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Start-Up Chile Conectando Emprendedores
Start-Up Chile Conectando Emprendedores Globales NOTA: Este documento es un borrador inicial, ya que falta la confirmación de algunos proyectos, dicha información estara disponible a más tardar el dia 16 de Mayo 2011. @organic_social ann@at6pr.com http://www.at6pr.com ann@at6pr.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Matias Carvallo CHILE Most relevant University USC Industry Other Pitch organic_social is an easy-to-use analytics platform that lets clients measure their online buzz and ROI across the social web. With its headquarters in Chile, organic_social places a special emphasis on measuring engagement by customers in Latin America for primarily small and medium businesses (PYMES). The platform offers viewable and downloadable reports, chronological audience engagement and growth charts and solutions to social web issues. Community managers also assist clients with online customer support, crisis management, trouble-shooting solutions and creation/monitoring of social media profiles. 1000 Corks ockman@1000corks.com http://1000corks.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Sam Ockman USA Most relevant University Stanford University Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch 1000 Corks (http://1000corks.com) is a wine search engine. Type in the name of the wine you want to buy and it shows you which of over 500 stores in the United States sell that wine. For more common wines, this allows you to find the stores that have the best price, or to locate a wine at a store near you. 1000 Corksalso makes it possible to track down harder to find wines – which might be only sold by one or two stores in the United States. 1 3Scan margaret@3scan.com www.3Scan.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Margaret Klimen USA Most relevant University Arisona State University Industry Biotech & Bioinformatics Pitch Ability agravatb@yahoo.com www.willager.com/ability.html Beneficiary name Nacionality Agravat Bipin B India Most relevant University Marc Bloch Industry Mobile & Wireless Pitch Txt to voice to sign language animation or interaction for communication, education and gaming need on mobile, tablet or desktop. Typed txt or sms on filed given will be send to mobile, desktop or web which can be converted to voice and interaction, useful for learning the language, delivering the M-education, Communication and Gaming needs ADPROACH S.A. diego@adproach.com http://adproach.me (we are in stealth mode) Beneficiary name Nacionality Diego Dayan Argentina Most relevant University UBA Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch ADPROACH Media Environments es un start-up de capitales privados especializado en la creación y comercialización de nuevas plataformas y tecnologías digitales propietarias e interactivas de vanguardia para publicidad digital o comunicación empresaria mejorada. AgentPiggy pabloambram@gmail.com http://agentpiggy.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Pablo Ambram Argentina Most relevant University San Andres University - Argentina Industry Finance & Economics Pitch AgentPiggy empowers parents to invest in their children’s future by helping educate them in financial responsibility through the use of a fun and engaging online experience AskBot evgeny.fadeev@gmail.com http://askbot.org Beneficiary name Nacionality Evgeny Fadeev USA Most relevant University Princeton Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch Askbot is developing a Question and Answer (Q&A) forum web application and a service. Askbot will offer a customizable Q&A forum component to corporate and private individual customers as paid service,hosted at commodity "cloud" server infrastructure. Unlike many of our competitors products, our core software (excluding the for-fee hosting service component) is free and open source. Therefore, improvement of the software is partly driven by the more technically inclined segment of the user community. Some of our customers are paying us to develop new features. This additional stream of funding helps us bootstrap the business. AYNI caroandrade@gmail.com www.aynistore.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Carolina Isabel Andrade Gallegos Ecuador Most relevant University Georgia Institute of Technology / Karla's is Stanford Graduate School of Management Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch KUYANA (previously AYNI) is the socially responsible online platform that provides the trendy and socially conscious woman with access to a curated selection of exotic accessories, and with the opportunity to simultaneously give safe, clean water to people in need. Babelverse mayel@babelverse.com http://babelverse.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Mayel de Borniol Francia Most relevant University Paris 8 University Industry Mobile & Wireless Pitch Babelverse is the first application for real-time voice translation, powered by a global community of human interpreters. It aims to break down language barriers by providing a mobile and web service that will enable users to benefit from on-the-spot simultaneous interpretation, in any language. Multilingual speakers will have the opportunity to earn money and recognition for their interpretation services, creating a new source of income for diverse communities worldwide. Our long term vision and intended objective is the science-fictional idea of enabling everyone to simply talk to one another in their respective native languages, and communicate seamlessly. BarBird p@barbird.com http://www.barbird.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Pierce Lamb USA Most relevant University Pepperdine Industry Mobile/Web/Social Networking Pitch Have you ever wondered why the majority of nights out are expensive and forgettable as opposed to amazing an unforgettable? Why can't we have that amazing, unforgettable time every time we go out? BarBird is a free web and mobile app that will greatly raise the chances of having awesome nights out every time you go out. We help you find the right venues, save money, connect with your friends and meet interesting girls or guys whenever you decide to party. BlooBox.tv hervalfreire@gmail.com http://www.bloobox.com.br Beneficiary name Nacionality Herval Freire Brasil Most relevant University CEFET-PB Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch 'Have you ever wondered why the majority of nights out are expensive and forgettable as opposed to amazing an unforgettable? Why can't we have that amazing, unforgettable time every time we go out? BarBird is a free web and mobile app that will greatly raise the chances of having awesome nights out every time you go out. We help you find the right venues, save money, connect with your friends and meet interesting girls or guys whenever you decide to party.' BoogieShare amit@boogieshare.com www.boogieshare.