20 November 2009 | Valparaíso, Chile
Voxound, an innovative ICT startup from Chile and producer of a free music player for Windows, is the winners of the Desafío Intel 2009. The competition is organized in Chile by Intel Corporation, a global technology leader, and the infoDev global incubator network member 3IE Institute of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Valparaíso. The Desafío Intel is a competition that promotes entrepreneurship in university students. It is one of the initiatives that Chile is taking to stimulate the business spirit in new generations.
After winning the Chile competition,
Voxound went on to represent Chile in the final round in Latin America
on October 30th, competing with the winners from Argentina, Colombia,
Costa Rica and Mexico. Three winning teams of the Latin American
competition, including Voxound, went on to the UC Berkeley Technology
Entrepreneurship Challenge organized by Intel and the University of
California, Berkeley (USA).
“This challenge is a great
opportunity for all of the participants because they will have the
chance to share their business ideas with investors from the Silicon
Valley and fellow entrepreneurs. This is a world-class opportunity,
and winners and participants will be on the best stage in the world!”
commented Laurentzi Sasia, General Manager of Intel Chile.
This
year, 47 projects were presented in Chile. Of those, eight were chosen
for the final round. The judges emphasized the quality of the
innovation as well as the energy and enthusiasm that Voxound showed as
entrepreneurs to determine them as the winner. “We are very happy with
the response and quality of the projects. Chileans have a lot of
talent and wonderful ideas and the Desafío Intel demonstrated that”,
said 3IE´s director Victor Aguilera.
About Voxound
A
group of university students decided to create a music player to
organize music quickly and effortlessly. Today, we listen to music
while we travel, while we work, when practicing sports or spending time
with friends. This makes it necessary to organize our music, but
selecting the right software can be complicated given the large variety
of applications currently in the market.
Voxound was created
with this in mind. Voxound (http://www.voxound.com) is a free music
player compatible with Windows that allows users to tag songs using
multiple criteria. It is an effective storage tool that assimilates
the music that the user wants to listen to at a certain time or
situation.
For more information about the Desafío Intel, please visit: http://www.3ie.cl
For more information about Voxound, please visit: http://www.voxound.com