Vizmo is a NOVATech 2009 Winner

That's right!

Yesterday, October 13th, we won 2nd place at the NOVATech 2009 Business Plan competition.

NOVATech is a regional competition covering Eastern & Central Europe and Israel. We of course represented Israel. NOVATech Winners compete at the IBTEC, the international competition at UC Berkley. Winning 2nd place got us $10K cash prize, and at IBTEC we stand the chance of winning a $25K prize.

Other than the cash prize we also got to meet interesting team from foreign countries, and had a lot of fun pitching Vizmo in a 15 minutes presentation (+15 minutes for Q&A).

We're developing the business of Vizmo with the generous aid of the Technion Innovation Lab. We would like to thank Ayala Berenson, Sharon Tal-Itzkovitch and Uzi De-Haan for the help they've given us, and for the help they're giving us still.

There were seven judges who we asked to choose better customer service for everyone. So, we've won with the promise of making better customer service a reality, and we're going to make it a reality.

Press coverage (English):

• Israel Gateway
  

Press coverage (Hebrew):

• Calcalist
• TheCom.co.il
• The Marker
  

Our visit to the CCExpo 2009

We've recently returned from the CCExpo 2009 , that's the Call Centre & Customer Management Expo. It's in the UK where a centre is a centre (and not a center), the TV programmes are colourful and everyone wears a suit.

The expo was held at the Birmingham NEC, where we've seen some interesting products, that might go well integrated with Vizmo, and met some very interesting potential partners.

During our trip we got to see some of London, we got to experience a little of Birmigham, and got a glance at the British country side from the view of the train. That country side is quite picturesque, and we plan on visiting it someday (not necessarily together).

All in all it was a successful trip which really suited us, and got us suited up for it.

Looking for Super Heroes

We've talked to customers, we showed some demos around, and got some great feedback. Now we need to follow it with

“Action, action, action!”

And we're looking for an Action Hero, or heroine, to join our A-team.

Our personal hero needs to love building software, to be excellent at it, and to be adventurous (as heroes and founders usually are). We're looking to add a partner, so all 3C's - character, capability, code-ability - are important.

Pass the word around. Contact us at contact@vizmomobile.com

Vizmo wins BizTEC 09 second place – press coverage

There’s a short coverage by TheMarker here.

Official BizTEC 2009 press release here.

Technion Focus magazine coverage here.

We had a short video interview. We’ll add it and more as they’re published.

Vizmo wins 2nd place in Israel National Entrepreneurship Contest (BizTec)

Wonderful news!

It was just announced that we won 2nd place in the Israeli National Entrepreneurship Contest (BizTEC). We are absolutely thrilled!

The contest included three judging stages and the selection was made by the BizTec judges - a group of serial entrepreneurs, angel investors, VCs and industry experts.

Founded in 2002, BizTec is Israel's most prestigious startup contest, funded by Intel Capital, Canaan Venture Partners, the Technion and more.

More details about our win (and some related press) will follow.

Vizmo is a finalist in Israel National Entrepreneurship Contest (BizTec)

Good news!

It was just announced that Vizmo is one of the 25 finalists of the annual Israel National Entrepreneurship Contest (BizTec). We are very excited about this.

The selection was made by the BizTec judges- a group of serial entrepreneurs, angel investors, VCs and industry experts.

Founded in 2002, BizTec is Israel's most prestigious startup contest, funded by Intel Capital, Canaan Venture Partners, the Technion and more.

We're looking forward to participate in the finals in June.

Vizmo in TheMarker

The Seedcamp event was really fun.

We've met a lot of interesting people over beer, got valuable feedback and connections to industry experts and shared our vision about mobile customer care with the Israeli High-tech scene.

The presentation went very well and we got great feedback about Vizmo.

Yesterday, we were one of the 6 featured startups in TheMarker article about Seedcamp TLV.

You can check out the article online (Hebrew) here.

New technical post

There's a new post on a technical blog related to Vizmo. If you're into mobile software development you can see it at http://asaf.vizmomobile.com.

Press coverage

About a month ago we got some press coverage and, in the spirit of "better late than never", here it is -

The original article, in Hebrew, is here. There's an English digest of it here.

Vizmo is a Mini Seedcamp finalist

Good news!

It was just announced that Vizmo had been selected by Seedcamp to be one of the 20 Mini Seedcamp Tel-Aviv finalists. We are very excited about this.

Seedcamp is an annual european startup contest and mini Seedcamp Tel-Aviv is the Israeli section of the contest. Check out their link here: Mini Seedcamp TLV.

A major Seedcamp event will be held on Thursday, the 29th of January at the IDC in Herzelia. We will present Vizmo there to a crowd of European and Israeli experienced entrepreneurs, developers, investors and industry people.

I hope to meet interesting people there.

See you there! :)

update: see this VC cafe blog post for more information.

Meet the Vizmo team

The Vizmo team is extremely passionate about Vizmo and wants to make it the leading mobile self-service solution.

Tomer London: Co-founder, Tomer is a Technion EE department student (president's honor list) and a Technion teaching assistant. Previously Tomer worked as a researcher in Intel Architecture Research. In 2001, he co-founded Writing Wiz start-up.

Asaf Revach: Co-founder, Asaf is a Technion EE department student (president’s honors list). Previously, Asaf worked as a programmer in Microsoft R&D. In 2000, He worked for ContantNow start-up. Asaf is a very experienced software developer.

Prof. Uzi De-Haan: Chairman of the advisory board. Uzi is a the founder of Phillips Israel and acted as Phillips Israel CEO and as a vice-preseident of Phillips. Uzi is currently a Technion professor that specializes in management and entrepreneurship.

Welcome

Welcome to Vizmo Mobile official blog!

Vizmo creates a rich and efficient way for businesses to serve their mobile calling customers.
Founded in 2008 by Tomer London and Asaf Revach, Vizmo is a startup based in the Technion in Haifa, Israel. We are members of the Technion Innovation Lab incubator.
We will post here as we go about the making if Vizmo and the business around them.

See you again soon!