Demo Day #4 rockstars!
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The document summarizes information about 16 startup companies presenting at a Demo Day event on March 21st, 2013. It provides details such as each company's product or service, funding needs, and contact information. The companies are working in various industries including e-commerce, energy drinks, freelance job matching, medical devices, education, and more.
Demo Day #4 rockstars!
- 1. THURSDAY MARCH 21th ENTREPRENEURS GUIDE DemoDay March 21th 2013 Partners: 2013 A単o de la Innovaci坦n
- 2. VIRALICA Viralica is a set of tools for E-commerce that helps stores boost their online sales. We convert those shoppers who wouldnt otherwise purchase into buyers and attract customers' friends by giving bene鍖ts & rewards in exchange for a tweet or a share on Facebook. Looking for investment: $USD 500.000, To be used in product improvement and further development of features, and especially in client acquisition. Contact: info@virali.ca Website: www.virali.ca SPRAYABLE ENERGY Sprayable Energy is a liquid you spray on your skin to get the energy you would from coffee or energy drinks. We aim to disrupt the $40bn energy products market with a patent-pending product that is safer, more effective, and more convenient than other caffeinated products. We are launching in April 2013 and are primary looking for PR opportunities & business development offers as a part of our demo day participation. Contact: Deven@SprayableEnergy.com Website: www.sprayableenergy.com
- 3. WORKSURFERS Worksurfers.com matches creative travelers with short-term projects at their travel destination. Its like Airbnb for short-term creative projects. We are developing a job site to help creative professionals who travel (designers, software developers, photographers, 鍖lm-makers etc.), extend their travel time, with the opportunity to work on short-term freelance projets at their travel destinations, in exchange for in-kind contribution. Looking for investment: $USD 200.000 Contact: contact@worksurfers.com Website: worksurfers.com PACE4LIFE Pace4Life is a Non Pro鍖t Organisation that addresses this by reusing previously loved pacemakers in the developing world for impoverished individuals. Looking for investment: $USD500, 000 Contact: lavan@pace4Life.org Website: www.pace4life.org
- 4. BACKYARD BRAINS Backyard Brains enables everyone to learn how the brain works! We make affordable experiment kits for students to learn hands-on about the electrical signals of brain cells. Now everyone can use tools used by real scientists. Join the NeuroRevolution! with schools already using our equipment all over the world. We are looking to raise USD 1.8 million dollars to expand our professional team (educators, scientists, engineers, and designers) to grow more in the domestic and international high school and university market over the next three years. To date, over the past three years, we have raised USD $650,000 from government and grant agencies. Contact: tim@backyardbrains.com Website: backyardbrains.com NUBELO Nubelo.com is the leading freelance marketplace of Latin America. Companies can hire independent freelancers and use online collaboration tools to manage remote teams and projects. Nubelo has presence in more than 10 countries, with 60,000 registered users and already 2.5 million dollars in posted projects. Looking for investment: $USD 1.5 million. Contact: nicolas.araujo@nubelo.com Website: www.nubelo.com
- 5. OROECO Oroeco.com is revolutionizing the global economy for sustainability with a one-stop platform that rewards you for aligning your personal values with your everyday life. Oroeco automatically tracks spending and investment data (via Mint.com), then adds environmental, societal and health impacts, incentivizing improvements with social games, prizes and real world deals. Looking for investment: $USD 500,000 angel round, convertible debt term sheet from WSGR. Contact: ian@oroeco.com Website: www.oroeco.com SCARP TECHNOLOGIES Scarp is applying the generic pharmaceutical business model to Class 2 and 3 medical devices with the objective of addressing the rising cost and barriers to quality healthcare. The initial product is a core biopsy needle with a $200M global. Looking for investment: $USD 500,000 to take southamerican livestock market. Contact: jonathan@scarptechnologies.com Website: www.scarptechnologies.com
- 6. THE CROWDSOURCED TESTING COMPANY The Crowdsourced Testing company operates a fully-automated crowdsourcing platform that connects web and software developers with a crowd of expert software testers available to test their interactive projects on short notice and at all hours of the day. Looking for investment: $USD 400,000 Contact: simon.papineau@crowdsourcedtesting.co Website: www.crowdsourcedtesting.co MELIUZ Meliuz is a website that helps e-consumers save money and assist online stores to increase sales and drive loyalty. We provide discount coupon codes and a cash reward (part of the shop expenses back) everytime our user shop at a affiliated store. Looking for investment: $USD 500,000 Contact: israel@meliuz.com.br Website: meliuz.com.br
