The MobileMonday Mobile Peer Awards Barcelona is one of the most influential events in the mobile industry and, with over 1000 attendants, the point of reference in startup innovation during the Mobile World Congress (3GSM).
It is the first time Israeli startups are able to participate in this prestigous contest since the Israeli chapter, Mobile Monday Tel-Aviv, was formed only last year. In a special MobileMonday event, we had 15 Israeli startups competing to be Israel’s representitive. Our distingushed panel of judges included Yuval Baharav (Sequoia Capital), Ziv Koren (Amdocs), Zvika Rubinstein (Samsung) and Ofer Shmueli (orange Israel). After the judges viewed all presentations and asked the companies various business questions, they had chosen to hand out the first place to fring.
fring is a successful startup which provides a mobile internet service & community that enables end users to access and interact with their social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all of their fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®* friends using their handset’s internet connection. According to Fring, 400,000 new fring users (”fringsters”) are born every month from 220 countries worldwide. Very impressive.
This year, the Mobile Peer Awards had 163 startups participating and 42 nominees were selected by their respective chapters. An international Jury then selected the 20 finalists to present at the Peer Awards event in Barcelona. The results were published earlier today and I was really glad to find out that fring got to the finals!
This company makes me proud of the Israeli mobile industry and I wish them good luck in the upcoming Barcelona contest. The entire list of finalists to present at the Mobile Peer Awards is:
EARLY-STAGE STARTUPS
- Addict Digital Media - Mobile Monday Buenos Aires
- aka-aki networks GmbH - MobileMonday Berlin
- Babajob.com - MobileMonday Bangalore
- Big in Japan Inc. - MobileMonday Dallas
- bioLocate - MobileMonday Jakarta
- Dial2Do - MobileMonday Dublin
- Fortumo - MobileMonday Estonia
- Mob4Hire - MobileMonday Vancouver
- Orbster GmbH - MobileMonday Munich
- Oxynade - MobileMonday Brussels
- Tellmewhere - MobileMonday Paris
- Xumii - MobileMonday Sydney
EMERGING STARTUPS
