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Table Of Contents Program
Warm-up
Welcome Note
Y Combinator Lessons Learnt by
Andrej Pancik
Pitches & Judges Q&A
Pitch Feedback by Judges
Wrap-up and Awards
Networking & Afterparty at MeetFactory
Program 3
Partners 4
Wilken Bruns / Peter Fabian 5
Amit Paunikar / Michael Schuster 6
Michael Truban / Andrej Pancik 7
AirCharts.co 8
Hlidacky.cz 9
StartitUp 12
Travelatus 13
Works.io 14
Yummy Food 15
Thanks To 16
Our Favorite Entrepreneurs and Companies 17
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Wilken Bruns
Wilken is the Co-Founder & COO
Startupbootcamp Berlin. He is a German
entrepreneur, born and raised in Africa.
He designed an accelerator program for
Maastricht University, co-founded 3 Day
Startup Maastricht, was COO of Startup
Camp Berlin ‘12, and board member of the
Entrepreneurs Club Berlin e.V. Just for fun
he sells monkikoys online. He loves his job,
so besides startups he doesn’t really have
any hobbies.
Peter Fabian
Peter currently serves as a VP of Business
Development at Zaelnorth LLC, a Silicon
Valley consultancy firm that advises
companies on business operations. He
started his career in the software industry,
eventually becoming COO of iPharro
Media, a video fingerprinting startup and
a successful spin-off from the Fraunhofer
Institute. More recently, Peter was the
Managing Director of Rocket Internet USA,
an American branch of the most successful
European startup incubator. His latest
engagement was as a VP of Operations
at Talenthouse, the world’s leading
platform for creative collaboration where he restructured the core business
operations. Peter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research
from Princeton University and an MBA from Stanford University. In his spare
time he enjoys independent overland travel, most recently to destinations in
Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Partners Judges
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Judges
Amit Paunikar
Amit is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
of Mediastudio. A seasoned product manager,
he has over 12 years of experience delivering
innovative and highly scalable products for big
and small companies. Prior to Mediastudio,
he was the VP, Products at Marketshare and
helped launch their flagship product. Prior
to Marketshare, he spent time in product
organizations at Google and Yahoo! where he
worked on advertising, search and video. In
AdWords he launched a new bidding product
that quickly ramped up to over $300MM in annual run-rate, earning a mention
during Google’s quarterly earnings call. He also spent time as the lead Product
Manager for Google Video. Amit holds an M.S. in Computer Networks from
University of Southern California and a B.S. in Computer Technology from VJTI,
University of Mumbai. He holds 4 patents in the field of computer networks,
advertising and analytics.
Michael Schuster
Michael is Partner at Speedinvest, an early stage
Business Angel Fund in Vienna, Austria. He
built Social Publishing Services when Blogger
didn’t exist, helped the European Media Industry
understand and use semantic technologies and
ended up in the wonderful role of working with
entrepreneurs all day long. Within Speedinvest
he is responsible for all startups in Media /
Publishing, Semantics / Search, Enterprise
Software and Food / Beverages. When not busy
with looking at pitchdecks or judging at Demo
Day, he helps the portfolio companies in very hands-on fashion to run and
grow their business, most likely in operative roles in Corporate and Business
Development, that is, huh, Sales and Operations. He loves good food, good
music and good friends.
Judges
Michal Truban
Michal is a serial entrepreneur and
manager with a passion for business,
internet, startups, blogging, marketing,
UI/UX and customer service. He has built
Websupport.sk from scratch to lovemark
the biggest webhosting company in
Slovakia with branches around Central
Europe. He has built Websupport.sk from
scratch to lovemark the biggest webhosting
company in Slovakia with branches around
Central Europe. Apart from passionate
blogging about business and startups, he
does triathlon, plays ultimate frisbee, reads
a lot and parties hard at times.
Andrej Pancik
Andrej received a bachelors degree in Applied
Informatics from Masaryk University. After that
he spent time at the University of Nottingham
playing with portfolio optimisation. Recently he
dropped out of his D.Phil studies in Computer
Science at The University of Oxford focused on
computer vision of intelligent systems to pursue
entrepreneurship. Among his work experience
one can find technology divisions of CERN
laboratories, investment bank UBS, or corporate
Microsoft. He is currently trying to change the
world with Prizeo (Y Combinator – the batch of
Winter 2013) – new fund rising platform that connects celebrities, charities,
brands and the public to do a lot of good things together.
Speaker
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About
We bring to Google Analytics what Apple has brought to UX.
