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"The hunt for the next Zuckerberg continued in Brazil last week as twenty startups battled it out in S\u00E3o Paulo\u00A0and Rio De Janeiro in The Next Web's global startup competition;\u00A0Startup World.\r\n\r\nQMagico\u00A0and\u00A0Crossfy\u00A0beat off stiff competition to win the best startup award in S\u00E3o Paulo\u00A0and Rio De Janeiro respectively. Finalists in Sao Paulo were\u00A0Ledface,\u00A0Agendor,\u00A0OvermediaCast,\u00A0Decora.me,\u00A0Meivox,\u00A0Bloompa\u00A0and\u00A0Workana.\r\n\r\nIn Rio they included\u00A0ResolveA\u00ED,\u00A0PagPop,\u00A0WeGoOut,\u00A0Zona Universit\u00E1ria,\u00A0Igluu\u00A0and\u00A0Leuis.\r\n\r\nQMagico, co-founded by Thiago Feij\u00E3o, Mateus Oliveira, Vinicius Cana\u00E3 and Claudia Massei who presented the pitch, is aiming to bring world-class education to Brazilians through web technology focused on K-12 students.\r\n\r\nS\u00E3o Paulo\u00A0judges included Diego Remus, Partner and Editor at\u00A0Startupi, Nathalie Trutmann, Innovation Director at\u00A0FIAP, Pedro Sorrentino, Business Development Manager &amp;amp;amp; Partnerships at\u00A0SendGrid\u00A0/ SPBeta and Tree Labs founder who stepped in at the last minute.\r\n\r\nRio winner Crossfy's elevator pitch: &amp;quot;Crossfy is the first platform in the world that integrates offline and online content. Through a CMS, the publisher chooses which image will be interactive in his issue, in meanwhile, the reader, with crossfy app, recognizes the interactive images on print in real time.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nCrossfy's 28-year-old founder Amure Pinho gave us a demo of the app which gives you the same functionality as a smart phone detecting content through a QR code, but without the need for ugly QR codes which take up much printing space (see our previous story).\r\n\r\nRio De Janeiro'a judges were Alex Tabor, Co-founder and CTO at Peixe Urbano, Bruno Cani St\u00FCssi Neves, partner at\u00A0Gera Venture Capital\u00A0and Michael Nicklas, Managing Director at Ideiasnet.\r\n\r\n\r\nWe would like to thank our on the ground partners in both S\u00E3o Paulo; FIAP, Startup Farm,\u00A0ABStartups\u00A0and Rio De Janeiro;\u00A0Peixe Urbano\u00A0and\u00A021212.com.\r\n\r\nPlus a special thanks to entrepreneur\u00A0Rafael Kaufmann,\u00A0investor Oswaldo Oliveira,\u00A0Frederico Lacerda\u00A0of 21212,\u00A0Christy MacLeod of\u00A0Peixe\u00A0Urbano for helping make sure our time in Brazil was well spent.\r\n\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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