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Amit Masaun USA Most relevant University Rutgers University Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch ContactComplete allows business executives to trade business contacts with people they know – for free. By sharing and updating contact records, members of the community find new leads and track changes to existing clients. It’s like a living, breathing Rolodex. Brighter Future Challenge (BFC) daerick@brighterfuturechallenge.com http://www.BrighterFutureChallenge.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Daerick Lanakila USA Most relevant University De Anza College Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch BFC will challenge and motivate diabetics (250 million), pre-diabetics (1 billion+), family and friends to improve their health and health education through social games. Driven by industry experts: As founders of “Best Rated” online diabetes personal health record company (SugarStats.com) and the first combination of an exercise machine and video game (Expresso Fitness), BFC has deep industry knowledge and relationships in the diabetes community, and 20 years experience in the video game industry. These relationships are creating an initial launch to over 2 million in the diabetes community. Buffr nischalshetty85@gmail.com http://mybuffr.appspot.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Nischal Shetty India Most relevant University VTU(Karnataka, India) Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch Buffr.com aims to be your social inbox. You can integrate multiple social networks. We will sort the updates you receive from your friends into video, photo, link and status. Mark updates you like as favorite so that you can access it later. When in a hurry, you can mark updates for later viewing. We want to make consuming social media simple and fun Bungolow scottcbird@gmail.com http://www.bungolow.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Scott Bird USA Most relevant University University of Maryland - College Park Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch Bungolow is aspirin for your home search headache. Simply provide Bungolow with your requirements and budget, and the listings will display on a map. Bungolow completely removes the anxieties of information overload and inefficient browsing while maximizing the hunt for your perfect place. Looking to market? Bungolow also helps you lease or sell your property. Instead of searching and posting all over the internet, you need only remember one name: Bungolow. Canned Brains augusto.chesini@cannedbrains.com www.cannedbrains.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Augusto Chesini Argentina Most relevant University Universidad Abierta Interamericana Industry Mobile & Wireless Pitch Canned Brains is a game development studio based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We develop games for marketing, we make tools and now we are working on a multiplayer platform and some titles on our own.With more than 2 years of experience, 20 renown customers and an experienced team like no other, they plan to revolutionize the gaming industry Capacitacion Online dlagunapalomo1@babson.edu Beneficiary name Nacionality Diego Laguna Mexico Most relevant University Babson Industry Online HR Pitch Online plataform to training employees CapsDOC raphael@capsdoc.com www.capsdoc.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Raphael Barros Brasil Most relevant University Universidade de Pernambuco Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch CapsDOC is a cloud-based platform where patients can easily find doctors, analyze their professional background, read reviews from other patients and book an appointment 24/7 CaseMachine info@lawfather.net http://www.goclio.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Travis Luther USA Most relevant University University of Colorado Denver Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch CaseMachine is an intelligent cloud-based case management software for law firms. The software includes document management, document storage, deadline management, work flow management, calendaring, and social networking features. The software also creates relationships between documents, making the discovery process more thorough and more efficient. CaseMachine also provides a portal for legal process outsourcing (LPO) of the objective aspects of the case development process. CaseMachine is being developed by Law Father, a U.S. based leading provider of innovative digital legal services. CaseMachine development in Chile will be headed by Law Father president Travis Luther Challenge In claudio@challengein.com challengein.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Claudio Carnino USA Most relevant University University of IT Science Industry Mobile/Web/Social Networking Pitch The mobile animator for groups of friends CHEBEL Companies (In Formation) cmt@chebel.net http://www.chebel.net/CHEBEL_Companies/%7E Beneficiary name Nacionality Charlotte M Thornton Canada Most relevant University Stanford University Industry Energy & Cleantech Pitch CHEBEL, a vertically integrated energy provider of 21st Century refinery science and fuels, is headquartered in Calgary, Canada with an office in Silicon Valley. A proprietary reconfiguration of ‘solar concentrated power tower’ technology affords us our business model unique to cleantech. CHEBEL will incorporate and base its key subsidiary, U-LINC ENERGY + SOLAR UTILITY, in Santiago with field offices in Calama and Copiapo for administering project(s) slated for Regions XV, II & III. CHEBEL believes strongly in giving back. A non-profit ‘WorldARC-CHILE’ will be set up with its program that promotes entrepreneurialism in zero emissions and waste recycling industries. Chile-Citta (working title) svet@yantrafilms.ca Beneficiary name Nacionality Svet Doytchinov Bulgaria Most relevant University University of California in Los Angeles, School of Film and Television Industry Other Pitch ChileCitta is a specialized film and video Production Company that provides production services to producers from all over the world. We offer to our customers some very important reasons to come to Chile and to make their TV commercials, videos or films with us: 1. Great weather conditions 2. Endless beaches 3. Huge variety of natural and man-made landscapes 4. Modern and developed infrastructure 5. Amazing talent and skilled technical crew6. Extensive experience and expertise in this specific industry ...and all this at… 7. Extremely competitive prices focuses on search in the domains of public transportation and travel. civiside.com ken.seville@gmail.com http://www.civiside.com/guaranteed_interview Beneficiary name Nacionality Ken Seville Canada Most relevant University McMaster University Industry Social/NGO Pitch GuaranteedInterview.com is democratizing the recruitment of military veterans and enabling employers of all sizes and industries to give veterans a hand-up, while at the same time passively attracting hard to reach, quality candidates at no charge Claan clara@claanstudio.com Beneficiary name Clara Viera Nacionality Portugal Most relevant University UPTEC Industry Educational Software Pitch Tailored media and desing solutions CLAIRE pstevenson@ressacmedia.