Mar
30
UXFlip wins cloud computing Best in Show Feedback Trail / News & Updates / Portfolio —
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by Peter Key
UXFlip won the Best in Show award for its presentation at the Phorum 2012 National Cloud Computing Conference on Wednesday.
The West Chester, Pa., company was one of 14 companies to present at the conference, which was put on by the Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies at World Cafe Live in University City. The companies presented during the conference’s “Demo Pit” segment and the “Best in Show” winner was selected by audience vote.
UXFlip is developing a platform that allows mobile-app developers to manage their apps’ user interfaces from the cloud. The company was part of DreamIt Ventures’ last Philadelphia class and the description of it on DreamIt’s website is more illuminating than the company’s own website.
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Dec
07
DreamIt Graduates 14 Startups in Philly, Including 5 Minority-Led Companies Cloudmine / ClrTouch / Dreamit News / ElectNext / Feedback Trail / Flirq / Grassroots Unwired / Kwelia / MetaLayer / News & Updates / Nopone / OneAway / Portfolio / SnipSnap / ThaTrunk —
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by Sarah Perez
On Wednesday, startup incubator DreamIt Ventures is graduating fourteen new companies from its Philly 2011 class. It’s the fourth program from DreamIt in Philadelphia, and the fifth graduating class for the accelerator overall. DreamIt expanded to New York this year, too). This year’s group is notable for featuring several minority-led startups thanks to a collaboration with Comcast Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of Comcast Corporation, as part of its Minority Entrepreneur Accelerator Program (MEAP).
MEAP is the first initiative from the $20 million fund created by Comcast as a part of the acquisition of NBC Universal. The fund will also be used to invest in other minority-led startups and initiatives outside of DreamIt in the future. With Comcast’s participation, DreamIt’s budget for this group was increased by $350,000.
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http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/06/dreamit-graduates-15-startups-in-philly-including-5-minority-led-companies/