As we wrote about last year this is a competition where journalist have been researching to find the most interesting and promising technology companies. The list was published today and consist of 33 companies (called the Top 33-list) and Saplo is one of the awarded companies. The list includes the most promising companies in the fields of IT, materials, energy, medical and environment.

We are very happy to be on the top 33 list for the second time and we could not have done it without the help of all Saplo supporters. Thanks everyone.

We are very proud and want to thank everyone that have voted for us in the competition. We were beaten only by the Onlinepizza API and let’s face it, who can really compete with pizza?

If you want to try our text analytics API you can sign up for a free account here and an API key will be sent out to you. Documentation for our API can be found on our developers page.

So please try out Sweden’s second best API and let us know what you think.

For the fourth year, Malmö Business Awards had the award Rookie of the Year. In order to qualify for the prize requires that the person lives in Malmö and is under 30 years. Person shall, through its business have been innovative, contributed to a renewal of the business community in Malmö or accomplished something that stands out, it feels fresh,wild or daring. The prize is presented in cooperation with Sydsvenskan.

The jury’s justification (translated from Swedish),

This year’s business rookie has gone from strength to strength and is a model for entrepreneurs. The way to do business is characterized by the drive, target focus and spirit of the future – preferably with a latte in his hand. The product literally satisfies the need for customers to understand the meaning of the text written online. 

We want to thank everyone that helped us getting where we are from customers to friends.

Last year Saplo was chosen as one of the top 20 innovations from Sweden based on the work within text analytics. As one of the winners Saplo was invited to be a part of an exhibition that we wrote about in our post Text Analytics on World Tour called Innovative Sweden. Before Washington D.C Innovative Sweden have visited Stanford, CA and Toronto, Canada. Later this year we will visit Brazil and China.

In Washington the Exhibition will be displayed at the House of Sweden (aka. Swedish Embassy) from March 1 to April 30. It starts with an opening event on the evening of March 1st with many well known guest such as Sweden’s Minister for Enterprise, Annie Lööf. If you want to join the opening event please register here.

If you cant join the event but want to meet us please write us an email.

Hope to see you in Washington.

Picture by imatty35

Saplo is a Red Herring 2011 Global Finalist

Saplo’s text analysis technology have been awarded before but this is something extra since Red Herring is a global competition finding the best and most promising technology companies in the world from thousands of companies. Back in May this year Saplo was awarded the Red Herring Europe Award and thanks to that and the progress during the year Saplo is now been been honored as one of the Global Finalists.

The final award and the Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony on December 7. So keep your fingers crossed =)

About the Red Herring Award
The Red Herring editorial team selected the 2011 Finalists as the most innovative companies from a pool of thousands of companies from over 40 nations. These companies, representing past Red Herring Asia, Europe and North America winners.

The Innovative Sweden Exhibition shows the best innovations from Sweden and the first stop was Stanford in the beginning of November. Swedish Institute held a one week program with different theme days such as Future of Mobile and Cracking the Code of Innovation. As one of the 20 selected companies Saplo and our text analytics innovation was a popular visit for hundreds of the top influencers from Silicon Valley that took the chance to visit the event.

Saplo will be a part of the full tour that will continue for several years and visit cities in all continents. Next stop will be Toronto in January 2012 (January 23 to February 12) and then we will visit Washington in March (March 1 – April 30). Later next year the exhibition will visit Brasil,  Rio de Janeiro in May (May 21 – June 24) and São Paulo in July (July 9 – middle of August). The tour will later also visit both Asia and Europe.

For latest information regarding program and not yet released cities please visit Swedish Institute’s website. If you are in one of the cities or interested to have the exhibition in your city please contact Swedish Institute or write us an email.

Hope to see you on the text analytics world tour.

Fredrik Hörte and Joakim Stenberg has taken Team Saplo all the way to the finals of the prestigious Swedish Business Golf Tournament. The finals will be played in mid October at PGA Catalunya Resort, Barcelona, Spain.