- 7. POSTEDIN Is a social community of content providers. A dynamic marketplace for requesting quality content on demand: From blog posts to pictures; all inside an easy-to-manage platform, with powerful editor tools. Get posted in amazing sites. GET PAID TO DEVELOP NEW CONTENT! Series A por 10%: Looking for 5 investors for USD$30.000 each. Smart Money, should be able to contribute with contacts, support and strategy. Series B for 20%: The 5 investors from Series A have 鍖rst choice, they can invest USD$90.000 each. If none of them are interested, it can be sold to the market. Looking for investment: $USD $600.000 Contact: rodrigo@thebrandingbrothers.com aaron@thebrandingbrothers.com RAZIENT Razient tracks global disasters on a daily basis and maps to an enterprise supply chain. Companies can reduce downtime with the Razient application. Looking for investment: $USD 500,000 Contact: baha@razient.com Website: www.razient.com
- 8. DIABETO Diabeto is a non-intrusive hardware device which wirelessly transmits data from Glucometer into a smartphone for easy manageability of diabetes Looking for investment: $ 300,000 Contact: shreekant@diabe.to Website: www.diabe.to KHIPU khipu is a new way to collect and pay on Internet, using local bank accounts, without the need of special agreements with local banks. We have the potential of reaching more users, at a global scope, than PayPal, a company earning more than 4 billion dollars per year. Looking for investment: $USD 120.000 for 5% in shares, but well have more rounds coming soon. Contact: roberto.opazo@khipu.com Website: www.khipu.com
- 9. BENCHBANKING Benchbanking is an online lending marketplace with presence in Chile and Peru that lets users quote and get the right loan, from the right bank, in only one place. Looking for investment: $USD 490,000 Contact: matias@benchbanking.com Website: www.benchbanking.com CRANBERRY CHIC Cranberry Chic is a web and mobile fashion social network that helps women get inspired, 鍖nd clothes online, share their looks and get rewarded by the brands they love, with an holistic approach that helps and eases fashion consuming for their users. Looking for investment: $USD 1.5 million. Contact: luis@cranberrychic.com Website: www.cranberrychic.com
- 10. KID BUNCH Kid Bunch is a team of artist and parents, creating mobile adventures for kids. With more than 240,000 users, Apple has chosen our apps to show off their iPads in Apple retail stores. Kids enjoy them so much, that they use them 2:30 hours daily. We are not looking for funding at this moment, but we are aiming to get more exposure for our project and apps, specially before the launch of "Bean Bag Kids Go To The Moon", our new app. With this, we want to increase our traction, engagement and possibly 鍖nd new opportunities to develop apps for children as a third party. These efforts should establish Kid Bunch in a better position to look for investment from July 2013 onwards. Contact: mat@kidbunch.com Website: www.kidbunch.com FLOQQ Floqq is the biggest search engine for Spanish-speaking courses. We offer courses in the form of videos focused on maximizing the quality for a very low price for people who want to perfect or update any professional or personal ability online. Looking for investment: $USD 1 million. Contact: c@鍖o Website: www.鍖o
- 11. ECOSWARM EcoSwarm is the only purpose-built platform for the global Green Economy - a $3.3 trillion industry. Our SwarmEngine technology helps consumers discover their green interests; professionals with showcasing their skills & experience; organizations with marketing their products & services; and advertisers with connecting to a niche audience - all for a sustainable future. We are seeking $250,000 to sustain our development efforts and to expand our marketing team. With this seed investment, we will reach pro鍖tability and sufficient user traction to attract further funding for aggressive growth. Looking for investment: $USD 250,000 Contact: pranay@ecoswarm.com Website: www.ecoswarm.com AUTOFACT Autofact helps people to buy good used cars in South America. Connections established with many sources (institutions, auto importers, car dealers and workshops among others), allow Autofact to gather information of any plate requested. Any person can enter a plate number, wait 40 seconds and access the AUTOFACT REPORT. Looking for investment: $USD 500.000 (retail platform launch / one year operation / start developing platform in Peru and Colombia) Contact: cristobal@autofact.cl Website: www.autofact.cl
- 12. THE WRITING BEES Writing Bees is the market place of writers; we connect good quality writers, with businesses that are in need of branded content for the spanish speaking market. In WB we make freelance writers succeed, and businesses achieve their results through content. At the moment we are not looking for funding, but we are looking for strategic alliances with important players in Latin America communication industry, such as media conglomerates, media networks (TV), important newspapers, publishers and magazines. Contact: anatoral@writingbees.net Website: www.writingbees.net
- 13. THURSDAY MARCH 21th Partners: 2013 A単o de la Innovaci坦n