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Pablo Stevenson Chile Most relevant University Centre NAD Montreal Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch CLAIRE is a comprehensive tool that allows large enterprises to actively protect, preserve and promote their reputation in the digital space. Claire not only watches over a brand’s reputation in real time but, more importantly, tells the brand owners immediately how to participate in the conversation. Rather than being another monitoring tool (there are already many of them on the market), CLAIRE is a collaborative platform that allows its users effective Social CRM and a proactive participation in relevant conversations. Various action codes and an integrated decision tree make it easy for corporate community managers to manage their reputation Club Point jptorras@hotmail.com http://www.clubpoint.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Juan Pablo Torras Argentina Most relevant University Universidad Catolica Argentina Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch Clubpoint.com is an online flash-sales club which offers exclusive brand products with amazing discounts that go from 15% to 75% off retail prices. It consists on a members-only retail ecommerce site; users need a invitation to gain membership and enjoy its benefits. The model is based on short-term online sales campaigns that last from 4 to 9 days. We offer a comfortable purchasing experience based on a user-friendly platform integrated with a 5 star customer service. We take responsibility through the entire buying process, offering a wide range of payment options; and the logistic process. ConcernTrak International tomas@concerntrak.com www.concerntrak.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Tomas Salcedo Chile Most relevant University UC Berkeley Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch Consworks.com mpallotto@consworks.com http://consworks.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Maximiliano Pallotto Argentina Most relevant University Universidad Nacional de Tucuman Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch ConsWorks is an online platform that connects the supply and demand of construction and building maintenance services. We provide a place where Consumers can find qualified Contractors for their maintenance and construction needs. Cosmorama kunalck@gmail.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Kunal Kalro India Most relevant University Indiana University Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch Cosmorama is the ‘flash’ travel deals website for the cost and environmentally conscious consumer. We aim to grow the eco and adventure tourism market sustainably. On our website, we provide exclusive eco, adventure and culture travel ‘flash’ deals that last for a limited time or until quantities last. On the supply side, we partner with local micro/medium alternative tourism enterprises and expose them to large markets. We provide value to our customers by providing a professional, centralized resource for the eco and adventure tourism market Decurate apolonio@specifyapp.com www.specifyapp.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Apolonio Valdovinos USA Most relevant University UC Berkeley Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch Decurate is a social shopping site for home and furniture products. It’s powered by an ever-growing collection of hundreds of thousands of the best products from a curated set of web stores. You’ll find exactly what you’re looking for using a rich set of search and discovery tools. Shop by color, style, material, price and more. Stay on top of design trends and follow your favorite shops to be the first to know about new products. Get inspired by exploring collections created by other users. When you’re done shopping, export product collections into your favorite project management software. Dental Dashboard Eric <jobidon@sixflagsmail.com> Beneficiary name Nacionality Eric Jobidon Canada Most relevant University Heriott Watt University, Scotland Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch Praccel (www.praccel.com) is a web-based application allowing dental professionals to optimize their businesses. With Praccel, dentists can quickly and easily monitor critical business metrics, trends and revenue opportunities for their practice. The application leverages the tools dentists already use, and converts their raw practice data into actionable intelligence, allowing them to determine where they shine, and where they should intervene. Ultimately, Praccel helps dentists efficiently manage their practices, so they can focus their energies where they excel: caring for their patients eGuard Security JJames@eguardsecurity.com www.eGuardSecurity.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Jeremy James USA Most relevant University MIT Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch eGuard Security offers an innovative way to protect assests during non-working hours. eGuard employs the use of motion-sensing surveillance units that stream live video of potential intrusions to a central monitoring center, where guards have the option of sounding an in-unit alarm, contacting property owners, or alerting local authorities. The constant presence of our surveillance units and the ability to focus solely on sites with activity allow eGuard to provide a security option that is highly effective at preventing crime and affordable for small businesses. El Teatro luciencarter@post.harvard.edu Beneficiary name Nacionality Lucien Carter USA Most relevant University University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Industry Other Pitch El Teatro is harnessing the way people in the 21st century want to consume, create, and distribute filmed entertainment like never before.El Teatro offers the finest filmed entertainment, concerts and sporting events from Chile and around the world, as well as space for people to discuss, collaborate, and socialize around these events.El Teatro emphasizes the work of local filmmakers and supports a thriving film-loving community in Chile whose input and presence is meaningful to the theatre, its café, lounge, and even selection of what’s playing. Ethonova sdelmonte@theranova.com www.ethonova.