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Demo Day 2012Entrepreneurs Guide

Scholaroo

Scholaroo founder Ben Kaplan ([email protected]) won two dozen scholarships, attended Harvard for free, and wrote the world’s best-selling book about how to do

it. His web and mobile service uses social media profiles to quickly match students with best-fit scholarships. “One click” user feedback improves scholarship recommendations over time.

Company status: Working prototype. Closed beta launch June 1, 2012. Full launch on August 15, 2012.Contact: [email protected]

bContext

bContext is an app for iPad that helps you create new forms of content by adding context to a wide array of file types. With bContext you can record your voice and add hand-made notations to any file.

Company status: App launches in April 2012Contact: [email protected]

tripku

Adventure trips are hard to organize. They require groups and complex planning. At tripku travelers share their travel plans with friends, and friends of friends, to form groups and get recommendations. tripku connects

travelers with tour operators to get advice and receive custom bids. tripku transforms trip ideas into reality.

Company status: First public version live since March 3rd 2012, first sales closed on the first week of April 2012.Contact: [email protected]

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Comenta.TV

Comenta.TV is an early stage company that identify, measure and analyze in real time the resonance of Live TV shows in social networks. Comenta.TV’s proprietary algorithm helps TV stakeholders to keep track of these

interactions in real time and to get insights about the social reach of their shows.

Company status: Developing core technology, building web and mobile apps.Contact: [email protected]

StrongSteam

StrongSteam are giving a pair of ‘eyes’ to smartphones. We have a cloud based API for programmers that uses Artificial Intelligence to recognise words and objects in photos so smartphones can understand and react to the real visual world just like humans do.

Company status: Launching alpha to 245 developersContact: [email protected]

Decurate

Decurate is an online design site and e-commerce store. We focus on small independent and emerging designers throughout the world.

Company status: Active and generating revenueContact: [email protected]







UniPlaces

UniPlaces is an online platform for university accommodation. It offers students and visitors the largest availability of quality rooms, while giving landlords targeted and direct access to a vast pool of students who are looking for accommodation. We form strategic partnerships with universities that promote us as the official student accommodation portal.

Company status: Alpha site launched in Portugal. Very positive response. Starting operations in Chile, and will launch new platform in Chile and Portugal.Contact: [email protected]

Presstler

Presstler lets businesses and individuals create custom "press about us" pages. We automatically collect online mentions about you, rank them, and present them on your hosted Presstler page. Embeddable widgets allow direct integration of Presstler with your brand identity. Automatically discover and show-off all that is said about you!

Company status: Minimum viable product is live. Launching closed Beta by April 2012. Already acquired customers pre-launch.Contact: [email protected]

The Social Radio

The Social Radio converts Twitter into a radio-like experience. With multi-language voice support,

users can listen to their Twitter timelines, lists, TT, funny hashtags and searches, mixed with the music they love on their mobile devices (Android and iOS) or on the Web.Company status: 1st public version launched, getting users feedback and measuring engagement.Contact: [email protected]







Agent Piggy

AgentPiggy is an online piggy bank that lets kids learn to manage their finances, and helps parents teach them the value of money.

Company status: Fast progression, launching a product with BBVA in early May.Contact: [email protected]

Nibu

At Nibu we have the vision of creating a free WiFi network in Latin America. We do this by aggregating hotspots and providing them a service that makes their WiFi work, but also allows them to attract more customers, know them better and increase sales only by sharing their WiFi.

Company status: Development/acquiring customersContact: [email protected]

Jogabo

Jogabo is a worldwide football community. Our online platform connects players, games and venues making it effortless for players to find a game whenever and wherever they want while meeting new people. Jogabo

is revolutionizing the beautiful game by making it more flexible, social and open for all. (AirBnB.com for football games).

Company status: Currently recruiting, already launched with live Beta with 3000 users worldwide, 500+ games played and some key partnerships.Contact: [email protected]







Nuovo Wind

Nuovo Wind is developing an ultra-low cost wind turbine to empower homeowners and small businesses to save money and the environment with an affordable and accessible turbine design. Early stage investment has the potential of a 37X or greater return.

Company status: Product Development/Beta TestingContact: [email protected]

SmartVineyard

QuantisLabs is formed by Csaba Arendas (serial entrepreneur) and David Salamon (former president of Board of European Students of

Technology), backed up a team of five in Budapest.The Smartvineyard is their product, providing winemakers professional IT solutions. Using wireless sensor networks, it provides decision support for precision viticulture.

Company status: Launched, prototype ready with customers, minor software development neededContact: [email protected]

Catmoji

Catmoji is a place for cat lovers to share and discover interesting cat pictures and videos through emoji. Our

mission is to create happiness with the Internet and cats.

Company status: Under development, open for private beta.Contact: [email protected]





Synergos

TED Talks meets Pandora: Imagine learning from the greatest minds of our time via your own personalized

inspiration channel. Bite-size inspiration in 20min or less from sources such as TED.com, tailored to your interests. A channel that gets smarter every time you use it.

Company status: We rigorously apply the lean startup methodology to build our business. Before starting to build a product, we completed an extensive series of face-to-face interviews (50+ in-depth) as well as two quantitative surveys to ensure that we are addressing a problem worth solving. Based on these insights, we are currently in the process of developing a minimum viable version of our service.Contact: [email protected]

PayParrot

For our team this will be our third StartUp. The first one: +130 clients, second one: +6000 users. Problem: “How to sell to a wider audience with limited resources”.

