We’re delighted to be able to profile the startup companies who will be joining us at the end of the week in Zurich, to present themselves and speak on the subject of their use of social media tools.
Kyte
__Walter Zai – Business Development Director Europe__
Kyte is a universal digital media platform that enables brands and communities to easily produce live and on-demand digital content, distribute it to multiple online and mobile destinations simultaneously, engage with an audience through multimedia communications, and monetize their brand assets. Walter is Kyting since spring 2007 and business development director at Kyte since August 2007. He has a background in IT and Software Services and has in total more than 10 year experience. Kyte just won at the Popkomm 2008 in Berlin.
Amazee
__Dania Gerhardt – Co-Founder__
Amazee is a free Social Collaboration platform that allows you to share your goals and gives you the tools to connect with like-minded people to run and promote projects. Whatever your goals are, you can publicize and pursue them on Amazee. Dania wears several “hats” at Amazee; she’s Co-Founder, Head Finance & Operations, as well as Head of Sales. Dania is based in Zurich and before Amazee, she had a 5+ year career at Ernst & Young as a Manager at their IFRS Advisory Services.
Cassiber
__Valentin Binnendijk – Managing Partner__
Cassiber is the idea pool for your company, in which you can integrate all ideas and external suggestions and make the best happen. It cross-links knowledge and experience from different departments and different customer groups through several communication channels. To make the decision-making process efficient, the system shows only those ideas to the management team that are currently relevant to the company. Each idea’s relevance bases on the activities in semantic clusters, collaboration and strategic management decisions. Valentin is Managing Partner at Cassiber.
shiftTHINK
__Carole Hoffmann – Managing Director__
shiftTHINK is a technology consultancy based in Zurich, Switzerland. It helps corporations and individuals use their social networks to enhance their business opportunities. ShiftTHINK believes there is a strong need for managing relationships in a better way, as more and more value in corporations is created through interactions between people. There is a clear shift from transformations and transactions to interactions in the daily work. However, relationship assets are still mostly only managed in people’s minds. This causes social and communicative overload and usually means business knowledge is lost when people leave an organization. Carole is Managing Partner of shiftTHINK and co-founded the company in 2002.
Zemanta
__Boštjan Špetic – Director of Products__
Zemanta is a revolutionary new platform for accelerating on-line content production for any web user. Any user-created text (a blog post, article or web page) is directly “read” by Zemanta, which recognizes all contextual content. Zemanta then combs the web for the most relevant images, smart links, keywords and text, instantly serving these results to the user to enrich and inform their content. What’s more, Zemanta can be deployed on all major content publishing platforms and web browsers through a simple plug-in. Boštjan is Zemanta’s Director of Products and beforehand was a Journalist focusing on IT and consumer electronics news, working for Slovenian national TV station.
Headshift
__Jens-Christian Fischer – Consultant__
Headshift is a leading enterprise social computing consultancy with over 5 years experience in designing, implementing and growing next generation social software solutions. They deliver smarter, simpler, more social IT solutions internally within large enterprises, knowledge intensive firms, government and third sector organisations. Headshift’s social media practice works with media companies, brands, and other organisations or networks that want to engage with their customers in new and innovative ways. Jens-Christian is responsible for growing Headshift in Switzerland.
Nimbuzz
__Dick van der Kwaak – Executive and VP Business Development__
Nimbuzz offers a comprehensive social interaction service combining Instant Messaging, presence, and VoIP. The free application is available on the mobile, PC and web, for instant messaging, location sharing, (group)calling, and file sharing across popular communities, including Skype, Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, GoogleTalk, AIM, GaduGadu, Jabber and Twitter, plus 23 social networks including Facebook and MySpace. Dick is the Executive and VP Business Development and is also owner of TurQuoise Services.
GaxTechnologies
__Cornelia den Hartog – Managing Director__
GAX Technologies provides new technology services ranging from corporate communication, designing web sites to 3D animation to developing web-based applications. GAX Technologies is the first Luxembourgian company to create its offices on Second Life, which were officially opened on June 28 2007 by the Minister of Economics Jeannot Krecké. At the moment the company is the specialist in event organisation on Second Life, such as virtual recruitment fairs and virtual learning platforms which have proven valuable business solutions to GAX international clientele. Cornelia is the Managing Director and works in the new media for ten years.
Winkwaves
__Rene Jansen – Founder__
Winkwaves has the objective: creating a better work environment for busy people like you and me, offering better support for knowledge management, time management, project coordination and (distance) collaboration. Winkwaves is a concept agency, based in the Netherlands, specialized in enterprise social networking and knowledge sharing. They create spaces where people can meet up, communicate, share their knowledge and experiences, and be stronger together through better cooperation. These spaces are mostly, but not exclusively, created online.
Mediaclipping
__Nils Kohle – Founder & CEO__
Mediaclipping is a VC financed company for search-technology within TV, radio, podcast, video and webTV. It is a leading company for automatic TV and radio media monitoring. Its team of 20 developers, researchers, sales and support professionals offers its rich-media monitoring services to a quickly growing number of clients. Based in Bremen (North Germany), mediaclipping received several awards for innovation over the last months. Nils his main task as CEO is to grow the company and hire the right people.