Crowdsourced Mappedinworld Puts Startups On the Map

We like to put startups on the map with stories about their successes and entrepreneurial journeys – and now Mappedinworld is doing so more literally with its new and crowdsourced global map of startup businesses.

Looking at the Mappedinworld page for Singapore, for example (pictured above), you’ll see it’s a really good-looking map-and-database combo. It’s useful, too, as the startups pinned on the map generally come with things like a contact email, a jobs email, and a physical address. So it’s a resource for job-seekers too.

Indeed, more than just startups are served. The sidebar on the left also lists digital companies, investors, incubators, and co-working spaces – so in theory it lists pretty much everything needed in the entrepreneurial ecosystem (apart from where to buy Red Bull). It makes a nice complement to TechCrunch’s CrunchBase, which is more oriented towards stats.

Mappedinworld’s creator is Matteo Sarzana, who’s based in Italy. He explains it’s early days for the crowdsourced map, but it got a boost yesterday by being mentioned by the G+ account of Google Entrepreneurs. As to why the map was conceived, he adds:

The project actually started because we had enough of listening to people complaining that digital was not creating jobs in Italy. the project expanded to the world because we’ve been asked from a lot of countries to make the platform available.

And so it’s slowly being added to – anyone can contribute some listings – in lots of nations. I see 17 pins on Singapore already, including some familiar names like Dropmysite.

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Matteo says that Mappedinworld was created as a community project: