Our products ad functionality and design to already great products.
What is your solution?
We bring power users high quality accessories for tablets, smart phones and computers.
Target Market
consumers, power users
How will you make money?
Through sales
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Dylan Smith has 20 years of experience with computer hardware. In the early years, he was repairing and consulting for small businesses and soon pivoted into hardware design where power users products were the focus.
Founders Names
Dylan Smith
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We believe in a world where shipping feature-rich static sites is easy, site security is commonplace, and developers are allowed to focus on their craft rather than the cruft that gets in the way of execution.
What is your solution?
⋈ BowTie provides zero-configuration static hosting with baked in user management, policies, and payments to complete your next static application. Build better static sites, blogs, and web apps with private git repos, integrated user management, access control, and an admin interface. Ship multiple iterations without building services over and over.
Target Market
Businesses
How will you make money?
$6/mo with 2-week free trial
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Our founding team (James Kassemi, Scott Maloney, and Chad Person) has worked on several projects and startups in the past – spanning the gammut from fintech, media-tech, daily deals, education, and multiuser multitouch experiences. We came up with BowTie out of our own need. When we decided to start a company, the three of us couldn’t decide on a a single project to build. We had far too many ideas and too little time. Our CTO James suggested building a framework to help us launch and validate several of them more easily – without rebuilding the same services over and over. As we fleshed out that concept friends and colleagues were anxious to try our ‘internal tool’, so it quickly evolved into the BowTie MVP.
PopTalk aims to solve the world’s expensive communication and connectivity problem through a new and innovative way: By letting advertisers rent your lockscreen, you receive credits that you can use to call, text, and get online on your phone — for free. Although cellphones are getting cheaper and cheaper every day, for most of the world, the service is not. In many countries, people spend 10% of their income on mobile communications through the local carrier. Because of the high cost of mobile service, at any given point in time, 35% of the 4.2 billion pre-paid phones in the world don’t have service or credits left. PopTalk aims to change that by allowing anyone with a smartphone to stay connected and get online by simply renting out their lockscreen to our sponsors who then pick up the tab.
What is your solution?
Our mission is to help people around the world to stay connected and get online. By letting advertisers rent your lockscreen, you receive credits that you can use to call, text, and get online on your phone — for free. You can also use your credits to recharge your loved ones’ pre-paid phones. Although cellphones are getting cheaper and cheaper every day, for most of the world, the service is not. In many countries, people spend 10% of their income on mobile communications through the local carrier. Because of the high cost of mobile service, at any given point in time, 35% of the 4.2 billion pre-paid phones in the world don’t have service or credits left. PopTalk aims to change that by allowing anyone with a smartphone to stay connected and get online by simply renting out their lockscreen to our sponsors who then pick up the tab.
Target Market
Businesses
How will you make money?
Free – Rent your lockscreen to advertisers and earn credits to make free calls, texts and mobile data recharges
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
The app is the brainchild of former Google managers, UC Berkeley graduate Victor Santos and Harvard graduate Sara Choi, both technology entrepreneurs with immigrant families, as a solution to serve underserved communities.Victor Santos and Sara Choi started PopTalk because they personally experienced the struggle of staying connected with those they cared about. Victor is from Brazil, the country with the world’s highest telecom rates. Sara lived and worked in the most rural parts of the Dominican Republic, where long-distance calling was a luxury.
Victor Santos has over 6 years of experience in telecom and technology start-ups as an entrepreneur. Victor was born and raised in Brazil, the country with the highest telecom and mobile communication costs in the world. His personal struggles to afford communication with his family in different states while in Brazil always astonished him. When he moved to the US, he began working for a telecom start-up that used VoIP (voice over the internet) as a cost alternative to expensive carriers, and led and grew the Brazil business to over $2M/year. He founded his first company, Ciao Telecom, while still pursuing his B.S. at UC Berkeley Walter A. Haas School of Business. Ciao Telecom focused on providing companies with cloud telecom solutions with a cheaper service, and grew to an 8 digits / year business under Victor’s leadership. From there, Victor joined Google as a Marketing Manager on the AdWords product where he was responsible for managing a $60M budget and co-led a team with Sara.
Sara Choi began her first venture — an NGO — in Latin America when she was 17 and left Harvard College (she later went back to complete her degree in Biological Anthropology). In the course of founding an elementary school, Sara worked with some of the most impoverished people in Latin America and first realized mobile service was an expensive luxury for people who needed it most. Sara joined Google and became YouTube’s youngest ever Media Lead heading a team of digital marketers and ad specialists, launching YouTube’s first integrated media campaign: YouTube’s Comedy Week. Sara met Victor when they co-led an AdWords team and had the idea to use ads as a way to power free communication for the underserved and even unbanked in emerging markets, beginning with Latin America. Sara is passionate about using technology as a vehicle for positive change. She believes the best companies have social impact and can ultimately change the world for the better.
The world needs Stacktive to stay fit no matter where they are! With our pay as you go plan, you will no longer get caught paying for a gym membership you aren’t using!
What is your solution?
Stacktive offers users the ability find, purchase, and schedule classes at fitness studios in cities across the nation using our iOS and Android app! Stacktive is a pay as you go membership offering discounted day passes, so you only pay for the gym when you want to go! Our studio passes start at $5 a visit.Our service is popular with travelers, people new to fitness who want to find something they like, and even fitness enthusiasts looking for something new to add to their routine. We are in 100+ cities across the nation and will continue to add more studios in those cities!
The days of paying for an unused gym membership are over. Staying fit has never been more convenient with Stacktive!
Target Market
Consumers
How will you make money?
