The Europas, the European Startup Awards 2010 for European tech companies, will be held on November 19 in London (tickets available here). Entrants have been informed by Crunchbase, our database of startups, and will be voted on by the industry. These results will influence a subsequent voting round from The Europas Advisory Board of experts, chaired by TechCrunch Europe.

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If you want to suggest a company that you think should be voted on by the industry, then please suggest it in the comments – but it does not guarantee entry. The judges decision is final. If you want more information on any of these entries, look on CrunchBase.

To sponsor this category please contact TechCrunch Europe Events and Sponsorship Director Aléna Dundas on alena [@] techcrunch.com (@alenadundas on Twitter)

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The Europas, the European Startup Awards 2010 for tech companies, will be held on November 19 in London (tickets available here). Entrants have been informed by Crunchbase, our database of startups, and will be voted on by the industry. These results will influence a subsequent voting round from The Europas Advisory Board of experts, chaired by TechCrunch Europe.

If you want to suggest a company that you think should be voted on by the industry, then please suggest it in the comments – but it does not guarantee entry. The judges decision is final. If you want more information on any of these entries, look on CrunchBase.

To sponsor this category please contact TechCrunch Europe Events and Sponsorship Director Aléna Dundas on alena [@] techcrunch.com (@alenadundas on Twitter)

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The Europas, the European Startup Awards 2010 for tech companies, will be held on November 19 in London (tickets available here). Entrants have been informed by Crunchbase, our database of startups, and will be voted on by the industry. These results will influence a subsequent voting round from The Europas Advisory Board of experts, chaired by TechCrunch Europe.

If you want to suggest a company that you think should be voted on by the industry, then please suggest it in the comments – but it does not guarantee entry. The judges decision is final. If you want more information on any of these entries, look on CrunchBase.

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If you want to suggest a company that you think should be voted on by the industry, then please suggest it in the comments – but it does not guarantee entry. The judges decision is final. If you want more information on any of these entries, look on CrunchBase.

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If you want to suggest a company that you think should be voted on by the industry, then please suggest it in the comments – but it does not guarantee entry. The judges decision is final. If you want more information on any of these entries, look on CrunchBase.

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Groupalia, a Spanish group buying site, has raised 5 million euros in its second institutional round after securing 2.5 million euros back in May.

Again, the funding comes from Nauta Capital, and Caixa Capital Risc, Spanish bank la Caixa’s venture capital division.

Yet another daily deal and flash sales aggregator launches today. You know the format: pull in all of the local Groupon-clone type offers and those from private buying clubs such as Brand Alley, and offer them up in a single destination or email. But actually, Buyometric (aside from the name) may have got the format just right with its laser-focus on personalisation and a very user-friendly interface.

London-based Buyometric sets out to solve the problem of in-box clutter by only pushing deals relevant to each user. It does this by scanning hundreds of daily deals and flash sales and automatically classifying them using a series of filters. Users personalise their Buyometric profile by selecting any number of keywords from a list of tags so that they only receive the deals that match. If no matching deals are found on a particular day, no email is sent.

Bebo co-founder Paul Birch and former Skype Chairman Michael van Swaaij have taken part in a second round of investment in Crunch.co.uk, the online accountancy service. The actual amount remains undisclosed, although it’s described as “significant” and is said to value the UK startup at £4 million.

Although there are a plethora of competitors – the likes of KashFlow spring to mind – Crunch takes an ambitious ‘hybrid’ approach to the online accounting space. It offers a fully automated online accountancy service for freelancers, contractors and small businesses, but this is also supported by a telephone service in which an “integrated accountancy practice” is there to answer queries and give advice. For the privilege, customers pay a monthly fee of £59.50.

Endomondo‘s free GPS-powered Sports Tracker app, which notably runs on multiple mobile platforms, including Garmin watches, has achieved more than a million downloads and reached 500,00 registered users. That’s up from 40,000 registered users at the start of January and 100,000 in April. Or, as the Copenhagen, Denmark-based startup is keen to point out, a doubling of its user base every 10 weeks over the past year.

The Endomondo Sports Tracker app, which competes with the likes of RunKeeper and MapMyFitness in the US and European players such as Map My Tracks or perhaps Nokia’s own Sports Tracker, lets you track your fitness activities via GPS.

