Suresh Gopalan,
Founder/ President ReSurfX, LLC
[email protected]
www.resurfx.com
ReSurfX, LLC is leveraging on proprietary computational algorithm based enabling technology for effective decision making. ReSurfX IP achieves this by reducing errors in computational and statistical analyses of large complex datasets in part through a newly discovered property of datasets. The converse application enables strategic design of technologies with end point decision making as a criterion and adds significant value and market advantage to products by increasing confidence in the output.
ReSurfX intends to focus initially on Life Science applications including high volume experimental programs such as drug discovery, measurement technology designs in Life Science, and in enabling better decision making to reduce the explosion in patient care costs. The Life Science landscape in this arena is undergoing major changes due to the introduction of a number of large scale measurement technologies and extremely large volume of data that is expected to continue for a long time.
Other applications of this enabling technology include large scale manufacturing and QC workflows, hidden workflows in IT, Finance etc. Potential clients include major pharmaceutical companies, business workflows, software developers, universities, major energy exploration and manufacturing companies utilizing large-scale data sets.
ReSurfX, LLC is seeking investment to exploit the full potential of this patented technology. We are also seeking partners and personnel (Executive, Technical and Consulting). ReSurfX will pursue multiple revenues streams via out-licensing, partnering, algorithm enhancements and consulting services to support licenses in the short term and through in-house ReSurfX enabled product development for longer term growth.
Ariel Assaf,
Founder & CEO
User Optimized
[email protected]
The odd state of the web today is one where ads are customized and targeted
to a user to an extraordinary degree yet the rest of the page is blandly a
one size fits all.
It doesn’t make any sense, but my mother and I see different ads on
CNN.com (a good thing) but otherwise have an identical experience, despite
the fact that she likes reading about politics, and I like reading about sports,
she likes pink and I like blue, I am social on the web, she is not etc.
The reason is Ad networks are the ones who invested in the intelligence to understand users. User Optimized will let every website serve up content and experiences with the same intelligence that ads get served. In fact, it will do it more intelligently because will integrate with the site’s local analytics. We will let marketers do what they want to do: customize their message to their audience.
What user optimized will do is let every website serve up content and experiences with the same intelligence that ads get served. In fact, it will do it more intelligently because of a closer relationship with the visitor. We will let marketers do what they want to do: customize their message to their audience.
The team behind our game changing process includes MIT mathematicians and Economists and Harvard Econometricians and Sociologists.
Parag Patil -
CEO
Rewgen Energy
Ph: 920-883-7966
Rewgen, a Start-up Retail energy service provider will strive to be the lowest cost provider of power to PHEV owners, by providing time of the day charging facility at their homes. Rewgen will lease out fast chargers for both Retail (cars) and industrial applications (Airport tugs, Forklifts, etc). Rewgen will also lease out AMI / AMR (automated meter reading) infrastructure to capture the time of day and bill accordingly.
The business model is similar to telecom service providers with peak and off peak / roaming charges.
Rewgen will operate in the New England area, with office near Boston.
Rewgen is working out with CCFE on the issuance of carbon credits to PHEV owners. Rewgen will act as an Aggregator, registered with Chicago climate Exchange. A gasoline car emits on an average 1 pound of carbon per mile .A hybrid emits 0.5 pounds of carbon. A 20 mile PHEV will have a 20 pound worth of credit.
Rewgen is being incorporated as a MA based C Corporation and we have applied for the Retail Energy Supplier License from Dept of Public Utilities.
We are also following up with the state level grants / low interest loans as well as federal level grants and low interest loans for as a part of energy efficiency application, transport electrification application and smart grid application.
Rewgen energy has $250K
of founder’s capital and we are looking out for Capital, Partners and
ideas / inputs.
Paul Cruickshank
Seeding Labs
[email protected]
www.seedinglabs.org
Seeding Labs, a Cambridge
based nonprofit, supports scientific research in developing countries by providing
affordable reclaimed laboratory equipment and facilitating connections in
the global scientific research community. Scientists in the global South often
lack the material resources to pursue their own research, teach students,
or treat locally endemic diseases. We reclaim surplus equipment and consumables
in public and private research institutions in the US to ship to these budding
communities.
Providing scientists with lab equipment can change the scale and sophistication
of projects they can pursue. By reducing the cost of obtaining equipment,
we give them the opportunity to use limited budgets to cover other research
costs including chemicals and trainee support.
Over the past seven years we have sent nearly $400,000 worth of equipment to 22 groups of scientists working in 13 countries in Latin America and Africa.
This winter we will be shipping $500,000 worth of equipment to train scientists at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya.
The recipients who have
responded to our surveys report that they are now training over 250 students
and research assistants. Since receiving equipment from us, they have increased
their budgets by an average of 216%, collectively published over 60 articles
in national and international journals.
Companies that provide surplus equipment to Seeding Labs reduce excess inventory
and the disposal costs of specialized instruments. They also promote sustainable
practices and connect with communities of emerging scientists abroad.
We are looking for capital investments to support specific shipping projects
and general operations costs for the 2010 calendar year.
AgiLynx, Inc.
David L. Garcia
603-791-4694
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.agilynx.com
David Garcia, Co-Founder and Vice President of Business Development
AgiLynx is a 4 year old start-up with three founders, all with extensive technical management experience in developing electronics for the aerospace industry.
AgiLynx designs and develops Avionics (commonly called “black boxes”) for the Aerospace market.
Our target customers are retrofitters of large aircraft who modify or improve existing aircraft fleets. The high cost of purchasing new large aircraft maintains the value of >10,000 existing large aircraft, and their aging drives improvement programs.
Our launch product is a MIL-STD-1553 to ARINC 429 Protocol Converter. The product has gone through the entire design and development process and has been sold to 5 different aerospace customers to date.
Our Product Advantage is having a “Off-the-Shelf” Avionics that provide complex conversion functions yet are quickly customizable for customer applications. The product therefore sharply reduces engineering costs and lead-times.
Revenue to date is about 450K. Business expenses and development costs have been funded by revenues, loans from the principals, and a good amount of sweat equity from the principals.
We are seeking capital, partners, engineering team members, and advice on business expansion.
VentureOnLine
Amnon Aliphas
[email protected]
www.ventureonline.com
Locating, contacting, scrutinizing, reviewing, analyzing and presenting new ventures is a painful and time intensive process requiring numerous hours of interaction between entrepreneurs and investors. The time is ripe for the entry of a new highly efficient and low-cost service to provide quick reliable pairing of entrepreneur and funding source.
VentureOnLine is the gateway for the high-tech entrepreneurial community bringing together all the elements of the entrepreneurial ecosystem serving the needs of Entrepreneurs, Investors, Technology and Business Experts, Project Managers and Institutions of higher education.
VentureOnLine has an expert network with over 300 experts in many areas of technology. These experts are available to review and filter business opportunities before presenting them to our funding sources.
