15 cool, crazy, beautiful companies impressing at the Web Summit on Day 1

It’s a tough day for those on the RDS floors trying to pitch and sell their products. That said, you have to get out there and sell yourself. If you’ve come all the way to the Web Summit, your time is now. Looking around it’s tough to take in every single project. Here are 15 that made an impression today!

For many of them, the alpha startups, they get one day to impress, miss them today and you may not see them again. Tomorrow will be another wave of entrepreneurs trying to impress.

 MedShr, UK, doctors share knowledge

 Attractive wellness watch, US

 Pley, Lego as if it were Netflicks, California

 Holvi, Finnish, changing banking,

  African Clean Energy, from Lesotho

 Elephone, based in Tel Aviv, smart, friendly, social phone directory

 Friendite, Nigerian based dating service for Africans and beyond

 Pixxers, Austrian photo network,

 Yonderbound, Monaco, make money from Travel writing

 Nomadmovement, Portugal, share your stories

 Online shopping for Mexican geek products

 Dutch fitness app

UK based, safe sharing of kids photos and more

 Curating a new social network, Singapore,

 Smart games for kids, Denmark