http://techsylvania.co

1. Salut!
@josef
@babelverse

4. “The Nemawashi Startup”
literally: “digging around the roots of
a tree, to prepare it for a transplant”
根回し

5. Solving our own problem

6. Lost

7. Bureaucracy!

8. Cuisine

9. ?
?
Business meetings

10. Events & Conferences

11. What is Babelverse?

12. Photograph by Martin Schoeller

13. www

15. www
+ +PEOPLE TECH BUSINESS

19. Greece, Nov 2010
Startup Weekend Athens

21. €50,000?
(Equity Deal)

22. Crowdfund?

23. Apply to Startup
Competitions?

24. Continue Freelance
Web Development?

25. A chance to live in
Latin America?

26. Where it began. Babelverse crisis response

27. Crisis response
Japanese Tsunami
We created a service to help NGOs,
reporters and rescue teams.
In just a few days:
#helpjapan
150
volunteers
4
hours on
average

28. ????

29. 1st Round,
July 2011.

31. LLAMA LLAMA LLAMA

32. Residentes officiales de Chile

33. Atacama Salt Flats

34. Valparaiso

35. Entrepreneurial friends from all over the globe!

36. 根回し(Nemawashi)

37. 2 Week Exploration of San Francisco

38. Stumbling upon
the birth of the
internet

39. Visiting theValley
Palo Alto

40. Entering the scene

41. 根回し(Nemawashi)

42. We were selected for LeWeb
Startup Competition!

43. Dec 2011 - LeWeb Paris

49. 根回し(Nemawashi)

51. Back to Chile!

52. What now?

53. We set up and announced it
only 24h before the speech
!
More than 1,000 people from
over 80 countries participated
!
Wide variety of languages,
such as Spanish, Hindi, French,
Mandarin, Greek, Bahasa
Indonesia, Portuguese, etc.
!
Average of 2 interpreters per
language.
President’s 2012
State of the Union

54. Back to Europe

55. $25,000?
(Equity Deal)

56. €15,000
(Equity Deal)

57. Continue Freelance
Web Development?

65. We were selected for
The Next Web Startup
Competition!

67. 根回し(Nemawashi)

70. No Entry in to the UK!

71. Berlin, May 2012
NEXT Conf

72. Broke the bank!

73. But! We’d been selected
for TechCrunch Disrupt
NYC 2012 Battlefield!

74. NewYork, May 2012

75. Finalists, May 2012

76. $2m USD
(Equity Deal)

77. Reunited

78. 根回し(Nemawashi)

79. TechCrunch Disrupt, The Return as Battlefield Alumni
Sep 2012, San Francisco

80. San Francisco, Sep 2012
TechCrunch Disrupt - Partnership

81. SiliconValley - July 2012
$50k USD
Funding
500
STARTUPS

82. Back to language
diversity of Europe!

83. founders@babelverse.combabelverse People-Powered “Universal Translator”
Widespread Recognition
People’s Choice - TechCrunch Disrupt NYC
Award Winner & People’s Choice - The Next Web (B2B & People’s Choice)
Award Winner - LeWeb
Finalist - The Europas
Finalist - Dublin Web Summit & Pioneers Festival
Finalist - Startup Britain 2012 Olympic Games
Award Winner - Pulso Social - Top 2 Startup in Latin America
Finalist - Bloomberg & TechStars “Next Big Thing”
Award Winner - Startup Weekend Athens, Greece

84. Nemawashi
The art of permanent beta!
根回し

86. Mulțumesc!
@josef
@babelverse