Solution: “We turn your first users into your first sales force”. Proved results: “First experiment: increase of 650% of conversions”.

Company status: We have tested the concept and now we need to build an MVP, test it locally and go to SV to scale the sales and get a 1st round of VC fundingContact: [email protected]

SupportBee

Today, customer support is the new marketing. SupportBee is the most efficient support tool that helps businesses across verticals deliver awesome

support. Our customers love us because SupportBee is simple, snappy and has a fully open API that makes customization a cinch!

Company status: In private beta, launching public in May, with 20 customers in 3 months.Contact: [email protected]







MiBuzz.tv

Experience the way television should be: social, tailor-made and on the cloud. We are building the smartest way to access, share and follow video online: a social platform of curated content that unifies all the sources of video and film and integrates them into your open profile, so that users become broadcasters.

Company status: In betaContact: [email protected]

Koru

Koru is Airbnb for skills: a marketplace that lets anyone buy, sell, or trade specialized services (e.g. programming, Spanish lessons). People can set up

profiles, list skills, and monetize their time via transactions/trades (we’ll take a commission). We’re starting by selling white label closed communities (for schools, apartments, corporations).

Company status: Launched, doing customer developmentContact: [email protected]

Regalii

For the 35 million Latinos in the U.S. with family in Latin America (LAC), Regalii.com is a free and easy way of paying for goods in supermarkets and stores in LAC. As opposed to sending cash, Regalii enables Latinos to send gift certificates (a “Regalii”) via SMS

for stores and supermarkets in LAC.

Company status: Launching this summerContact: [email protected]





BookBottles

BookBottles provides services to nightclub guests and club owners. Guests reserve VIP bottle service online, ensuring a seamless night out. Club owners use

BookBottles to manage their reservations, guestlists, and employees. With BookBottles, club owners can concentrate on creating the guest experience and leave the logistics to the BookBottles platform.

Company status: Launched, with customers and reservation, expanding.Contact: [email protected]

Fantaxico

Fantaxico revamps taxi fleets in one day, growing their current business and making them part of a

bigger virtual fleet for smartphone users.

Company status: SellingContact: [email protected]

Yupi Studios

Yupi Studios develops apps, games and innovative solutions for Smartphones, Tablets, Smart TVs and Social Networks. We’re partners of Tapjoy, who helps us marketing freemium games for iOS and Android. Pitch Lessons and Menu Catcher are our innovative solutions under development. Pitch Lessons was a finalist of Wayra Brazil.

Company status: Generating revenue and growing, although innovative solutions (ex: Pitch Lessons) is under development.Contact: [email protected]





StreetInvestor

Bússola do Investidor is a Brazilian website that offers tools, content and information for individual investors in the Brazilian stock market. After becoming an important Brazilian player, we are willing to operate in other Latin American markets (starting with Chile, Colombia & Peru) under our new name: StreetInvestor.

Company status: Launched and operating. In construction in Latin AmericaContact: [email protected]

Vulevú

Online community for women e-shoppers & food lovers that helps them discover daily secret places, yummies ideas and little luxuries.

Company status: LaunchedContact: [email protected]

ESCAPESwithYOU

ESCAPESwithYOU.com is a Social E-commerce platform specialized in tourism that features happy lifetime experiences around the world with unbeatable discounts. We solve the

problems that travelers face many deals, poorly specialized and not personalized, using a Smart system that is able to understand your preferences from your favorite social networks.

Company status: Minimum Viable Product (Ready) – Private Alpha launching at the end of April 2012. Currently 961 subscribers. Selected to present on Fi2012.cl (Investment Found), Invited to participate on Geeks on a Plane 2012 our Team Rocked on Campus Party Ecuador 2011, finalist, expositors and winners.Contact: [email protected]







Trudev

Trudev is a team of MIT and Harvard graduates who have developed both a portable, affordable, microbial drinking water test and chemical purification system. We aim to take advantage of existing distribution networks by selling our products to universities, local NGOs and larger intergovernmental agencies that

execute rural water projects.

Company status: Launched, products for general sale.Contact: [email protected]

Fanwards

Fanwards is a social loyalty platform to reward users for their online interaction with brands.

Company status: Currently available for Blackberry, in Q2 of 2012 will be available for HTML5 and iPhone. Contact: [email protected]

VOZ

VOZ is ethical fashion that revolutionizes Fair Trade for indigenous artisans with trend-driven design innovation, luxury quality, and professional production. Seven million people find ¨Ethical clothing very important and availability very poor,¨ while Mapuche artisans have watched Fair

Trade fail to provide sustainable aid. VOZ offers Fair Trade a new future.

Company status: Soft-launch sales (April 2012), International brand launch in June-August 2012.Contact: [email protected]





Kidbox

Kidbox’s founders have a mission to keep children safe on the Internet. Kidbox is an application that

creates a secure playground where they offer the best web content—Internet sites, videos, and games—appropriate for children according to their profile.

Company status: Free version launched in December 2011, Premium version will launch within a month.Contact: [email protected]

MotionDisplays

At Motion Displays we will develop the next generation of self-service and guided selling software solutions for the retail industry. Based on large-scale interactive multi-touch screens and integrated with mobile payments, our solutions will solve the most pressing challenge brick-and-mortar retailers face: theirs

customer’s in-store experience.

Company status: Working hardware prototype and open APIs - currently on Software Development Phase.Contact: [email protected]



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