2. Scholaroo
Scholaroo founder Ben Kaplan (ben@learndipity.com)
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.
Looking for investment of: USD $2,000,000
Company status: Working prototype. Closed beta launch June 1, 2012. Full launch
on August 15, 2012.
Contact: ben@learndipity.com
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.
Looking for investment of: USD $200,000
Company status: App launches in April 2012
Contact: mscapini@bnapkin.com
tripku
Don’t stay home because you can’t find travel buddies.
tripku is an application for social networks that
aggregates like-minded travelers to form groups and
travel together. We’re focused on adventure travelers
and wannabe adventurers because one may go to Paris by himself, but one can’t
climb the Aconcagua alone.
Looking for investment of: USD $250,000
Company status: First public version live since March 3rd 2012, first sales closed
on the first week of April 2012. Currently working on the product-market fit.
Contact: beatriz@tripku.com
3. 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.
Looking for investment of: USD $300,000
Company status: Developing core technology, building web and mobile apps.
Contact: juan@comenta.tv
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.
Looking for investment of: USD $500,000 angel investment
Company status: Launching alpha to 245 developers
Contact: ian@strongsteam.com
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.
Looking for investment of: USD $250,000
Company status: Alpha site launched in Portugal. Very positive response.
Starting operations in Chile, and will launch new platform in Chile and Portugal.
Contact: info@uniplaces.com
4. 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. Our long term goal is to
provide a suite of tools that help businesses do their
PR better and easier, using technology, so they can
focus on their core tasks.
Looking for investment of: USD $200,000
Company status: Closed beta live since May 15th 2012. Acquired initial paying
users and gathering metrics. Going into open beta mid June 2012.
Contact: mkjain@presstler.com
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.
Looking for investment of: USD $2,000,000
Company status: 1st public version launched, getting users feedback and
measuring engagement.
Contact: roberto@thesocialradio.com
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.
Looking for investment of: USD $400,000
Company status: Fast progression, launching a product with BBVA in early May.
Contact: pabloambram@gmail.com
5. 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.
Looking for investment of: USD $150,000
Company status: Development/acquiring customers
Contact: jose@nibuwifi.com
Jogabo
Jogabo is a community platform for soccer players to
organise, share and discover unique games in their city
— online or from a smartphone. It allows field owners
to engage with their community and promote field
openings while providing new ways for soccer
organizations and brands to interact with their customers.
Looking for investment of: USD $250,000
Company status: Launched, with an active community worldwide and key
partnerships
Contact: jeremy@jogabo.com
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.
Looking for investment of: USD $500,000
Company status: Product Development/Beta Testing
Contact: manusharma@nuovowind.com
6. 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.
Looking for investment of: USD $600,000
Company status: Launched, prototype ready with customers, minor software
development needed
Contact: salamon.david@gmail.com
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.
Looking for investment of: USD $250,000
Company status: Under development, open for private beta.
Contact: matt@catmoji.com
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.
Looking for investment of: Strategic investor
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: arik.meyer@gmail.com
7. 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”.
Looking for investment of: USD $100,000 in experienced, well-connected Angel
Investor to generate first MVP.
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 funding
Contact: daniel@qubity.com
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!
Looking for investment of: USD $1.000.000 for 18%-20% equity.
Company status: In private beta, launching public in May, with 20 customers in 3
months.
Contact: prateek@supportbee.com
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.
Looking for investment of: USD $1.500.000
Company status: In beta
Contact: ramiro@mibuzz.tv
8. Regalii
Regalii seeks to unlock millions of dollars in support
for families in Latin America. It replaces traditional
remittances with gift cards via SMS for the same
supermarkets and stores where families shop with
cash.
Looking for investment of: USD $250,000-$500,000
Company status: Launching this summer
Contact: edrizio@regalii.com
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.
Looking for investment of: $300,000 common equity, 10% equity stake, $2.7m
pre, $3m post
Company status: Launched, with customers and reservation, expanding.
Contact: adam.link@bookbottles.com
Fantaxico
Fantaxico revamps taxi fleets in one day, growing
their current business and making them part of a
bigger virtual fleet for smartphone users.
Looking for investment of: USD $300,000
Company status: Selling
Contact: federico@fantaxico.cl
9. 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.
Looking for investment of: USD $500,000
Company status: Generating revenue from apps and growing a lot. Huge traction
expected in a couple of months from mobile/social games (Tapjoy marketing
channels). Innovative Solutions under development!
Contact: erisvaldo@yupistudios.com
StreetInvestor
StreetInvestor is a website that offers tools,
content and information for individual investors in
a community environment. Already an important player in Brazil (local
name: Bússola do Investidor), with nearly 50.000 users, 1.200 paying, we are
expanding operations to other Latin American countries: Chile, Colombia, Peru,
Argentina and Mexico.
Looking for investment of: USD $250,000-$500,000
Company status: Launched and operating. In construction in Latin America
Contact: tom@streetinvestor.com
Vulevú
Daily newsletters for women e-shoppers & food lovers
that help them discover secret places, yummies ideas
and little luxuries in the big cities of Latin America.
Looking for investment of: USD $500,000
Company status: Launched
Contact: annesophiedutat@gmail.com
10. ESCAPESwithYOU
ESCAPESwithYOU.com is a Social E-Commerce
platform that features happy lifetime experiences at
incredible destinations around the world. We solve the problem that online
travelers face many deals, poorly specialized and not personalized. We use a
smart system that is able to understand and recognize your preferences from
your favorite social networks to recommend the perfect experience for you.
Looking for investment of: USD $250,000 in Angel Investment
Company status: Beta Product Ready - Currently 981 subscribers. Selected to
participate on Fi2012.cl (investment Found), Invited to Participate on Geeks on a
Plane 2012, winners of Campus Party Ecuador 2011.
Contact: info@escapeswithyou.com
Trudev
Trudev is a team of MIT and Harvard graduates who
have developed a portable and user-friendly water
test kit. Trudev sells to organizations with existing
distribution channels in developing countries,
including international agencies, NGOs and university
groups. This spring, Trudev released a beta kit and has
customers on three continents.
Looking for investment of: USD $200,000 Angel funding
Company status: Launched, products for general sale.
Contact: sam@trudev.co
Fanwards
Fanwards turns likes,comments,tweets and checkins into
loyalty currency and enables Fans to get the rewards they
deserve from their favorite brands.
With multi platform support (Web,IOS,Android and
Blackberry), Fanwards helps brands to identify and target
their Brand Ambassadors and Community Influencers.
Looking for investment of: USD $350,000
Company status: Public Version Launched, testing market fit to scale.
Contact: tom@fanwards.com
11. 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.
Looking for investment of: USD $250,000
Company status: Soft-launch sales (April 2012), International brand launch in
June-July 2012.
Contact: jasmine@madebyvoz.com
Kidbox
Kidbox’s founders have the mission to keep
children safe on the Internet. Kidbox is an application
that creates a secure playground where the best
Internet sites, videos, and games are offered to each kid in a personalized way
according to his profile and preferences.
Looking for investment of: USD $500,000
Company status: Free Spanish version launched in December 2011, Premium and
Portuguese version will be launched within a month.
Contact: alan@kidbox.net
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.
Looking for investment of: USD $500,000
Company status: Working hardware prototype and open APIs - currently on
Software Development Phase.
Contact: nicolas.martelanz@gmail.com
12. Decurate
Decurate is an online design site and e-commerce store.
We focus on small independent and emerging designers
throughout the world.
Looking for investment of: USD $350,000
Company status: Active and generating revenue
Contact: polo@decurate.com