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Stephen Delmonte USA Most relevant University Medical University of South Carolina Industry Biotech & Bioinformatics Pitch Ethonova is focused on delivering preventative medicine using technology commonly found in today’s mobile devices. We envision that our technology will enhance proactive care and follow-up through individual behavioral analysis. While our technology has broad potential to provide preventative medical care for a number of chronic and acute conditions, we will initially focus on the management of congestive heart failure patients. EveryRack a.k.nicol@post.harvard.edu http://everyrack.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Andrew Nicol Australia Most relevant University Harvard Law School Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch EveryRack will be an authoritative, cross-platform guide to real sales in local stores, targeting buying patterns neglected by other recent startups. It will feature rich editorial content about local retail opportunities, and will use technology that combines "negative crowdsourcing" and sensitivity to customer preferences and behavior to push highly relevant content to shoppers worldwide. EvolveMol zachary.apte@ucsf.edu http://www.evolvemol.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Zachary Apte USA Most relevant University University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Industry Biotech & Bioinformatics Pitch Imagine what the world would be like if producing fuel or costly medicines were as simple as brewing beer. At EvolveMol, we harness the process of evolution to create microorganisms capable of making this vision a reality. Our patent pending selection platform allows us to evolve and select custom, made-to-order microorganisms that produce specific small molecules. The EvolveMol approach is naturally scalable, allowing us to evolve on an industrial scale. We strive to innovate a world where medicine is cheap to produce, and accessible to everyone ez4u zemariamm@gmail.com http://www.ez4uteam.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Jose Moura Portugal Most relevant University University of Porto Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch EZ4U is a cutting-edge technology company with its primary focus on providing real-time location solutions with a social flavor both to companies and consumers. EZ4U’s RTLS solution enables HealthCare, Retailers, Museums, Logistics Operators, amongst others, to track and monitor, in real-time, people and assets while reusing existing Wi-Fi infrastructure. EZ4U also provides innovative social media solutions allowing companies to effective grow their business and gather detailed insights on their market and users, while enabling swiftly interaction through mobile apps and social networks. EZ4U’s approach resides on state-of-the-art artificial intelligence algorithms in order to assure thedesired ROI for our customers. Fear of Software alexanderboland@gmail.com www.fearsoftware.com Alexander Boland Beneficiary name USA Nacionality Most relevant University Oberlin Industry Gaming Pitch Fear of Software’s Bart is an engine for programs centered around stories, human relationships and social interactions. Bart’s primary function is in powering virt 慵瑳牯睹牯摬 桴瑡愠敲洠捵 潭敲椠瑮楲慣整祤慮業湡畨慭桴湡眠慨⁴畣牲湥⁴楶敤慧敭 牡 慣慰汢 景 ᕧ 楷桴挠潲摷猭畯捲摥挠敲瑡癩瑩⁹湩愠湯楬敮瀠潲畤瑣洠牡敫灴慬散 䜀扡条潯 FoXido marc.maleika@gmail.com www.foxido.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Marc Maleika Francia Most relevant University Columbia University Industry Other Pitch FoXido combines existing capacity in additive manufacturing, such as 3D printing, with crowd-sourced creativity in an online product marketplace. The aim is to develop the next level of social product development and to make additive manufacturing accessible to the mass market Global Kit Homes chrisj@timberhawk.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Most relevant University Industry Pitch Chris Jaussi USA Greenopedia Inc. sheryl@greenopedia.com www.greenopedia.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Sheryl Ryan USA Most relevant University Boston University Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch Greenopedia is an online resource dedicated to helping educate and support those seeking to live more sustainably. We provide a clean, simple format that quickly provides the information you need to grow your green knowledge and use it make better decisions at home, at work, at school, out to eat, out to shop and out of town on holiday. Gym-Pact yifanzhang@post.harvard.edu http://www.gym-pact.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Yifan Zhang USA Most relevant University Harvard College Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch Every January, millions of people make a New Year's Resolution to exercise more, but by February most have given up their pacts. Gym-Pact lets members put their money where their mouth is - members commit to exercise a number of days per week, set a motivational fee on themselves if they don't check in at our partner fitness centers, and enjoy fitness perks to reward them for their commitment. By turning the traditional pay-to-work-out gym membership on its head (users pay when they DON'T exercise), Gym-Pact uses our website, mobile apps and real-time attendance system to make more exercise easier. Halvard Bastiansen halvard.bastiansen@gmail.com www.brofing.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Halvard Bastiansen Noruega Most relevant University Norwegian School of Management Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch Brofing.com provides entrepreneurs with a completely free all-in-one solution for managing the process from planning to launching a business. We have discovered that every good quality business tool is quite expensive and most entrepreneurs do not have money available in the start up process. Therefore we will provide entrepreneurs with a completely free service containing everything they need for a successful launch. Home Food jasg@sloan.mit.edu Beneficiary name Nacionality JOSE SANHUEZA Chile Most relevant University MIT Industry Other Pitch Home Food satisfy the need of busy people that want to have lunch or dinner avoiding waiting for a table or getting the order. Our stores will deliver an affordable and healthy meal, like the food you have at home. Through a web platform, costumers will define the meal they want in advance, as well as the time they want to pick up their meal. We will use the platform to collect customer preferences information that will allow us to generate more customized, new and different value propositions IntroBuddy colinjameslewis@gmail.com www.introbuddy.