Ovelin Wins #SXSW Music Tech Accelerator, Rexly & 45 Sound Runners Up

(UPDATED) Finland's Ovelin, an iPad game that makes learning to play the guitar fun, won top honors yesterday at the SXSW Accelerator music tech contest. Rexly and 45 Sound also made it to the final round. OneSheet won the Bootstrap Award for the company who's done the most with the least. The judges and info on the three finalists:

• Ovelin
  Tampere, Finland
  ovelin.com
  WildChords by Ovelin is an iPad game that makes learning to play the guitar fun, addictive and motivating. It is played with any real guitar, and requires no additional equipment. Ovelin is the #1 music app in 34 countries, iPad game of the year (Tilt TV), Best European Learning Game 2011 (LUDUS).
• Rexly
  San Francisco, CA
  Rexly.com
  Rexly is an iPhone app, which helps people share the music they love with, and discover new music through, their friends. Users of Rexly can play their on-device iTunes music, share songs to Facebook and Twitter and see what their friends are listening to in iTunes and Pandora.
• 45 Sound
  Dublin, Ireland
  45sound.com
  45 Sound helps bands & artists tell their live music stories by making fan-shot concert videos sound great.  Our technology replaces the (usually poor) audio of fan video uploads with high quality live audio provided by the band. Connect with your fans and build your concert video archive!
• Onesheet
  San Francisco, CA
  onesheet.com
  Onesheet enables entertainment professionals to create a beautiful, simple, maintenance free website in under two minutes. It's used by tens of thousands of musicians, actors, comedians, DJs, and a myriad of other types of creative individuals.

Music Emcees

• Brad King
  Assistant Professor
  Ball State University
• Sean Moriarty
  Non-Executive Chairman
  Triton Media

Music Judges

• Jed Carlson
  Co-founder and COO
  ReverbNation
• Micheal Franti
  Artist
  Michael Franti and Spearhead
• Larry Marcus
  Managing Director
  Walden Venture Capital
• Hany Nada
  Co-Founder and Managing Partner
  GGV Capital
• Ian Rogers
  CEO
  Topspin
• Kristin Hersh
  Artist and co-founder Cash Music