G-Startup 2011 Is A Wrap! - Winners Announced

Thank you all for your support at G-Startup 2011. We had an amazing time, with great advice shared from our judges during the panel sessions, and a great round of pitching for both the Seed and Growth stages of the competition. Without further ado, congratulations to our winners of G-Startup 2011!

Seed/Early-Stage Winners:

1st Place Winner:

SmarTots - China
http://www.smartots.com/

SmarTots
is a mobile education platform for children aged 2-7. It brings together educators, parents, and developers to create an interactive, fun, and manageable learning experience for kids through mobile apps. 
SmarTots strives to unlock the true educational value of mobile devices by providing parents with reports, parental tools and personalized recommendations across many hardware and software ecosystems.

2nd Place Runner Up:
 

Kwestr - China
http://www.kwestr.com/

Kwestr
makes accomplishing goals social and fun. We do this by creating a social enabled narrative game layer on any event, thing or experience that you can do or dream up from practicing how to recycle paper to being a cool dad for a day. We give you badges for accomplishing your goals in a step by step manner while letting your friends be part of your journey to cheer and support you. You can try doing some of the Kwests that we make or you can create your own and challenge yourself or your friends to do it.

 

Growth-Stage Winners:

1st Place Winner:

 
Word Engine - Japan
http://www.wordengine.jp/

Word Engine is the fastest way to permanently memorize up to 99% of all the vocabulary required for important subjects. Word Engine is fast, inexpensive and mobile. We offer vocabulary courses for test preparation and special business needs.  Word Engine is a proven scientific solution already in use at hundreds of universities and multinational corporations around the world. We very much look forward to entering the China market.

2nd Place Runner Up:

个信- China
http://www.gexin.im/

Gexin Hudong was founded at Jul., 2010, with 60 staff, among them 11 are high-tech developer with masters degree. Gexin was designed to focus on the wireless internet app developing, its first product Gexin is a PIM based SNS push channel, and is able to send free SMS.

 

G-Startup Competition 2011 Prizes:

 

Partners: G-Startup is proud to partner with Innovation Works, Chinaccelerator, and
Plug and Play Tech Center.

Prizes From:

     

- GoAruna (http://goaruna.com/)
- Amazon Web Services (http://aws.amazon.com/)
- Innovation Intelligence Group (http://www.iigglobal.com/)
- China Briefing (http://www.china-briefing.com/)

GoAruna - Goes all around
Everyone's a winner! Each of the 20 participating startups at G-Startup 2011 receives free custom accounts from GoAruna!

GoAruna is a mobile multi-platform cloud storage service, and all 20 startups get a custom (better than silver) account, including 100gb storage per company, unlimited bandwidth, with 5 user accounts per company.

- Free upgrade to business account and higher level of service
- 100 gb storage per company, unlimited bandwidth, 5 users per company
- Add additional users at a nominal cost
- Free for one year, with no obligation to extend after the year
- Total prize value of $12,000 for all 20 startups!

 

Seed/Early Stage 1st Place Grand Prize:

1. Entry Into Choice of Acceleration Program:
- Innovation Works' Jump-Start Program - Beijing, China
- Chinaccelerator's Accelerator Program - Dalian, China

2. $1,000USD Amazon Web Services Credits

3. 4-hours consulting & 4-hours research from Innovation Intelligence Group

4. China Briefing book-sets from Asia Briefing

Seed/Early Stage 2nd Place Prize:

1. 2-hours consulting & 2-hours research from Innovation Intelligence Group 

2. China Briefing book-sets from Asia Briefing

 

Growth Stage 1st Place Grand Prize:

1. Entry Into Acceleration Program:
- Plug and Play Tech Center's Accelerator Program - Silicon Valley, US 

2. 4-hours consulting & 4-hours research from Innovation Intelligence Group

3. China Briefing book-sets from Asia Briefing

Growth Stage 2nd Place Prize:

1. 2-hours consulting & 2-hours research from Innovation Intelligence Group

2. China Briefing book-sets from Asia Briefing

[A special thanks to Chinaccelerator for hooking us up with these awesome prize partners for G-Startup 2011!]

