Seedcamp Week: Europe Fires Up The Warp Drive For The Enterprise

Seedcamp, the roving pan-European startup programme which seems to have the momentum of a juggernaut these days, kicked off its big week this week in London at University College London with a record number of teams, 23 this year picked from 900 applicants, and over 100 mentors taking to teams from 16 regions throughout EMEA. And already there are general themes emerging from the teams presenting.

Saving businesses money is one major theme - important in a recession. Plus, fashion startups are a trend in their own right as they start to address the rather antiquated fashion world. "Data" startups are also a trend, and the problems of the media world are also being addressed.

But there is one elephant in the room which (almost) dare not speak its name: where were the really 'big play' consumer startups?

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