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Apply now: Content Award Vienna
Team Posted On August 16, 2013


Are you creating an app, a game or other creative digital content with your startup, and are based in Vienna or have a strong bond to the city? If so, this might be a chance for you to raise your budget and gain publicity.

For the altogether fifth time, the Technology Agency of the City of Vienna (ZIT) is giving out the Content Award Vienna for the best digital content in town. ZIT awards the best digital games, short films, apps, visuals and characters with a total of 35.000 euros. Furthermore, numerous partners will donate cash prizes as well as advertising value of more than 100.000 euros. 

Submissions end on 10 September 2013 at this link. 

Seven expert jury panels will pick the prizes, each worth 5.000 euros. The “Games” jury, for example, includes Thomas Friedman, chairman of the German games industry association. There will be other prizes outside of the five main categories, too. The FemPower special award will be given out for female contribution to a project, while the Mingo award will go to a founder with migration background.

Following the application period, the general public is invited to vote for the audience award at www.contentaward.at from 16 September to 3 October. The audience award will be handed out at a gala on 13 November 2013 at Media Quarter Marx. Previous winners include Whatchado, Data Dealer, Heather Kelley’s OhMiBod app and Gebrüder Stitch.

Visit the website for more information: www.contentaward.at


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New Solar Pump is Austria’s winner of Join Our Core
stefanier Posted On June 28, 2013


After a three-month search and judging process, Ben & Jerry’s has announced the nine winners of Join our Core – their competition looking for the best young sustainable business minds across Europe.

Having returned bigger for its second year, Join our Core expanded its 2013 competition from five to nine European countries, among them Austria. With his startup New Solar Pump, Austrian Dietmar Stuck – alongside the other eight finalists – scooped a 10.000-euro cash prize and a six-month business mentoring programme from Ashoka, the leading global network of social entrepreneurs. The winners will also have their business logos featured on an exclusive Ben & Jerry’s tub to be launched in 2014, and will celebrate Ben & Jerry’s 35th anniversary at their headquarters in Vermont, USA.

Fighting water shortage with solar power 

Austria’s winner New Solar Pump was developed in 2010 as a cost-efficient means of pumping water out of water wells without the need of any electrical power supply. As a supervisor of the well construction, Carinthian Stuck did surveys for water projects in Africa. “I realised that hand pumps were not a sustainable solution for the people living there,” Stuck told inventures.eu. “Pumping water by hand is very strenuous.” After returning to Austria, Stuck was inspired to help people in developing countries by using the sun’s energy.

New Solar Pump has proven ist efficiency by being able to pump water out of more than 150 metres’ depth as well as by being maintenance-free and resistant to saltwater. Since 2012, 800 people in Mozambique have been provided with clean water. More projects in Tanzania and Dubai are currently in progress.

For utilising technology as a means to social good, Stuck has won several awards, including the 2011 Social Impact Award and the 2011 Energy Globe Award.

The future

Stuck will use the prize money for the further development and marketing of his company. “We need to become known,” said Stuck. “I plan to build my business similar to Ben & Jerry’s enterprise.”

New Solar Pump, however, is not the Austrian startup striving to make clean water better accessible. Martin Wesian, founder of Helioz, whom we have written about before (here), and his team continue to develop their solar-powered electronic device WADI.


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Tracking app Locca wins in Berlin
stefanier Posted On June 13, 2013


Have you ever lost something and frantically looked for it? A key? Had your bike stolen? Your dog escaped and is roaming the neighbourhood? Worry no more – Vienna-based startup Locca has developed a tracker to end the constant searching. Earlier this month, the team and their “smallest and smartest tracking system in the world” won the third hy! Berlin startup competition, and a prize worth 100.000 euros. To break it down, they received 30.000 euros from German telecommunication-incubator hub:raum, another 20.000 euros worth of Google Cloud services, a PR workshop and tax consulting as well as a trip to Silicon Valley and an office in Berlin, CEO Julian Breitenecker told inventures.eu.

The backstory

When Breitenecker lost his son on a playground during a vacation in Tel Aviv, he swore to invent something that would keep parents from the “most terrible 15 minutes” of their lives. After working on the concept for six months, followed by 18 months of development and finding investors, Breitenecker and his partner Albert Fellner founded Locca at the end of 2012, and introduced a match-sized device that can be tracked via smartphone application or web. Put it on your keychain, your dog’s collar, your bike, your car, and yes, even your infant, and locate them via GPS and Wi-Fi on your smartphone or tablet.

Finding Success

The hy! Berlin competition focused on future-oriented products and new and innovative players from the startup scene. More than 150 experts, pioneers, and investors attended the three-day event from 2-4 June to discuss the digitisation of the European economy. Out of more than 400 startups, a select five finalists pitched their ideas to the three-person jury consisting of YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, Skimlinks CEO Alicia Navarro, and Ballou PR owner Colette Ballou.

Locca’s competitors were reportedly Atooma from Italy, an Android application that defines situations for smartphones, as in – a smartphone would know to automatically switch to silent mode when its owner enters his office. Ukrainian startup Petcube introduced a device equipped with a camera, a laser pointer, and a microphone that plays with your pet when you are not at home. Two finalists represented Israel – Vubooo, an application for football fans who can share their enthusiasm online, and JoyTunes, an interactive video game similar to Guitar Hero, controlled by real instruments and a tablet that determines whether the player hit the right tunes. The three jurors focused on factors such as design, the team, marketing strategies and market potential, and eventually chose Locca as the winner.

Future Search

Two Locca products willbe available for delivery as of this coming September. Whereas LoccaMini is best suitablefor objects, bikes, and animals, LoccaPhone was developed to be used with infants. Both devices can be used worldwide and will be sold for 100 euros plus an additional monthly SIM-charge that has yet to be announced. But Breitenecker’s plans for the future don’t stop there. By the beginning of July and prior to the production process, the team will launch a crowdfunding campaign on the startup’s official website. Afterwards, a campaign financed by media4equity – a partner company – will promote Locca in Austria and Germany before expanding throughout Europe. 

The trip to Silicon Valley will be used to prepare them for the expansion to the United States. “We have already received requests from several US companies,” Breitenecker said, “besides, I can’t wait to go there.” Yet, the team doesn’t plan on moving their Vienna-based office. “I don’t think it matters where a startup is based, whether a cottage in the woods or Silicon Valley,” Breitenecker said, “as long as you’re willing to travel and work hard, you can be successful anywhere.”

Further down the line, the startup will use the money from the hy! Berlin prize to finance a new concept – “something completely new for bikes”, which was as much as Breitenecker could tell us at this point. Stay tuned for more!


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