View our 2008 Portfolio Companies
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Site: www.jobaphiles.com Contact: Thai Nguyen Email: thai.nguyen@jobaphiles.com
Jobaphiles.com is an online marketplace where employers can auction their part-time jobs and one-time gigs. Through a transparent bidding process, Jobaphiles enables employers to hire the most qualified and competitively priced applicant saving them time and money. In addition, jobseekers effectively compete for a job by having knowledge of other candidates’ qualifications and bidding price, and employers are able to hire the most qualified person that fits their budget.
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Site: www.kidzillions.com Contact: Kendra Gaeta Email: kendra@kidzillions.com
Kidzillions is an online allowance and chore management system that lets kids spend and save online. Unlike other online allowance systems, Kidzillions combines the benefit of budgeting, saving and responsible spending, helping kids learn essential lessons about personal finance and accountability in a cashless society. Kids love it because they're able to work for real money to buy real stuff easily, and parents love it because their kids are excited to save and, in a lot of cases, do extra chores around the house. We love it because it's a scalable model in a very large market.
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Site: www.notehall.com Contact: Sean Conway Email: sean@notehall.com
Notehall is an online marketplace that allows college students to buy and sell lecture notes and study guide materials to fellow classmates helping them get an edge in their specific classes and best prepare for exams.
Notehall is currently active and generating revenue at University of Arizona, Arizona State, and University of Kansas and has 13,000+ active users and 5,500+ documents available for sale. In Notehall’s marketplace, college students have earned over $13,000 from selling their class notes and study guides. While at Dreamit, Notehall has successfully launched an automated recruiting campaign at Drexel University and is planning to rollout its service to more universities beginning of Fall 2009.
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Site: www.ou.rshelf.com Contact: Paul DeGrandis Email: paul@rshelf.com
OurShelf is a social cataloging site that generates personalization information, enabling users to lend, manage their belongings and find the items they need faster and cheaper. Users save money from borrowing short-use items from friends and make money from selling their unused items to multiple third-party sites, like ebay and craigslist. OurShelf provides users with a digital shelf. Users can catalog their belongings through an import functionality or OurShelf's search engine. A populated shelf empowers users by creating a highly personalized shopping and item management experience. OurShelf achieves this by laying an item graph (complete with related items and reviews) over a social graph. It’s like del.icio.us, except for the physical goods users own. Since its public beta launch OurShelf has 400+ Users, 2500+ items cataloged, and 3000+ items shelved and have write-ups on websites such as KillerStartups, AppScout, and Thrillist. |
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Site: www.parse.ly Contact: Sachin Kamdar Email: sachin@cogtree.com
At Parse.ly they know the amount of information that flows into your inbox daily is overwhelming. For news-tracking professionals and resource-strapped small businesses, this information overload costs precious time and money. Parse.ly is a tool that understands users unique interests to filter and prioritize content from thousands of news and blog sources across the web. Parse.ly always shows user the content most relevant to their interests first, so they will spend less time on low-value items. Parse.ly also seamlessly learns users interests, and recommends increasingly relevant content over time. Moreover, Parse.ly is designed to provide users with the most productive reading experience through its rich, web-based interface. Small businesses and news tracking professionals finally have a better tool than Google Alerts.
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Site: www.postling.com Contact: Dave Lifson Email: dave@waffl.com
Postling is a tool that helps small businesses face the daunting task of social media marketing. Brought to you by the founders of Etsy.com, Postling lets users publish content simultaneously to the major social media platforms, including blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. In addition, users can read and respond to comments left by readers. Small business owners told the Postling team that they would be willing to pay for a social media marketing tool that saves them time and spares them from learning how to navigate yet another website. They listened and created Postling. |
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Site: www.seatgeek.com Contact: Jack Groetzinger Email: jackgretz@gmail.com
SeatGeek is a web application that forecasts sports and concert ticket prices on the secondary market, analogous to what Farecast (now Bing Travel) does for the airline ticket market. For ticket buyers, this application helps them determine whether they should buy a ticket now or wait until the price drops. For sellers, it helps them identify the optimal time to sell their tickets increasing their profits margins. SeatGeek’s crawlers have compiled millions of ticket transactions and have also aggregated other factors that influence ticket prices. SeatGeek's patent-pending technology uses this data in an algorithm that accurately predicts ticket prices. SeatGeek currently offers a free version for ticket buyers that they monetize through affiliate fees. In October they are launching a premium subscription service for brokers and other ticket sellers. |
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Site: www.straightupenglish.com Contact: SiNae Pitts Email: sinae@straightupenglish.com
Straight Up English is an innovative English language learning software-as-a-service company. Straight Up English solves the most persistent speech challenges for non-native speakers of English, helping them improve comprehension and production in areas such as word stress, intonation, and pronunciation. Straight UP English applies linguistic and education research-based methodologies, enables advanced pitch line technology for feedback and self-correction, and has a consumer-oriented, intuitive interface. Straight Up English market advantage is its deep focus on oral communication skills unique to English and its multi-modal approach. Straight Up English is creating web and mobile applications, as well as English as a second language learner and teacher communities to build brand awareness and marketing channels for its products. Straight Up is where learners of English want to go! |
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Site: www.fangamb.com
Contact: Justin Goldman Email: Justin@threescreengames.com
Three Screen Games is producing social games for the convergence of all three screens (pc-mobile-tv). Their first game, released this August, will be FanGamb, short for Fantasy Gambling. FanGamb is a new online game for sports fans that creates a competition between friends to see who the best sports bettor is. FanGamb is designed to cure the pain points of traditional fantasy sports thus creating a game that’s more fun and keeps players more engaged in the game. While all sports fans can enjoy the game, the marketing plan is focused on reaching male sports fans, ages 16 to 25. Three Screen Games is in the final process of closing a six figure seed capital raise from friends and family. |
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Site: www.trendsta.com Contact: Becki Heller Email: becki@trendsta.com
Trendsta is a marketing platform that puts products in the hands of the most influential teens on the web. Trendsta tracks those teens as they creates buzz about those items. Trendsta’s customer base include clients such as Atlantic Records, Penguin Books, Neutrogena and Polaroid to create conversations about their products on all the social networks teens use. Trendsta works with the most connected teens who have been written up everywhere from Teen Vogue to the New York Times. Trendsta's partners helped build myYearbook, Owned (a top 10 Facebook app) and several lead-generation websites. Now they are solving the problem of how marketers can connect with a generation that can no longer be reached through traditional advertising channels. |
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