“ People inherently fear strangers - Credport is here to help.
— Connor McEwen at #sbcberlin demo day
“Solving Trust Issues” - And nothing less is the intention of Credport, one of the 10 Startupbootcamp Berlin ‘Class of 2012’ companies that finished their 3-months incubation programme with yesterday’s Demo Day.
By aggregating reputation factors into one destination, Credport aims to solve a hard problem across online consumer marketplaces: Trustworthiness between strangers.
With more and more industries getting the ‘Airbbnb-treatment’ (aka peer-to-peer market move), this is a growing problem in an exploding market that is only just at the beginning. Whether shopping (eBay), home rental (Airbnb), guided tours (Gidsy), car rental (GetAround), running errands (TaskRabbit) … and most preciously baby sitting (kinderfee) … all of them depend on reputation management - or otherwise risk to severely damage their brand as Airbnb painfully experienced.
Currently, Credport sources relevant reputation data from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, eBay & PayPal with more integrations to follow soon. They also announced a cooperation with kinderfee.de. And it looks pretty sleek as well, the simple kind of sleek that gives a quick overview of relevant personal facts.
Gidsy co-founder and SBC Berlin Mentor Edial Dekker introduced Credport’s Connor McEwen to the demo day stage and Dekker knows only too well how important tools like Credport will be to his business as a consumer marketplace for experiences.
Thumps up for Credport - and congratulations for winning one of the 3 audience choice slots to head over the SXSW 2013 in Austin.
“ We want to free your hands and minds
Capsule.fm - puts your online life on audio track, think of it as your personal radio show — #sbcberlin #demoday
One of the most talked about SBC Berlin startups, Capsule.fm scours through all your online content and lays it down in an audio track that you can tune in to from your mobile wherever you are. Imagine your Facebook notifications, Twitter mentions, emails, world news, stock prices and sports results… all narrated by a Siri-like companion. “This is your life on audio”.
The Capsule.fm team already got a stamp of market approval when they won a €1m prize in ‘media money’ at the recent SevenVentures pitch day at Noah Conference 2012 in London.
Originally hailing from Norway, the 3 founders came to Berlin (via Ho Chi Mingh City) and will remain in the ‘capital of counter-culture’ post the SBC bootcamp. Asked, about the biggest lesson learned at SBC so far, Espen Systad makes a historic analogy:
“Berlin 2012 feels like what I imagine Lisbon was like during the Columbus´ times. You´ve found a secret passage to a unconquered continent, and run around town trying to convince wealthy kings to finance the ship and a crew to join your voyage. In order to do that you have to guesstimate how much gold this unknown continent might hold, and figure out a convincing plan on how you gonna ship it all home.”
Here is to all explorers. Good luck Capsule.fm - and looking forward to your release.
Here is a glimpse of things to come:
