1. ANBOTO
A Leading Basque Company
Going to Silicon Valley
Xabier Uribe-Etxebarria
Founder & CEO
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2. WHO AM I?
• Xabier Uribe-Etxebarría, CEO & Founder
– Education:
 Industrial Organization Engineer (Universidad de Deusto, 2005).
 Electronic Industrial Engineer (Universidad de Deusto, 2003).
 Ph. D. Course, Language processing, (UEU, 2005-2007).
 Entrepreneurship development program (MIT Sloan, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, MA, USA, 2009).
 Digital Marketing (Harvard Business School, 2009).
 Negotiation (TEC Monterrey, México, 2005).
 Global Sales Strategies for Ambitious Entrepreneurs, (Chicago Booth School of Business,
London, 2009).
 Building, Leading, and Sustaining the Innovative Organization Certificate (MIT Sloan,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA, 2009).
 Other:
 World Wide Web consortium Advisory Committee Member
 Member of the Board of Directors of Metalingua UNESCO foundation.
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3. BILBAO WEB SUMMIT
Speakers: Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
The inventor of the web
Organizers: Anboto & W3C
Chair: Xabier Uribe-Etxebarria
When: 17, 18 of May
www.bilbaowebsummit.com 3

4. WORLD'S BEST
CONGRESS CENTER
Euskalduna Conference
Centre and Concert Hall 4

5. Gala Cocktail in the Guggenheim Museum:
The Web Awards 5

6. SEMANTIC VALLEY
•Bilbao
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7. STRENTHS OF SEMANTIC VALLEY
• 2 mother tongues - completely different languages:
– Work force: Capabilities for language structures.
• Semantic Technologies Cluster:
– Universities. Basic Research
• UPV, Deusto, Mondragón…
– Technology Centers. R&D:
• Tecnalia, IK4, etc.
– Top Semantic techology companies. Market.
– Innobasque initiative.
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8. FUND RAISING
• SILICON VALLEY:
– More private VC.
• SEMANTIC VALLEY (Basque region):
– More public VCs, loans and grants. Early Stage
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9. PUBLIC/PRIVATE FUND RAISING IN
BASQUE REGION
100K 1M GAP 5M<
• Grants • Loans • Loans
• Loans • Investors • Investors
• Angel
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11. ANBOTO
We provide Web Customer Service and eCommerce patented
technology.
Based on:
Semantics and Natural Language Processing to:
What for?
Reduce costs and increase sales.
Products:
Our main products are the Virtual Sales Agent and Intelligent Chat
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12. MARKET AREAS
Banking Hospitality & transportation
Retail Health
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13. VIRTUAL ASSISTANT MARKET
20.00%
15.00%
10.00%
5.00%
0.00%
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Virtual Asistant:
By year-end 2013, at least 15% of Fortune 1000 companies will use a
virtual assistant.
SaaS:
•By 2013, 40% of e-commerce deployments will use a complete SaaS
solution.
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14. ANBOTO´S SALES
Q1 2011: $1M
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15. CUSTOMERS
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16. SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGY MARKET
AND ACQUISITIONS
• Apple Paid More Than $200 Million For Siri To Get Into
Mobile Search.
• Anboto rejects the offer of acquisition done by Right
Now.
• RightNow Acquires Natural Language Search Company
Q-go For $34 Million.
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17. ANBOTO IN THE WORLD
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18. WHAT DO THE EXPERTS SAY?
«Through open, free dialogue, Anboto´s VA make the
experience a more natural interaction between human
and computer»
Johan Jacobs, Research Director.
“Anboto´s system dramatically improves the naturalness
of human computer interaction.”
Ph. D. Deborah Dahl
Designer of Unisys dialogue system of DARPA.
CEO of Conversational Tech.
Chair of Multimodal group (World Wide Web Consortium).
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19. ANBOTO AWARDS
«Semantic technology-driven Anboto Group
takes the No. 1 spot, Startup of the Year title
2010» NBC.
«Anboto Group develops outstanding
semantic technology » Guidewire Group,
Innovate!2010
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20. TEAM
Marketing Product Finance CEO
Experiencia: Experiencia: Experiencia: Experiencia:
•Marketing Manager •Product manager •Boston Consulting •CEO Interlan
Wincor-Nixdorf PANDA S. group. Information •W3C AC Member
•Academic Director •Product manager Manager. •M Unesco Board
Deusto Business School
AVG spain. •Sayma. of Directors.
Educación: Educación: Educación: Educación:
•MBA •MBA •MBA •MBI
•Ph. D. Tech. Based •Ph. D. Tech. •Ph. D. c.
Self Service Based Self Service Linguistics
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21. A LEADING BASQUE COMPANY GOING TO SILICON VALLEY
Xabier Uribe-Etxebarria
www.anbotogroup.com
x.uribe@anbotogroup.com
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