Disclaimer: The image is not from any of the golf courses mentioned in the post, but from a course in France.

The tournament is played as a foursome, where players compete in teams of two, taking alternate shots. Team Saplo entered the tournament August 16 at PGA of Sweden National, together with another 100 teams.
Solid drives and amazing short game got us a third place. Luckily, since Saplo was one of the entrepreneur teams invited by Nya Affärer, that was enough to get us to the semi-finals.

The first semi-finals and the one Saplo was entering took place September 2 at Sand Golf Club together with over 60 other qualified teams from south Sweden. Team Saplo played better golf then ever before and mixed with a good portion of luck we managed amazing 7 strokes under par net after nine holes!

Unfortunately that made us realize that we had a great chance of winning the whole thing and suddenly nerves was a prominent part of the game. For another five holes we managed to keep our great score intact, then it all came crashing down. The last four holes we went from 6 under par net to even. A disaster!

Again, Team Saplo finished third, just missing the finals in Barcelona! We were pretty happy anyway, we had played great for most part of the round and got rewarded with some really great bags from Victorinox. Add to that playing two of the best golf courses in Sweden, PGA of Sweden National and Sand Golf Club, and we were all but sad.

Then September 6 during lunch Fredrik from Team Saplo gets a phone call. Apparently the best entrepreneur team from each of the semi-finals get a spot in the finals at PGA Catalunya in Barcelona!
So, of more then 1300 teams, Team Saplo will be one of eight going to Spain in October! Isn’t that a treat!

Thanks a lot to all of you that make the tournament such a great event! For those of you who understand Swedish, you can read more about the tournament at http://www.foretagsgolfen.com

Media Momentum took place in the famous W Hotel in Barcelona with the hottest digital media companies from Europe. I see several different trends but most of them can be summarized as “how can we make more money”.The main trends are ad optimization, automatic recommendations and social.

Ad optimization
How can ads be displayed more efficient? There is so much data about the ads such as users and texts. How can that data be used to increase performance? Hot trends are targeting based on social profiles and targeting based on interest of the user.

Automatic recommendations
Since the content already exists there is a need to make it easier for users to find and read the content. Today this is often made manually by adding related stories and tagging. The value is high but since it’s done manually it cost both time and money. The trend is now to integrate services that do related articles and tags automatically.

Social
Most sites have integrated some sort of commenting system to increase users interactions on the site. They also use social sharing such as Twitter and Facebook to get stories spread and increase traffic. The next step is to implement social games to make the users share and interact even more with content.

So what’s next?
Next thing is a combination of all three trends where you will get personal recommendations based on your social profile. This means that you automatically will get interested articles recommended for you and that ads will no longer be boring they will actually be interesting and add value.

About Media Momentum
Media Momentum is the awards recognizing the most innovative and fastest growing companies in the European Digital Media Economy, organized by GP Bullhound. Saplo was awarded as one of the Media Companies to Watch 2011.

The Red Herring Award is about finding the most innovative companies in Europe and companies on the Red Herring Finalist list will compete for the top 100 in Amsterdam on 25th of May.

Today Saplo was also mentioned in the Swedish press as one of the companies that could become the next Skype (link to story – Swedish).

About the Red Herring Award
The Red Herring editorial team selected the 2011 Finalists as the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across Europe. The Finalists are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.The 2011 Red Herring Top 100 Europe will be announced in Amsterdam on May 25 at a special award dinner at the Red Herring 100 Europe event.
Read more here

For month’s journalist have been researching to find the most interesting and promising technology companies. Today the list that consist of 33 companies (called the Top 33-list) have been published and Saplo is one of the awarded companies. The list consists of the most promising companies in the fields of IT, materials, energy, medical and environment. The companies have been chosen based on characteristic such as how innovative they are, how big is the international potential and an ability to change the way a market works.

There are many great companies in Sweden and to be selected to be top 33 is very inspiring and encouraging. This award is also for all Saplo users that help us get better and better so a big thank you for your help!

Thanks to roblisameehan for the CC image from Flickr