What does Vincent, owner of New York pizza shop 11B Express, have in common with young entrepreneurs? Both go by the motto “If I don’t eat it, I don’t serve it.” This seemed to be the theme last night when NYC Sandbox Co-Ambassadors Niamh Hughes and Fabian Pfortmuller organized a 30+ guest Sandbox event with one of the leading European technology incubators, Seedcamp. Fired up by garlic jalapeno pizza (yeah, it’s a little potent) and several jugs of wine, NYC Sandboxers and Seedcamp entrepreneurs shared their pitches and passions.

Seedcamp has a group of seriously impressive companies on their US tour (going through NYC and San Francisco). Check out the startups below.  Guests included Reshma Sohoni (Founder of Seedcamp), Evan Cohen (General Manager of Foursquare), entrepreneurs from Columbia University, and many others. As usual, it was a delicious evening filled inspiring ideas.

Advertag – (London, UK) Tag-based search technology for classifieds and image search.

Brainient – (Bucharest, Romania) – Helping video publishers monetize video content by adding interactive elements and affiliate marketing.

Codility – (London, UK; Warsaw, Poland) – Automated testing of programmers via the Web, saving employers and recruiters both time and money.

Erply – (Tallinn, Estonia) – ERP on the web. Comprehensive CRM, accounting, billing and inventory management for SMEs.

Kukunu – (London UK) – A social travel planning platform to build and organize your holiday, because travel is better when you plan it yourself

Kwaga – (Paris, France) – Makes your inbox easier to manage by intelligently screening and organising your emails.

Patients Know Best – (Cambridge, UK) – Patient-controlled medical records. First customers include the UK’s largest private health care provider, and the UK’s largest children’s hospital.

Platago – (Vienna, Austria) – Helping game developers to publish their games on social networks.

Shoutem – (Zagreb, Croatia) – Enables you to create your own microblogging community for your business or brand.

Wondergraphs – (Leuven, Belgium) Social business analysis that saves organizations time and money with easy to use exploration, sharing and context aware search

YubiTech – (Ramat Gan, Israel) Enabling mobilization of Desktop application to cross-mobile platform, in a fraction of cost and time, bringing best user experience to the mobile users.

We recently had the pleasure to welcome Raymond Abelin to a dinner with the Zurich community. Currently Director of the Nanyang Technopreneurship Center at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (NTU), one of the best entrepreneurship programs with a focus on technology. He was visiting Switzerland last week and contacted us to help him get in touch with some of the most interesting young entrepreneurs in town. We talked of course about entrepreneurship, and about the challenge to teach it in academic institutions. Raymond teaches creative thinking and we exchanged opinions about cultural differences between the West and Asia, where entrepreneurship is often a mindset that needs to be developed.

Raymond is a person with a very large experience in a wide range of domains: he began his career in Hollywood’s entertainment industry in the 1970′s, animating Scooby Doo series for Hanna Barbera Productions, moved to writing and directing, real estate, design and now to the academic field as a Professor and program Director at NTU.

Antoine is a Co-Founder and the CEO of Sandbox. Besides the discussions, he also very much enjoyed the delicious pizza of Michelangelo in Zurich.