Buying products online seems the norm these days but there are a few exceptions. In particular, the purchase of certain financial products where, ultimately, the need to prove your identity involves completing the final part of the transaction offline. That’s a kludge if ever there was one.

It also represents an opportunity, one that miiCard, which soft launched this month, is grabbing with both hands. Founded by Canadian entrepreneur James Varga, who is also the COO of Money Dashboard, the service offers consumers a “digital passport” designed to be compliant with regulation around the sale of financial products and the need to prove your identity.

Compare Away launched officially today as an aggregator for “agent managed” holiday rentals. It’s founded and self-funded by Andrew Gibson and Chris Bradley who, aside from being based in the mining town of Spennymoor, County Durham in the North of England, previously built The Card and Gift Company in 2007, an online greeting cards business that sold to Hallmark Cards Plc., although they aren’t saying for how much for.

Like other price comparison-type sites, but with holiday rentals in mind, you can search by specific criteria, such as location, date, duration of stay and no. of bedrooms etc. Compare Away then displays properties that are available and the actual price for that property. Users can further filter the results and refine the search (including ABTA protection), after which they are passed to the agent to buy the holiday. In other words it’s a classic affiliate play with Compare Away taking a cut from the agent’s fees (around 10%), so as not to push the price up directly for the end customer.

After what seems like an age of no news, mobile search and discovery company Taptu seems to be suddenly getting back in the game. Today it’s doing a Twitter-style switcheroo – founder and CEO Steve Ives is becomes president and will stay to focus on product, while COO and President Mitch Lazar, who only joined in March from his role as managing director of Yahoo! Mobile Europe, will become CEO. Ives was previously founder and CEO since the company started in 2006.

Vouchercloud, the iPhone app that delivers local discount vouchers straight to a user’s smartphone, is going Old Skool by employing the use of SMS, opening up the service to, well, any mobile phone.

The UK-only Vouchercloud launched in February from Bristol-based Invitation Digital Ltd. to enable users to find the best offers local to them and have the associated ‘digital voucher’ delivered to and redeemable from their phone – off-line in brick ‘n’ mortar outlets as well as online via a traditional discount code. Since then, the iPhone app has seen nearly one million downloads, says the company, spurring it on to look at ways of opening up further.

SponsorPay, the European leader in virtual currency monetization, has partnered with U.S.-based Live Gamer, a virtual economy services platform that works with publishers in gaming, social and entertainment including CCR, Electronic Arts, Namco Networks, REAL Networks, Sony Online Entertainment and THQ.

The new partnership will see Live Gamer’s clients being given “pre-integrated access” to SponsorPay’s advertising offers in more than 100 countries in what the U.S. company says is part of a localized monetization strategy for its international users. Specifically, Live Gamer says that SponsorPay’s ad offers will “extend the reach of the Live Gamer platform while providing SponsorPay’s advertising partners the opportunity to connect with new audiences.”

The problem with Twitter, if it’s a problem, is that the only thing people can put in about themselves is a few short words and a URL. At least on Facebook you can add several URLs, a professional history, even publish your email address. Not on Twitter. What Twitter could use is a better ‘whois’ style look-up which replaces the frantic Googling you have to do to find anything more about a Twitter user.

New startup Qwerly, now launched into Alpha, is effectively that “whois for Twitter,” or perhaps even a “DNS for people” according to founder Max Niederhofer.

Since it’s clear we now all join new social networks and sites, keeping track of these is an issue. I recently spent a long afternoon just collacting them for my own personal blog, for instance (and not very neatly), but Qwerly has done it quite efficiently here. So Qwerly’s mission in life is to be the ultimate directory about what services you and the people in your life are using on the public internet.

Dragontape, which lets users create ‘mixtapes’ of their favorite YouTube videos, has added the ability to embed the final result in blog posts, and more importantly, Facebook updates. That’s because the new feature uses the oEmbed standard to ensure widest possible compatibility. It’s also a feature that, frankly, should have existed from the start considering Dragontape’s emphasis on sharing.

That said, the site whose numerous competitors include vodpod.com, worldtv.com and yubby.com, has done a good job of implementing embeds. The resulting player offers the same gapless playback and easy tape controls as the web app, but with a simplified view of the timeline, which targets a smaller viewing area.