Our goal is to eliminate Distracted Driving fatalities and crashes by allowing users to keep their eyes on the road, and be able to automatically hear their messages read out loud.
What is your solution?
messageLOUD is a patent pending messaging service that automatically reads your texts, WhatsApp messages and email out loud, allowing you to drive, work and play safely and productively. Our mission is to eliminate distracted driving with an eyes-free experience that enables you to automatically hear your messages out loud, to easily delete or dismiss messages, or call the sender back –– all without having to look at your phone.
Target Market
Consumers who drive regularly,
How will you make money?
through sales
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Garin Toren is the founder and CEO of messageLOUDmessageLOUD is a patent pending messaging service that automatically reads your texts and email out loud, allowing you to drive, work and play, safely and productively. Our mission is to eliminate distracted driving with an eyes-free experience that enables you to hear your messages automatically out loud, to easily delete or dismiss messages, or call the sender back – all without having to look at your phone.
Garin maintains a relentless pursuit of innovation and focus with messageLOUD, fostering a company that can change the world by eliminating the Distracted Driving pandemic. Garin is high tech industry veteran, having previously served as part owner & EVP of Americas at Striata, Inc., a global leader in secure electronic document deliver, where he ran the New York regional headquarters and oversaw the company for the Americas. Garin has 20 years of entrepreneurial experience in the digital economy, having held equity & key leadership roles for high tech companies focused on Internet, e-commerce, and digital marketing. Garin culminated his studies at the Gordon Institute of Business Science with the Postgraduate Nexus program.
Founders Names
Garin Toren
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-People without much of an artistic skill can decorate home walls themselves -For artists SprayPrinter is a new tool for mixing digital and traditional art.
What is your solution?
SprayPrinter is a wireless device that converts digital designs into wall art from your smartphone.All you need is to download an application to your smart phone, choose your favourite image, attach the Sprayprinternozzle on a spray can and start printing a picture of you, your cat, your teenage movie star crush or anything you prefer.
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
1. SIRJE JOALA, COMMUNICATION Specialist in art and design 2. ALO MURUTAR, CEO 20 years of business management 3. MIHKEL JOALA, R&D Professional inventor 4. HENRY PATZIG, PRODUCTION MSc Industrial engineer 5. RICHARD MURUTAR, MARKETING Previous Start-Up experience
Founders Names
Richard Murutar
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2/3 of the population is completely in-active. Fitness consumers have irreversibly changed the way they interact with fitness and Fitssi is perhaps one of the best kept secrets for life hacking, no need to engage in demotivating or uninspiring workout routines alone, a fitness partner can boost your motivation, increase your results and widen your fitness circle. Fitssi gives users motivation on demand so the 68% of people that quit the gym wthin the first 3 months of joining can now buddy up with a fitssi partner and continue their fitness journey having fun and with real results.
What is your solution?
Fitssi is a social app connecting users with new and interesting nearby fitness partners on-demand and encompasses an athleisure lifestyle within one app. The team behind fitness recognised the surge in emerging fitness trends and have open the doors on fitness categories, meaning users can connect with a community across Barre, Bootcamp, Crossfit or Yoga, to name a few, as well as growing fitness movements such as Parkour.
Target Market
consumers, fitness people, active people, personal trainers
How will you make money?
Through Sales
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Chris Sweeney – Co-FounderSports and Fitness is my passion. Through all of my achievements I have come to recognise the value and importance the support of a peer group brings. Through fitssi I am conveying this message to millions of people through the UK and our platform will encourage a fitter more sociable society”
• 20 years sporting experience Former Karate European Bronze medallist and London Youth Games competitor. • 9 years fitness industry experience (Fitness First)-Delivering National Wellness campaigns • 4 years management experience (Community Gym in Pimlico) • REPS Level 3 Personal Trainer Lee McPherson – Co Founder 15 years in IT (hardware invention, IBM, Verizon and BBC London featured start up)…passionate about tech, fitness and social. At 17 years old (2001) built a standalone device that allowed people with impaired vision benefit from text to speech technology. Filled for US patent search, spent 2 years on R&D. Previous to Fitssi Lee built a small network of small businesses that would eventually become part of a loyalty scheme. Ramped up to a book of 233 members, a loyal following and was featured on BBC London radio as a special guest to talk about the success and was featured in Natwest small business magazine.
• 15 years IT experience • 5 years management experience • Start up, Blue chip & IP • BA (Hons) Marketing & Advertising
The American Academy of Pediatrics revealed last month that most kids in the U.S. will have their own personal mobile device by the time they are 4 years old. According to another survey conducted for the National Consumers League, 84% of parents say safety is the top reason for giving them one. But the costs involved in maintaining a cellular plan for their children is an issue.
