ICT Investors Day in Romandie will take place. Kindly hosted by Debiopharm Group, the event will start at 17:00 (door opening at 16:30). Event is open to anyone interested by startups… but especially if you are investing in startups! You can register until 11th of May, so hurry up to secure your seat now! 8 web and mobile startups from Western Switzerland have just been published. The selection was hard, as 16 high quality startup have applied. The 3 main criteria applied for this event were

1. reasonable chance to raise money;
2. team is more or less complete;
3. still looking for a first financing round.

As always, criteria are highly subjective and the non-selected startups should no be worried: it doesn’t mean they are not good! And there will be new events to apply. Applications for an event are sometimes strange to see. There are people out there who register to an event and don’t give really a sense of what they do. Sure, not disclosing your magic sauce is absolutely understandable. But just filling your application with 3 sentences? I’m not keen at all on the rigid registration processes we see most of the time. Entrepreneurs can better use their time as filling forms (!). But applying without taking a (little – 20 minutes?) time to complete a form professionally is an even bigger waste of time. For both parties! But enough blabla, here are the 8 startups you will see pitching soon! Pay per use ski pass, allowing you to earn snow miles and never waiting again to buy your ski pass in a resort. Learning platform to discover wines received by subscription and out-of-the box wine tasting events. Creation of urban intelligence computing and geo-visualization ecosystem for decision making. Prodibi software allows extremely high resolution pictures on the web and a fast delivery. Collaborative web and social media information discovery and monitoring platform. Appygraph lets you surprise your friends with personalized cards created on your mobile. Express yourself with personalized fonts on mobile. Mobile payments in an easy, ubiquitous way.]]>