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Colin James Lewis USA Most relevant University University of Pittsburgh Industry Social/NGO Pitch introBuddy (see attached image for logo and favicon - alternate sizes can be provided if necessary). A free social networking application designed for international students and travelers that allows users to connect with anyone that will be in the same place at the same time. KloudCatch luisvid@gmail.com https://www.sugarsync.com/ Beneficiary name Nacionality Luis Videla Argentina Most relevant University Universidad de Mendoza Industry Other Pitch Kloud Catch is a web research service that enables the asynchronous and unattended web content download and its later automatic synchronization in the user’s computer. This will allow the user go on with other tasks, close the browser or turn off the computer, being released from controlling the download. It is useful when he is traveling, or using mobile devices. It solves the needs of keeping the complete information, not only the URL or portions of sites, and working with it off line. Besides, it avoids distrust that the information can be removed due to legal reasons or political pressure. KRAFTWERK karsten.schulte@kraftwerk-rps.com www.kraftwerk-rps.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Karsten Schulte Alemania Most relevant University Freie UniversitÀt Berlin Industry Energy & Cleantech Pitch We dedicated our work to produce energy out of natural resources and save energy. Energy efficiency is the first step on the way to reduce energy consumption. The power Controller is one of our most efficient products to save immediately 20-40% of electricity. Power Controller is a device to reduce energy consumption of metal halide lamps and fluorescent lamps within a short payback time. Those lamps are used in municipalities for exterior lighting and also indoor in warehouses, shopping centers etc. Bottlenecks of energy supply, which often occur in the evening, can be decreased. Power Controller production is in our focus in Chile, for South America demand. Kyn Chaturvedi nikc@wharton.upenn.edu http://www.audiocatch.com/alpha/ (FYI: work in progress so it's pretty buggy right now.) Beneficiary name Nacionality Kyn Chaturvedi USA Most relevant University University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School of Business Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch LatShareHUb horacio.justiniano@gmail.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Horacio Justinario USA Most relevant University Babson Industry Working espaces for entrepreneurs Pitch Our goal is to help entrepreneurs around Latin America by giving them a world class working space at an affordable price. Including a global network of connections, additional services on demand, easy access to knowledge and a cooperative environment to develop their business ideas. Our value proposition will be based on seven principles that will drive our business strategy: Support, Flexibility, Collaboration, Resources, Training, Information and Fun.We believe that Entrepreneurs are the engines for Latin American countries to growth and we are committed to build this business platform to support their development and help to spread the Entrepreneurial spirit. LavaAmp noalaignorancia@gmail.com http://lava-amp.com/ Beneficiary name Nacionality Guido Nuñez-Mujica Venezuela Most relevant University Universidad De Los Andes Industry Biotech & Bioinformatics Pitch LavaAmp, is a handheld device for performing DNA alayses that’s faster, works even without access to an electric grid, and is an order of magnitude cheaper than existing technology. It is ideal for diagnosing infactious diseases in remote areas with little access to health care.LavaAmp can be used for far more than field diagnostics, including in areas like veterinary diagnostics, food safety, education and research. We aim to offer not just a device for molecular biology, but a full platform for researchers, doctors and hobbyists to develop their own tests for their specific needs. Limk oguz@towsmedia.com http://limk.com/ Beneficiary name Nacionality Oguz Serdar Turquia Most relevant University Cukurova University Industry Other Pitch Limk is a disruptive social platform aims to work on a special algorithm: Social Rank, that finds the best content on the web, just for you.It is currently in stealth mode, drawing back the curtains very soon. Limk will also have a real-time feed brings all your social networking news items, based on gamification system. Lndlrd.com tom@software6.net http://lndlrd.com/ Beneficiary name Nacionality Tom Vaughan USA Most relevant University Loyola Marymount University Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch Lndlrd.com is the easiest and most secure way for landlords and prospective tenants to process and submit rental applications on-line. Built by the team at Software 6, our passion is using technology to make life more enjoyable. Lndlrd.com es la forma mas fácil y segura para arrendadores y posibles arrendatarios de completar y procesar aplicaciones de arrendamiento a través de Internet. Desarrollado por el equipo de Software 6, cuya pasión es usar la tecnología para hacer la vida mas simple y agradable. Loveblip fredericocamara@blip.pt Beneficiary name Nacionality Frederico Camara Portugal Most relevant University University of Porto Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch Loveblip is the next generation of online personals and dating. Loveblip allows you to communicate and share ideas with people that could be part of your life, in a modern and innovative way. With Loveblip a user is able to define his/her own network and he/she will only see and be seen by those whom meet those criteria.Then, instead of using an online dating website as a catalog of available people, Loveblip allows users to navigate through content, letting them know who likes or dislikes their opinion and what they have shared with the network." Magnifis vladgets@gmail.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Vladimir Getselevich Israel Most relevant University Technion - Israel institute of technology Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch Magnifis delivers natural language understanding technology that helps to eliminate the barrier between human and machines by helping people get answers to their questions more easily. Specifically, the technology allows people's questions to be expressed (and understood!) in natural human language, within specific contexts. The technology can be adapted to work with different languages and in different domains. Primarily, Magnifis focuses on search in the domains of public transportation and travel. Marker.to alar.maerand@gmail.com www.marker.to Beneficiary name Nacionality Most relevant University Alar Maerand Estonia University of Tartu Industry Pitch Marker.to is a simple web-pages highlighting tool which helps users to point out important information in context. This tool will create new experience for collaborative web browsing and information sharing. Highlighted content can be easily shared with current social bookmarking tools. Marker API will be open for integration with other applications like research tools and blogs, newspapers commenting systems etc. Michael Propper mpropper@mac.com www.yourstorybox.com Beneficiary name Nacionality mike propper USA Most relevant University UC Irvine Industry Other Pitch YourStoryBox makes it easy for anyone to tell a great story. With the press of a button, users can record their precious stories and milestones, organize their personal video collections and share intimate family moments without having to expose their videos on sites like YouTube. YourStoryBox offers users a powerful set of storytelling tools, a wide variety of topics and questions to guide and encourage storytelling and a safe environment to share their stories with family and friends. It's private, simple to use and secure. Great stories right out of the box, with YourStoryBox! Monomyth Software willstepp@gmail.com www.monomythsoftware.