05/25/2007
5min won second place in European Startup 2.0 contest
Israeli instructional video sharing startup 5min won second place in the European Startup 2.0 contest. Sclipo, a social skills network based upon user generated videos, has won the first competition of the most promising web 2.0 sites in Europe for 2007. Properazzi, a crawler based web 2.0 property search engine, won the third prize.
Startup 2.0 was opened to web 2.0 startups from all Europe. A total of 260 projects coming from the main European countries took part in it. The 5 finalists presented their projects yesterday at the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao, Spain.
5min intent to create the first communal Life Videopedia allowing users worldwide to contribute their knowledge by sharing visual guides in areas such as arts, business, fashion, sports, health, tech, food. Earlier this month, 5min releases a unique embedded version of its instructional video player. The Smart Player was designed specifically to enhance the viewing experience of instructional short video clips.
5min is an instructional video site that was founded by three Israeli entrepreneurs: Ran Harnevo, Hanan Lashover and Tal Simantov. The company, located in Or Yehuda, has raised $0.3 million from Israeli angel investors.
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