First cases with sod of Real Sociedad – In production!!
Socceralia – New version!!
Socceralia has lauched a brand new version with a bunch a features aiming to increase both usability and user enjoyment. First, we have introduced the emotional valuation system. Users have now a wider arrady to express their judgment upon a post by dragging & dropping nine different tags. Posts will adopt the color of tag that has been dropped the most, allowing for a new user-centric post classification. Also, users will gain three golden coins every day they visit the website. The coin is the most precious tag, as it is the one providing the most prestige and users can run out of them.
The interface has dramatically changed based on the input received from our community: speed has increased dramatically, posts are now scrolled vertically, uses can filter by time values (eg. today, yesterday, all comments are now visible in a unique level of conversation and all pop-up panels have been removed, both the user profile and the conversation timeline are displayed in the centre of the screen.
We would like to thank all our users that has dedicated time and effort helping us developing the new version. Thanks to all!!
New business line – Genuine stadium sod in small cases
Touch1st is developing an exciting new business line. It is a consumer product full of history and emotion. The product consist of genuine soccer field sod within a small transparent case for decoration purposes. It is the very sod players step during matches. Sod is treated to guarantee its preservation. All soccer fans that we have showed it to simply love it and want to buy one.
We already have an exclusive contract with one of the most important football clubs in the world and four others from Spain. Soccer clubs marketing departments directors believe that, because of its uniqueness and high content of emotion, this could be a product that sells similar to their t-shirts. Only F.C. Barcelona sells 1.2M t-shirts every season.
Socceralia reaches 50,000 users!
Socceralia has reached the milestone of 50,000 users in the month of August, exceding the estimatated figure for that month. Socceralia is Touch1st first online product. It is an innovative world-wide social network for soccer fans. It is a user-generated soccer content publisher, enriched with social and on-line game dynamics.
The company has received the support of both public and private funding raising so far 464,000€. The product roadmap for the following months includes lauching the mobile version and the eCommerce platform.
It is estimated than more than 1 million users will be enjoying Socceralia in a year and a half.
Socceralia’s First Offline Event
Last Tuesday 24th of May, Touch1st hold its first off-line event in Gran Hotel La Florida in Barcelona, the Award Ceremony for the Socceralia contest of two tickets to the Champions League Final in Wembley Stadium among its social network users.
Touch1st at Silicon Valley!
Touch1st was selected among more than 200 hundred companies from Barcelona to travel to Silicon Valley with the “Barcelona-Silicon Valley Technology Bridge” organized by the “Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona” and BarcelonActiva, the start-up incubator where Touch1st is located.
Touch1st executive team spent more than one week attending various meetings and events along with other 13 high-profile Barcelona companies.
The common agenda allowed the team to attend the following capital financing and technology events:
- Angel Capital Expo (Keiretsu Forum) – http://angelcapitalexpo.com
- Web 2.0 Venue – www.web2expo.com
- David Smith's conference at Tynax & Silicon Valley Business School -“Do Businnes the Silicon Valley way”. Author of “Zero-to-IPO” – http://www.zero-to-ipo.com
- Conference at Facebook – “International Expansion”
- Conference at Google – “Digital Marketing”
- Visit Ideo - www.ideo.com
- Biztech Conference & Expo (Capital Funding) – http://expo.biztimes.com
- iEXPO at PLUG & PLAY TECH CENTER (Capital Funding) – http://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/iexpo
Touch1st executive team also had one-to-one business appointmens with the following companies:
- Blumberg (Venture capital) – http://www.blumbergcapital.com
- PeopleConnect (Headhunting and staffing services) – http://www.peopleconnectstaffing.com
- Microsoft Azure (Microsoft’s cloud platform) – http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure
- Microsoft BizSpark (Microsoft’s startups development program) – http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Default.aspx
- YuMe (Video advertising platform) – http://www.yume.com
- YouNoodle (Entrepenuers’ community and consulting services) – www.younoodle.com
New private capital!
Touch1st has signed an increase in capital with two business angels for a total amount of 200.000€ during this month of February.
This represents a new achievement in our business plan and perfectly complements the public financial support we received from ACC10 last year. This new milestone allows us to continue working in our ambitious product and services roadmap as well as confirms Touch1st as a solid, innovative and attractive target company for investors.
We are travelling to Silicon Valley!
Touch1st has been selected, along with other 13 companies settled in Barcelona, to participate in the “Pont Tecnológic amb Silicon Valley 2011” that takes place in Silicon Valley from the 27th of March to the 3rd of April and it is organized by the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce and Barcelona Activa, the business incubator where Touch1st has its offices.
This technology bridge facilitates one-to-one access to a wide array of potential technology partners and financial investors located in the area of Silicon Valley.
New office space!
Thanks to the public financial support we have received during last year, we are glad to announce that we have extended the current facilities we hold in Barcelona Activa with a new office space in order to allocate our growing working force.
Currently, our facilities account for 60m2, twice as much as we had before the extension. This allows us to get into the office both the 16 employees we have on staff as well as the Pasiona consultants we are hiring.
