LiveOne is a new social media company focused on enhancing the way we consume real-time streamed content -- both audio and video.  The Company has developed a proprietary interactive platform featuring a unique social-engagement application called CrowdSurfing®.  CrowdSurfing elevates the streamed entertainment experience for users to a new level by immersing them in a crowd of friends and fellow fans who have checked-in from around the world to watch or listen to the same live or scheduled streamed event.   

CrowdSurfing enables content creators and distributors to transform their sites to rich, social environments while also providing them with gamification, monetization and media enhancement modules that facilitate greater customer affinity, extended user engagement and increased revenue opportunities.

LiveOne’s CrowdSurfing delivers a richer entertainment experience to fans and an enhanced business model to content creators and distributors.  It’s why LiveOne believes it will be “Where the World Watches Together.

Pipe is a new way for friends to transfer digital files simply and directly and in realtime.

What could be easier than dropping a file into the Pipe and have it appear at the other end, via the Pipe? You can send any digital file you want – documents, music, photos, video … whatever. It’s "File Transfer Made Friendly".

Pipe is the vision of a Berlin-based start-up, founded in the summer of 2011 by a small team of pioneers in the digital media space who wanted to start a new adventure.

Pipe allows consumers to interact, communicate and discover digital media, particularly within social networks, leveraging the value of direct, one-to-one connections. Pipe enriches the media experience with enhanced metadata and compelling related content, generating revenue through content sales, subscriptions, advertising and sponsorship.

iPluggers is a new online platform for worldwide radio promotion. iPluggers digitally plugs releases to more than 30.000 radio stations. These are FM, AM, internet, digital, satellite, local and regional radio stations worldwide.

iPluggers plugging service is 100% digital, not limited to borders, affordable and gives direct insight in essential plugging results. Connected artists, bands and labels pay for digital plugging.

Each release is screened by an A&R-manager on airplay suitability: this results in a high-quality plugging service.

Music programmers, music directors and DJs have indicated which music genres they’re interested in and when they want to be updated on new releases available for airplay. Based on these criteria, releases are efficiently plugged to radio stations worldwide.

Plugging consists of light-weight mail notifications with links to online airplay- and press kits. These online kits (artist and label profiles) contain high quality track downloads and useful information such as a biography, discography and tour dates. Artists and labels create and maintain these profiles themselves. 

Artists that use iPluggers for their radio promotion are amongst others Shifty Binzer (Crazy Town), winner of 4 Grammy awards Vince Mendoza, jazz legend Fred Wesley, Eurovision winners 2011 Ell and Nikki, INNA and gold selling artist Alex Velea.

RockStar Motel is a social network dedicated to changing the music industry by turning fans into virtual A&R reps. Instead of just “Liking” bands; fans can sign and represent their favorite acts. And then, by sharing these artists with friends, they earn points and increase status on RSM. RockStar Motel provides unique tools to share, discover and purchase music. Unlike passive social music sites, RockStar Motel gives fans insider access, recognition and the chance to really make a difference in the music industry. The top reps on RockStar Motel will get recognition and the hook-ups they deserve, both online and off. For artists, RockStar Motel boosts their marketing by giving fans incentives and tools to spread the word. Other sites also provide artist tools, but RockStar Motel is the only site that mobilizes armies of the most valuable form of promotion: fans.

OleaPark is about meeting new people at events based on your interests and social graph. This is a networking mobile application that helps people interact before, during and after events. We have invented the networking badge 2.0.
At OleaPark we love analytics. That's why we analyse the impact of an event based on all the participants interactions! We are right now making partnership with multiple events to make them more efficient, fun and memorable. We monetize OleaPark by providing white label application for specific big events. In the future, we wanted to be an open plateform around events and the participants interactions: Foursquare for people at places, OleaPark for people at events.

Gilles Babinet successfully created and managed various successful businesses as CEO. At the age of 24, he created Absolut, a product design firm that he sold to Euro-RSCG. He founded Musiwave (sold to Openwave), and co-founded several businesses:

- Eyeka, a Platform that gathers 75,000 video makers, answering to pitch posted by brands. Eyeka is backed by Ventech Ventures, SFR Ventures and DN Capital.

- Mxp4, a company developing a new interactive music format, backed by Ventech and Sofinnova,

-  Digibonus, a company using film and music to organise marketing operations for the brands, backed by Alven Capital.

- Sawnd, a music publishing company that helps musiciens to increase their presence over the Internet.

And since November 2009, Gilles co-founded CaptainDash a company that provides a revolutionary Dashboard software management tool to let marketing expert easily access to all type of business data, and eventually increase the marketing efficiency.Gilles is serving as Chairman at Eyeka, Mxp4 and Awdio.

He is also the Chairman of the Conseil National du Numerique (French Digital Council). A administrative body that advises the government on all topics touching the digital initiatives.

Evolver.fm Editor Eliot Van Buskirk has covered and occasionally anticipated music and technology intersections for fewer than 15 years for CNET, Wired.com, McGraw-Hill, and The Echo Nest.

bluenove is now the French leader in Open & Collaborative Innovation consulting and services with major corporate customers such as Orange, BT, PagesJaunes, L’Oréal, EDF, PPR, Unedic, La Poste, Microsoft, Chanel, SUEZ Env, SEB, etc. bluenove also invests in R&D through its InnovNation Serious Game project supported by the French Ministry of Industry in partnership with the INRIA lab and ParaSchool.

From 2001 to 2008 at Orange, Martin has managed innovative projects through Corporate Venturing and partnerships with innovative startups in areas such as mobile applications, mobile/web convergence, m-Health, and mobile music. In 2006 he developed an Open Innovation program, the ‘Orange Start Up Program’ to partner with start-ups and VCs in the area of Web 2.0.

Prior to Orange, Martin has started his carreer in the aerospace industry at Eurocopter/EADS, then worked in the Accor group before to spend three years in Change Management consulting at Cambridge Technology Partners.

Martin holds a Master in Applied Physics (Aix-Marseille University and the University of Sussex, UK), an MBA from University of Chicago Loyola and a Master in Management of Information Systems and Telecom Networks from ESSEC & Telecom Paris.