SW BRUSSELS 3 YEARS LATER…

SW Summit Brussels - 07/12/2014Eric Rodriguez @wavyxToon Vanagt @toon

HOW TO FIND RELEVANT COMPANY INFORMATION ?

BEFORE...

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIND COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION ?

30/01/2011 - SW BRUSSELS

Working prototype with full-text search

BUILDING DATA.BE• Team of 11 people !

• Keep energy and momentum is very hard

• Traction

• 02/03/2011- Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne

• 23/03/2011 - eGov presentation

• 26/05/2011 - OpenData Hackathon

• 09/11/2011 - EU Hackathon (Hack4Transparency) - Google/European Parliament

• 29/02/2012 - data.be is born

19/04/2012 - Launch data.be at startups.be/betagroup event

All relevant information on the company page

• VAT Validity

• Company Information

• Geographic Search

• European VAT Check

API.DATA.BE

25/10/2012 - Launch api.data.be via Twitter ;)

PUBLICATION SEARCH

23/10/2013 - Data Search on 2 millions publications (private beta)

01/10/2013 - New data.be with more data & financial info

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU

THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

FROM SW TO DATA.BE

• Jan. 2011 - SW Brussels

• Feb. 2012 - Data.be SPRL

• April 2012 - Launch data.be

• Oct 2012 - api.data.be

• Oct 2013 - Data Search

• Oct 2014 - new data.be

Thank you!

toon@data.be

be.linkedin.com/in/toonvanagt

@toon

WorkshopLessons learned

from 7 Startup Weekends

eric@data.be

be.linkedin.com/in/erodriguez

@wavyx