For the second time, MoneyTalks® Tallinn brings the growth-seeking start-ups together with the equity financiers, the business angels and venture capital investors.

Connect Estonia has a great pleasure of hosting a workshop/seminar with Jaanus Rohumaa on Wednesday the 12th of September at Technopolis Ülemiste. The workshop is designed to give tips on public performance to our startups and Connect Estonia members. This will be an excellent way to gain new knowledge and polish public performance skills.

Due to high demand we plan to have a similar event in the near future.

To enquire about Connect Estonia membership please email: info@connectestonia.net

We had a full house and excellent demos by various startups. We would like to thank all of the presenters: Navistepper, MyDriveStyle, Look4Care, Raybike, Easyrider, Pipfrog, Cognuse, Nutiteq, Monsavile, Achoo, InSkilled, Like a Local Guide, Monday52, Monolith, EpicList, WappZapp, VitalFields, Pondera.

We would also like to thank Startup Wiseguys and Enterprise Estonia and everyone who made this event possible for all their support!

Pictures are up on our homepage gallery section as well as on our Facebook page – http://www.facebook.com/connectestonia .

Have a great summer and see you all at our next event!

Connect Estonia Team

Startup Summer Fair is already taking place tomorrow!

The event will begin at 15.30 and demos at 16.00.

You can hear the following companies presenting:

- Navistepper
- MyDriveStyle
- Look4Care
- Raybike
- Easyrider
- Pipfrog
- Cognuse
- Nutiteq
- Monsavile
- Achoo
- InSkilled
- Like a Local Guide
- Monday52
- Monolith
- EpicList
- WappZapp
- VitalFields
- Pondera

We have added extra tickets – please do register on the following link -http://startupsummerfair2012.eventbrite.com/

See you tomorrow!

Connect Estonia Team

You will be able to hear the demos of the below companies and don’t forget to register for the event on the following site - http://startupsummerfair2012.eventbrite.com

Look4Care
Look4Care is a service for families to find the best babysitter. Founded in 2011. http://look4care.com/ Twitter: @look4care

Navistepper

NaviStepper is a high performance GPS pedometer logger for Nordic walking poles. It is so easy to use that even old folks, picking up Nordic walking as one of the best fitness activities for the world´s growing age group, find it extremely simple to use for tracking their workouts. Tested  on old people. They loved it.

Easyrider
easyRider.me is an online tool for bands and promoters that helps out with all the little details of concert organizing. We provide a collaboration space that eliminates huge amounts of email. Nobody actually enjoys making lists of instuments, amplification, microphones… It’s not fun communicating minor changes over and over with the band. On easyRider.me bands and promoters can communicate and offer substitutions online and everyone can access the information they need – in a form they need it. It saves huge workhours for technical staff and rental fees for the promoter. Plus everybody involved get a peace of mind.

Raybike
Raybike is three wheeled kick scooter that is steered by one hand. It needs pushing only once to ride with it. It is fun, stable, active lifestyle product which is meant to be used in city environment for moving from one place to another, doing it faster than walking speed.

MyDriveStyle
MyDriveStyle helps make driving safer, reduce compensations payments to employees, decrease business losses, as well as diminish expenses on insurance outpayments for insurance companies.

Achoo
Achoo (http://achoo.co) is a novel professional network for people that want to spread their achievement. It’s great for consultants and freelancers and useful for almost anyone.

Cognuse
Cognuse produces and manufactures systems and devices specifically for cognitive rehabilitation. Our clients are professional health care service providers who specialize in brain health treatments, diagnostics, and rehabilitation services.
Our clients include:

• Hospitals with in-house mental health rehabilitation
• Mental health rehabilitation clinics
• Elderly care institutions

All our solutions are developed in cooperation with our Scientific Advisory Board and have both a clinical preventative and rehabilitative focus.

Pipfrog

Pipfrog is a web based e-commerce software for opening and managing a web store.  Based on  world’s fastest growing e-commerce platform Magento, it offers a powerful SEO-ready platform with built-in tools to manage and grow sales. Today Pipfrog serves hundreds of merchants from 14 different countries around the world including such well known brands as Klick, Asko, Sotka, Securitas, Fazer, Living, Apollo jne.

InSkilled

is the missing piece of LinkedIn. It allows you to identify, enhance and expose what you really love in your professional life. InSkilled was founded by four eLearning enthusiasts from Estonia under the notion that there is so much more to people than the conventional bio can show and that even the small interests of people can and should be enhanced to bloom. To do that, we gather who a person currently is and start provoking them to develop themselves further, while providing clear directions as to how that can be done best online. The central element in InSkilled is your personal life-long learning path – a virtual path that guides a person to consistently develop themselves professionally. To supply contents to that path, InSkilled connects to many external providers who supply courses, exams, certificates, learning tips, materials etc – both free and paid-for. This makes InSkilled your one central personal development platform. The service is directed towards the contemporary English-speaking person who is accustomed to obtaining knowledge off the internet but has few ways to structure the obtained information and to expose that knowledge as a natural part of their professional profile. InSkilled creates revenue from re-selling some of the components which constitute the learning path.

