From social CRM platforms, photo sharing, and social networks to aggregation and reader engagement tools to video and group chat, the day's startups showed that the interest in the "social" Web only continues to blossom.
The group's yet-unnamed startup aims to make messaging — either one-to-one or one-to-many, Twitter-style — more context-aware, so that messages arrive at a time and place that is as relevant to the recipient as it is to the sender.
Stay tuned a bit later for a rundown of our favorites from today's group of startups.
To gauge the opinion of the U.K.'s digital startups (and to inform the lobby group's own position), Coadec asked startup founders, and people who invest in and work in the U.K.'s digital startups, two questions.
Cornelia Huellstrunk, associate director of the Keller Center and administrator of the eLab program, explained that creating a community of entrepreneurs was critical to developing eLab's first group of startups.
The deadline apply for Tandem's next group of startups is January 19.
Frugalo, a daily deals aggregation platform that emerged from AngelPad's third group of startups last fall, is being acquired by social video site TwitVid.
Critics say the show will paint an ill-fitting picture of entrepreneurship, while giving attention to a select group from the Valley's startup scene whose mantra is "party ergo innovation".
The group's previous initiatives include $2,000 startup grants and hospitalization insurance coverage for first-year students with high levels of financial need and reduced or frozen estimates for the student share and student on-campus employment option.
Some are group startups – Pieter van Boheemen's open biology laboratory in Amsterdam, for instance – while others are solo initiatives, such as Sara Riggare's long-term, self-examination project to tackle her own Parkinson's disease.
But a large number are "pure shakedowns", says Josh Mendelsohn of Engine Advocacy, a lobby group for startups.
