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Our monthly pick of exciting new European start-ups

August 2011

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tBone TV

“Co-founded by The BBC’s former iPlayer

head Anthony Rose, tBone is building a

system that will spider live TV, mash it with

social context and open data sources, then

provide it through open APIs for mobile/web

developers to create killer TV experiences.

We want to bring 2.0 to the only one-way

device now left in your household – the TV,

making it a seamless two-way social and

interactive viewing experience.”

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Founded: 2011 (still in stealth mode)

Headquarters: London, UK

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BiOncotech Therapeutics

“BiOncoTech is a biotech company engaged

in the development of RNA therapies to treat

numerous aggressive types of cancer. Our

lead compound is BO-110, a dsRNA

nanocomplex that possesses a unique

mechanism of action. It elicits cell death by

addressing three different pathways

(immunomodulation, apoptosis and

autophagy).”

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Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Valencia, Spain

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Kantox

“Kantox allows companies to directly find

other companies to net their future cash-flows

in foreign currencies, at an agreed fixed

exchange rate, and thus hedge their foreign

exchange risk. By netting cash-flows in foreign

currencies without the intermediation of

banks, Kantox is able to offer companies a

fairly priced hedging opportunity which does

not require any margin deposit or credit line.”

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Founded: 2011

Headquarters: Barcelona, Spain / London, UK

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Abeo

“Abeo markets two patented concrete building

technologies. The primary technology provides

a new way of combining ordinary and

lightweight concrete, making it possible to

achieve a weight reduction of about 50% while

maintaining the strength of the structure. This

entails a reduction in material use (including

steel reinforcement), which leads to significant

cost and CO2 reductions.”

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Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Frederiksberg, Denmark

Other info: Spin-out of the Danish

Technical University (DTU)

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APIM Therapeutics

“APIM Therapeutics is pursuing a novel drug

approach with the ability to potentiate the action

of a wide range of chemotherapeutic drugs

currently used to treat several types of cancer. It

is currently developing proprietary peptide

drugs targeting PCNA (Proliferating Cell

Nuclear Antigen), an emerging cancer drug

target implicated in the regulation of cellular

responses to DNA damage and stress.”

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Founded: 2009

Headquarters: Trondheim, Norway

Other info: Spin-out of the Norwegian

University of Science and Technology.

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Repudo

“Repudo is the world’s first platform to

handle digital objects in the real world.

With Repudo you can drop all kinds of

multimedia like a text, a photo, a video or

an audio message at any location you like.

Repudo brings perception of physical

interaction with digital objects in the real

world.”

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Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Amsterdam , Netherlands

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String Labs

“String Labs delivers cutting edge vision-based

augmented reality solutions to developers,

brands and agencies. String™ is our cutting

edge, image-based Augmented Reality tracker

developed from the ground up to run on mobile

devices such as iPhone and Android. String is

small, fast and robust, leaving more resources

available for you to do what counts: create

fantastic content.”

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Founded: 2010

Headquarters: London, UK

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Scoop.it

“Scoop.it is a publishing-by-curation

platform that let’s you easily create and

publish an online magazine on your favourite

topic. Scoop.it helps you find great content to

edit, reformat and publish the way you want

to your topic. A new expression format,

scoop.it helps users be more relevant and

interesting to an audience that shares your

interests.”

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Founded: 2010

Headquarters: France

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MuteButton

“MuteButton is a novel medical device aimed at

the treatment of Subjective Tinnitus (Tinnitus is

the perception of illusory low-level sound,

typically a hiss or buzz) that is currently in pre-

regulatory development. It is a non-surgically

invasive (Class IIA) device that simultaneously

presents sound using headphones while

utilizing an intra-oral electrostimulator array to

present sound as tactile patterns on the tongue.”

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Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland

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OPIA Technologies

“OPIA Technologies is focused on devices for

ophthalmology, used to diagnose, prevent or

treat diseases of ocular surface, anterior and

posterior segments of the eye. The main

project at OPIA is EYEPRIM®, a device

platform to perform ocular surface biopsies of

the living eye enabling further analysis to help

diagnose most ocular surface disorders: dry

eye, allergies or blepharitis.”

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Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Paris, France

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