The Europas Shortlist A Good Lineup Of Nordic and Baltic Startups

    Everyone loves a good list, so here’s a bunch of ’em. The Europas startup competition has released shortlists of their categories, and we’ve noticed some Nordic and Baltic startups have received some intial recognition.

    I was going to compile the list of local startups for you guys, but it’s good to see startups in their categories and in context. So below, you’ll find the big list (excluding categories like “best German startup”… because nobody has time for that). You can find all of the shortlists here.

    Also, they really don’t tell you where these startups are from (which is a little annoying, because it’s based on a region). If there are any I missed, please let me know. I did most of this from memory and I still need my morning coffee.

    Lightweight (Less than 12 months and/or less than €100,000 in funding)
    Changers.com / Blacksquared GmbH
    Infogr.am – Riga
    Keeeb
    LazyPub
    Maily
    Memoto – Stockholm
    Sketchfab
    Snap Fashion Ltd
    Substance
    Teddle

    Best Middleweight Startup (Less than 3 years and/or less than €2m in funding)
    CurrencyFair
    Duedil
    Gidsy
    GoSquared
    Love Home Swap
    Mobino
    Pusher
    Readmill – Berlin, but Swedish founder
    Swiftkey
    Tado
    Tjobs S.A.
    TransferWise – Tallinn/London

    Best Heavyweight Startup (3+ years and/or more than €2m in funding)
    DataHug
    Datasift
    Delivery Hero
    HAILO
    Housetrip
    iZettle – Stockholm
    Mind Candy
    MyTaxi
    Skillpages
    Supercell – Helsinki
    Wonga
    Wooga
    Wrapp – Stockholm
    Zalando

    Best Transport, Travel or Environmental Startup
    AlterGeo
    BlaBlaCar
    Gidsy
    Love Home Swap
    Masabi
    Milk The Sun
    Powerkiss – Helsinki
    Shutl
    Wattics

    Best Culture (Fashion, Art, Music, Media) Startup
    Housebites
    24symbols
    Emphas.is
    LiveMusicStage – Helsinki
    Lyst
    Ovelin – Helsinki
    Scoopinion – Helsinki
    Skoobe
    Soundrop – Oslo
    Zoobe

    Best Commerce, Finance or Payments Startup
    Balluun
    Commerce Guys
    Dashlane
    Freespee – Uppsala
    Lyst
    Mobino
    Nutmeg
    Seedrs
    Tictail – Stockholm
    Toshl
    Yotpo

    Best Education Startup
    Memrise
    24 symbols
    Agile Education Technologies
    BraveNewTalent
    Busuu
    Eedu
    Examtime
    Infogr.am –  Riga
    Lernstift
    Scolibri

    Best Gaming or Social Games Startup
    Big Bite Games – Copenhagen
    BragBet
    FanDuel
    HitFox Group
    Makie Lab – London (with some Helsinki connection)
    Playmob
    Plumbee
    Swrve
    Vescape
    Zeptolab

    Best Entertainment, Audio or Video Startup
    Anghami
    Car Throttle
    Crane.tv
    FanDuel
    Fixational
    Intellitix
    Magine
    Pictarine
    Sketchfab
    Tape.tv
    Wirewax

    Best Social, Mobile or Apps Startup
    Conversocial
    Datahug
    Everplaces – Copenhagen
    EyeEm
    Infogr.am – Riga
    Jolicloud
    Qubulus – Malmö
    Scandit
    SocialBro
    Swiftkey
    Zeebox

    Best Business, Recruitment or Enterprise Startup
    Babelverse
    Bonusbox
    Conversocial
    Datahug
    Dropifi
    Duedil
    Geckoboard
    Hojoki
    Nutmeg
    Qamine

    Best Advertising or Marketing Tech Startup
    Adeven
    Adzuna
    BonusBox
    buyapowa
    Conversocial
    Intellitix
    PeerIndex
    scrazzl Ltd.
    Skimlinks
    Socialbakers
    SuperExpo
    Teleportd
    Zoopla

    Best Recruitment and Jobs Startup
    Adzuna
    BraveNewTalent
    Concept Cupboard
    GooodJob
    Intern Avenue
    JobandTalent
    MBA&Co
    Mercury Puzzle
    The Needle Online
    WYGU

    Best Product Startup
    13th Lab – Stockholm
    Chirp.io
    DashLane
    EyeEm
    Geckoboard
    Infogr.am – Riga
    Mendeley
    Shutl
    SocialBro
    Tado
    Tictail – Stockholm

    Best European Startup Accelerator/Incubator
    Fastlane Ventures – Helsinki
    Le Camping
    Munich Startup Accelerator
    Seedcamp
    TechHub – London/Riga
    GammaRebels
    Openfund
    Springboard
    Startup Sauna – Helsinki
    Startup Weekend
    StartupBootCamp – Copenhagen
    Team Europe
    Wayra

    Best Startup Founder/Co-founders
    DataHug – Connor Murphy & Ray Smith
    Hailo – Caspar Woolley, Terry Runham, Russell Hall, Jay Bregman, Gary Jackson & Ron Zeghibe
    Huddle – Andy McLoughlin & Alastair Mitchell
    Mendeley – Jan Reichelt, Paul Foeckler & Victor Henning
    Mind Candy – Michael Acton Smith
    Poikos – Eleanor Watson
    Songkick – Ian Hogarth, Michelle You & Pete Smith
    SoundCloud – Eric Wahlforss & Alexander Ljung – Sweden, originally
    Tictail – Siavash Ghorbani, Carl Waldekranz, Birk Nilson & Kaj Drobin – Stockholm.
    Transferwise – Taavet Hinrikus & Kristo Kaarmann – Estonia
    Wonga – Errol Damelin & Jonty Hurwitz
    Zoopla – Alex Chesterman and Simon Kain

    Best Startup Advisor/Mentor of the Year
    Alex Farcet – Copenhagen (Now Berlin)
    Chris Grew
    Jeremie Berrebi
    Lukasz Gadowski
    Max Niederhofer
    Neil Rimer
    Nic Brisbourne
    Philipp Moehring
    Sitar Teli
    Stefan Glaenzer

    Best Exit of 2012
    Face.com to Facebook
    Fizzback to NICE Systems
    Llustre to Fab
    Moonfruit to Yell
    Nik Software to Google
    OneDrum to Yammer
    Podio to Citrix – Copenhagen
    Pulpfingers to 500px
    Qype to Yelp
    Sparrow to Google
    Viewdle to Motorola
    We7 to Tesco

    Best Service Provider to Startups
    2Pears
    33Seconds
    Ballou PR
    Berlin Partner GmBH
    Brown and Rudnick
    Mercury Global Partners, LLC
    Orrick
    Spark PR
    Taylor Wessing
    TechHub – London/Riga

    Best VC of the Year (Company)
    Early Bird
    DFJ Esprit
    DNCapital
    Accel Partners
    Atomico – Stockholm
    Balderton Capital
    Index Ventures
    Mangrove Capital
    Passion Capital

    Tech Journalist of the Year
    To be announced

    Regional Awards

    Best Nordic Startup
    Eye Tribe – Copenhagen
    FOAP – Malmö
    GuidePal – Stockholm
    Instabridge – Stockholm
    MePIN – Helsinki
    Nordic Telecom – Helsinki
    Ovelin – Helsinki
    PowerKiss -Helsinki
    Soundrop – Oslo
    Tictail – Stockholm
    Transfluent – Helsinki
    Warrantify – Helsinki