MultiTouch's Cell be can stacked to create digital walls or tables
Finnish startup Multitouch won today the Launchpad Award at MindTrek – the Nordic digital media and business conference focused on social media and Web 2.0 – in Tampere, Finland.
The jury was composed of:
- Sharon C. Ballard, founding President & CEO, Enable Ventures Inc.
- Jyri Engeström, Product Manager, Google and founder of Jaiku
- Hannu Jungman, Veraventure Ltd., Manager
- Pekka Pärnänen, head of Finpro Silicon Valley
- Henri Rantalainen, Technopolis Ventures Professia, CEO & Business Developement Advisor
- Manu Setälä, Senior Technology Adviser, Tekes
- Tanu-Matti Tuominen, Strategy Director, Member of the Board, Zeeland Society
The Helsinki-based startup was awarded a 20,009 € cash prize as well as additional help to build a presence in Silicon Valley for its multi-touch 46″ LCD Cell display which can be stacked up to build very large digital walls or digital tables for example.
Everyplay, Dazzboard, Oppifi,Virtual Air Guitar Company and Zokem were among the other finalists of MindTrek’s Launchpad (sort of a mini-Demo conference for just Finnish startups).
With Dazzboard, MultiTouch was my favourite startup in the competition. However some would find suprising that a hardware company won the country’s award for best new/social media and Web 2.0 startup. But I guess, in a land where “physical” social networking is not a “forte”, anything counts 
Follows a video excerpt of MultiTouch CEO Petri Martikainen presentation at MindTrek’s Launchpad:
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