May 30, 2008

Landing Program visits Plug and Play Tech Center, USA

During the 3d Technological and Innovation Bridge from Catalonia to USA, Landing Program had the opportunity to visit Plug and Play Tech Center.

The Plug and Play Tech Center is a strategic partner and incubation fortechnology start-up companies in Silicon Valley. The center has its offices in Palo Alto, Redwood, and Sunnyvale. Plug and Play has nearly three decades of history and has played an important role in starting over 50 successful ventures in Silicon Valley and around the world: companies like Logitech,PayPla, etc. Currently their offices are hosting 118 companies.

The services that this incubator is offering are ready to move-in office space, strategic advices and consulting, co-investments with other Venture Capital Firms. Plug and Play Tech Center also is providing Direct Investments coming from its own Venture Capital called Amidzad Ventures. Amidzad is investing directly (or co-investing) in technology based projects between $ 50.000 and $ 500.000.

For more information, please contact us.

Landing Barcelona Team

May 9, 2008

Teknikhuset in Barcelona

Landing Barcelona Program attended to a meeting with representatives of Teknikhuset Incubation center, Sweden. The meeting took place at the famous Agbar Tower, situated in the District of Innovation 22@ in Barcelona.

Teknikhuset has 20 years of experience of creating products and solution based on the customers’ needs and preferences. Nowadays this incubation center is one of Sweden's leading suppliers of integrated solutions for large companies and organizations, which places high demands on security, availability and performance: for example companies from the Swedish public sector.

In particular, Teknikhuset focuses on developing new network-based business models based on so-called Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technology. Currently it has about 40 employees in the cities of Umea, Stockholm and Lund, all in Sweden.

During the meeting, the representatives of Teknikhuset made interesting presentation about its main products:

- Content Studio, ranked as Sweden's best big Content Management System),

- AudioIndex, that integrates RFID technology, speech synthesis and mobile applications,

- Wawo, based on unique research in the areas of image analysis

- CS Library 2.0, development of the first standard in the world under the "Library 2.0-vision,

- e-Learning, interactive solutions for information and learning.


Teknikhuset was looking for possible clients, partners and distributors for its products in Spain and the region. If you are interested do not doubt in contacting the Landing Barcelona Team.