Some of the internet's big guns have been lined up for this year's Seedcamp event, which will see Bebo co-founder Micheal Birch, Last.fm co-founder Martin Stiksel and Lastminute.com founder Brent Hoberman, amongst others, mentoring twenty teams of entrepreneurs over one week at University College London.
Seedcamp is deliberately Europe-focused in terms of the startups (if not the money that paid not buy up these firms). The rest of the panel includes the brilliant Jyri Engeström; he founded the Twitter-esque Jaiku subsequently bought up by Google. It's all gone a bit quiet on the Jyri front since then, but what Google was buying was Jyri's considerable brain power and I'm sure he's brewing something special.
Also Tommy Ahlers from the mobile social networking and contacts tool Zyb, recently sold to Vodafone, Niklas Zennström from Skype, Martin Mickos from mySQL and Kevin Comils from Buy.at.
Seedcamp, now in its second year, runs from September 15-19 and startups have until August 10 to apply. Expect many more familiar faces from Europe's tech scene including the Richard Moross from Moo, Matt Biddulph from Dopplr and a healthy herd of investors including Saul Klein, who started the whole thing last year.