The founder of VentureOnLine is dedicated to make the company a successful and profitable entity. Amnon Aliphas, CEO, brings a unique relationship with the high-tech community. Dr. Aliphas founded TechOnLine in 1993. Acquired by United Business Media in 2005, it is today the largest online resource for the electronic community. He also founded DSP World, the leading Signal Processing tradeshow that was acquired by Miller Freeman in 1995. Presently, Dr. Aliphas is leading the efforts to set up an investment fund in developing countries.
VentureOnLine is being branded as the leading independent exclusive provider of funding access to the high-tech community. VentureOnLine is building a branding position in this market by making aggressive use of both email and print advertising. These frequent presentations encourage entrepreneurs to submit their business plans to the VentureOnLine website.
VentureOnLine dedicates sales personnel to establish working relationships with the Venture Capital and Angel communities. Using our extensive network we obtain data from these funding sources and profile them so as to allow us to link them with the most compatible and suitable investment opportunities.
ProCaseo, Inc.
Bob Strong, President
508-612-3363
[email protected]
Sutton, MA
ProCaseo has developed a health information exchange solution. Our initial market is the transfer of information between hospitals and post-acute providers such as nursing homes, supporting the movement of patients out of the hospital quickly and to the best available source of ongoing care. Delayed discharges, readmissions due to bad placements and high patient acquisition costs to receiving providers cost us at least $6B a year.
CaseExchange is a subscription service, delivered via the web, providing extremely high security and complete control over medical record release. Our referral-driven security model is unique. The architecture which supports this model positions us to extend the service to physician-to-specialist referrals and to regional health information exchanges with full patient control over record visibility.
Our community infrastructure
view of the problem gives us several advantages over existing competitors.
We provide nearly immediate return on investment, provide ancillary services
such as data reporting to support payer and regulator mandates on our customers
and provide support for internal process improvement initiatives of our customers.
Our sales and marketing model leverages existing relationships between our
prospective customers.
The current team of four has collectively more than 70 years in the software
business, more than 30 years in healthcare applications, and executive experience
in seed and growth stage private enterprises, and in public companies.
We are seeking investment of $500,000 to $1,500,000 to launch the service, provide service to early customers, and hire sales and customer care staff.
Contact: Bob Strong, President
508-612-3363
www.ProCaseo.com
Kathleen McMillan,
gRadiant Research
[email protected]
I’m Kathleen McMillan,
Founder and President of gRadiant Research in Concord, Mass. I am a medical
laser researcher - most recently, I was VP of Research at Candela Corporation.
I was in charge of research at Candela where my team’s innovations put
the company at the front of the aesthetic laser space. Before that I was the
Director of Otolaryngology Research Center at Tufts-NEMC. I started gRadiant
to exploit a significant new medical opportunity.
gRadiant is a medical device company that solves a critical need in a very
common procedure: tonsillectomy. About 1 million tonsillectomies are performed
in the US each year in both adults and children. These surgeries involve excising
tonsils, and have drawbacks. First, a percentage of patients have postoperative
bleeding that is potentially life-threatening. Second, the recovery is painful
- one prominent surgeon has described tonsillectomy as having a “100
percent misery index.” Third, tonsillectomy must be performed in an
OR with general anesthesia, driving up the costs.
The solution gRadiant provides is Nuanced Heating™: a proprietary, gentle,
carefully-engineered application of light to the tonsils. gRadiant is developing
a series of devices with Nuanced Heating technology, and will make money through
direct and partner sales channels. With our products, tonsillectomy will be
replaced by a procedure that for many patients can be performed in a clinic
under local anesthesia. No cutting is involved so patients will have essentially
no pain and the risk of bleeding is eliminated. And hospitals and clinics
will generate new revenue in a manner modeled after Intuitive Surgical: by
appealing to patients about gRadiant’s safe, pain-free, outpatient tonsillectomy.
gRadiant has closed a first seed financing round and is developing and testing
pre-clinical prototypes at two thought-leading research hospitals and a university.
We are seeking additional financing for clinical trials.
Abby McQuade,
Scholar’s Pen
[email protected]
Scholar’s Pen is an online tool that uses “cloud” computing to provide students with profiles to use, class to class, across their academic careers and beyond. It lets professors easily update online course materials and interact with their students, in real time and asynchronously, while students are enrolled and after graduation. It enables publishers to recapture lost revenues and re-bundle materials while receiving immediate customer feedback.
We are a third party provider for publishers, offering a portal for distribution of supplemental materials to professors and students, enabling the recapture of lost revenue via the creation of “integrated textbooks.”
The Scholar’s Pen prototype has been used by select classes in Boston University’s International Relations Department for three semesters. Additionally, Scholar’s Pen provided the platform for the 2009 Boston University Conference on East Asia and is in use (as a platform for ESL learning) at a number of schools in Tokyo, Japan.
The Scholar’s Pen team has extensive knowledge of the academic marketplace and the technology required to solve its most pressing problems. Our academic advisor has taught social science classes at three major universities and has used most of our competitors’ products. Our CEO has expertise in IT administration and award-winning sales; our chief technology officer has twenty years of experience in software and web development and is one of the most sought-after engineers in Southern New England.
The Scholar’s Pen team is seeking investors to finance full-scale database development and marketing for the 2010/2011 school year.
Michael Durwin, Founder gathr.me
Contact: [email protected] 617-840-2618
Whether shopping online, using email, instant messenger, blogs, or social networks, the greatest form of communication, productivity, and data management is online. Users are overloaded with options, juggling multiple email and social network accounts as well as bill payment, utilities, and commerce. With 1.6 billion people online, multiple Internet-ready devices, and over 250,000 social networks alone expected by the end of 2009, there are a lot of people using a lot of devices, trying to manage their profiles, passwords, and accounts.
Gathr.Me is the digital portal to manage that online presence. Gathr.Me is designed to allow users to bring together all of their email accounts, social networks, instant message services, RSS feeds, profiles, personal media, friends, and passwords into one easy to manage space. Users are offered a macro view of their entire web presence upon login and an elegant and easy to use dashboard that follows them to all of their personal sites, on any Internet-ready device, giving easy access to all of their online presence. It allows users to offer a public facing list of any or all of their profiles and to upload their pictures, videos, blogs and files to one location, and with a simple click distribute them to multiple web sites.
Gathr.Me is as effective as a personal management tool as it is as a business-marketing tool. It allows brand managers, pr execs and agencies to inflate, manage, and measure their clients’ online presence easily and efficiently. We are currently seeking $1 million in funding.
Josh Brand Founder of Freemont Learning
Contact: [email protected] , 617-283-5170
Freemont Learning provides
high-impact, client-driven and flexible Executive Education services to corporations,
associations and organizations around the globe. Freemont Learning offers
our clients an objective, seasoned and expert partner in the design, development
and delivery of in-company management development programs and an unparalleled
network of elite, proven Executive Education faculty, case writers, instructional
designers, program managers and learning facilities.
FREEMONT LEARNING IS YOUR SOURCE FOR WORLD CLASS FACULTY AND PROVIDERS
Through the Freemont Learning Network, we offer our clients and partners unprecedented direct access to hundreds of world class Executive Education faculty, organizational development consultants, case writers, program managers and instructional designers, and even the right facilities to conduct programs. For our clients who choose to design and develop their own programs, we can help you hire exactly the right faculty and other providers. We are objective and not tied to any particular university or organization. Our focus is finding the providers that best fit your organization and your needs.
ADDITIONALLY, WE DELIVER MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS IN TWO KEY AREAS:
Tailored Programs for Emerging Leaders: For new managers, high potentials, and others preparing to take on larger roles, we provide in-company programs that provide a strong foundation in the four areas critical to manager success: Strategic Alignment, Business Acumen, Operational Excellence, and Personal Leadership.
Custom Solutions to solve real business challenges: We rapidly design and deploy in-company education programs to solve business issues, seize new business opportunities and develop increased capabilities for managers and employees.
We are seeking a first round of capital, new clients, elite faculty, and one additional Advisory Board member who has experience in building a social networking or corporate training business.
Alert Sentry -
Glenn R. Maxwell, President
877-253-7899 / [email protected]
Alert Sentry was founded 6 years ago utilizing a distinctive marketing strategy to capitalize on a growing market by applying technology to help people live independently at home.
Alert Sentry is a provider of Medical Alarms, the “help I’ve fallen and I can’t get up technology”. This service allows people to “age in place”. The technology Alert Sentry provides consists of wireless pendants and buttons around the home that transmit to a main console integrated with a digital communicator that notifies our call center.
Our business model is unique in the industry in that we have created an exclusive nationwide dealer network comprised of DME, Pharmacies and home healthcare providers creating a virtual sales force. This model is similar to the one that I successfully implemented while working for DSC/DeltaVision, a Tyco owned company.
Alert Sentry’s market is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population that is now being driven by the baby boomer population which is just reaching senior citizen status. IMS Research, USA recently forecasted in 2008 that the North American market for PERS will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 11.6% through 2012.
Alert Sentry currently has over 1100 subscribers generating recurring revenue automatically via credit card or bank draft and expects this number to top 2500 in 1Q2010.
We are looking for $750K to expand our distribution network from 250 to 1000, revamp our website integrating a customer-to-call center portal while increasing internet sales, and hire several support people to drive this process.
Ellen Glew, CEO
Period Inspired Design
www.periodinspireddesign.com
demo www.artsandcraftsinspireddesign.com/index_test.html
Cell 978-852-0811; [email protected]
Period Inspired Design is a Boston start up with six interconnected Web sites offering hyper-targeted coverage of the historical home design market. Its three founders have 50+ years experience in the vertical. Its entrepreneurial CEO successfully launched and grew a pivotal trade show in the historical niche.
Expenditures on home renovation products are enormous - $415 billion in 2008. The main driver of purchases has until now been magazine and newspaper advertising ($4.29 billion in 2008). But print media are now under siege by the perfect storm of a housing downturn, high production costs, and plummeting revenue as ad dollars shift to online. Many newspapers and magazines have stopped printing, others are on the brink of shuttering, leaving a void and also creating an opportunity.
This market’s enormity and segmentation present challenges. It is fragmented by geography, aesthetic, historical style preferences, and an overwhelming number of products and smaller suppliers. Buyers have difficulty finding the right product or service; many suppliers lack the budgets to make their brands known.
Our company capitalizes on the market’s fragmentation by meeting it “head on” with five style-specific sites. Education (articles and content), vertical search, local search and social networking enable buyers, suppliers, service providers and retailers to connect easily and do business. Our breakthrough CPA-revenue model and syndication network enable rapid market penetration and scaling of the business.
We are seeking $1 million
in funding to build the technology platform and market aggressively.
Kimberly Patch
Redstart systems
[email protected]
(617) 325-3966
I'm Kim Patch. I'm from Redstart Systems. We make speech interface software that works.
Our initial product, Utter Command, provides full computer control that's twice as fast as the keyboard and mouse. We can apply Utter Command to any human-machine interface.
I'd like you to join me in a four-stage opportunity.
There are 35 million people in the United States who have injuries or conditions that make it difficult or impossible to type, including disabled veterans and people with repetitive strain injuries. Penetrating 1% of this initial target market represents about $100 million in revenue.
Some of these 35 million are using speech recognition today, but they're frustrated.
Existing speech interface software requires more steps than the keyboard and mouse. Utter Command averages 1 speech step for every 2.3 keyboard and mouse steps.
Our initial beta and pre-sales customers are thrilled. So are organizations that recommend technology to get people back to work. There are testimonials on the Redstart Systems website.
The second opportunity is increasing computer productivity in the general computer market.
The third opportunity is Utter Command for smart phones. This is complementary to server-based speech applications.
The fourth opportunity is Utter Command for embedded systems, including cars, entertainment systems and appliances.
These opportunities are all protected by a patent portfolio that anticipates markets well beyond the existing product.
There's nothing like seeing the system in action. Go to www.redstartsystems.com, click on "videos", and take a look. Keep in mind this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Stas Antons
Jump to Green, Inc.
Contact: 617-663-5734,
[email protected]
Jump To Green, Inc. - Making “Green” Visible.
Jump To Green, Inc. is a developer of interactive labeling technology for eco-friendly products, corporations and government agencies. We focus on technologies that remove confusion from green industry and bring order to data that surrounds it.
During our market research Jump To Green discovered that many consumers want to purchase eco-friendly products, but have avoided doing so due to the technical jargon, lack of standards and unfamiliar descriptions found on the product's label.
On the other hand, companies want to tell customers and the public about greenness of their products as well as the greenness of the companies themselves. However, they face an uphill battle because only a few people bother to read multi-page fine print about a company and its green policies. As a result, their message is often distorted as it propagates through the supply chain.
Solution: Through JumpGauge™ interactive labeling technology, which has been applied to over 30,000 products, consumers can see what is green about a product, a service or a company. And corporations can show, at a glance, the greenness of their products, manufacturing process or company policy.
Technology: JumpGauge™ Processing System takes meta data about entities, such as products, corporate policies, or manufacturing processes and produces a set of interactive labels specific to each entity. These labels are then checked for accuracy and amended to display correct label and information. After this JumpGauge™ can be deployed into any online environment, from e-commerce platforms, to blogs and social networks.
Jump To Green, Inc. is looking for companies interested in promoting their green policies or products, governments interested in making their purchasing more eco-friendly, strategic partners, investors and re-sellers.
Monika Desai,
CEO
Eric Estabrooks, CTO
Sole Envie, Inc
Boston, MA
617-519-4445
[email protected]
http://www.soleenvie.com
Sole Envie is a Web 2.0 Fashion e-tailer that enables women to design and purchase their own custom- designed shoes and share them with a social shopping community of fashion enthusiasts. At Sole Envie, the customer is the designer. Using our interactive shoe configurator, customers can build their shoes in a few easy steps by choosing from an online palette of silhouettes, leathers, heels and accessories. The shoes are then made-to-order and delivered to the customer’s doorstep in 3 weeks. Sole Envie’s target market are fashion conscious, internet savvy women between the ages of 18 -44 who are looking to create personalized fashion that perfectly matches their lifestyle and needs and who want an online forum to share and be recognized for their designs.
Sole Envie will address the following pain points that women have when buying shoes: (1) can’t find the right style, color, size or heel, (2) want something unique. Sole Envie’s goal is to become the largest online marketplace for customized fashion. Starting with shoes, Sole Envie will expand its offering to include apparel and other accessories by leveraging its on-demand retail platform and creating partnerships with brands looking to offer customization.
Monika brings 13 years
of online/offline marketing and management experience and Eric brings 13 years
of experience developing product configuration software and web applications
and building and leading worldwide development teams. Sole Envie is currently
seeking a round of seed funding in order to build out the configurator and
social networking features of the site. Sole Envie is also looking for strategic
advisors and collaborations.
Vincent Cramer
Partner & Cofounder
OurSalesRep Inc.
[email protected]
781-729-9995
www.OurSalesRep.com
OurSalesRep Inc. is a
New England based company that was launched 18 months ago. The company was
founded by 2 veterans of the semiconductor industry with combined sales experience
of 75 years. The founders created an innovative sales paradigm called Virtual
Direct Sales to address the inherently critical shortcomings of the established
go-to-market sales methods, i.e. Direct Sales Force and/or Manufacturer Representatives.
Incumbent sales methods have severe limitations on the success of young technology
firms.
OurSalesRep built a network to connect proven sales professionals with suppliers.
Virtual Direct Sales force is the only bi-directional sales methodology, enabling
sales reps with knowledge of a customer opportunity to connect with a supplier
and provide the customer with the required product or service.
OSR provides:
Business Challenges:
We are looking for:
Our Mission
Fulfill the market demand for 187,000 sales representatives that will be required by 2014.
Jim Hall, President
Air2App Wireless Telemetry, Inc.
[email protected]
www.harboralert.com
www.air2app.com
781-254-4579
Air2App, located in Pembroke MA, has been in business for 9 years. In that
time we have developed a set of “end-to-end” products and services
for machine to machine, wireless communications.
We have applied that technology to HarborAlert, a monitoring system for boats that reports critical hazard, security, and maintenance information to the boat owner and to local marina personnel.
HarborAlert is:
The HarborAlert market includes 11 million boats on the US waters of 17 to 60 feet in length. That market segment included new boat sales of $6.5 billion in 2007 with after market sales of $2.6 billion.
HarborAlert advantages over currently available products include:
HarborAlert generates revenue from equipment sales, yearly subscription fees, and targeted web site advertising.
HarborAlert prototype system went through a successful trial last fall. We need help building the business of HarborAlert:
Mark Kasdorf,
Founder
Burning Hollow Technologies, Inc.
[email protected]
www.burninghollowtech.com
617-448-1494
Burning Hollow Technologies builds a full featured home automation solution
capable of controlling the lights, HVAC, security, distributed audio, and
distributed video within a home. The system further includes a cutting edge
energy monitoring solution that can provide a detailed energy profile of a
home. The BHT system allows each of these components to work together, and
be controlled by a uniform centralized solution such as an iphone or ipod
touch.
For example, with a BHT system a user is able to press a button at the front door that turns every light in the house off, sets the thermostat to 58, makes sure all electronics are off (TVs, DVD players, oven, etc), and arm the security system. Likewise, while sitting on a beach in Fiji the user can easily monitor the security system, set television shows to record, and turn the thermostat down or up.
The current home automation market is a $1 billion market in the U.S alone, comprised of just 5% of all new homes built in the U.S. Such systems start at $50,000, and can exceed $500,000 in some cases By drastically reducing the price for a system, and build it in such a way that a standard electrician can install it, BHT hopes to increase the addressable market from $750,000+ homes to homes starting as low as $250,000. In this way an entirely new multi billion market can be tapped. The BHT system costs just $12,000 and comes completely featured and configured.
Over the past 14 months BHT has built 2 prototype systems, as well as written a full featured application for the iphone/ipod touch to control every aspect of the system from anywhere in the world. Between March and June of 2009 we hope to install ten beta systems in the U.S. and Canada, and begin selling systems in August of 2009.
We are currently seeking a pre-Series A convertible debt round of $350,000 to bridge us to September 2009. This will be followed by a more significant $2.5m Series A round to close in Q4, 2009.
Christopher Nielsen
CNP Integrations
[email protected]
1-508-644-1553
www.cnpintegrations.com
CNP Integrations is just under 3 years old, we are a 90% virtual business
with a handpicked global network of the best and the brightest talent. We
have a technology portfolio that provides a complete virtual business infrastructure
with ecommerce transaction management, and content/relationship management
systems at the lowest possible cost of entry. We provide a scalable solution
for total project management, consulting, technical support, customer service,
custom development, technical infrastructure, marketing and training. Essentially
we are an ecommerce and technology management department at your fingertips
as you need us and scalable to meet the demands of your growing business.
What makes us a cut above the competition is not only our custom integrations
and experience building business platforms that actually work but our focus
on training to help you achieve sustainability and independence.
We are looking for:
Our Mission and our Customer Relationship Mandate
Jon Morse
Tripleseat www.tripleseat.com
978-853-4342
[email protected]
Tripleseat is a Sales and Event Management web application that helps restaurant event professionals save time, book more private parties, look professional, and focus on what they love to do - provide great events.
Saving you Time
If a restaurant only books three events a month, the Tripleseat service will be a huge help. With Tripleseat there is no cut-and-paste from Word to create menus and contracts; no looking for folders and searching through an endless pile of papers to find the contacts or event details.
We know that it sometimes can take a restaurant hours to actually book and create the details for special events. Now there will be no time wasted between when a restaurant books an event - and when they create the menu details.
Improving Your Private Dining Business
Restaurants can use the
time they save with Tripleseat to book more business. Take a moment and imagine
if a restaurant manager has an extra hour per day to seek out new business
and build stronger relationships with existing customers using Tripleseat.
The average private party event in a restaurant is $1,500, and if they secure
four extra bookings per month, that would be an additional $72,000 per year/per
restaurant. It really is that easy. The trick is to have a customer relationship
event management solution and the time to do the work. And that's where Tripleseat
comes in.
Eminute
of Aitito
www.aitito.com founded
by Florence Wei is an event-based online marketing platform. We are a web
tool that lets any website add an event calendar section in minutes. It functions
like google calendar with two important extra features. First, you can run
event registration and online payments automatically. This saves you the hassle
of culling contact information from potentially hundreds of RSVP emails, plus
the headache of receiving checks in the mail and depositing them. Second,
your organization can set up an event posting network to cross-post events
with other groups automatically. Doing so enables more people to learn about
your events.
For organizations that do not organize any events or offer free events, Aitito
can still be a useful marketing tool. By creating an event calendar and aggregating
relevant third party events, your website becomes a good resource for event
discovery. For example, ENET can post all events related to entrepreneurship
on its website. Over time, people will know to visit ENET’s website
for that information. This increases traffic and creates more touch points
with your customers, such as announcing sales. For free events, running registration
enables you to collect email addresses for future direct mailing. Plus, you
can insert promotions in the RSVP process that is tailored to the context
of the event just for the event attendees.
We are currently looking for Beta partners. If this tool may be helpful to
your organization, please try it out or contact me at [email protected]
or 650-488-3920. The tools are free. They can be easily plugged into most
websites through our widgets.
Eminute of Good Start Genetics
• Good Start Genetics is developing a low-cost, pre-pregnancy test for
50 genetic disorders that will replace one-disorder-only tests in the market
today, and give parents the early information they need to ensure genetically
healthy children.
• Our test will be more accurate, more comprehensive (testing for 31
times more disorders), and at $750 per person, priced below today’s
standard of care.
• GSG will utilize a proprietary process developed by team members in
the Harvard Center for Computational Genetics to achieve a 300x cost advantage
over current technology.
• We will target the 924K couples currently getting tested in fertility
clinics each year, who pay an average of $772 per person. Total market size
is $892M.
• GSG expects to achieve $100M revenue within 3.5 years of product launch
by partnering with 6% of the nation’s 461 total fertility clinics.
• 92% of physicians interviewed in an 8-state survey said they would
recommend the GSG test to their patients over existing tests, and first-mover
advantage will allow us to educate physicians on our product, and build early
brand awareness and product loyalty.
• Our managing team holds Harvard MBAs, and has start-up and business
development experience. Our chief scientist is a PhD candidate at Harvard
Medical School and MIT.
• Our advisors include George Church, the world’s leading expert
in genomic technology, Bob Carpenter, a Director at Genzyme who has successfully
built three genetic diagnostic companies, and Bob Wassman, former National
Medical Director at Genzyme Genetics.
• Our strategic partners include the world’s leading research
center for genomic technology, the nation’s largest fertility clinic,
and the nation’s largest IVF laboratory.
• GSG is currently seeking a $350K seed round to continue technology
diligence, investigate IP, file patents around proprietary processes, and
recruit full-time employees.
Good Start Genetics
Eric Bouton, Co-founder [email protected]
Paris Wallace, Co-founder [email protected]
415-830-2865
www.gsgenetic.com
Previous eMinutes from June 2008
I am
Eric Jackson, VP of Marketing for Lab Escape. Lab Escape sells next-generation
visual analytics and decision support software that gives business users in
large companies visibility and insight into operational data, helping them
drive revenue and reduce costs in complex markets. We employ an unusual sales
and marketing model for enterprise software that dramatically reduces our
cost of sales and gives us a tremendous advantage over our competitors.
We have validated our products and business model by acquiring about 50 customers
internationally and domestically with 12 Fortune 500 companies including EDS,
Lehman Brothers and Advance Auto Parts. Our software is used for risk management,
project portfolio analysis, network monitoring and retail analytics with one
customer gaining a 4x increase in profit margin after deploying us to manage
a portfolio of 2,500 projects. Last year we had 3x annual growth over 2006.
The Lab Escape management team have played key roles in multiple previous
software start-ups. In particular, I served as VP of Products at Boston-based
XOsoft, which had a very similar business model and successfully exited in
2006, when it was acquired by CA.
Lab Escape was founded in Asheville, NC, but is relocating to Boston over
the next few months, primarily to gain access to this area’s strong
talent pool in enterprise software sales and marketing.
We have grown over the past five years entirely on revenue, but are now actively
seeking capital to take the business to the next level.
Eric Jackson,
VP Marketing
Lab Escape, Inc.
800-921-3623 x706
[email protected]
Previous eMinutes from May 2008
Frank Harrington, Founder & CTO, Solarvis
Good evening, my name is Frank Harrington and I am the Founder of Solarvis, a clean-tech solar efficiency play. I am an electrical engineer by education and have a 20 year history in venture backed start-ups — three not counting Solarvis. In addition I have served in the US Navy on a nuclear attack submarine.
Solarvis provides an "efficient" power conversion technology for solar photovoltaic power arrays.
The patent protected technology is an advanced hybrid architecture based on state of the art photovoltaic micro-inverters and centralized photovoltaic inverter technologies.
Solarvis is focused on:
Increasing the amount of energy that can be harvested from a solar photovoltaic array.
Reducing the total cost of solar energy by increasing the energy output and decreasing the overall installation cost.
Solarvis has entered a market that will be greater than #1.3B worldwide by 2010. Last year's growth was an astounding 69%. Growth for the next 10 years is predicted to be 30% to 40% per year.
Solarvis has assembled a management team of successful entrepreneurs that have led successful VC funded high technology companies. Most recently we led the sale of Axya Medical to Warburg Pincus and Tornier Medical.
Solarvis recently won pre-application approval for a Massachusetts Technology Collaborative SEED loan of $500K.
We expect to require a total of $6M to $10M before we are cash flow positive.
We are currently looking for Angel or VC funding for the first round. If you are an investor that is active in the clean-tech sector, I would like to talk to you.
May name is Frank Harrington and thank you for your time.
Frank
Harrington
Founder
Solarvis
Cell: 978-335-7724
[email protected]
Previous eMinutes from April 2008
Bradley
Hodges is the founder of Prothelia, a biotechnology company focused on therapies
for muscular dystrophy, based in Milford, MA.
I received my PhD in 1997, performed my post-doctoral work at Duke University,
and I was a senior scientist at Genzyme for 7 years.
I, my collaborators and advisory board are all experts in the field of muscular
dystrophy.
Our first product is a protein therapy that will treat ~45,000 patients with
Duchenne muscular dystrophy or DMD.
DMD is a lethal disease that affects only boys, and there are no approved
therapies.
Our product should generate 1 to 3 billion in annual sales within 5 years
post approval.
In addition to our protein therapy, we have a pipeline of follow on drugs
that target larger disease populations.
What Prothelia needs are experienced and networked biotech investors who know
how to navigate small molecule and protein therapies to market.
This is an opportunity to save the lives of thousands of kids and make a lot
of money in the process, and I want to share it with the right people.