Participating Startups 2011:

Participating Seed/Early-Stage Startups:

触景无限 - China
http://www.senscape.cn/

Founded in February 2010 with headquarter in Beijing, Senscape is China's first mobile augmented reality platform company with most sophisticated AR browser supporting both iOS and Android on smart phones. The company's vision is to provide the foundation of new media platform in the era of mobile internet integrating seamlessly the virtual into the real world.  Senscape has established strategic partnership with a number of industry leaders, such as NaviAuto, Qualcomm, China Unicom, etc... to jointly  develop AR market in China.  Senscape has developed AR solution with both GPS support and graphics recognition technology that will connect any object to additional digital information.
Senscape is grow ing dai ly with in ter est ing channels and content that will give your in stant source of in for ma tion about places, events, bar gains or objects  where your smart phone camera point at.
Sense the World!

BookRice - Hong Kong
http://www.bookrice.com/

Bookrice, a startup company based in Hong Kong, is seeking to transform the way restaurants and diners utilize technology.  They are developing an iPad-based SaaS app for restaurants to manage their tables and reservations while also building a mobile app for diners to discover new restaurants and instantize the table reservation process.

RedSparro - Singapore
http://redsparro.com

RedSparro aims to address the most common frustration that event attendees face while participating in events – difficulty in discovering, locating and meeting people who matter most, making connections and establishing business relations with them.
RedSparro is available as a location-aware mobile application that shows you events happening now and nearby. Participants can check-in to events, see who else is at the event, browse their profiles, request meetings and add them as contacts and sync with various social networks.
RedSparro allows you to leverage the wisdom of the crowd by asking questions/conducting polls among the event attendees. It also allows you to promote your business via on-the-spot deals or meet and hire people during the event via job notices. It also aims to make events fun via big-screen games where attendees use their mobile phones to play multiplayer games against each other to win badges and prizes.

Wiselinc Technologies - China
http://www.16fun.com

Wiselinc Technologies LTD was founded early 2010, our first product, 16Fun, is a location based social game, targeted on smart phone users of iPhone and Android OS, the game transforms everyone into a your city monopoly. 16Fun is a simulation game where users can build their mini city using parts from real life, smart phones’ GPS allows users to interact with their nearby venues, buy and transfer many types of real life buildings and place them onto their “float island”, and manage them by selling virtual items gathered by check-ins.
16Fun belongs a new genre of entertainment, leverage GPS feature of smart phones, users not only experience the closeness between virtual world and reality in the game, but also making friends who are playing the same game just around the corner has never been easier.
Wiselinc will continue focus on blending Location or GPS based feature in gaming, we are currently planning for a huge update for our current game, also new product is under initial designing phase.

Sassor - Japan
http://www.sassor.jp/

“sassor” is a group specializing in interactive and service design. We work on production and business development of various devices and services.
Our service "Energy Literacy Platform" is a tool that tells us how much electricity we use at home. Saving electricity is both environmentally and economically friendly but very few people truly understand its impact―most people do not know how much energy is consumed by each electronic appliance and how much electricity we are saving by regularly turning off the power switch. For most of us, we only think about our electricity consumption when we receive our electric bill. But even these bills do not indicate how much energy was used on the refrigerator or the vacuum-cleaner. Our product, Energy Literacy Platform, allows users to see just how much energy has been used on a daily basis and educate them about how to effectively save energy.

SmarTots - China
http://www.smartots.com/

SmarTots is a mobile education platform for children aged 2-7. It brings together educators, parents, and developers to create an interactive, fun, and manageable learning experience for kids through mobile apps.  SmarTots strives to unlock the true educational value of mobile devices by providing parents with reports, parental tools and personalized recommendations across many hardware and software ecosystems.
We help both Parent and Child get more out of mobile apps by providing tools to understand the Child's learning in apps and educational activities for Parent and Child to do together.  We also add value for Kids-App-Developers by offering extra, parent-friendly functionality and access to cross promotion through the SmarTots database of app-loving parents.
The initial iPhone/iPad (iOS) version of the service was launched over Christmas 2010, and has already been downloaded by more than 180,000 parents. Leveraging this install base, SmarTots currently generates revenue through affiliate sales.

MobileApps - Singapore
http://MobileApps.com

MobileApps.com is the Google Adsense/Adwords ad network for mobile apps.
Our self-serving ad solution helps developers get their apps discovered in targeted niches, countries or platforms that they are built for. For app developers, getting their apps discovered is as easy as creating an ad in Google Adwords. For web publishers, showing ads for targeted apps is just like setting up an Adsense widget for their site.
We built MobileApps.com to help developers avoid the clutter of app stores. By creating an app discovery network across the web, developers will be able to expose their apps to a larger and more targeted audience.

Fonaja - Indonesia
http://fonaja.com/

Fonaja is a virtual enterprise phone system for self-employed professionals and small-medium businesses.
Fonaja is a start-up aiming to provide an affordable and easy to use enterprise phone system to small-medium businesses and self-employed professionals.
Our service ranges from provisioning and managing a local phone number, creating call rules, providing phone extensions, and many others.

Kwestr - China
http://www.kwestr.com/

Kwestr makes accomplishing goals social and fun. We do this by creating a social enabled narrative game layer on any event, thing or experience that you can do or dream up from practicing how to recycle paper to being a cool dad for a day. We give you badges for accomplishing your goals in a step by step manner while letting your friends be part of your journey to cheer and support you. You can try doing some of the Kwests that we make or you can create your own and challenge yourself or your friends to do it.
Along with Kwest Badges, you can also give your friends Kwestr Awards from "Social Connector to Beijing Foodie" to let them know why they are special. Badges and Awards remain in your Trophy Room and you can show them off on Facebook. Kwestr will gamify your life with real accomplishments with your real friends.

Moglue - Korea
http://www.moglue.com/

The Moglue team is developing a desktop platform that allows publishers, amateur authors and artists a way to create interactive content and release them as apps for iOS and Android operating systems with one-click publishing.
The platform will enable anyone to quickly and easily create interactive ebooks without any programming knowledge.
Moglue intends to build an open community where media is shared, and any creative, imaginative person will have the opportunity to use our software to create and share fun, engaging apps. Create, play and share with Moglue.

 

Participating Growth-Stage Startups 2011:

Qubulus - Sweden
http://www.qubulus.com/

Qubulus provides the most accurate software-only XYZ positioning to date and provides the LocLizard platform with a positioning client and developer tool to enable free indoor positioning at any location. LocLizard is supported by our Qubulus Indoor Positioning System (QPS) to both provide horizontal positioning (XY) and seamless floor level switching (Z). In addition Qubulus is developing a hardware solution to capture the geo social graph of any mobile without the need to install software. Our technology is patented (patent families acquired from TeliaSonera in 2010) and we have new patent applications pending. See our products at www.loclizard.com

Stream Media Pte Ltd - Singapore
http://www.movend.com

Stream Media's vision is to connect the world's services and products onto mobile. We provide mobile software consultancy, content publishing/distribution as well as our product MoVend, a cross platform in-app commerce platform. MoVend works on Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7, providing seamless payment experience in-app via various reputable payment providers, like operator billing, prepaid cards and PayPal. Our solution also feature cross platform user, product and license management system, so that any user will be able to get what they paid for regardless of what platforms they use. It is extremely easy to use, and can be done in less than 10 minutes, shortening development lifecycle and cost. Stream Media's clientele include companies such as SingTel, M1, Sony Ericsson, MediaCorp, Sony and Dell.

