http://www.techcityuk.com/entrepreneurs_festival/

I recently speed mentored at RichMix, Shoreditch, London on the first day of this event, pulled together admirably for UK Government (Trade & Industry), by SpringBoard.com.

I met several different online start-ups, from a wide variety of International/European businesses and sectors, but sadly none of the winners below, on the day I was there.

Entrepreneurs Festival Awards

Best Pitch - PlayMob

Most Creative - Physical Pixels

Most Disruptive Tech - Blottr

Best Technology - Inspiring.Travel

Most Promising Business - Kusiri

Rockstar Entrepreneur - Rate that Curry

Overall Entrepreneur of the Festival - Ovelin

Here’s a plug for some of those that I met:

http://www.Twainit.com - Social qualitative research presented by Twain Liu

http://www.wellbeinginthecity.me - off/online London based well being community run by Scot Claire Beegan

www.e-signus.com - Innovative banking security smart card from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, presented by Fernando de a Puente

http://www.imbarco.com- CRM for small businesses presented by Fabrizio Bartolini from Italy

http://www.viap.tv - Product Placement interactive technology presented by UK based French Man Julien Mignonac

http://www.internavenue.com - digital milk round idea presented by Founder/CEO Dupsy Abiola

http://www.upd8ted.com - Upselling every event in the world in real time, presented by Stella English

http://www.4d3studio.com - Online animation studio presented by Victor Marrero from Tenerife

http://www.leemail.me Personal editing/security tool to add or remove email addresses in your inbox, presented by London based New Yorker Lee Morgenroth.

http://www.fantastec.fi - Cool online games for under 5’s with an educational emphasis linked to national early learning curriculum presented by Founder Juha Vaisanen from Finland

Also, without web addresses:

Aleksey Vesleovsky from Russia, presented his business in artificial design ideas for web printing.

Canadian banking and online security expert Douglas Ferguson, who I hope will help e-signus.com!

Diogo Horta e Costa from Lisbon, Managing Partner in Biodroid Entertainment, talked about his consumer and corporate games business.

So many overseas players looking to bring their expertise to London, and some great home grown ideas too. Looking forward to reviewing these with other mentors at the proposed catch up event in early 2012.