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We make it our mission to discover exciting new start-ups to add to the thousands of innovation and growth companies we track. Our web and mobile-focused ‘New Companies on our Radar’ briefing brings you our monthly pick of exciting new European start-ups that we think you should know about. The companies featured this month are: VDIO, Blaast, Milk.ly, TrialReach and mySugr


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Text-only transcript of company summaries:

VDIO

“VDIO lets you instantly watch the best in TV and movies, right now. The company was founded by Janus Friis, the Danish cofounder of Skype, and is run by a team with experience from Skype, Napster, Microsoft, TV Guide, and Apache. Currently in closed beta, VDIO will initially be available in the UK.”

Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Europe/USA

Website: www.vdio.com

Blaast

“The next billion people to get online will be using a mobile device and Blaast is designed for them. We are developing a cloud-based platform for mobile devices that we believe is perfect for everybody involved. Users benefit from a robust, well-designed and functional platform. Developers will create great apps for hundreds of devices and reach millions of users. And operators deploying Blaast will convert those all voice users into active data users.”

Founded: 2010

Headquarters: Helsinki, Finland

Website: www.blaast.com

Milk.ly

“Milk.ly is a proximity-based, real time marketplace for products and services in which you can search for and offer help to people nearby. Users post requests indicating what they require, where and when and what it’s worth ($) and then people nearby respond instantly. The company was recently picked as a winner in the Mini Seedcamp Prague competition.”

Founded: 2011

Headquarters: Netherlands

Website: www.milk.ly

TrialReach

“TrialReach is a global search and referral engine for clinical trials, dedicated to making clinical trials easy to find out about, understand, and get access to. TrialReach uses the latest online technologies and marketing tools to bridge the gap between patients wanting to take part in clinical trials and sponsors and investigators seeking to recruit participants.”

Founded: 2011

Headquarters: London, UK

Website: www.trialreach.com

mySugr

“mySugr is developing a mobile health app to help diabetics. We have realized that the prime factor for a successful diabetes therapy is behavioural change. This we achieve through some of the most potent behavioural agents out there: games, friends and data. Doing so, we also address the prime issues in pharma/medtech. Mysugr was a winner at the recent TechCrunch Vienna event”

Founded: 2011

Headquarters: Vienna, Austria

Website: www.mysugr.at

Tags: healthtech, web, socialweb, mobile