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Most relevant University Daniel Stepp USA University of West Florida Industry Pitch Engiver is a social networking site focused on P2P charity. The good feeling that comes from giving often comes from knowing the story and seeing the impact you will have upon a fellow human being. You can see this in the way charity organizations put an individual face on their advertisements. But with internet technology, why does there need to be an intermediary at all? This is the reason we are creating a tool that will connect people from all walks of life, those in need and those who wish to help those in need, and provide them an easy mechanism to exchange money. MyAutoWeb matt@myautoweb.com www.myautoweb.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Matt Beaubien Canada Most relevant University ESADE Business School Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch MyAutoWeb is a next-generation social network for automotive enthusiasts. Users can create detailed virtual versions of their custom cars, research parts, post photos and videos, communicate in forums, manage events, and create classifieds. Based on interests and parts in common, enthusiasts can easily connect with others who their passion for all things automotive. Nonius Group rafael.simao@noniusgroup.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Rafael Simao Portugal Most relevant University University of West Florida Industry P2P charity networking website Pitch P2P charity networking website Obsorb, Inc. marshall@obsorb.com http://obsorb.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Marshall Haas USA Most relevant University University of San Francisco Industry Mobile & Wireless Pitch Obsorb is a platform that allows service businesses to have their own branded mobile apps to keep clients better informed on a projects progression. The apps function as a dashboard for each client, allowing them to keep all documents and progress in a centralized location. The company was founded by Marshall Haas in February 2011 after an initial angel investment. They will be launching in the coming months Off Track Planet dsaezgil@gmail.com http://offtrackplanet.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Diego Saez-Gil Argentina Most relevant University La Salle University (Barcelona) Industry Mobile & Wireless Pitch Off Track Planet is empowering more young people to travel the world by reinventing travel guides and trip planning resources in the era of social and mobile media. We are building a platform for GEN-Y travelers to create inspiring content driven by applications and a social community that connects like-minded travelers as they plan, discover and share their worlds ONE Change (Office for Natural Emergencies) matias.l@one-change.net http://www.one-change.net/ Beneficiary name Nacionality Matias Lloveras Argentina Most relevant University Universidad de Buenos Aires - Argentina Industry Social/NGO Pitch ONE Change is an interdisciplinary team specialized in sustainable planning for the management of natural emergencies that affect the built environment.Natural disasters such as floods, droughts, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis are becoming more frequent (Indonesia, Chile, Haiti, New Zealand, Japan, etc.). Their effects can grow exponentially due to multiple variables: poor design of cities and buildings, lack of security measures and inadequacy of planning in emergency protocols.We have developed a comprehensive work methodology that reduces harm on people by minimizing risks of natural disasters. PagaTuAlquiler.com guillehorno@gmail.com https://www.pagatualquiler.com/ Beneficiary name Nacionality Guillermo Horno Argentina Most relevant University UTN FRM Argentina Industry Finance & Economics Pitch We are a tech company that makes life easier for tenants and property managers. PagaTuAlquiler.com is a payment system for property related transactions which is tightly integrated with our online property management application. We are a one stop solution for people who need an easy way to collect the rent and manage property.In a nutshell, we give tenants and management simple options when it comes to payment & collection, such as credit cards, online banking and popular payment locations. Our online tools are an easy way to keep track of payment, tenant, and property information in one place. Partner Management niina.fu@student.hanken.fi Beneficiary name Nacionality Niina Fu Chile Most relevant University Hanken School of Economics Industry Finance & Economics Pitch The company Partner Management Ltd will be established to Santiago de Chile. The company offers new and innovate services for enabling the growth and success in international markets. The main focus is to develop the network of distributors and other partners abroad to work efficiently for the Chilean headquarters. Other goal for the company is to coach Chilean companies how to do business successfully in Northern Europe. Picket megaepic@gmail.com Beneficiary name Nacionality James Haas USA Most relevant University Western Michigan University Industry Social/NGO Pitch Geotaging for concerts seats Ping pigeon ykomada.mba2010@london.edu Beneficiary name Nacionality Yoshi Komada USA Most relevant University London School of Economics Industry Social Network Pitch A relationship management application helping you keep in touch with professional contacts by recommending relevant content you can forward to them. There will be a mobile and web version. We leverage the LinkedIn and FB APIs to get contacts' info and run semantic analysis on content to get the recommendations. Practical Way Software bagusto@practicalway.eu www.practicalway.eu Beneficiary name Nacionality Bruno Agusto Brasil Most relevant University University of Porto Industry Educational Software Pitch Professional ESOL ferdinand.tongson@gmail.com www.professionalesol.