SpeakingPal Ltd - Israel
http://www.speakingpal.com/

SpeakingPal brings education to the mobile device and turns it into a virtual English tutor. Using automatic speech recognition, SpeakingPal allows the user to simply speak in an interactive dialog and get instant feedback on how well the sentences were spoken. SpeakingPal brings premium content for mobile English Learning with rich multi-media mini-lessons that simulates a real-life conversation. SpeakingPal is founded by an experienced multidisciplinary team with expertise in mobile technology, distributed computing systems, linguistics and Automatic Speech Recognition. SpeakingPal has recently teamed with Princeton-based ETS, the global leader in English assessments, which annually administers over 50 million English tests worldwide. Together, we bring the highest quality English mobile training solution for the business and academic segments.

个信- China
http://www.gexin.im/

Gexin Hudong was founded at Jul., 2010, with 60 staff, among them 11 are high-tech developer with masters degree. Gexin was designed to focus on the wireless internet app developing, its first product Gexin is a PIM based SNS push channel, and is able to send free SMS.

Nobot Inc. - Japan
http://www.ad-maker.net/

NOBOT provides a mobile advertising service “AdMaker”, which is an advertising platform for mobile applications. “AdMaker”enables the developers to switch between Ad-Networks and other services. Nobot is cooperating with Ad-Networks in various countries, for example, Smaato (US), Mojiva (US), Zestadz (US), buzzcity (Asia), and Medialets (Rich Ads/US). In addition, it is also cooperating with Japanese domestic Ad-Networks. Currently, Nobot obtains the second most share in the Japanese application ad-network market, ranked after Google/Admob.

Mobimedia Inc - Canada
http://www.mobilemedia.bz/

Mobimedia Inc  is a complete, full‐service Mobile Marketing and Technology firm. We are involved in all aspects of our customers’ mobile implementations, from initial consulting, concepting, campaign brainstorming and development, implementation, content conversion and delivery, client and user technical support, best practices, and reporting. We strive to serve our customers as their internal mobile department, allowing them to leverage our knowledge and technology to maximize the effectiveness of their mobile endeavours.

Word Engine - Japan
http://www.wordengine.jp/

Word Engine is the fastest way to permanently memorize up to 99% of all the vocabulary required for important subjects. You may have heard increased vocabulary leads to better performance but, did you know that vocabulary differs tremendously from one subject to another?  For example the 7,501 words that commonly occur on the TOEFL® are very different from the 4,299 words that commonly occur on the Gaokao in China.  Independent university research shows that students who use Word Engine to master at least 97% of the words commonly used on the TOEIC® score significantly higher the next time they take that test.  Word Engine is fast, inexpensive and mobile. We offer vocabulary courses for test preparation and special business needs.  Word Engine is a proven scientific solution already in use at hundreds of universities and multinational corporations around the world. We very much look forward to entering the China market.

KAI Square - Singapore
http://www.kaisquare.com/

KAI Square is a young and pioneering Singapore based company, with the main expertise in Intelligence surveillance data processing solution and services. Our technological niche provides solutions for a wide range of application systems catering to large corporations and end-users in the internet and mobile devices domains. We strongly believe in bringing greater business value to our customers and partners by delivering innovative technologies and unmatched performance that harnesses the power of Knowledge with Artificial Intelligence (KAI).

Smoov - Singapore
http://corporate.smoov.me

“Forget the days of passive buying, welcome to the new era of motivational buying. Smoov motivates your members and visitors and transform them into loyal customers on the mobile.” Smoov, start motivating! Smoov empowers community owners such as mobile operators and organisations to white label our sticky mobile platform that can be universally deployed across all smart phones. The result of switching on this brand new marketing tool will be an elevated personal user experience, a strong mobile community as well as the ability to generate new sustainable revenues streams easily. Smoov is a reputable investee of Spring Singapore and selected mobile partner of InfoComm Development Authority of Singapore.

Let's Powwow - China
http://www.letspw.com/

Let's Powwow at its core is a Mobile Internet company providing a Location-Based, Social Network, Deal/Group buying platform that is developed upon personal user’s buying needs. This service provides relevant information about places, people and events around the individual that pertains to that person’s particular likes and interests, while giving venues the ability to track buying behaviors and engage directly with Let’s Powwow users by issuing deals, promotions and group oriented discounts fitting to an individual’s lifestyle.