“Many of the social media products are targeted to youth and grown-ups but kids use them anyway. We believe that children deserve a service developed specifically for them”

Momio is prided on being both fun and safe, safety issues are among its top priorities. The app is both human moderated and scanned by advanced systems, while users’ personal information is kept private. Users are encouraged to report any suspicious or inappropriate content, which is immediately dealt with by the watAgame team.

The application has been met with a great deal of excitement since its launch in late 2013; climbing its way up the top ten rankings in the iOS App store for both iPhones and iPads within the first week of release, with 150,000 chat messages sent within the first five days

Originally launched under the name Skymo, watAgame was forced to rebrand their product to the more recent ‘Momio’, to avoid legal clashes with British broadcasting company Sky. ‘Momio’ was chosen for being an international name, which is just as well as the app, which was previously only available in Denmark, has recently been launched across Northern Europe. Momio can be downloaded free of charge by iOS and Android users in all of Scandinavia as well as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Belgium.

watAgame: What a Story

Founded in 2004, the firm is supported by venture investors Accel, Seed Capital and VF Venture and in 2012 earned a turnover of 3.6 million euros. Their signature product; goSupermodel, a fashion oriented website for young girls is, like Momio, based on safe and supervised fun where users’ identities are protected and a welcoming community is maintained.

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It was held over lunch at CreativeLab, the creative event concept at the SHIP co-working space. Because we have a policy of livecasting whatever we do, you can watch the recording above (Our new Bambuser channel can be found here).

If you want to download the slides, I have made them available on slideshare but there are quite low resolution there, so can be found as pdf here as well.

I am probably describing some of the startups a little bit wrong (sorry for that), and I missed some things in the presentation (corrected in the downloadable versions). But I hope it creates some value for you as the viewer anyway.

Update 1: Some have asked why so many people are walking around and the background noice – the location where the presentation was held is the auditorium in the CreativeLab, called “trappan”, and is just that: the main stairs between the first and second floor. It is designed to be in the middle of the entire place, so that any presentations held there can have drop-in / drop-out flow. A somewhat special enviroment, but I love it, often with a lot of student from Lunds University sitting around in the open areas, and the business and entrepreneurs on the stairs themselves…

Update 2: I should of course list the top 50 startups mentioned as well! Here they are (in the order presented, i.e. in alphabetical order after category):

Series A + B

B2C

• Billetto
• Miinto
• Vivino
• WatAGame (GoSupermodel)
• Zmags

B2B

• Codesealers
• Falcon Social
• FlatFrog Laboratories
• iMotions
• Neo technology (Neo4J)
• Octoshape
• Opbeat
• Serstech
• SimpleSite (123hjemmeside)
• Tradeshift
• Trustpilot
• Unity
• Vopium

Seed level

B2C

• Bownty
• Click-A-Taxi
• Coolstuff
• Flattr
• Foap
• Tasspass
• Retevo (Roliga Prylar / Alphageek)

B2B

• Anyfi
• Atosho
• Conferize
• Crunchfish
• Deskwolf
• Dexplora (GetSalesDone and brisk.io)
• Firmafon
• GameAnalytics
• Graduateland
• InRiver
• Insurance Business Applications
• OneRecruit
• Sepior
• The Eye Tribe
• Wallmob
• Zaplox

Other prominent startups

• 23
• Echo.it
• Kvittar
• MovieStarPlanet
• Momondo
• Planeto
• Riidr
• Zendesk

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