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Hundreds of startups from Europe have been submitting their names in order to be featured in the competition. Tech5 is an online initiative in search of Europe’s fastest growing Tech startups.
On the 9th March, the top 5 companies from each country have been selected. All country finalists will be invited to attend The Next Web Conference Europe on 23rd -24th April in Amsterdam, where one winner for each country will be announced. The winners will be selected by assessing the growth percentage of each startup over the course of 6 weeks. The European nations whom took part to the competition are United Kingdom, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and of course Sweden. Here are the 5 Swedish startups that made it to the finalist stage in the European Tech5 competition.
Instantor – For a safe and easy internet
Privacy over the web has become a sensitive topic over the last few years. Web users might look at the internet with a different eye and feel the need to find extra careful ways to protect their data, especially in relation to banking and identity issues. Instantor is a safe online solutions for consumer identification and credit. Since 2010 this Swedish startup has been working to create an easy access to online shopping experiences and at the same time, contribute in establishing a safe online marketplace. In this way that part of users that felt skeptical or not totally safe about sending personal information through the internet, have now their safety guaranteed. By using their services, paperwork and data acquisition are reduced and the risk of give away sensitive information liable to be wrongly used is minimized. Consumers don’t have to scan and send in copies of personal documents such as passport and bills, providing the possibility of a safe shopping experience online.
Fyndiq – The E-commerce choice with a bargaining option
You might have guessed it from its name and that’s right. This start up helps you find the best deal, without having to search around for it. At the moment, this startup is mainly focus on the Swedish market, but there could be ways to export the model outside the Nordic nation. Fyndiq gathers hundreds of thousands of bargain products from hundreds of stores in only one platform. With a simple click at home you can look for most wanted finds in fashion, home decor, beauty, health, electronics, sports, or any other item that can be found in one of the listed categories. Items are constantly added, therefore a simple check from time to time can help you find your favorite find in a simple way.
Qwaya – The Sophisticated way to do online marketing
Qwaya is a startup that has been working on tools for social media marketing. Their goal has been building a sophisticated tool with powerful features while being affordable and accessible to a wide range of advertisers and agencies worldwide. Its tool deals with most known social media platforms’ APIs (Google,Twitter and LinkedIn) with an easy to use interface that helps you find effectively audiences for your ads and automatically combine adds and audience into a campaign.
Cantemo – The all-in-one media management tool
Cantemo Portal™ is a media asset management solution, with the main purpose of solves all fundamental and cross-market media asset management problems at its core and consequently provide tools to customize, integrate, processing and distribute digital assets such as audio video or images. Having said so, this tool is not only designed for broadcasting or production houses. When saying Media management, Cantemo refers specifically to content that has a visual representation such as video, image and audio files. Therefore, the tool can be used by that target group in need to store and manipulate these file types. Furthermore, there is no installation required on the client side and the tool can be accessed by web browsers.
Freespee -The call option addition to marketing revolution
Freespee revolutionary introduce inbound phone calls to the online marketing equation. The tool provides help in tracking back how the costumer gets to a company, making mobile campaigning successful. Mobile advertising is of course meant for mobile visitors and customers, and once they get online they might want to talk and figure out the best deal for them. Freespee makes sure these phone calls are an integral part of your business decisions, for marketing, sales and business development for your company.
Read more about the conference here: http://thenextweb.com/conference/europe/