Bradley Hodges, Founder and President
Prothelia
Therapeutics for Muscular Dystrophy
30 Haven St.
Milford, MA 01757
508-561-9298
[email protected]
Previous eMinutes from March 2008
MoreBeach.com
is an online beach community that features comprehensive beach information
and social networking as context for online advertising of waterfront area
vacation rentals, real estate, classifieds and local businesses. It’s
a $1 billion annual market.
The main
publicity tool is a printed map of local beaches given away free in prime
tourist areas. Map costs are offset by local advertising. The
combination of online content and print maps positions MoreBeach.com as the
leading source of beach and waterfront information and builds relationships
with local businesses.
MoreBeach.com
is live. The database of
Previous eMinutes from February 2008
eM-Tech, LLC (eM-TECH)
eM-TECH, LLC is located in
eM-TECH is developing a device that can directly convert
heat into electricity. The device is based on well established thermoelectric
principles. These are solid-state semiconductor devices which are reliable,
with no maintenance, silent in operation, and environmentally compatible.
As developed, eM-TECH will have 6-7X greater heat-to-electricity
conversion efficiencies than competing devices. They will be able to produce
‘flexible’ devices unlike the rigid devices the industry is locked
into. They will be able to produce large footprint even ‘continuous’
foil-like ribbon materials vs. the 2”x2”max footprint currently
available.
eM-TECH’s devices would harvest waste heat energy
from turbines, engines, or incinerators and even present power plants in combination
with solar collectors.
To accomplish their technical objectives eM-TECH proposes
to make their thermoelectric generator based on ceramic precursor technology
combined with electro spinning and/or printing.
eM-TECH’s devices will be based on SiC nano fiber derived SiC
precursor developed by the founder as part of his graduate work at MIT.
eM-TECH is seeking assistance with finding a business
partner and infrastructure to produce a working prototype.
Paul Czubarow
Founder
eM-TECH, LLC
phone/fax
[email protected]
StylePath, Inc.
A picture is worth a thousand words because words do a poor job of describing
visual qualities. That’s
why I invented StylePath. StylePath
is a visual search engine for style products like jewelry, shoes, furniture,
and accessories - anything that is hard to find online using text-based search.
It works by forming a profile of each user’s taste and matching
that to the aesthetic attributes of products.
I’m David Hornstein, a former architect and the founder and CEO of StylePath.
I developed and patented our visual, taste-based personal shopper because
I realized that the vast selection of style products online was making it
harder, not easier, for consumers to find items that matched their taste.
StylePath provides a way to search thousands of websites and only see
products that appeal to you.
The company makes money through PPC (pay per click advertising) and affiliate
commissions from vendors. Every
time a visitor clicks through from StylePath to a vendor site we earn .30;
when they purchase we earn 8% of the purchase price. Our site is live online
and attracts 10,000 visitors per month, who can choose from 100,000 products
from over 3,000 vendors. The market
for style products online was $55 billion in 2007.
The company has been self-funded to date, we are seeking $500,000 to ramp
up marketing and scale the business.
David Hornstein
GameBrix.com
GameBrix brings a unique paradigm that enables the creation of customized casual games specially made for each and every individual on the planet. GameBrix is a web-based collaborative game creation and sharing application suite that is platform-independent and needs no downloads, installs, or upgrades. GameBrix allows anyone ONLINE to Build, Share and customize Games and Animations without writing a single line of code.
Vibrant online communities exist
for music, video and photos, yet there are none for creating games. GameBrix
fills this void by providing people with a powerful online medium for self-expression
to create any kind of casual games.
The casual games market is expected to grow from $2.25 billion in 2007 to reach $4.4 billion by 2010. GameBrix suite of disruptive technologies makes building games easy for everyone, including kids, teens, and people with no programming skills. Our unique proposition is to enable the creation of millions of customized games that may be played less that a dozen times each. GameBrix is presently in an open beta testing period and will launch advertising and subscription-based services for enterprises and consumers.
GameBrix is privately funded by angel investors and the angel round has been
extended to raise additional $500,000 for the company. These funds will help
round out our marketing team and facilitate customer acquisition. Please visit
our beta site GameBrix.com and provide feedback.
Previous eMinutes from January 2008
SentryPort Technologies™
SentryPort Technologies™ has developed privacy protection software and designed business models around it that will maximize ROI for our customers. We are much further along than the typical start-up. With patents filed, beta installations and products nearing completion, the company is now ready for commercial launch.
Funded to date by the founders, initial outside capitalization will launch the company to significant revenue in the next 90 days
Our products protect security data from loss or compromise, integrate physical, IT and infrastructure security systems. Our business model provides a simple way for an enterprise to transport, track, store, and audit its customers' critical data.
The company currently has three products: SentryPort SAFE™ which meets the need for secure communication, storage, and auditing of sensitive information; SentryPort SENTINEL™ which is targeted at the convergence of physical and logical security, a market that is expected to grow rapidly during the next five years; and Security Resource Management™ (SRM), our patent pending solution to deliver "predictability" to the "reactive" security market.
Using this capability, we have identified three vertical markets to target first. Each of these verticals has the greatest revenue potential with the least cost of sales. These verticals are:
Higher Education Privacy
Life Sciences
Health Care
SentryPort is much further along than the typical start-up. With patents files, beta installations and products nearing completion, the company is now ready to hit the market. Capitalization will launch the company to significant revenue in the next 90 days.
The company is seeking $1M in seed capital.
Steve O'Leary
President
SentryPort Technologies
(866) 774-1774 Ext. 330 Main
(603) 320-0836 Cell
Skype name: sentryport or soleary630
Precisive, LLC.
Precisive, located in Stoneham, MA, designs and manufactures sensors to measure chemical composition in gases, liquids and solids. Our innovative, optics based instruments enable real-time, in-situ measurement and monitoring, replacing the traditional "thief sampling" laboratory measurement which is cumbersome, slow and expensive.
In the next four months, we will be performing installations and pilot testing at five customer sites. Shell in Texas is interested in testing our product to monitor the purity of olefin gases they are delivering in various lines, measuring various impurities such as water, ammonia, arsine and carbon monoxide. FuelCell Energy, a manufacturer of fuel cell power plants in Connecticut, has given us a PO to test our device in monitoring sulfur compounds in the natural gas lines. Other target markets include pharmaceutical, specialty chemical, food & beverage, and semiconductor industries. The addressable market is growing fast. It is projected to be $400M by 2012.
Relative to competitor products, ours enable real-time measurement of multiple compounds at high sensitivity, while delivering much more rugged and lower cost solutions.
We are seeking $500,000 to establish a small production facility, perform additional marketing and "convert" our provisional patent application into regular patents.
Presenter:
Vidi Saptari
(857) 205-8319
TextTelevision
TextTelevision is a web media company that generates, stores, and distributes a new way to read.