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Ferdinand Tongson USA Most relevant University California State University, Long Beach Industry Other Pitch ProfessionalESOL.com helps mentor ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) Health Care professional who are looking to improve their medical English. We provide customized client-led language mentor ship services such as presentation and publication services as well as Health Care focused lessons and learning material. With the unique use of both web and mobile technologies, we hope to improve the way ESOL Health Care professionals learn English and increase the exchange of medical knowledge between English and ESOL Health Care professionals. Read Jitsu king@kingsidharth.com http://www.readjitsu.com Beneficiary name Nacionality King Sidharth India Most relevant University New Public School, Chandigarh Industry Other Pitch Tired of putting things in "Read it Later" and never come down to reading them? Read Jitsu kills information overload! It sorts your reading material based on your personal reading habits, what the people-who-influence-you are reading, what’s hot in your industry etc. It’s not about what everyone likes and up-votes. It’s about what you will love to read. RECART anton@recarter.com http://www.recarter.com/ Beneficiary name Nacionality Anton van Rhyn Canadian Most relevant University Ryerson University Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch The average shopping cart abandonment rate is between 50 and 70 percent. Our team at Recart is dedicated to developing industry leading shopping cart recovery and analytics technology specifically designed to be robust and easy to implement. Recart reduces cart abandonment rates and recovers lost sales Resume Hunter bahiamartins@hotmail.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Ronaldo Martins Brasil Most relevant University Fundação Monsenhor Messias, Industry Online HR Pitch Resume Hunter is a platform which provides online job interview solutions. Companies in general are demanding high potential professionals as never before. Most of times, the inefficiency of spending time and money to find and interview candidates has a negative impact in competitiveness. Resume Hunter acts as a real candidate manager to help companies hire the best professionals. revokom billc@revokom.com http://www.revokom.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Bill Chikirivao Zimbabwe Most relevant University University of Denver, Colorado Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch Revokom is the creator of the SEE-graph based social business platform that streamlines collaboration and enhances safety in complex services operations, especially those in the mining and energy industry sectors. The SEE-graph comprised of the Social-graph, Expertise-graph, and Entity-Assets-graph provides the robust infrastructure that is required to enable safe and efficient complex services operations on multi-million dollar assets. It transparently manages the inter-relationships between team members, their skillsets and areas of expertise, and the respective assets on which they are working. The messages exchanged on the embedded micro blogging and crowd-sourcing knowledge services have better context, priority and relevance. SaferTaxi clemens.raemy@safertaxi.com www.safertaxi.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Clemens Raemy Swiss Most relevant University Harvard Business School Industry Mobile & Wireless Pitch SaferTaxi applies the OpenTable business model to the taxi industry. Our smartphone application allows users to book taxis, pay for the fare, receive and write reviews about drivers, and to collect loyalty points, resulting in free taxi rides. Sanivation chrisquintero@gmail.com www.sanivation.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Christopher Quintero USA Most relevant University Georgia Institute of Technology Industry Social/NGO Pitch Sanivation provides novel solutions for the world’s sanitation crisis. We create affordable, environmentally friendly, and sustainable products for both developing and developed world users. Sanivation’s first commercial product is the solar latrine. Employing thermal solar and ecological sanitation methods, the solar latrine completely kills parasites and in turn quickly produces fertilizer for the product owner Smidgn jonathan.markwell@gmail.com http://smidgn.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Jonathan Markwell Inglaterra Most relevant University University of Sussex Industry Other Pitch Smidgn is building a kick ass collection of tiny web based tools for independent workers. We're breaking down the barriers that hold you back from developing a rewarding career free of traditional employment. smittn bertrandom@gmail.com http://smittn.com/ Beneficiary name Nacionality Bertrand Fan USA Most relevant University University of California, San Diego Industry Mobile & Wireless Pitch Smittn aggregates geotagged data from your social networks. SOS Systems benofrance@gmail.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Benjamin France USA Most relevant University University Of Utah Industry Other Pitch SOS Systems is a technology company that helps locate miners trapped underground. Our system can potentially be installed in all underground mines to help save miners lives. Our technology is patented and owned by the University of Utah's Technology Commercialization Office. We are dedicated to making a difference for each miner so they can go home to their families SQMOS jgramajo@sqmos.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Javier Gramajo Guatemala Most relevant University Technical University of Catalonia Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch The platform has all the basic functionalities you could expect from any social networking platform. Advantages for organizations (including advertisers): The platform streamlines existing SMS channels, but furthermore allows for easy entry of organizations into the SMS space. Also, allows replication of SMS channels and initiatives easily into other countries.Additional components include the use of semantic and knowledge-based services applied to social networking. We are including some features like intelligent searches, geolocalization, and simplified augmented reality. StartBull s.pineda@startbull.com www.startbull.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Santiago Pineda Colombia Most relevant University Universidad de Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia) Industry Finance & Economics Pitch Mission: Provide a space of collective knowledge through the networking of people interested and involved in the capital market, in a responsibly and transparent way.StartBull is a start-up web business that intends to gather, share and compare all the relevant information about the capital markets.StartBull rises in the interest of its creators to provide a platform to democratize knowledge of capital markets, from the active participation of the users concerned and involved in it, facilitating the interconnection of different points of view and collective feedback. Street Mosaic rich@streetmosaic.com www.streetmosaic.