Intelia Consultores & Sentinel Spain Tie for Winning Spot at Innovate!2010 Zaragoza Pitch Slam Event

SAN FRANCISCO and ZARAGOZA, Spain, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Guidewire Group, the world's leading analyst firm focused exclusively on startups and emerging markets, kicked off its Innovate!2010 global competition to identify the world's top 100 technology startups last week with a regional 'Pitch Slam' event in Zaragoza, Spain.

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Co-hosted by the City of Zaragoza, the Innovate!2010 Pitch Slam in Zaragoza was the first in a series of over 20 regional Pitch Slam events that will span across Europe and the United States. Intelia Consultores, a company dedicated to business and technical consulting focused on the telecommunications market, and Sentinel Spain SL, a startup working to revolutionize the market for security scanners, tied for top honors at the competition in Zaragoza.

At each Pitch Slam, startups are evaluated by a panel of expert judges using Guidewire Group's G/Score™, a market leading assessment methodology that has been proven as a reliable predictor of market success and business viability.  The G/Scores will be aggregated from all of the Pitch Slams, normalized across markets, stages and segments, and then ranked to determine the Innovate!100.

Innovate!2010 partners with companies like Alacatel-Lucent, BestBuy, Cisco, Comcast, EMC, HP, HSBC, IBM, LG Electronics, Microsoft, O2 Litmus, PayPal, RIM, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Sony and Verizon and serves as a platform for these corporations to quickly identify and  partner with high-potential startups.

The full schedule, up-to-the-minute Pitch Slam news and content, including videos from the day, can be found at www.Innovate100.com.

Congratulations also goes to the Zaragoza pitch slam semi-finalists: Anturi Technology, CGC Installation, ChargeLocator, Kaparazoom, Masterbranch & ViajarSolo

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, Comcast, DifferenceEngine, EMC, HP, HSBC, Hearst, IBM, LaPoste, LG Electronics, Microsoft, O2 Litmus, PWC, Quickstart Global, PayPal, RIM, SAP, Silicon Valley Bank, Sun Microsystems, 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 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.

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