Our patent-pending tool allows a user to type or paste any English-language text and then read, save, or share it as an animation. We leverage the communicative power of electric light to float and flow text in short, scan-able phrases that relieve the reader from scrolling, or even navigating a text with their eyes. The
effect of our flows is a game-like engagement that is calming, hypnotic, and deeply involving
We see
applications for our tool in education:
in teaching people to read, in teaching people with reading dysfunction,
and in teaching English as a second language
But even more generally, we see TextTelevision as a new form of consumer publishing that is particularly appropriate for the exploding market of hand-held computers: the Iphone, the Ipod, Kindle, the Blackberry, and other G3 and G4 device
We are seeking $1 million dollars in seed funding to implement our technology and develop our audience and market. Our goal is to achieve 5 million users within the first year.
Dennis Downey
TextTelevision
311 Main Street (Rear)
Falmouth, MA 02540
508-540-8408
Cover4Me
Cover4me creates a communication infrastructure to reduce absenteeism and turnover in hourly jobs. The product was designed to reflect the ubiquitous use of web and cell phone technologies amongst the teenage population and reflects the belief that the social use of these technologies is now driving sweeping and fundamental changes in the work environment.
29 million 16- 24 year olds hold hourly jobs and represent a significant portion of the 75.6 million of all US hourly workers. Based on numerous focus groups and market research, Cover4me believes that the work habits and attitudes of this younger generation are responsible for the growing annual costs in absenteeism and turnover.
US teenagers spend $170 billion annually (5% of all consumer spending) and hourly jobs subsidize this spending. 31-40% of all jobs in foodservice, retail & hospitality are staffed by 16- 24 year olds and workers in these jobs are convenience driven. These workers are perfectly comfortable simply not showing up for work -- a common and costly occurrence for employers.
Technology tools shaped this generations' identities and behaviors. Only by utilizing these same technologies can employers hope to reverse rising absenteeism and turnover rates.
Cover4me's communication infrastructure enables quick and easy shift rescheduling via IM, SMS and email. By providing an infrastructure to enable convenient re-scheduling for workers, managers gain optimal staffing via an inexpensive, web-based scheduling tool that enables flexible, yet controlled re-scheduling.
In January 2008, Cover4me will be beta testing its subscription-based application and launching a Facebook-based free service.
Cover4me has a committed term sheet from two angel investors and is seeking $216K to fill out that round.
Laila Partridge
CEO & Founder
Cover4me
781-856-5338
Fluxgen
My name is Steve Grovo, Sales & Marketing VP for Fluxgen Lighting Systems located in Nashua NH. Fluxgen is a "greentech" company involved in producing cutting edge lighting systems using High Power LED's that replace HID street lighting.
The management team, Ben Richardson and I, have prior experience with High Power LED illumination technology in a previous startup company. Our lights last 2- 4 times longer than HID lights, contain no mercury, save 50-80% in energy costs, and eliminate light trespass and glare, addressing customer pain with a product designed specifically for them. We've performed extensive Front End marketing along with product development to directly address the biggest customer complaints. The Total Addressable Market for streetlights exceeds $1,000,000,000.
We're very excited to be working directly with PSNH on a pilot study for municipal lighting. They're co-developers who are influencing the final configuration of the streetlight. They are also a wholly owned subsidiary of Northeast Utilities, the largest utility provider in New England with 2 million customers. We've also just received agreements for another pilot study from Boston Public Works.
We are currently seeking an investment of approximately $500,000. This will enable us to obtain 3rd party testing, apply for a patent, begin a sales/marketing campaign, purchase dies and inventory, and establish a small production facility to produce the lights.
Steve Grovo
Sales & Marketing VP
Fluxgen Lighting Systems
Cell: (978) 394-4112
Email: <mailto:[email protected] [email protected]
Ben Richardson
President
Fluxgen Lighting Systems
Cell: (603) 801-6767
Email: <mailto:[email protected] [email protected]
eMinutes from November 2007
Ed Berliner, Speeding Bullet
Speeding Bullet Media Group has offices in both Massachusetts and Florida, locally in Quincy MA. Ed Berliner has over 25 years as a media veteran in TV,radio,Internet and production. The management team has over 100 years combined experience in all phases of media production and syndication.
Target market is regional/national/global, producing the world's first web site dedicated the news/sports coverage utilizing video and audio only. www.speedingbulletnetwork.com feeds the growing desire for multi-media programming available via the Internet. Regional coverage with correspondents is not available on any other site. Varied reports/original programming/viewer interaction is not available on any other site. Research indicates increasing sponsorship dollars on Internet programming with falling numbers on traditional TV and radio.
The only challenge at this point is marketing. Our plan involves guerilla marketing with links provided by other established web sites, using YouTube and MySpace popularity to our advantage and at no cost. Investor funds will be used for staff, technical (Internet) delivery, webmaster, hiring of national sales staff (commission basis) and limited marketing dollars. Web site is already produced and prepared to launch with limited content October 8th. Negotiations already underway with ad sales firms. There are already agreements in place for marketing with other sites, negotiations with additional sites continues. SBMG seeks first stage investment of no more than $500,000 in small incremental stages. Entire investment number may never be reached. Sales and marketing backgrounds/firms would be helpful but not immediate. Investor/partnership ownership shares to be negotiated.
Meeta Aggarwal, founder of LimeAll
LimeAll is a website aimed at helping its users refresh their relationships, friendships and letting them stay fresh and warm through its unique and innovative services.
LimeAll is aimed at helping people solve the problem of staying in touch, giving a personal feel to their communications conveniently, taking them into a new era of greetings, reminders, invitations and
photos sharing . Our services are extremely unique, innovative and include blended versions of calls, music, videos and photos. Our suite of services would allow users to dedicate and play self recorded message followed by a song on friend's phone, create and share musical photo album that can be played with a personalized message and song in the background, receive birthday reminders on their phones, preset call and video greetings that would be sent automatically on friend's birthday, send personalized invitation by uploading a video or a photo album with a personalized message and song playing in the background. Response of our beta users has been extremely overwhelming. . We have planned several upgrades to all the existing services as well as new services like greetings on TV and mobile phones.
While conceptualizing LimeAll we have taken special care of providing only value adding services. We have already obtained provisional patents for these services. We have already developed a prototype, you can visit www.LimeAll.com.
Our most likely exit strategy is to be acquired by one of the large business software companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft etc. We are seeking $500,000 of funding to continue development, enhance infrastructure, payment of legal fees, publicity and promotion.
Meeta Aggarwal
Founder of LimeAll
17 Newcastle Drive
Nashua NH 03060
Phone: 6034388479
Paul Martin, CEO of software startup SpaceMAX based in Newton, Massachusetts.
