2009 DreamIt Portfolio Companies
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Site: Unavailable Contact: Blake Jennelle Email: info@anthillz.com
Anthillz is a business network that focuses on trusted relationships. By encouraging trusted colleagues to connect with each other, Anthillz produces a network that is more intimate and useful than the typical LinkedIn network. Trusted colleagues exchange written testimonials, building a profile for each individual that incorporates pithy quotes from the professional’s closest colleagues and providing a powerful marketing tool.
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Site: www.Beanstockd.com Contact: Angela Antony Email: angela@beanstockd.com
Beanstockd is a green media company that aims to engage the mainstream in the environmental movement. Beanstockd Media, an online news source, uses popular culture and current events as a vehicle to deliver environmental information to a demographic not normally exposed to it. Beanstockd Game, a web-based gaming application, incentivizes players to act upon the information gleaned from reading Beanstockd News, driving environmental action into everyday life using competition, social reward, material reward and entertainment as motivators.
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Site: www.ecquire.com (new name) Contact: Tal Raviv Email: tal@ecquire.com
Dropcard is an extremely useful networking tool that can be used from any phone. It acts as a virtual business card triggered by text message or iPhone interface. Register and create your profile including logos, photos and contact information as well as links to Twitter, LinkedIn, your blogs and company website. In addition, you can manage multiple profiles and view statistics on what happens with your card. To give someone your information, simply text their email address to 41411 or use the iPhone web application. Dropcard instantly forwards your information to the recipient (who does not have to be a Dropcard user), who can immediately save your information to the address book on their iPhone, Blackberry or Outlook. Plus, it is a great conversation starter!
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Site: www.interviewbest.com Contact: Eric Kramer Email: ekramer@interviewbest.com
InterviewBest provides a unique suite of tools to help candidates nail the interview and get the job. Each year, more than 56M interviews take place in the US, with only 54% of hires being the right candidate for the job. Offered through career placement centers, outplacement agencies, recruiters and job boards as well as through affiliate partnership programs, InterviewBest seeks to become the premier destination for job seekers on the internet. With InterviewBest, job seekers follow an onscreen wizard to create a professional, bound and printed presentation that helps the interviewee prepare and powerfully communicate their experience, personal characteristics and skills. After the interview, job seekers return to the website for assistance writing a powerful follow-up letter. Hiring managers are impressed by the professional preparation, motivation and proactive attitude, helping candidates land the job. |
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Site: www.phrazit.com Contact: Shankar Ramaswamy Email: shankar@phrazit.com
PhrazIt is a fun, new way to browse and share condensed opinions for any topic; combining the speed or numeric ratings and the substance of written reviews. Topic pages feature opinions in 30 characters or less (“phrases”) and are displayed in easy to absorb word clouds. Visitors can easily see what others think of movies, restaurants, people, products or services in a glance and add their own opinion by clicking on an existing phrase or quickly entering phrases of their own. |
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Site: www.scvngr.com Contact: Seth Priebatsch Email: seth@scvngr.com
SCVNGR is an interactive mobile gaming company with easy to use interface that lets anyone (with or without technology skills) develop, manage and deploy their own sophisticated interactive mobile game. Games are playable from any cell phone (no downloads required, any model, any carrier) and used for orientation activities, teambuilding, promotions and interactive tourism. SCVNGR mobile games bridge the gap between digital interactivity and real world interactions, leading teams of players from location to location, solving clues and riddles, implementing a novel game-play dynamic (SmartRoute) to determine user paths. Games are multi-player (teams sync phones together), interactive (with commands like |
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Site: www.sleep.fm Contact: Ryan Spahn Email: ryan@sleep.fm
Sleep.FM is a social alarm clock that provides a fun and personalized way to stay in touch with friends, loved ones and information. Each year, 43M people travel on business, 400,000 are enlisted in the US armed services overseas and 56M grandparents wake up alone—inviting opportunities to connect. Users simply set their wake up time and invite family, friends and services to upload loving, fun or informative messages. When the alarm triggers, messages are played directly on your browser-based device or cell phone. Don’t wait to hear messages from loved ones, reminders or that your flight has been delayed, wake up to it! |
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Site: www.snackfeed.com Contact: Jason Laan Email: jason@laan.com
SnackFeed is an online service that continually indexes video content to intelligently offer viewing options that are of interest to the user. The current online video market is extremely fragmented with more and more content being uploaded in more and more places every day. Trying to reach out, manage and organize this content has become frustrating. By combining a number of factors, SnackFeed creates a viewing profile for each user incorporating what you watch, who your friends are and what they are watching. Eventually users will be able to follow the video activities of friends—if they upload, blog or share videos, SnackFeed users will receive updates through their “feed,” leveraging the power of social networks and video viewing habits to deliver interesting video content to you. |
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Site: www.tapinko.com Contact: Peter Groverman Email: pgroverman@tapinko.com
TapInko is the online marketplace for offline ad space. There are millions of places for people to advertise offline—traditional options such as newspapers and billboards as well as non-traditional options like empty walls, vehicles and even bodies—but no easy way for buyers and sellers to place or solicit advertising. TapInko believes that offline advertising should be as easy as online advertising. From search-and-find to transaction completion, TapInko provides a simpler alternative to the traditional labor-intensive current process. For traditional outlets like newspapers, what used to take weeks, now takes minutes. For newer outlets, TapInko provides the first and only marketplace for buyers and sellers. In addition, TapInko also provides a comprehensive set of tools to manage the process; complete with file back-up, sales tracking and internal messaging. |
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Site: www.trendient.com Contact: Mechele Shoneman Email: mechele@trendient.com
Trendient provides automated promotion and sale intelligence tools for small- and mid-sized e-tailers, a group expected to generate over $80B in gross sales in 2008. The promotion planning and execution process is fragmented and manual, causing many to shy away from ongoing marketing and customer loyalty programs. Trendient removes this barrier by automating the entire promotional and segmentation process. No deep integration is required; and online merchants can be up and running in minutes. Trendient enables merchants to quickly increase overall gross sales by instantly profiling and segmenting customers to identify and act on trends in real time. By offering granular, highly customized promotions, e-tailers successfully convert prospects and extend the lifetime value of existing customers in an automated, efficient manner. |
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Site: www.vuzit.com Contact: Brent Matzelle Email: brent@vuzit.com
Vuzit is an online document viewer and web services platform to securely manage, distribute and view documents. With over 1,000 web sites signed up for the distribution platform and over 300,000 document requests monthly through a widget, Vuzit can run as a hosted internet service or as an enterprise intranet application. The platform supports all major web browsers and documents created in over 38 formats are displayed without requiring Adobe Flash or other bloated fat clients. An upgrade will be released shortly that will help organizations manage the life cycle of document distribution in order to meet strict access control, audit and compliance requirements. |
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