7 fantastiche startup che abbiamo incontrato a SLUSH 2019

e pensiamo che anche voi dovreste incontrarvi

I don’t think we’re holding the record yet (damn you local Finnish startups!), but this year we visited SLUSH in Helsinki for the fifth consecutive time.

That’s right: the fifth time fighting the cold, and of course the slush ❄️, to attend one of the biggest yet most underground startup events of the year.

We don’t go to SLUSH for the fancy banners at the entrance, although we admit they make for some great pictures. 😍

Il motivo principale per cui andiamo a SLUSH è il networking. E non c'è paragone.

It’s the combination of:

• 25,000 people attending 🤯
• una piattaforma di matchmaking che vi permette di filtrare in modo ordinato i partecipanti
• and then book efficient 30 minute meetings at one of the 330 meeting tables (or a meeting point if those are full, which we don’t recommend as it brings you back to the stress you’d have at most other events)

Mind-boggling possibilities. 😵

Chi abbiamo incontrato?

In breve: un sacco di persone interessanti, che vanno dalle startup, ai fondi VC, alle agenzie.

For this list we’re focusing on startups that are making a “dent in the universe”, which we enjoyed meeting and we think you should too.

Here we go! 😁

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Beamer – beam important updates to your users

So you have a software company and you’re building a lot of cool new features for your users.

You’re emailing them about it and writing about it on your blog… and then you find out that they don’t know about this, because it’s very hard to get their attention while they’re doing something else.

Why not communicate your feature updates (and other important updates) from your software product? 😏 That’s what Beamer facilitates.

Beamer può essere incorporato nella vostra applicazione. E se gli utenti desiderano avere un po' più di spazio per leggere, possono passare al sito web indipendente.

It allows you to target the right users, send notifications, gather feedback, … and of course integrate with the rest of your tool stack.

Volete avvicinarvi ai vostri clienti?

Provateli. 🙌

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Cumul.io – integrate dashboards in your SaaS

You’re still that girl or guy with the software company?

Chances exist that you have some interesting data in your software and users want to visualize it. But building dashboards is a bit too much of a hassle to fit into your feature roadmap.

Meet Cumul.io, the easiest way to add dashboards to your SaaS app. 😌

Il messaggio è semplice:

🎵 If you need dashboards, in your SaaS app. Who you gonna call? Cumul.io!🎵

We hope they give us some big discount for this free promotion. 😉

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Typegenie – autocomplete for Zendesk

Una delle aggiunte più interessanti a Gmail nell'ultimo anno: il completamento automatico, noto anche come Smart Compose.

It’s like it knows what you want to type… and it makes emailing so much quicker.

Now imagine you’re supporting customers and typing the same things over and over again. Wouldn’t you wish you had something similar at your disposal? 🧐

If you’re supporting customers using Zendesk, then you’re in luck: Typegenie brings autocomplete to Zendesk tickets.

Ecco come si presenta:

Vuoi questo? Verificate la presenza di Typegenie.

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Chatvisor – get eye to eye with your customers

Al giorno d'oggi, molte attività commerciali si svolgono su Internet.

It brings a lot of increased efficiency, but also makes business way less personal. You can’t easily see your customers eye to eye anymore. 👀

Or can you…

Chatvisor vi offre una suite di strumenti che vi aiutano a vedere ciò che vedono i vostri clienti e a stabilire una videochiamata con loro con estrema facilità (quest'ultima è un po' come i nostri amici e clienti di Crankwheel).

You can co-browse, chat live, do webcalls, … but also see what your customers see when they’re not talking with you with session recordings and heatmaps.

Want to get more personal again? You know what to do. 👈

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Al Bicchiere – this dispenser makes your wine last longer

Enough about software tools for software companies. 🙃

Who loves a good glass of wine? 🍷

And who doesn’t like to throw a bottle away because it’s been open too long?

Those problems are over with Al Bicchiere’s smart – and fancy looking – wine dispenser.

È possibile conservare il vino fino a 8 volte più a lungo, cioè fino a circa 6 mesi dalla data di apertura.

And… you can control it with your Google Home or Alexa. 🤯 It’s not on Kickstarter yet, but I’m already a big fan.

If you’re reading this, guys, I’m happy to be a beta tester. 😍

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Fenio – keep an eye on food safety

Mia moglie si è ammalata la settimana scorsa per aver mangiato un'insalata di formaggio di capra.

She didn’t eat it in some scruffy restaurant. But still, she got sick.

Food safety isn’t easy. Enter Phenium.

Their software makes it much easier to keep track of all the ingredients and whether they’re still safe to eat.

No need to guess anymore. Phenium keeps an eye on it for you. 👀

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Startup Sesamo – better networking at tech events

SLUSH is great to meet people, but I’m sure we still missed out on a lot of opportunities to connect. We even randomly met some friends we didn’t know were there. 😬

Partecipare a un evento costa, e voi dovete massimizzare il suo ROI.

La startup Sesamo (uno dei nostri felici clienti) si propone di risolvere questo problema.

They’ll soon be launching an app that makes making the right connections at conferences much easier.

Not much has been revealed yet, but do make sure to keep an eye on them. 👈

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Bonus: gli organizzatori di altri 5 eventi: 4YFN, Il prossimo web, HowToWeb, SaaStock e Attenzione al prodotto

As ironic as it may seem, we met the organizers of 5 different events at SLUSH… but not the organizers of SLUSH themselves. 😏

Here’s who we did meet:

• 4YFN (Barcellona, Spagna): la piattaforma per le startup del Mobile World Congress
• Il prossimo web (Amsterdam, The Netherlands): the magazine’s yearly tech festival
• HowToWeb (Bucarest, Romania): la conferenza di prodotto leader nella regione CEE
• SaaStock (Dublino, Irlanda): la migliore conferenza in Europa per le aziende SaaS
• Attenzione al prodotto (in tutto il mondo): conferenze e comunità di prodotto leader in (quasi) tutti i continenti

Mark those in your calendar if you haven’t yet! 🗓️

And if you want to visit some more events in 2020, bookmark this article on the top conferences for startups. We’re giving it an update as we speak, so it’ll soon be ready for the new year!

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