Pay as you go. Prices starting at $5 per class
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Evan Brady is the founder & CEO of Stacktive. Evan is a University of South Florida graduate and fitness enthusiast. While in college, Evan started and sold another startup, City Sleekers.Living in NYC, Evan was paying $300+ a month on three different gym memberships. Trying to split his time between the three, he soon realized he was not getting his money worth. After moving to St. Petersburg, FL to finish up college, he began Stacktive.
Every company should be able to benefit from mobile apps because they can bring them: – increased productivity – increased revenue – more engaged employees – less paperwork – savings on investments (into laptops, devices, developers) – and more…
Empower Your Employees with Your Own Mobile AppsEffortix allows companies to empower their employees with their own business mobile apps. They can showcase and sell products, access important information and news, collect data and orders and work more efficiently with their own smartphones and tablets.
Trends like BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) are becoming the new industry standard for incorporating mobile applications into businesses without investing in company owned smartphones, tablets and laptops. However, development of mobile applications is expensive and thus prevents many companies from enjoying benefits mobile applications can bring to them. Effortix presents an affordable and reliable solution to this problem.
Effortix is the only fully-featured app builder for business mobile applications which allows users to create and manage large mobile applications with multiple languages, currencies and taxes. Mobile apps created with Effortix work offline, without any 3rd party solutions, are secure, support phones and tablets, allow to control user access and much more…
With Effortix, it’s easy to create a mobile application in a few minutes, without a single line of code written and right inside your browser. It’s effortless to further grow the application, keep it up-to-date and test it on a real device before publishing the changes.
Since Effortix is a „Software as a Service“ solution with a free plan and affordable prices, companies can completely avoid any upfront investment in untested concepts, maintenance fees, never-ending development of new versions, support of new platforms, etc.
Effortix can be used for: – mobile product catalogs – mobile sales apps (mobile shops) – mobile product manuals – mobile wiki or knowledge base with rich documents – booking & ordering apps – educational apps for employees – apps for sharing important news – and much more…
Target Market
Businesses
How will you make money?
free Android version $79/mo for Android & iOS + forms $119/mo for Android & iOS + forms and sales features
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Effortix is operated by LWi s.r.o., a company with a decade of experience in the field of mobile app development. We’ve delivered more than a hundred mobile applications all around the world. We’ve built mobile applications communicating directly with ERP systems, mobile e-shops, client-server solutions and much more.LWi s.r.o. was founded by Václav Hodek, mobile industry veteran, who worked on tens of mobile applications and services.
I set out to make one place to find both homemade recipes, as well as dishes and drinks from restaurants. An app that every type of food blogger, food lover or person just trying to find a good burger joint nearby could use.
What is your solution?
Phoodie is a simple photo feed where you follow other phoodies (think Instagram). There are food friendly features to add and search for recipes (think Pinterest). You swipe to save anything you want to try (think Tinder). There’s also the ability to find restaurants (think Yelp). Every time you upload a photo, it gets tagged as either kitchen for food, or bar for drink. So if you see something you like, you swipe right, and it gets saved to your kitchen or bar!
Target Market
foodie, foodporn, foodpics
How will you make money?
through sales
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Brooklyn Earick spent 8 years traveling the world as a dj & music producer, anywhere from LA to NYC, to Ibiza and all over the Caribbean. He then left his music career behind and got an internship at NASA Ames, which is where he was first introduced to software engineering. He then left to take classes on both software engineering and design, and built the first beta version of Phoodie.
Founders Names
Brooklyn Earick
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Partners of snorers wake up grumpy and resentful – not a great way to be in a relationship or start your day.Most anti-snoring products use intrusive and uncomfortable masks, mouth or nose pieces. Many don’t even work. You know because you have probably tried them.
People snore for many reasons, yet the snoring noise is universally disturbing. So Silent Partner developed an original and comfortable solution that simply quiets the noise.
What is your solution?
Silent Partner’s pioneering approach quiets the snoring noise at its source creating a silent zone around the person wearing it, giving you and those around you a better night’s sleep. Silent Partner utilizes Active Noise Cancellation technology (ANC) which senses the snoring sound and emits a counter sound thereby canceling out the undesirable one. Simple, yet ingenious.
Target Market
consumers, spouse, singles, bachelors, men, boys
How will you make money?
through sales
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Netanel Eyal likes to help people by using technology in innovative ways. He has a B.Sc in applied physics and computer science. Netanel received an award for work in the field of Bio-Sensing. He also worked for Hewlett Packard in their prestigious post-graduate management program.
Founders Names
Netanel Eyal
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Do any of your earbuds fall out sometimes? Or worse, have you ever felt that the wires from your headphones were inconvenient?
What is your solution?
The Phazon earbuds are wireless, waterproof and have a snug fit. You can experienced any kind of sports and listen to your music and enjoying total freedom. On top of that, we built the world’s first one size fits all wireless earbuds (patent pending). Any kind of ears will fit from teenagers to seniors (500 people tested).
Target Market
consumers
How will you make money?
through sales
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Chris Houle The creative/business guy. He got the idea of the earbuds while he wanted to go workout with a wireless solution. He wasn’t satisfied with was on the market so he carved out the ultimate design, a one-size-fits-all earbud piece. He then gathered a motivated and a competent team to get the electronics done. He is responsible of the business development and marketing. He graduated in accounting and mastered in taxation. Christian is a CPA. He played pro football a few years agoFred Besner The head electronic guy. Frederic graduated in electrical engineering at the university of Montreal. He took a special interest in PCB design and bluetooth protocol. One of his project was to shoot a rocket 50 000 feet in the air with an hybrid engine. He actually implemented a bluetooth protocol for the launching sequence.
