Presenting Companies

2011 Early Stage Showcase Companies

Abundant Closet

Abundant Closet drives revenue and high margin sales for our women's apparel retailer partners, by allowing customers to bring their entire wardrobe into every sale.  We target the 150K players in the US, and already count 21 retailer advertisers for our direct-to-consumer wardrobe-manager/digital-personal-shopper website, Fashion-Ade.com.  This quarter (4Q2011), at least 3 retailers will offer our solution as an embedded tool on their own e-commerce sites. We've raised $470K, date, and are currently seeking $1M.

CodeGuard

Five million websites are hacked each year.  While large corporations with enterprise tools and Web IT staff have means of protection, SMBs with limited expertise have next to nothing - until now. CodeGuard is a cloud-hosted service that performs an initial backup of website content and monitors the site for changes - making it easy to rollback a site if attacks or mistakes are detected. Put simply, CodeGuard is a time machine for websites.

Dinova

Dinova helps large corporations save money by leveraging their dining spending in the restaurant marketplace.  At the same time, Dinova helps restaurants increase revenues and margins by becoming preferred suppliers to America's largest corporations.

IdeaString

Most organizations fail to leverage their most valuable asset - the network of employees, customers, suppliers, and partners positioned to drive innovation and business optimization.  IdeaString is the solution:  a SaaS platform that captures and amplifies ideas, turning online ideation into a rich accumulation of actionable concepts.  Our inclusion of recognized experts and motivational resources drives participation; our tools and analytics bring focus to break-out contributions and identify talented innovators.

Jigsaw Meeting

Jigsaw Meeting is a web-based platform that provides a multiple split screen interactive learning experience.

In addition, Jigsaw Meeting is a multi-media delivery system that allows live interaction with data, content, instructors and students. Through various tools, students can learn in their own unique style while being held accountable for participation during the class. It combines the traditional live classroom with e-learning online programs for a highly effective interactive learning solution.

LIFT Retail Marketing Technology, Inc.

LIFT helps brick-and-mortar retailers sell an extra item to every shopper. The LIFT Station is a point-of-sale (POS) and network connected digital marketing hub that offers shoppers relevant upsell suggestions based on what they are currently purchasing.  LIFT uniquely engages shoppers, cashiers, and advertises at the POS, and is proven to increase sales by 3-5%.  LIFT is funded by retailers and advertisers and has been in active trials since early 2011 with leading national and regional retailers.

Merlin Mobility Corporation

Like GPS, Merlin Mobility will change the way we accomplish an everyday task.  Our SaaS platform transforms traditional instructions into Augmented Reality instructions and delivers them to mobile devices.  Simply point the mobile device's camera at the subject, and Merlin's step-by-step instructions appear as a transparent floating layer.  Merlin empowers people with knowledge they otherwise would not possess, enables them to have x-ray vision and allows technical tasks to be successfully completed up to 56% faster.

NextInput

NextInput, founded in 2010, is a hardware company marketing a revolutionary touch technology for electronic devices. Our patent-pending touch technology overcomes limitations of current technology: it's less expensive, more durable, uses less power, and provides a better user experience than competing technology in the $4B touch tech market. NextInput technology can be integrated into nearly any electronic device; however, our target market is touchscreens for the next generation of smartphones and tablets.

OrcaTec

OrcaTec Decisioning Suite
Predictive & Conceptual Analytics of Unstructured Data
Large document collections are expanded, ingested, indexed, and hosted locally on an appliance, or from our in-house, tier 3 data center.  Collections are made available via cloud for analysis e.g., eDiscovery first pass legal review. Machine learning, "predictive coding" sequesters duplicates and non-relevant data, reducing the volume by as much as 93%.
Search and graphically represent connecting "concept" clusters.

Pindrop Security

Pindrop Security has developed a breakthrough Caller-ID product that helps detect, report and mitigate phone fraud. Our patent-pending solution can identify key attributes of any phone call including the phone making the call, the call path and the type of phone used (VoIP/Cell/Landline). Look at it as a call "fingerprint" that helps customers identify and avoid fraud.

Proximus Mobility

Proximus Mobility is location based Saas proximity marketing software company that provides a turnkey, end-to-end solution to retailers, hotels and casinos, venues, advertising agencies and small to medium sized businesses. This solution offers relevant, high value digital content to consumers' mobile phones near the point of influence or point of sale regardless of the phone type or carrier.
Proximus Mobility is already working with large retailers, advertising agencies, hotel and casino properties and brands.

rappidApp

The rappidApp™ platform allows non-technical users to create customized, native mobile apps using a web based content management system (CMS). They can customize every facet of their app in real-time, with no repeat-submissions to the app marketplaces.  rappidApp offers built-in features such as maps/gps, list views, QR code reader & more, all without the need for stock templates.  All colors, content, images & icons are managed by the customer and requires no development skill.

ShapeStart Measurement Systems, Inc.

Hearing care is currently hampered by the antiquated process of silicone impressions.  ShapeStart's new direct in-the-ear 3D scanning technology changes this, allowing clinicians to quickly acquire a direct scan of the ear canal, resulting in better hearing aid performance, reduced manufacturing cost, and faster product turn around.

Social Fortress, Inc.

Social Fortress safeguards your data anywhere it resides through simple, transparent, and application independent security solutions.

Soket

Soket is a SaaS-based, "loyalty command center" that keeps local businesses plugged in to all the ways they interact and share information with patrons online - Facebook, Twitter, their own website- whatever. We provide a single place for them to create and publish content; monitor online information relevant to them; interact with patrons; and measure what's working and what's not. The result is cost and time savings while improving marketing effectiveness.

Soneter

There are 22 million apartments in the United States that are not submetered for water or gas.  Consequently, landlords pay a significant amount for utilities each year that should be paid by tenants.
Why do landlords continue to pay so much? Because the expense of submetering buildings using existing technology is expensive.  This is the opportunity.  We've developed a meter that solves this problem without the need to cut pipes!

TripLingo

TripLingo upgrades trips for business and leisure travelers by making it easy and fun to learn the local language and culture by providing customized relevant phrases, culture, and content on your smartphone and the web.  Whether you're a traveler for leisure or business, simply curious about a language, or you've got an eye towards fluency, we've got you covered.

Verdeeco

The deployment of smart devices across the nation's electric grid is generating massive new data sets that many in the utility industry have referred to as a "data tsunami".  This granular data on electricity consumption and grid operations presents new opportunities for utilities to gain system insight to improve their efficiency, quality, and reliability.  Verdeeco lets utilities realize that potential; capturing, storing, and transforming large data sets into actionable information for their entire enterprise.