DLD Garage Presents its Selection of 20 Internet Startups

International Start-Ups From Technology, Social Media, Fashion, Music, Content and Video

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Jan 13, 2011, 12:30 ET

MUNICH, January 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty companies were selected from the many applications and recommendations put forward for the DLD Garage startup program and these were invited to the DLD Conference coming up in 2011. The aim of the initiative is to find up-and-coming internet companies with the potential to disrupt the market in their particular sectors and link those companies to the DLD-Community. Some of the startups will also be included in the DLD Conference program.

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Chaired by Yossi Vardi, DLD Garage is supported by a team of distinguished international DLD-network partners: ACCEL Partners (Sonali de Rycker), TechCrunch (Mike Butcher) and TOMORROW FOCUS AG (Stefan Winners).

The DLD Garage list for 2011 is composed of selected applications to the program as well as proposals from DLD Global Ambassadors; the list introduces an exciting mix of promising companies to the international scene.

    DLD Garage 2011 shortlist:

    - Abe's Market - a marketplace for natural products
    - Boticca - a marketplace for independent fashion accessory
      designers
    - Branchout - a career network along the lines of Facebook
    - Everbread - a company which aims to liberate and change travel
      search behind the scenes
    - Faces iMake - an edutainment tool for creating photo collages on
      the iPhone and iPad
    - Flattr - a micro-payment service
    - FWIX - a service for finding real-time local content
    - InTheMo: a video-based, local search engine
    - Instapaper - a bookmarking service which allows you to store
      interesting articles centrally to read later
    - JamRT - JamRT's real-time technology transforms any online video
      into a music game
    - Lyst - a platform for finding out about fashion via user-created
      boutiques with products from familiar online shops
    - PeerIndex - a service which helps people benefit from the social
      and reputation capital they have built online
    - Qriously - a service for carrying out opinion polls in real-time
      as an alternative to advertising via mobile apps
    - Quno - a search engine and platform for booking train tickets
    - ResearchgGATE - a social network for researchers and scientists
    - Right Rental - an online platform where tenants can exchange
      information
    - Shopperella - a marketplace for baby and child products
    - SoundCloud - a collaborative platform allowing musicians to share
      and promote audio files
    - UJAM - a browser-based music platform for anyone interested in
      composing, producing and publishing music
    - ViKi - a crowdsourcing translation platform for TV films and
      series

For further information on DLD Garage and the DLD Conference visit http://www.dld-conference.com.

About DLD:

DLD (Digital - Life - Design) is an international conference and investment platform of Burda Digital. DLD Media hosts the international, digital conference DLD and the conference DLDwomen as well as network events e.g. in Palo Alto, Tel Aviv und Beijing. In addition DLD Ventures is invested in Glam Media and sevenload. Managing directors are Dr. Marcel Reichart and Stephanie Czerny, who founded the DLD Conference in 2005. DLD is chaired by Hubert Burda and Yossi Vardi.

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