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"Seven finalists pitched on stage at the EGADE Business School, Mexico City, at the Startup World pitch competition,\u00A0Thursday. The winning startup with the highest score, as picked by the judges, was Modebo.\r\n\r\nModebo\u00A0designs wireless M2M devices communicated with advanced algorithms to predict energy consumption and temperature behavior. Passive architecture is used to have energy efficient buildings.\r\n\r\nFounders Jos\u00E9 Rodr\u00EDguez, Marisol Contreras, and Antonio Bojorges screamed with joy when it was announced they beat off stiff competition and named Mexico City's 2012 Winner. They will now be invited to Silicon Valley to pitch in the Startup World grand final in 2013. Contreras said 'Its was due to the shared love and passion for their technology that kept the co-founders working together to make their startup a success.'\r\n\r\nOver 250 startups applied for South America and only seven were chosen as regional finalists to pitch at the event in Mexico City, these included \u00A0NuFlick,\u00A0Creativo Latino,\u00A0Caras Politicas\u00A0- ,\u00A0Bandtastic,\u00A0\u00A0Torneo de Ideas,\u00A0Modebo,\u00A0School Control,\u00A0\u00A0and\u00A0Noknoker\u00A0who was unable to compete due to their car breaking down.\r\n\r\nMexico City had an impressive lineup of judges including Sergio Romo,\u00A0Cofounder of Investomex,\u00A0Santiago Zavala, General Partner at Mexican.VC (the accelerator who\u00A0recently partnered with Silicon Valley's 500 Startups) Marcus Dantus, Director at Wayra Mexico, Rosal\u00EDa Madrigal, Directora en la Incubadora y Aceleradora de Empresas del ITESM CEM and Jos\u00E9 Espinosa Gir\u00F3n, Administrador de Operaciones del Capital Emprendedor de NAFIN.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe event would not have happened without our on the ground partners\u00A0Mar\u00EDa Fernanda Legaspi Y\u00E1\u00F1ez\u00A0and\u00A0Chio Paniagua\u00A0and venue and media partners; Instituto Tecnol\u00F3gico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey campus Santa Fe and technology blog Emprende."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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