Just before the Summer we launched the TechCrunch Europe Top 100. This is a regularly updated Index of the most innovative and highest-potential European tech companies. The Index is focused on mobile and web companies (although cleantech and gadget companies have a presence) in the broad EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region. The index was created in association with Valley-based startup tracker YouNoodle. The scores and rankings are based on a sophisticated algorithm using information pulled in from thousands of online sources about early stage companies: traffic, mainstream media, funding information sources, the blogosphere, and other key factors.
And now we need your help. We’re going to re-fresh the Index, taking some companies out, putting some in and generally improving it. We’d like your feedback on who should stay and who should go. Leave your feedback in the comments. More after the jump:
http://picli.com – social photography network
http://twicli.com – twitter photo, video, audio sharing and user tagging
http://www.livetalkback.com – live audience interaction for events and broadcasters & recent winner of the O2 Litmus app showdown
Maybe even have Techcrunch using Live Talkback at future events?
http://www.moneydashboard.com
This looks like it could be very successful over the next few years!
I’m surprised Wonga and Seatwave aren’t in the top 5 – they seem to be THE buzz companies right now and they are the two I keep seeming to read about. And Spotify of course!
uberVU – http://younoodle.com/startups/ubervu London-based startup (won Seedcamp last year)
It might be worth checking out the Guardian Tech Media Invest 100, as I’m pretty sure they’ll be a good deal of crossover.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tech-media-invest-100/top-100
Flirtomatic – NMA’s Best Use of Mobile and Grand Prix winner this year, as well as Meffys and Mobile Entertainment awards http://www.handmademobile.com/
please add to the list
http://www.hotprints.com/
print is not dead! If you have content and creativity call us about our API
I’d be curious to know what the criteria was for inclusion into this specific list. I understand the YouNoodle scores are based on a variety of parameters, but there are European startups that have higher scores than 14 (the lowest in your list) that are not on the list.
As an example, my startup Newscred (http://younoodle.com/startups/newscred)
We’re fairly underground about our revenue generating business, so that may be why. But given the YouNoodle score and our European origins, would still expect it to be fighting for relegation within this top 100!
A few that are on the list that should stay or even move up include Wonga, Figleaves & Zopa.
Dont forget http://routenote.com … based in the UK
First of all, thanks for this opportunity, cause the first time I seen the list I was surprised to see a lot of UK-based companies…
I wonder how the YouNoodle algorithm is working. Probably just USA and/or english-speaking sources are taken into account, but this is not fair if you are raising a EU startup index.
An example? Mobnotes (http://www.mobnotes.com) was the most downloaded iPhone App in Italy in august (the summer app, like someone wrote about us); Everybody was talking and writing about us, we registered en explosion in terms of users and buzz…
What’s the effect on the YouNoodle index? We dropped down from 13 to 9.
Unbelievable, cause before august we was working in a semi-stealth mode.
Please consider using an alternative ranking system if you like to build a real European alternative to the US startup ecosystem…
My 2 cents,
G.
Struq (www.struq.com)
Pioneering advertising technology. Check out the demo http://www.struq.com/demo
Tech Media Invest 100 http://www.guardian.co.uk/tech-media-invest-100/top-100
Shortlisted for the Europa awards 2009
Sam Barnett Shortlisted for Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 by Growing Business Awards http://www.growingbusinessawards.co.uk
How about Zamzar (http://www.zamzar.com and http://younoodle.com/startups/zamzar) ?
Based in Southampton, under 6,000 in Alexa, profitable and featured on BBC Click, and in a number of UK newspapers and magazines.
Hi Mike,
We believe Myngle.com fits well on this list as Myngle a.o. has won the following prizes:
- Accenture Innovation Awards 2008
- No 1 ICT company in European Venture Summit 2008
- Winner of People’s Choice Award at Plugg 2009.
Here is the Myngle score:
http://younoodle.com/startups/myngle
Thank you,
Egbert
Really an honor for eRepublik to be on the TechCrunch Europe 100 list. Count on us to do all we can not only to stay there but move up
Don’t forget Mind Candy (Perplex City / Moshi Monsters) http://www.mindcandy.com
Mind Candy is one of the world’s leading developers of social multi-player games, helping kids (and big kids!) around the world play and connect.
Recently 9th in the Guardian Tech Media Invest 100, Perplex City and Moshi Monsters are both massively successful properties.
http://popurls.com , austria @ YN 45
Mike, Would love to help but am not entirely impartial. TAG has 11 companies on your list of 100. If one measure of successful “Innovation and highest potential” is revenue – then LoveFilm, Stardoll and Wonga (TAG ers) must be pretty high up – as would Playfish, Daily Motion, Seatwave (NOT TAGers).
If the measure is brand affinity then Moo, Tweetdeck, Songkick, Netlog (TAGers) must be up there.
Technical innovation and awards won: Skimlinks and Zemanta …etc
Apologies for any I missed.
Who says Europe can’t produce great tech companies?!
http://sciencestage.com
should be in the list !
http://hellotxt.com
If the original algorithm was at all based on user growth, HelloTxt should have been included. hellotxt is a simple way to read, update and organize your life on multiple social networks, and it was developed and currently run from Italy.
http://www.sevensnap.com
Based in Germany.