Solving
Time-consuming and complex set up of web analytics
Money
Freemium and monthly subscription plans based on a number of unique
visitors
The biggest achievement in the past 3 months
Pivot from HowDoI Tutorials to AirCharts, beta version of a Chrome
Extension allowing Google Analytics data retrieval and displaying it as an
overlay on your website, got an advisor
Contact
www.aircharts.co
lukas.haraga@aircharts.co
Lukas Haraga, Jiri Otahal,
Michal Pustka
About
We connect caring parents with trustworthy babysitters.
Solving
It is hard to find trustworthy babysitters with a few clicks of the mouse.
Money
Commission from babysitting
The biggest achievement in the past 3 months
80 babysittings. Checked! 200 babysitters. Checked!
Contact
www.hlidacky.cz
info@hlidacky.cz
David Hrachovy, Petr Sigut,
Vaclav Kuna
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7. 12 13
About
We help startups build successful businesses.
Solving
9 out of 10 startups fail.
Money
Membership
The biggest achievement in the past 3 months
Reached 1200 startups
Contact
www.startitup.co
ed@startitup.co
@startitupco
Edward Liu, Yitao Sun
About
We simplify travel to music, sport and other events by providing easy
search and booking combined with a recommendation system.
Solving
Lost time and opportunities when planning a trip
Money
Booking commission
The biggest achievement in the past 3 months
Launched beta, got user flow, accepted to participate in Demo Europe
and PhocusWright Innovation Summit, got an advisor.
Contact
www.travelatus.com
info@travelatus.com
@Travelatus
Valentin Dombrovsky,
Vitaliy Korobkin, Denis Volkov
8. 14 15
About
LinkedIn + Etsy for Fine Art
Solving
Artists’ professional / career needs
Money
Freemium & Marketplace
The biggest achievement in the past 3 months
From prototype to public beta with over 100 artists from 12 countries,
and more than 1000 art works added
Contact
www.works.io
abe@works.io
@works_io
Abe Han, Patrick Urwyler
About
Food delivery and catering for business centres
Solving
Helping busy people to eat quality lunch at the desk
Money
Direct sale (online payment, invoice, subscriptions)
The biggest achievement in the past 3 months
We executed in 6 weeks.
Contact
www.yummyfood.cz
info@yummyfood.cz
Kristina Sediva, Vasek Riha
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A Special Thanks To
Ondrej Bartos
Vojta Bednar
Michal Blaha
David Booth
Damian Brhel
Zdenek Cendra
Tomas Cupr
Vaclav Dejcmar
Marek Dobry
Pavel Dolezal
Stepan Doubrava
Milos Endrle
Barry Evans
Viktor Fischer
Lukas Fittl
Filip Franek
Karel Fuksa
Nathan Gold
Jan Habermann
Michal Hanus
Marcel van der Hei-
jden
Francis Hellyer
Lukas Hrdlicka
Petra Hubacova
Lukas Hurych
Imre Hild
Vit Horky
Michal Illich
Petr Johanes
Jaroslav Kabele
Peter Kadas
Martin Kopta
Andrej Kiska
Adam Kurzok
Petr Krajicek
Tomas Kozubek
Tamas Laszlo
Cedric Maloux
Barnabas Malnay
Petr Manas
Pavel Matousek
Jakub Nesetril
Olda Neuberger
Ludovic Neveu
Tomas Nielsen
Karel Obluk
Petr Ocasek
Petr Olmer
Andrej Pancik
Josef Pacula
Amit Paunikar
Roman Peskin
Peter Polgar
Robin Raszka
Diane Roberts
Emily Sampson
Henning Schwarz
Michal Schuster
Jan Sedivy
Petr Sidlo
Roman Smely
Roman Smola
Jaroslav Soucek
Jan Stanek
Petr Stanek
Pavel Stovicek
Frantisek Strupl
Roman Stupka
David Szilagyi
Charrise Tay
Jaroslav Trojan
Ariel Tseitlin
Rastislav Turek
Jan Urban
Tomas Vavrda
Dusan Vitek
Tomas Vrbicky
Irena Zatloukalova
Adam Zbiejczuk
Pavel Zima
And thank you to anyone we might have missed. We couldn’t have done
it without your support along the way!
Some of Our Favorite
Entrepreneurs and Companies
Google
Elon Musk
37signals
Canonical
AHOLDElon Musk
Tim Ferriss
Mark Shuttleworth
Airbnb
SpaceX
Paul Graham
Eugene ChichvarkinDominik Ziingg
Steve Jobs Henry Ford
All quality restaurants and food providers
Food startups
Roman Vanek
Zdenek Pohlreich
Jamie OliverKaikai Kiki
Kyle McDonald