Innovate!100 Semi-finalists to Pitch in Barcelona on April 8

SAN FRANCISCO and BARCELONA, Spain, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovate!2010 is a global competition produced by Guidewire Group, the world's leading analyst firm focused exclusively on startups and emerging markets, to identify and promote 100 top technology startups from around the world. Along with co-hosts Barcelona Activa and Opinno, Guidewire Group will hold a 'Pitch Slam' event in Barcelona on the 8th of April at Barcelona Activa, Llacuna, 162-164.

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At the Barcelona Pitch Slam, a select group of Innovate!100 semi-finalists will present rapid-fire pitches about their startup and receive invaluable feedback from a panel of expert judges.

Startups will be evaluated using Guidewire Group's proprietary G/Score™ assessment methodology, and the G/Scores from the Barcelona Pitch Slam will be aggregated with the results from over 20 other Innovate!2010 Pitch Slam events being held this year to determine the Innovate!100 – an elite list of the top 100 technology, media and communications startups.  

Confirmed Innovate!100 semi-finalists presenting at the Barcelona Pitch Slam as of April 4 include:

Brainsiders: Specializing in designing and creating innovative user interfaces for Web, desktop, tactile & mobile devices.

BuscoUnViaje.com: Customized travel portal that automatically recommends destinations that fulfill your needs, and provides you with vacation guides to help you chose the perfect trip.

GourmetOrigins.com: Social platform for food and wine enthusiasts that is combined with a map-based geographical tagging system that allows users to visualize and access different layers of contextual information about regional foods and wines and their producers.

Ividence: Easy-to-use SaaS platform that syndicates publishers' customer email databases and manages advertisers' acquisition campaigns.

Kinamik Data Integrity: Enterprise software that enables users, for the first time, to secure their data in real time, for all time.

Secondhand: Business to business international marketplace for the sale and purchase of professional secondhand equipment.

ShoTools: Tools for professionals to build their online presence in social networks, to build and target their audience, share news and analyze the performance of their actions.

Ta With You: Human-quality, domain-specific machine translation solutions in any language to reduce costs and delivery times.

zero2infinity: Creator of Bloon, an environmentally-friendly aerospace vehicle to enable near-space flight at fraction of the cost.

Further information on the Innovate!2010 program and the schedule of upcoming Pitch Slam events can be found at www.innovate100.com. To attend the Barcelona Pitch Slam, sign up online at: http://2010pitchslambcn.eventbrite.com/.

About Innovate!2010

Innovate!2010 is a global competition to identify and promote the top 100 global technology start-ups. The program enables the most promising startups to gain access to resources and opportunities to accelerate the growth of their companies. Innovate!2010 also enables its partners, including technology and telecommunications vendors, government agencies, professional services providers, technology scouts and investors, to identify and engage hundreds of highly vetted, fast-growing startups and raise their brand profile in the global startup community. Innovate!2010 sponsors and partners include leading organizations like Alacatel-Lucent, BestBuy, Cisco Systems, Comcast, DifferenceEngine, eBay, EMC, HP, HSBC, Hearst, IBM, LaPoste, LG Electronics, Microsoft, O2 Litmus, Oracle, PayPal, PWC, Quickstart Global, RIM, SAP, Silicon Valley Bank, Sony, SWIFT, Turner Broadcasting, Verizon, and the City of Zaragoza; as well as European and US economic development agencies, and dozens of leading angel and venture capital investors.

About Guidewire Group, Inc.  

Guidewire Group is a global market intelligence and advisory firm passionate about technology entrepreneurship. Our exclusive focus on early-stage companies and emerging technology markets drives insight and opportunity to our clients and community. At the heart of our offerings is the G/Score™, a proprietary assessment tool that brings clarity and focus to the art of transforming ideas into successful enterprises. Developed over the course of more than 20,000 startup interviews, the G/Score has proven to be a reliable predictor of startup viability and promise. Our G/Score data helps technology investors, customers and platform vendors rapidly qualify and respond to startup deal flow from even thousands of startups. Our G/Score assessment tools help startups, investors, service providers and government agencies to identify and benchmark competitive strengths and weaknesses, and our Studio G business acceleration programs helps startups achieve their growth objectives with clarity of purpose, speed and efficiency.

For more information, contact Vanessa McDonald, [email protected], +44 (0)754 032 5319.

SOURCE Guidewire Group, Inc.