SevenSnap brings Entertainment-Shopping to the iPhone. They will launch in the next weeks. TechCrunch allready wrote about them.
eBuddy should definitely remain on the list near the top. The company is an established start-up, is profitable and is prime acquisition target.
Distimo is an up-an-comer and is bootstrapped. They’re also on the brink of some big partnership deals that should push them up the rankings.
Mobypicture won 2nd prize in the Vodafone Mobile Clicks awards recently and has a number of cool things that will be announced soon. The company is also bootstrapped and has done quite well in spite of no PR efforts and viral marketing.
Mendix should be on here. Where are the enterprise software companies? Mendix is based in Rotterdam and has triple-digit annual growth, huge business deals in play, and was a Gartner Cool Vendor for 2009 in model-driven development. They allow front of the house people like business analysts to develop integrated and complex solutions – without code generation – which has long been called the “Holy Grail” of software development.
Flirtomatic – also launching in the US and has had explosive growth. They’ve learned how to monetise mobile well and others could learn a lot from them.
Netherlands based Spil Games (http://www.spilgames.com) should be part of the list. Among others it has the biggest global online game network according to Comscore (much bigger than Miniclip that has the #2 position on the current TC list).
http://www.taptu.com
Providing only mobile-friendly search results, it feels about twice as fast as google over 3g.
MOKO.mobi – their global but big in Europe. Check it out on your mobile at http://moko.mobi – or for their corporate stuff @ http://corp.moko.mobi on your PC – I think they have about 15 direct carrier agreements and deck placement, pretty good for this space.
Sorry should be http://corporate.moko.mobi – should check before I post…
Swedish based, online image editor:
http://www.pixlr.com/
@Mike Butcher – You mentioned EMEA. Is there really any start-up from Africa?
eBuddy has been extremely useful for me this year, definitely deserves a place at the top.
http://www.trafficbroker.co.uk
UK based PPC agency / technology company. Started 5 years ago, no VC backing, did £43 million in turnover last year and set to double that again.
http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack2002/migration/dbIndex.asp?siteID=3&searchName=&yr=2009&sort=num&area1=99
Hi Mike,
I feel that our language learning community http://www.busuu.com should be as well on the list! We recently won an European Award for Innovation in Language Learning given by the European Commission!
Here our noodle rank: http://younoodle.com/startups/busuu
Sunny regard from Madrid
Bernhard
Co-Founder of busuu.com
F5
There is a currently great interest in guided selling and product finders for manufacturing and retail / ecommerce and one of the top providers of these Visual Product Finders is Jemms. See the product finder Showcase here: http://tiny.cc/HZQRh
Jemms are a Partner of iBlick http://clicky.me/Qe who provide the finest in Scandinavian designed Visual Solutions
Portuguese YDreams should be on the list:
http://www.ydreams.com/#/en/homepage/
http://www.fundmesellme.com/ – worth a shot
http://www.wealledit.com
Proofing tool for indesign files
by danish company Languagewire.
Tweetmondo – Twitter nearby search with augmented reality tools (via Layar) and brand new layout.
The only way that you will frshen things up is by getting rid of that idiot Mike Butcher who runs the European side. Clueless and far to up his own backside.
I would add: livebookings.net (restaurant reservations network) along with some travel sites, surely skyscanner.net and momondo.com could be considered.
Will be honored to be included. Israel based http://www.senseofashion.com Fashion community, shop and blog out to revolutionize fashion on the web
Alenty is already under younoodle’s radar ( http://younoodle.com/startups/alenty ), but younoodle is not aware that:
- Alenty’s measurement of banner visibility duration is used by most media agencies in France
- Websites such as CanalPlus use Alenty to sell their adspace by Exposure Duration, not impressions anymore
- Alenty is almost profitable and employs 10 persons
- Alenty has started to expand internationally
- many good news to come soon…
Completely agree with the high placement of Playfish. Although their games might have some issues, they’re heads and tails above the competition.
http://www.touristway.com
is Shopify for Tour Operators
If you are looking for a startup with a sustainable idea and real benefit have a look at:
http://younoodle.com/startups/sciencestage_com1
http://www.collibra.com
The next big thing in Enterprise Semantics.
http://www.wirenode.com
Mobile marketing platform. We host mobile websites used for mobile marketing for many EU companies.
Incidentally if anyone is looking for us to review their site, feel free to submit your startup to us.
http://www.whitelabeldating.com: Started 5 years ago by Ross Williams who wanted to provide individuals and brands with the technology they need to start up their own online dating sites and make money within weeks. This year alone paid out over £20million to partners and has just announced annual turnover of £25million.
Comindwork ( http://comindwork.com )
The startup is based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Comindwork is the next generation enterprise project management and collaboration software. Lots of customers in England, Germany, Spain, and Russia.
YouNoodle profile: http://younoodle.com/startups/comindwork
You should check Red Karaoke, a Spanish company who leads the online karaoke market worlwide, with presence on Spain, Chile, USA… and Japan!!
http://www.redkaraoke.com
http://www.redkaraoke.es
You should also check Tuenti, the SNS leader on Spanish market:
http://www.tuenti.com