Our startups and scale-ups of 2019 Round 1

7Mountains (Norway) has built DiNA, a storytelling tool for editors that is built with modern web technology and with the end-user in mind. DiNA integrates with news feeds, MAM systems, graphics systems, automation systems, and more.

Accurat (Belgium) is a location intelligence startup, active in the areas of big data, geo, advertising and consumer behaviour. Accurat offers solutions to better understand the offline behaviour of app users.

The platform of Attention Insight (Germany) predicts where users will look while engaging with content. It identifies visual attention errors and get insights on user’s attention shifts without data collection.

Buymedia (Ireland) reduces the cost of advertising sales, lead time and provides new revenue for media companies. Buymedia provides a cloud based platform that helps SME advertisers plan, purchase, manage and monitor their advertising.

Choicely (Finland) has created a scalable, easily deployable voting and engagement platform for engaging fans. They offer a broad suite of interactive content tools with social sharing features, along with monetisation options.

Coverstories (The Netherlands) offers the digital equivalent of a branded special in a newspaper or magazine. Our goal is to rid the world of ugly advertorials and confusing native ads by standing out instead of blending in.

Holler.live (The Netherlands) allows you to immediately and intuitively express your feelings in the real-world and online. Your opinion is yours - sentiment expression, responses and you data is private and controlled by you and your friends.

IndieFrame (Denmark) is an independent distribution platform that brings the content creator and media together. IndieFrame delivers a world-wide database of user-generated content, photos as well as videos.

Jamatto (UK) is all about micropayments. The company provides simple and compelling solutions for content producers and publishers, managing billions of tiny payments in a way that’s frictionless, transparent and fair.

Katalysis (The Netherlands) is an Amsterdam based startup on a mission to make ownership and real-time consumption of content transparent across the entire value chain - leveraging blockchain technology.

LucidWeb (Belgium) builds solutions on the WebVR API.
LuciWeb can make stories immediately available on the phone, computer and on VR headsets. There is no need to develop or download any application.

Showtag (Norway) has developed a new way to show products on tv. It is a non-intrusive way for product placement that gives the control to the viewer by utilizing the pause button. Showtag Enabled is a proven technology and integrated successfully with the Modern Times Group (MTG).

SnapScreen (Austria) enables TV clip creation and distribution in social media. It enables viewers to snap the TV and instantly get a HD clip to rewind, trim, and share. Viewers share their personal clips and spread the brand, sponsorship, and drive ratings.

Streamix (Italy) is a multi-camera live streaming platform that allows you use your mobile devices like remote cameras to make professional looking broadcasts on Facebook and YouTube.

Yourtalk.fm (Germany) lets users share their same interests using their voices in talk rounds. Everybody can be a talkmaster, and invite people to their talk show. Everybody can be talk guest.

The products of Angry Bytes (The Netherlands) are mostly used by TV broadcasters, radio stations and other media and entertainment organisations.
Their content management and publishing system ABC Manager powers high-end and high-traffic websites and applications.

ARwall (USA) is an AR technology company. They have created the first AR display that requires no headset, no goggles, no smart device. Their spatial imaging technology is four times faster than anything equivalent on the market.

Dutch Rose Media (The Netherlands) believes that Augmented Reality gives real life a much needed makeover. They create surprising and magical mobile experiences with Augmented Reality.

Kiswe (Belgium) is a video technology startup, providing live media solutions to sports content owners. Their cloud tech creates alternate broadcasts to tell different stories for all audiences.

Sceenic (United Kingdom) provides solutions to power interactive viewing experiences. Through its "Watch Together"​ technology, media companies create watch together experiences for their audiences.

Snapscreen (Austria) is a technology startup focused on the use of mobile devices and image recognition. SnapScreen crowdsources TV/OTT clip creation and distribution in social media.

The Future Group (Norway) provides real time dynamic content services for the broadcast industry. Their flagship product, Pixotope, allows broadcasters to produce new and exciting mixed reality content for tv, streaming and film.

Tiledmedia (The Netherlands) delivers the highest possible VR360 or panoramic streaming video quality to VR headsets or tablets. Our ClearVR product are designed to be easily integrated in existing media production.

TinkerList (Belgium) is the first unified, online platform, in which everyone of the editorial team and the production crew can collaboratively create and adapt content during all stages of the television production process.

Ultra Wide Vision from TNO (The Netherlands) is a wide screen format that is used for video that is shot with several cameras. It gives viewers the impression that they are actually at the live event.

Geenee (Germany) is an advanced video and image recognition platform that uses patented technology to deliver dynamic, curated content into the moments of daily life.

Pick your own sports commentator with jalu.tv (Germany). You nearly have infinitely options to choose your own, favorite sports-commentator.
Tactical, entertaining or maybe your best friend. Just the way you like it.

Keyper (Germany) provides white labeled technology for easy and secure sharing and selling of tickets by connecting existing ticketing solutions with mobile platforms. Enabling sport clubs to solve the “No-Show” problem, connect to all attendees, gain more relevant data and increase overall revenue.

With LiveTube (UK) you can find all of the greatest live events from anywhere in the world. Providing "anytime" access to thousands of live events.

Nmodes (USA) easily creates professional chatbots to support your customers on their preferredmessaging platform.
We ensure that our chatbot solutions are of the highest quality. And that means delivering immediate and measurable results across the key performance metrics.

Snaptivity (UK) drives fans engagement by capturing the best moments at the stadium and delivering their stunning photos directly to their smartphones. Snaptivity gives every spectator their own story. We capture the moment, so you don’t have to.

Stayfilm (USA) is an automatic online film maker that will transform these pieces of stories into films with fantastic visual effects and an outstanding cinema like quality.

aiconix.ai (Germany) provides media related businesses with a tool to innovate content production processes and accelerate their access to programmatic creation. Through only one platform, that combines many AI Systems, creatives will be liberated from laborious tasks of indexing and extracting metadata from content.

IMATAG (France) tracks the uses of newswires' images to let them take appropriate actions, like automatically send invoices even for non-exclusive images, turn publishers into customers when detected site's revenues are worth it, and claim neighboring rights when their content is found fueling a monetized flow.

IndieFrame (Denmark) provides instant access to a global database as a direct link between the media and independent photographers, video journalists and on-site smartphone reporters. IndieFrame enables stories from a remote world to hit editor rooms and the news better and faster.

Kiswe (USA) offers a cloud-based remote production platform that transforms a one-size-fits-all broadcast into alternate narrowcasts. Our customers have grown their viewership by reaching new audiences. Your customers can fully customize livestreams without the need for studios, equipment or travel.

LAMA (Austria) is providing video interviews as a service. We help media companies produce personalised video interviews in minutes, for a fraction of the cost of a professional video team.

Matchhamster (the Netherlands) provides news companies with digital intellectual property solutions to strengthen their business models. We offer scalable, automated and user friendly services for the registration, monitoring, analysis and protection of intellectual property online.

Narrativa (Spain) uses Artificial Intelligence to mine data and generate news stories for its clients’ audience at machine scale. Its AI product 'Gabriele' help news companies generate thousands news stories per day.

Oko (Portugal) aggregates and integrates technology solutions in a single platform. Right now Oko has powerful video/audio transcription tools, an engine to automatically generate news articles from any data source, and a powerful crawler that can bring the any type of content to your newsroom.

Vizrt (Norway) provides real-time 3D graphics, studio automation, sports analysis and asset management tools for the media and entertainment industry. This includes interactive and virtual solutions, animations, maps, weather, video editing, compositing, and playout tools.