The average family plan from the top US carriers costs upwards of $100 per month. There are a lot of families who simply cannot afford that, but need cellular services for everyday communication, which includes keeping in touch with the kids.
Krew Mobile solves both of these problems by including free lines for kids while giving parents control over kids’ phone usage.
What is your solution?
Krew Mobile is an innovative new cellular provider for parents and kids that is redefining wireless plans for American families.One of the challenges that parents face today is raising their kids in a digital world. Statistics show that 53% of children in America get their first mobile device at age 6. While this information may be alarming to some, there are more and more companies devoted to help parents navigate this new landscape. Krew Mobile is a brand new cellular service with a mission to redefine the American family plan and educate kids about responsible cell phone ownership. Imagine a phone with parental controls where you can turn kids’ lines on and off to monitor usage and set healthy limits. While most family plans can cost upwards of $100 a month, Krew Mobile is only $39 a month for one parent and two kids’ lines.
Krew Mobile is looking for parents to help them build their wireless service with the Pilot Program. As a test pilot, you’ll have the opportunity to try the service for free and provide feedback on which features you would like to see for your family. Krew is offering The Mommies Network exclusive access to their Pilot Program, and the value is big! The first 1,000 members will receive a free Krew Mobile Starter Kit plus free service for up to two months.
Visit www.krewmobile.com to learn more about Krew Mobile and to sign up for the Pilot Program.
Target Market
Consumers
How will you make money?
FREE Krew Starter Kit and 2 months of cellular service for the first 1,000 qualified Pilot Program applicants. Regular price US $39 per month for 3 lines.
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Krew Mobile was created by Otono, a global technology based telecom company. Otono has created and operates multiple services, including Roam Mobility, Ready SIM, and AlwaysOnline Wireless.Otono was founded in 2011 with Roam Mobility, a roaming replacement service for Canadians travelling to the USA.
Founder and CEO, Emir Aboulhosn, recognized that Canadians were the largest subset of inbound travellers to the USA and did not have an affordable way to stay connected. There was a business opportunity to service this market and that led to the creation of Roam Mobility, which today has over 180,000 Canadian customers with nearly 2,500 retail sales points.
In 2012 they launched Ready SIM as a self-activating SIM card preloaded with a plan. This technology removed the need for sales or dealer assistance in a retail environment, and was recognized by Fierce Wireless as a disruptive innovation and awarded their Fierce 15 award.
In 2016, we have expanded our services to multiple countries, carriers, and brands using our modular and scalable technology platform.
Otono is widely recognized as the experts in SIM Card and cellular service provisioning and can deploy new wireless brands rapidly at a very low cost.
The world needs Kraken.io because it is currently the only image processing platform which can scale to extremely heavy usage patterns, while remaining economical and cost-effective. Furthermore, it serves both non-technical users as well as highly experienced developers.
What is your solution?
The majority of today’s static web traffic is made up of images. While many tools exist for preparing images for the web, such as Photoshop’s Save For Web tool and a plethora of other existing resizing and compression techniques, most tools have major shortcomings – such as being restricted to just one format (such as GIF, PNG or JPEG). Many tools will simply force an image down to a particular quality level such as a quality setting of 70 for JPEG images, regardless of what the results look like. And even after processing images through such tools, we find that there are still significant byte savings to be made on most images, without significantly impacting their visual detail.That’s where Kraken.io fits in to the equation.
Kraken’s optimization algorithms excel at determining the optimal balance of image quality and filesize, often greatly reducing image size while retaining sufficient quality for the vast majority of use cases. This means, for the publisher, more efficient use of storage and network bandwidth, and for the end user faster loading pages and apps, and a generally better user experience.
Target Market
Businesses
How will you make money?
We offer Free plan which comes with 50MB of testing quota. Than: Micro $5 (500MB quota), Basic $9 (2GB quota), Advanced $19 (5GB quota), Premium $39 (15GB quota), Enterprise $79 (60GB quota), Custom Plans Possible (Contact Us)
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Kraken.io Image Optimizer’s founders, Przemek Matylla and Karim Salman each have more than ten years experience in the field of software engineering with a primary focus on Web development. We have worked for companies ranging from small startups to Fortune 500s, such as eBay.
To regain control of social media content and keep it in the hands of the artist
What is your solution?