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Richard Li-Sheng Yang Taiwan Most relevant University IE Business School Industry Mobile & Wireless Pitch Street Mosaic is your travel discovery guidebook, created by travelers for travelers. By integrating the social interaction and photography element of travel, users of Street Mosaic can simply take a picture of their discovery, write a caption, and share with the travel community tips, recommendations, and advisories. Our mobile app is also location aware to help guide you in your discoveries. See something exciting? Take a picture and share with friends and the travel community your serendipitous discovery. Or simply explore around you or across the globe to get an idea for your next travel adventure. Be a beta tester by downloading our iPhone app from www.streetmosaic.com. Surreal eric@ericwarnke.com http://surrealwifi.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Eric Warnke Canada Most relevant University University of Alberta Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch Setting up routers and other networking equipment is a haphazard mess of jumping between user interfaces and settings. Whether you are trying to configure users for a home network or you manage an enterprise fleet with thousands of wireless routers, VoIP phones, and security cameras, the process of managing them is not simple. Surreal mitigates the frustration of managing differing hardware profiles and security risks involved with deploying networking equipment. Surreal provides a unified interface to manage all the networking equipment you own so that time and money is saved in deployment and administration." Taggify gbessone@taggify.net http://www.taggify.net Gustavo Bessone Beneficiary name Italia Nacionality Most relevant University Universidad de Buenos Aires Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch Taggify.net helps webmasters monetize their sites, through contextual, relevant ads in images. Up to now most sites monetize through text ads or banner ads. However, the image space has remained mostly un-monetized. By just copying and pasting a code, Taggify generates relevant ads within the website’s images. Imagine you are in a news site reading about 愠映潯扴污慭捴 ⱨ 琠敨渠睥 潣瑮楡獮 愠瀠捩畴敲漠 潹牵映癡牯瑩 潦瑯慢汬瀠慬敹 䈠⁹捳潲汬湩 潹牵洠畯敳漠敶 楨 桳物ⱴ礠畯眠汩敳 慴 潣瑮楡楮杮搠瑥楡獬漠 桴 牢湡湡潭敤景琠敨猠楨瑲湡祢挠楬正湩 湯椠⁴潹⁵慣潧琠桴 瑳牯 湡畢⁹瑩 椠瑩 慴慢敳 湡污敲摡⁹慨 癯牥†‶業汬潩牰摯捵獴 敔档捓慲捴牨 桔䅥牵慥整挮浯椠 敷 慢敳 Ɽ 戠 湩楶慴楴湯漭汮⁹潣浭湵瑩⁹桴瑡瀠潲楶敤 捡散獳琠楨桧攭摮氠晩 獥祴敬戠⁹潰汯湩 湵敤畲楴楬敺畬畸祲愠獳瑥 牦浯椠獴洠浥敢獲 汣扵洠浥敢獲楨獰慣獲愠摮礠捡瑨 楷汬戠 扡敬 Tecla Colorida ademar.aguiar@escolinhas.pt Beneficiary name Nacionality Ademar Aguiar Portugal Most relevant University UPTEC Industry Educational Software Pitch The fundamental to really and effectively benefit from the enormous educational potential of today’s web technology, which unfortunately has been mostly thought and designed for adults, unbelievable in their daily life, to be simple to learn and use, educational, fun, engaging, and seamlessly ensuring TheAureate.com martinmuniz@gmail.com www.theaureate.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Martin Muniz Argentina Most relevant University The Wharton School Industry Other Pitch TheAureate.com is a web-based, by-invitation-only community that provides access to a high-end lifestyle by pooling underutilized luxury assets from its members. High net-worth individuals who have substantial social networks and own underutilized properties such as homes, club memberships, cars and yachts will be able to share their access and socialize through them. Toldo denegro@gmail.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Alberto Romero España Most relevant University Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch Toldo is the simplest way to set up an online store. Our mission is to help individuals and businesses sell products and services online. TriviaPad rubenlozano@triviapad.com triviapad.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Rubén Lozano España Most relevant University FundaciÃ3n Tomillo. Madrid, Spain. Industry Other Pitch A Multiplayer Trivia Game That Rocks. A big trivia platform intended for the App Store, running on both iPhone and iPad devices Turquoise Sunlabs gaurav@trqsunlabs.com www.trqsunlabs.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Gaurav Gupta India Most relevant University Manipal University Industry Energy & Cleantech Pitch Turquoise Sunlabs develops low cost solar tracking technology for utility scale PV and concentrated solar plants. Built around the proprietary universol, our technology reduces levelized solar unit costs with its novel low cost architecture and is engineered to be scalable. Vita Life mkasseris2@babson.edu Beneficiary name Nacionality Michael Kassaris USA Most relevant University Babson Industry Vitamins Pitch Provide an important nutritional supplement business serving VOZ jasmine@madebyvoz.com http://madebyvoz.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Jasmine Aarons USA Most relevant University Stanford University Industry Social/NGO Pitch developing countries. Wedoist amix@amix.dk http://wedoist.com/ Beneficiary name Nacionality Amir Salihefendic Bosnia Most relevant University University of Aarhus Industry Enterprise Software & IT Pitch Wedoist aims to increase productivity and collaboration of teams and companies by implementing a project management solution that’s simple to use, inexpensive, accessible from anywhere, uses the latest technology and game elements to create an addictive and fun to use platform. Simply put our main goal is to revolutionize how people collaborate and improve productivity and communication of people around the world. XCarbon Technologies Pvt Limited pathak.k@gmail.com www.carbon.in Beneficiary name Nacionality Kshitij Pathak India Most relevant University Manipal University Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch XCarbon technologies is working on creating a platform for buyers of and sellers of long term accruing carbon credits to meet and transact, eliminating middlemen. yourproductvideo tejeda.manquel@hotmail.com www.yourproductvideo.com Beneficiary name Nacionality Manquel Tejeda Alemania Most relevant University Goethe University Frankfurt Industry E-commerce & Trade Pitch zuggi natalia@zuggi.com.br http://vimeo.com/15851814 Beneficiary name Nacionality Natália Andreoli Monteiro Brasil Most relevant University University - ESPM (Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing) Industry Enterprise & Software Pitch Zuggi is a fun and educational online search engine designed for children from around the world. As an educational web platform and a learning tool, its function is to empower kids to perform their search on various subjects, arousing their curiosity and willingness to learn.
