasas and Telefónica accelerator, Open Future.