Gig Revolution founded in 2014 on a simple idea; to help bands and artists control their brand and retain full exclusive rights to written, photographic and video content they produce. The GigRev platform allows artists of any size to launch their own private social media network that allows sharing of content on a Facebook style wall and distribution of officially endorsed photos, videos and music as well as the ability to Live Stream video content from the artist’s iPhone or Android device to their fan base of app users. It allows true multichannel engagement and monetisation through premium content aimed at fans. The app allows fans to purchase digital fan club subscription packages on a recurring monthly or yearly basis which in turn gives access to exclusive content, true communication and feedback from artists directly, video blogs, pre-sale tickets and allows sale of merchandise during concerts for collection after the show.
Target Market
BUSINESS
How will you make money?
Revenue split
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Kevin Brown – CEO Former CEO of founder of Affiliate Window Ltd, sold to Axel Springer in 2010 with a revenue of over £110m, staff of over 200 and offices in London and Baltimore (USA). Kevin build the company with his own software, led the company for 11 years, acquired Buy.At from AOL for over £10m and oversaw the exit to Axel Springer in Germany. Affiliate Window is now part of Zanox in Germany and continues to grow.
Artist Manager for The Australian Pink Floyd Show and The South. The Australian Pink Floyd Show are regarded as a “Greatest Tribute Show in the World” – The Times, and during the time of management played over 120 shows a year in the US, Europe and USA with many shows as big as 11,000 people in arenas including The O2 Arena London and the Bell Center in Quebec.
Stephen Furner – CFO Steve is a highly experienced company director and has continually served over the last 30 years as a director of various companies within UK listed groups, venture capital backed MBOs and high-growth private companies. He has considerable experience of managing rapid business growth and was a Non-Executive director of Digital Window which increased turnover from £5m to £200m.
Steve has worked in various sectors including, Business Services, Technology and Media. He qualified as an accountant in 1985 and holds a BA (Hons) Degree from the University of Hertfordshire.
Over the years, parents all over the world have been keeping track of their child growth or family memories via physical photo album or scrapbook. However, the weakness of having a physical scrapbook is that there is a possibility of losing it; which also means losing those priceless memories that is impossible of getting back. In the digital era, instead of possessing a physical scrapbook, why not have a mobile, lightweight scrapbook that will never be lost; and on the plus side, you can share it anytime anywhere to anyone you like.
First Smile also provides privacy that most social platform couldn’t provide, because it’s understandable that not every parents would want their kids to be exposed on the social media due to privacy issues. With cloud storage technology, parents can upload and download their data in the cloud storage; which protect parents from losing those precious data.
First Smile also intent to bring family closer with its easy sharing function. Imagine the grandparents or relatives that is in a different state; or either parents that works oversea, it would be great that they have a private and secure platform to share their family’s memory such as First Smile.
What is your solution?
First Smile is a baby scrapbook app for recording the growth of the parent’s child, starting from pregnancy, childbirth / new-born to every first baby milestones. With First Smile, it makes it easier for parents to turn all precious moments (photos/ videos) into digital memories that will last a lifetime and treasure forever, which can also be shared privately with family or friends.
Target Market
Consumers
How will you make money?
Freemium
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
The company consist of 3 co-founders, Loi Hui Lye, Sean Lee and Michael Liew.The idea of First Smile came about when Loi had his first daughter and he wishes to capture all the memories with his firstborn. Being a dad with a busy schedule, he understand that he will definitely missed out some of the precious milestone of her child growing up. That’s when Loi came up with the idea of digitalizing photo scrapbook, to create a mobile photo album that will always be there no matter where you go, and will never lost no matter what happen. With this idea, he started to approach two of his best friend, Sean Lee and Michael Liew.
The timeline concept of First Smile was actually contributed by Sean Lee. It was one time during family reunion, when Sean’s mother was looking for her family photo scrapbook hoping to share with the family members, and she couldn’t find it. The family lost half of the collection of family photo scrapbook over the years because Sean’s family kept moving due to his father work nature. It’s a sad and frustrated event for Sean’s family when years and years’ worth of memories disappear just like that. Based on his mom’s habit of organizing the family photo chronologically; so that she can see every family member’s changes over the years, he came up with the timeline concept.
Michael Liew is a busy father of two that constantly fly around the globe due to his work nature. So, as a father, Michael understand how it feels like to miss out most of the important milestone when his child is growing up; losing count on how many time he have to celebrate his child’s birthday on Skype. With the ideology of parents should never miss out every single moments with their kids, the three concepts merged together and it evolves into the First Smile that we all see today. A baby scrapbook app that removes most social features offered by popular social networking sites nowadays to bring back privacy to parents, only sharing the memories to people that matters.
