DBVu has been nominated for Best New Startup 2010 at the TechCrunch Europas, please do go and vote it would be great to get into the finals.
There’s also some great other companies and people to vote for too.
Last night (02/09/10) DBVu exhibited at Launch48 Showcase which is organised by the Launch48 crew more recognisable for getting products launched over a weekend.
The event is an opportunity for start-ups who have a product ready for demonstrating to get some publicity and honest feedback in an informal environment, there’s a video of the talks and awards on the site.
For anyone out there following our blog, it may have looked as though we’d been abducted. Whilst at times it has felt so, we are pleased to say we’re still here and very much alive.
Although not quite in stealth mode, having appeared at events such as Mini Seedcamp, we’ve been tapping away and getting on with it. Building our backend monitoring and preparing for our beta launch has kept us busy. But not satisfied with that, we moved office, just to add to the excitement.
Although we didn’t make it into the next round at Mini seedcamp, we had a good day mixing with some fantastic companies and making some great contacts along the way. We’d like to wish all those who made it through to the next round and all the other companies the very best of luck. Also, thank you to all the mentors who offered some good practical advice and put us in contact with some very interesting people.
As mentioned, we have also moved office, sharing space in the heart of the West End. While the drudgery of the London Tube was not on our hitlist of objectives, we’re sure it will pay dividends in the long term.
We’re currently doing a review of hosting companies for housing our monitoring, so if any nice hosting companies would like to help out, please get in touch…
Here’s a link to the pitch at Innovate100 where you can see Steve pitching.
Comments welcome.
Guidewire sent an eMail with “DBVu has been selected as one of the semi-finalists that will go on to compete for a spot on the Innovate!100 list of the world’s most promising startups”.
DBVu now have a slight panic between now and Thursday to polish a pitch …
More details of Innovate100 and if anyone wants a half price ticket to the event please visit Eventbrite.
Last night (March 10th 2010) Devnest took place at Sun’s Customer Briefing Centre near London Bridge.
There were some interesting talks (with a Twitter bent as it’s really Twitter Devnest) including a talk by Ewan MacLeod on the state of mobile and development, Gary Gale (Yahoo Geo guru) on WOEIDs and then Paul Kinlan talked about Google Buzz.
Steve from DBVu did a 140 second pitch to explain what DBVu was all about.
Ewan did a nice write-up at Mobile Industry Review.
Of note there’s a new Twitter hackathon happening on the 8/9th May at the Guardian called Warblecamp and unlike Chirp it’s completely free including food and drink.
Where Camp EU the geo unconference for Europe.
This is a 2 day event taking place on Fri 12th March at Wallacespace in Duke ST and then at the Guardian’s offices near Kings Cross on the Saturday.
There’s a good collection of people going and should make an interesting un-conference.
DBVu is very happy to be involved and sponsoring the event.
Microsoft’s Bizspark program is specifically geared towards start-ups and provides access to a wide range of Microsoft software and services (for free).
It’s a great program and any start-up should seriously consider joining.
We’d especially like to thank Bindi Karia from Microsoft UK for getting us on the program.
DBVu has applied to Innovate 100 anyone with any influence please get us a pitch.
There’s bound to be lots of competition but DBVu may be slightly early.