StartupYard US Trip
30 Central and Eastern European entrepreneurs coming to Silicon Valley
Click2stream
Easy live video publishing from IP cameras
Petr Ocasek, CEO, @oci
Click2stream provides the easiest live video and sound publishing from any existing security IP camera. The service enables the user to embed Livestream directly on his website, so he or hundreds concurrent visitors can watch it on a PC or a mobile device with no plugins needed. The company currently has 700 customers from 25 countries.
Trip Plans and Hopes
To meet Manufactures/Distributors/Investors/Advisors from video streaming and IP video, security and surveillance.
Inoxive
Technology and Strategy Consultancy
Ondrej Zaoral, Founder & Owner, @ondrazao
Inoxive is a young technology and strategy consultancy focused mainly on financial services, telecommunications and transportation. The company develops its core competencies in business and technology strategies, data leverage for business intelligence purposes, synchronization of ICT strategy with business goals as well as ICT business architecture and system security and risk management.
Trip Plans and Hopes
To humbly observe the life in the Valley, visiting Square would be a dream.
Langtice
Video Language Practising
Radka Breitzetelova, CEO
Tomas Burda, CTO
Langtice takes the pain out of language practice and makes it cool, fun, playful and engaging. It is a unique practice space driven by highly topical video chat that gets the user to start speaking the foreign language he is or has been learning.
Trip Plans and Hopes
To consult our project, collect feedback, get inspiration, meet with other social-lifestyle startups, companies.
Lingvus
High Quality Human Translation Service
Tomas Mohr, CEO
Rostislav Levkovic, CTO
Constantine Stanishevsky, Lead programmer
Translating with Lingvus: 1. Upload a document, 2. Choose a translator based on his price/rating, 3. Place a payment ... and the translation has begun.
Trip Plans and Hopes
To meet people in the Content management systems business, even better CMS owners or Document management system owners.
Slevomat Ventures, Slevomat, Dame Jidlo
Venture Fund, Daily Deals, Food Delivery
Tomas Cupr, Founder + CEO, @tomcuprcz
Slevomat is the largest group buying platform (7 countries, 100M EUR turnover in 2012) in Central and Eastern Europe. Slevomat Ventures is its investing arm looking for opportunities in complementary segments. Dame Jidlo is a food delivery aggregator based in the Czech Republic with an international ambition .
SlidesLive
Tool for Recording and Sharing Presentations
Vojta Ciml, founder, @wojtaw
SlidesLive is a new, easy to use recording tool that helps the user record slides online or offline, sync all visual elements with the talk, edit and publish the final video presentation.
Trip Plans and Hopes
To show our recording technology to as many meetups and conferences as possible.To meet Petr Johanes and someone from Stanford, YouTube, SlideShare, fora.tv to discuss our vision or partnership and PowerPoint founder Robert Gaskins. Also follow up with Nathan Gold.
SpaceTeacher
Learning of Foreign Languages
David Brhel, CEO
SpaceTeacher is an online platform for learning of foreign languages. The company has built a community that connects people learning or teaching languages from all over the world. This has created a motivational and supporting environment with a long-lasting effect.
Spectu
Built-in interactive menu and iPad application for restaurants
Tomas Zaluzansky, CEO, @zaluztom
Petr Sulicek, CPO, @petrsulicek
Jiri Tuzil, Developer
Spectu is an interactive menu with a unique installation and an easy-to-use application for iPad, which offers a more comfortable dining experience while also providing value by increasing profit and reducing operating costs.
Trip Plans and Hopes
To meet companies in retail, POS systems and gastronomy business.
StartupYard
Seed Accelerator
Lenka Kucerova, Chief Engager
Nikola Rafaj, Director
StartupYard is a seed accelerator for technology startups. Its goal is to help companies to build a viable product, launch fast and prepare for next funding.
Trip Expectations
Meet the people who made the accelerator business real
Tabfoundry
WYSIWYG Editor of Facebook Tabs
Lada Hrbacek, CEO, @ladik_
Michal Kvasnicka, Co-founder, @michalkvasnicka
Petr Messner, Co-founder, @messa_cz
Developing Facebook tabs and promotions is expensive and timeconsuming. It doesn’t have to be. Tabfoundry provides an easy way to create fully customized Facebook tabs, promotions and contests.
Trip Plans and Hopes
To meet someone from Pages team at Facebook and Wildfire.
Tapmates
Designing Apps for Mac, iPhone and iPad
Robin Razska, Co-founder, @robinraszka
They love designing easy to use apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad with a heavy focus on design. Their team is passionate about creating awesome software for client enjoyment, no matter how big the challenge is.
TechSquare
Startup Space
Petra Hubacova, CEO
It is a unique business accelerator project based in Prague, combining modern and original office space with professional services.
Trip Plans and Hopes
To visit accelerators, coworking places and talk to their startup tenants.
Tyinternety.cz
Startup News
Vojta Bednar, Editor-in-Chief
Tyinternety is a leading news source for Czech and Slovak technology startups and social media companies. They host various conferences and meetups such as StartupSummit, Social Marketers Summit and Startupcamp.
Trip Plans and Hopes
To write interesting articles relevant to our readers and introduce Startup Summit Prague taking place in Prague in June, to visit and meet people from CzechAccelerator, US MAC, TechCrunch or Andreessen Horowitz.
Zdenek Farana
IT Entrepreneur
Zdenek Farana is currently running a software development consultancy with main clients in the US and Czech Republic. He also organized the Czech Scala Enthusiasts meetup promoting Scala language in the Czech Republic.
Wikidi
Easy Comparison and Search by Features
Michal Illich, CEO, @michalillich
Wikidi is a free source of 50 million pages full of facts on products, people and places. Data is structured and it’s free to view, edit or share. Wikidi makes comparisons and search by features easy.
Adam Kurzok
E-commerce Entrepreneur
Adam is a startup entrepreneur who has had two exits close to 1 milion dollars (Pizzatime and Lunchtime) so far. His area of business interest includes food delivery in particular.
Meet the trip participants
WDF/Glogster
Interactive Media Agency
Roman Smola, Founder/Co-founder
WDF is a full service interactive & digital agency that delivers online services and digital media platforms,using innovative strategies, top-quality desing and technology.
Glogster provides the possibility of boundless expression via rich media mashups called Glogs, which are mixed by users from audio, video, photos, text, and graphical elements online. Special product application is in the educational sector, where teachers use Glogster EDU to work with students on school projects.
www.wdf.cz, www.glogster.com/edu.glogster.com
Trip Plans and Hopes
To meet investors, companies and people primary focused on the educational space, interesting people (not only from the start-up community), find out about the interactive agencies universe (how it is built and works in SV/SF), digital projects in the post-PC era, what is going on in SV - actual and expected trends, moods, thinkings, rising stars (new companies or new projects of big players), the overall situation on the US market...and maybe have some fun together :-)
Tripitoo
Personalized travel planning wherever you go
Dana Brhelova, Co-founder
Tripitoo is a network of local travel assistants who plan and organize individual short-term and long-term trips to all countries in the world. As experienced travelers they will assist you with organizing transportation, accommodation or travel insurance, as well as pre-travel consulting about necessary outdoor equipment, travel risks or vaccination.
