There are more than 200 projects that we could categorize Web 2.0 in the Hispanic internet; many of them are in Loogic Rank. In this post I intend to select those projects which I think are the 30 best of the Hispanic Web 2.0 and to provide some interesting information about them.
Social Networks
Sonico
Company/Founders: Fnbox.
Investment: in negotiations.
Alexa: 511
Launch: July 2007.
More information:from the creators of Flodeo.
Tuenti
Company/Founders: Tuenti Technologies.
Investment: DAD, Bernardo Hernandez, …
Alexa: 3.293
Launch: December 2006.
More information: closed beta.
Wamba
Company/Founders: Enrique Dubois y MatÃas de Tezanos.
Investment: 3 million euros by Morten Lund.
Alexa: 3.425
Launch: December 2006.
More information: valuation of the company 7.5 millions euros.
Festuc
Company/Founders: Toni Salvatella y Albert Armengol.
Investment: remaining first round of finance.
Alexa: 34.189
Launch: June 2006.
More information: from the creators of Econozco.
Comparative.
Thematics Social Networks
11870
Company/Founders: Jesús Encinar, Bernardo Hernández, …
Investment: 6 million euros.
Alexa: 45.672
Launch: September 2006.
More information: from the creators of Idealista.
Nvivo
Company/Founders: Carlos Sanchez.
Investment: in negotiations.
Alexa: 77.696
Launch: October 2006.
More information: semifinalist contest Startup 2.0
Shoomo
Company/Founders: PRS marketing.
Investment: 300.000 euros.
Alexa: 196.653
Launch: December 2006
More information: from the creators of Minube.
Genoom
Company/Founders: Midatel.
Investment: Grupo Intercom.
Alexa: 163.582
Launch: July 2007.
More information: advisor Albert Armengol
Social applications
Eyeos
Company/Founders: Pau GarcÃa y Marc Cercós.
Investment: in negotiations.
Alexa: 71.521
Launch: August 2005.
More information: estos chicos se han escapado del instituto.
Tractis
Company/Founders: David Blanco.
Investment: many rumors.
Alexa: 454.340
Launch: October 2007.
More information: winners of many awards.
Omemo
Company/Founders: Pablo Soto.
Investment: very likely.
Alexa: 306.790
Launch: March 2007.
More information: from the creators of Manolito P2P.
Moneytrackin
Company/Founders: VÃctor and Albert MartÃn.
Investment: Martin Varsavsky.
Alexa: 214.571
Launch: May 2006.
More information: the founders are working in Fon.
Vertical Search Engines
Trovit
Company/Founders: Iñaki Ecenarro, Enrique Dominguez, Daniel Giménez and Raúl Puente.
Investment: soon.
Alexa: 28.950
Launch: November 2005.
More information: strong international presence.
Nuroa
Company/Founders: Gary Stewart y Oriol Blasco.
Investment: 1 million euros.
Ranking Alexa: 246.669
Launch: September 2007.
More information: advisors Albert Armengol and Juan Luis Hortelano.
Laburo
Company/Founders: Jose Luis Perdomo.
Investment: unknown.
Alexa: 815.136
Launch: June 2007.
More information: from the creators of Bitacoras.com
Minube
Company/Founders: PRS marketing.
Investment: unknown.
Alexa: 155.356
Launch: July 2007.
More information: from the creators of Shoomo.
Aggregators
Meneame
Company/Founders: Ricardo Galli and Benjamà Villoslada.
Investment: 300.000 euros by Martin Varsavsky.
Alexa: 1.926
Launch: December 2005.
More information: Digg ??
Corank
Company/Founders: Rogelio Bernal.
Investment: unknown.
Alexa: 20.429
Launch: March 2007.
More information: from the creators of eGrupos and eListas.
Fresqui
Company/Founders: Alex del Castillo.
Investment: Información Interactiva.
Alexa: 9.156
Launch: February 2006.
More information: they have problems
Agregax
Company/Founders: Pau Iglesias.
Investment: unknown.
Alexa: 57.757
Launch: April 2006.
Comparative.
Multimedia
Mystrands
Company/Founders: Francisco J Martin.
Investment: 55 million dolars
Alexa: 43.543
Launch: May 2005.
More information: advisor Alvaro Ibañez.
Sclipo
Company/Founders: Gregory Gimmy.
Investment: 500.000 euros.
Ranking Alexa: 17.168
Launch: November 2006.
More information: winner contest Startup 2.0
Mobuzztv
Company/Founders: Anil de Mello.
Investment: many rumors.
Ranking Alexa: 61.973
Launch: January 2006.
More information: advisor Enrique Dans.
Adnstream
Company/Founders: Javier Sánchez and Alvaro Alonso
Investment: unknown.
Ranking Alexa: 307.722
Launch: May 2007.
More information: from the creators of Interneox.
Blogs
La Coctelera
Company/Founders: The Cocktail.
Investment: many rumors.
Ranking Alexa: 5.574
Launch: May 2005.
More information: from the creators of The Shaker.
Bligoo
Company/Founders: Paolo Colonnello.
Investment: unknown.
Ranking Alexa: 16.634
Launch: June 2007.
More information: the platform to blogosfera en BBVA.
Nireblog
Company/Founders: David Gonzalez.
Investment: unknown.
Ranking Alexa: 8.762
Launch: June 2006.
More information: from the creators of Nirudia and Niretv.
Gelato CMS
Company/Founders: Pedro Santana.
Investment: unknown.
Ranking Alexa: 253.970
Launch: April 2007.
More information: interesting expectations.
Maps
Tagzania
Company/Founders: Codesyntax
Investment: unknown.
Ranking Alexa: 70.580
Launch: September 2005.
More information: Google support.
Wikiloc
Company/Founders: Jordi Lopez.
Investment: unknown.
Ranking Alexa: 324.885
Launch: September 2006.
More information: finalist contest Conector 2007.
10 December 2007 at 8:58 am
What about Neurona or Panoramio? is enough reason that they´ve been bought to not appear in this list? or the reason is that both are already full working?.
4 January 2008 at 8:09 pm
[...] more difficult to do such selections as the majority of the really interesting projects in the hispanic web 2.0 have received funding during the course of 2007 or are about to get [...]