Like a Local Guide

Like A Local Guide is a travel site where reviews are written by locals and creating your personal city guide takes only one minute. Like A Local Guide helps people to create high-quality personal city guides that compiles tips from locals into personalized travel guides that can be created in one minute. Instead of browsing through hundreds of listings they have to look through only those places which fit their interest and budget. Our goal is to create an active community of local editors all around the world and offer local activists and travel bloggers a new organized medium to share their favorite places in their hometown. The market is the whole independent travel sector, who travel longer and spend more money in destinations. We are offering businesses that have been selected by our editors an opportunity to highlight their listing with different features, like allowing direct booking of accommodation or tours, adding more photos, advertising their events (parties, live music, concerts etc), answering to customers more personally and letting people know about their specials (discounts, happy hours etc). Two main founders (Kalev & Ülane) are both experienced travelers and have successfully run two businesses in the independent tourism sector, including paper maps of the same trademark Like A Local in 3 countries, and Rait has 12 years of software development experience.

Monday 52

Monday52 helps people to have a better career by sharing their work experience and comparing it to others. Employees can rate their employers and get personalized job recommendations based on that. We want to prove the idea on a few pilot markets before expanding further. These markets are tech companies in Estonia and Ukraine. Business model is not yet clear, two big ideas so far are HR analytics and lead gen for recruiters. Our direct competitor is Glassdoor.com in US. Our edge is that we think you can’t get trustworthy reviews and ratings with real people (e.g. anonymous) and that’s what we’re going to do. In terms of biz model, there are lots of “workplace rankings” from Hewitt to BBB and regional bodies. Unlike those folks, on Monday52 employees will get actual value out of participating in a survey. We’re willing experiment a lot in terms of biz model and how the solution should work, focus is to make somethign that can actually help people evaluate different job opportunities and have a meaningful career and happier life.

Monolith

Monolith is machine powered by our Reality Augmented Engine that turns regular commercials into movie-like experience for every passer-by. There are many possible use for Monolith, for example: in a clothing store you can try on a new collection in front of the Monolith, even without going to the fitting room; or, you could have
movie-like experience of your favorite story, movie or game just in front of the Monolith. Monolith is first fully integrated augmented reality advertising device combining unique hardware solution based on Kinect and our proprietary software platform for creating, distributing and measuring AR ads. Our first customers are local Croatian soft drink company and will work for Lenovo store in Zagreb.

Epic List

Epic List is a social discovery site for local happenings and things to do, curated by your friends and people who share your interests and your personal lifestyle, by turning word-of-mouth conversations into the social web. Think of Pinterest meets Twitter for local lifestyle, creating exciting and memorable moments every day. This is a hit on a powerful formula: the hand-curated quality of a visual event & lifestyle magazine plus the speed of a blog plus the personal relevance of a social and local network. Thats Epic List! VP: Discover and share the excitement in the world around you and never get bored again. Get personalised acces to best places and hottest events, curated activities and exclusive deals. While people spent about 90 % of their time and money offline, the social and mobile market size is about to rise up to $30 Billion till 2015. There is a huge potential for the next stage of the web aiming to connect people online in order to organize their life offline. 75 % of people already use the internet to organize things offline. People have about 6 h daily leisure time in average, which we want to help them to fill best possible.

WappZapp

Your personal TV portal. Flipboard meets spotify for video. With WappZapp you zapp your way through the best internet video, track your favorite shows and share cool stuff with friends! Best of all, you can turn your iPad or iPhone in to the remote to zapp any video to your internet TV!

Vital Fields

The problem: Farmers today are not benefitting from farming science because it’s complicated. For example only 4% of farmers use some kind of an information system to determine what pesticide to use. They use guesstimates and research has shown that these decisions are not always optimal. The product: We will create field and crops management system that is simple to use because it has most of the data, like weather inside already. The farmers will have to input less data manually and therefore are more likely to start using an electronic system for field management. With that, farmers will get a greater yield from their fields because they actually use the farming methods modern science provides through the system.

Wellbeing in the City

Wellbeing In the City is a social platform that offers simple & practical ways to achieve a balanced lifestyle. People are not living balanced lifestyles – Lacking time, energy, confidence and freedom – Forced to choose between competing needs of work, family, friends & self – 80% of people feel stress at work, but can’t find help in learning how to manage – Need to be inspired and supported by people they can relate to Our solution: a social place that balances lifestyles – Inspiration from people you can personally connect with – Belief in the power of simple and satisfying positive choices – Support through diverse niche communities, focused on positive change – Action through tools and techniques provided by a global partner network The result: people become addicted to positive, engaging and healthy living Hundreds of partners creating and sharing conversational and inspiring content paired-up with high-value downloadable resources that make simple positive choices easy and practical.

Monsavile

Monsavile is a B2B company. Our product is a mass-customization platform. Our customers are fashion brands and producers.

Amongst all the participants of the Startup Summer Fair, one lucky winner will take home a brand new RAYBIKE ( http://raybike.com/ ). The winner will be announced on the evening.

On another note, due to a high demand we have added extra 50 spaces for the annual Startup Summer Fair. Please register on the following link: http://www.connectestonia.net/2012/06/news-en/connect-estonia-startup-summer-fair-2012/ .

See you soon!

Connect Estonia Team

We look forward to seeing you!

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