A contribution from sce.de
At the end of the first European digital accelerator program EU-XCEL for young tech entrepreneurs, the final of the first EU-XCEL class took place on November 3, 2015, in Cork, Ireland.
Three winners were selected by a jury of European investors. The three teams were chosen from an initial pool of 50 EU-XCEL startups. WeQ4U takes first place with the idea of replacing physical queues with a virtual queueing option. The runner-up founders of DataMine offer a streamline data service for scientists. The startup CRAW.ly lands in third place with the idea of developing SaaS platforms for wholesale.
A long road to the EU-XCEL final
After team building at Startup Scrums, which consisted of face-to-face sessions in six European cities, the five-month accelerator program followed. In this program, the international teams worked on their ICT startup ideas in a largely virtual program of entrepreneurship training and mentoring.
EU-XCEL is an EU-funded project under the Horizon 2020 program for research and innovation in Europe. Dr. Brian O'Flaherty, from the University of Cork, who are leading the EU-XCEL consortium, praises:
“The international startup teams shortlisted for the final demonstrate the power of diverse multinational ICT-skilled European teams and there is a key lesson for Europe […] this must become the norm and mechanisms that allow multinational company formation, incubation mobility and European-wide entrepreneurship pathways will accelerate this.”
Ñammy, a startup from the Munich Scrum also made it to the final in Cork and is now working in incubator of the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE)Moritz, a founding member and student at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, is working with his team on…
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