TutoTOONS co-founder Damien Bruneau and game designer Robert Menegus have met for the first time in person in Silicon Valley. Thank you HandsOn.TV Startup Tour for this opportunity!

Last night in Paris, in the most innovative and unusual startup competition in Europe HandsOn Startup Tour 2015, TutoTOONS was announced as one of the winners and is going to Silicon Valley for 1 week! A week ago at Fest-UP Startup Pitch Contest in Barcelona, TutoTOONS together with Signaturit have been chosen as the two most promising Barcelona startups. Berlin, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Paris, Stockholm, Lisbon/Cascais & London - each of these European cities also selected their two best local startups. Yesterday all 16 finalist startups met in Paris with their 90 second pitches and 5 slides each to compete for a week trip to Silicon Valley. 8 winners were announced, including TutoTOONS! Congratulations to all winners - ProdPad, Antelope.Club, OptiMiam, Glowee, Inviita, Signaturit and Powr of You! Thank you HandsOnTV, LeWeb, Carrefour, Barcinno, Rodrigo Barros, Pedro Gastal, Stephane Villard and everyone for this opportunity and your support! TutoTOONS co-founder Damien on Startup Tour Finals stage:

TutoTOONS co-founder Damien Bruneau has a big day today - he will pitch TutoTOONS at Fest-Up, Barcelona talent and startup festival. As Barcinno announced in #FestUpBCN agenda, we will compete with 7 other early stage startups. The best two startups will win a business trip to Silicon Valley, read more here. Keeping our fingers crossed for Damien! Thank you HandsOn.TV for a nice photo!

In December, we wrote that TutoTOONS goes to San Francisco. The result? Had lots of fun meeting all the amazing people and new partners, and totally enjoyed a super welcoming startup community. Time to post some travel photos of TutoTRIP to USA! The famous SF cable car. San Franciscans may see TutoTOONS owl where they least expect it. Visiting the CrunchBase HQ and… …finding new friends. Visiting TechCrunch with Startup Lithuania Roadshow folks. Good times at Chartboost HQ (which, btw, we use at TutoTOONS). They have a massive recreation area… …and hearts game developers.