Designed to help planners maximize the value and use of space SpaceMAX solves the problem of lost productivity suffered by both client and AEC professional that result from unclear conveyance of requirements and expectations. When the goal is to reconfigure current space to accommodate changing needs, to maximize workflow and throughput, to reduce 'internal commuting' of personnel within a campus or to track and manage assets across diverse spaces SpaceMAX provides the solution.
SpaceMAX gives users an easy and clear way to specify needed space and any special needs of how spaces should interact before AEC or CAD specialists get involved. Many AEC professionals "specialize" in particular industries because of the need to "understand" their clients' business. SpaceMAX helps these professionals by facilitating a more direct planning phase and helping ensure a more profitable project.
SpaceMAX allows the user to optimize workflow, space-use cost effectiveness, to evaluate changes and what-if scenarios in a framework of quick-collaboration and helps organizations manage physical assets by location.
SpaceMAX has recently been used in two medical center layout planning projects and in a small commercial property management setting. The recent story about the group of unofficial residents in Providence Place Mall illuminate just one case where information about space and who is using it and for what purpose can sometimes get lost.
We are looking for customers and approximately $500,000 in angel financing to bolster operations, sales and marketing. We are found at www.spacemaxlogic.com.
DataPacT Systems, LLC
Presented by: John Lai, Founder - slide
I
am John Lai, founder of DataPacT Systems, a software solution company based
in Southern NH. Our management advisor Remi Depommier is based in Haverhill.
Our software based compression products target the multi-billion dollar global
market in medical image data storage and communications.
Our products create savings 11~100 times the existing cost by reducing the
amount of data storage. By compressing the data, the transmission time will
be 11~100 times faster.
Our initial products are integrated compression suites based on patent pending
technologies which comply with DICOM standards.
Our products will alter the way the healthcare industry deals with its image
data storage buildup and budgeting, and maximize the value of the existing
communications’ infrastructure.
Our management advisory team has deep knowledge of sales and marketing in
the medical imaging industry. They have experience with successful technology
startups.
DataPacT Systems requires a 3.5 million dollar financial investment to push
our products to the market. For further information about our products and
our company, please contact us.
John Lai, Founder
10 Wheeler Street
Milford, New Hampshire 03055
Phone: 603.672.8748
Cell: 603.321.0156
Email:
[email protected]
IdentiCert, Inc.
Presented by: Jorge Calzada, VP of Sales - slide
IdentiCert,
Inc.
Good evening, I’m Jorge Calzada, VP of Sales for IdentiCert Inc. of
Cambridge, Massachusetts. IdentiCert was started by three graduates of the
MIT Sloan School of Management in January 2006. Our business stems from three
clear socio-demographic trends: 1. democratization of commerce (thanks to
e-commerce and auction websites), in turn responsible for the explosion in
postal parcel volumes, 2. increasing urbanization, decreasing household sizes,
and faster pace of life, and 3. consumer preference for automation in menial
tasks (think ATMs or airport check-in kiosks, for example).
IdentiCert’s business is to provide personal logistics services (i.e.
those annoying things you might have to do on Saturday instead of playing
golf) though an automated kiosk, called easyQube. IdentiCert deploys easyQube
in apartment lobbies, corporate and academic campuses, and retail locations.
Things you can do with easyQube: ship and receive packages, trade items locally
(we provide both logistics and payment clearing), manage your dry-cleaning
pick-up and deliveries, access other value-added services. All services are
provisioned by partners. We install and manage the kiosks and take care of
customer service.
We have a pilot running in Boston since January. IdentiCert has signed agreements
locally with Optima Worldwide, the Hamilton Company, and the Dolben Company.
The first kiosks will begin rolling-out in the first quarter of 2008. We are
seeking landlords interested in hosting easyQube for their dwellers and equity
funding of $5 million to complete our solution and deploy enough units to
validate our metrics and be able to lever up and/or franchise out our solution.
Jorge Calzada
VP, Sales
IdentiCert Inc.
[email protected]
(888) 557-3349 x 702
www.easyqube.com
www.identicert.com
Kinsale Mobile Inc.
Presented by: David Traynor, Kinsale Mobile Inc. based in Marblehead Mass.
We are a brandable Mobile Virtual Network Operator - what this means is that we are a mobile phone company but we have not had to invest in wireless spectrum. Instead of owning spectrum, we make use of US GSM providers like T-Mobile and AT&T (Cingular). We have all the network infrastructure, provisioning, billing, and customer care to combine the best of prepay and postpay services for voice, SMS and data.
An example value proposition is for the international traveler arriving in the US: if they use their home network when they visit the US they pay $2.50 per minute* to make or receive calls (*using Vodafone). Just by placing our call4care SIM in the back of their GSM phone they can use our services and reduce their cost to just 15c per minute.
We are looking for funding to develop channel and brand partnerships and also to develop value-added-applications for our SIM cards. Our service is in retail trials at international airports and we are looking for brand partners who want to offer their own branded mobile services. On the development side, our SIMs have an embedded call routing application preinstalled that connects international calls via low cost VOIP connections, without requiring the customers to dial any access codes or PINs. We are looking to extend our applications to include midlets for promotion, payment and loyalty, and to provide global roaming services at local rates.
We have a communications background at FairMarket (now eBay), Firefox, FTP, HeliOss and UngermannBass. You may also know our Tom Cheatham - the President of the North Shore Technology Council.
David Traynor
+1 781 820 4424
www.kinsalemobile.com
ModelSheet
Software, LLC
Hello.
My name is Dick Petti, president of ModelSheet Software, LLC.
We
are developing web-based software for building spreadsheet models. ModelSheet
automates cell-level operations to improve spreadsheet reliability, modeler
productivity, and management of complexity. ModelSheet enhances spreadsheet
modeling, while preserving the best aspects of spreadsheets.
Our market
sweet spot is people in dynamic organizations who build complex spreadsheets
models. These people work either in financial service firms or operating companies
in many industries. We are planning a buzz marketing campaign to drive people
to our website that will have web videos and free web-based services.
My name
is Howard Cannon, chairman and CTO of ModelSheet Software, LLC.
Since
January we have developed prototype software that includes an authoring interface,
a modeling engine, and software that generates web displays and spreadsheets.
For example, we developed our financial plan, with three scenarios and over
120 formulas, using ModelSheet. With the push of a button, ModelSheet generates
a complete, interactive, formatted Excel workbook with thousands of cells.
We plan to offer our first web services this winter.
Our
most likely exit strategy is to be acquired by one of the large business software
companies whose products are contiguous to ModelSheet: Microsoft, SAP, Oracle,
Google’s office software venture, and business intelligence vendors.
We believe ModelSheet will be the next big advance in spreadsheet modeling.
We are seeking $500,000 of funding to continue development, apply for a patent, and launch the product. We are also searching for consulting clients and partners with whom we can develop complex spreadsheet models.
Richard
Petti, President
ModelSheet Software, LLC
146 Gray Street
Arlington, MA 02476
tel: 781-648-7856
cell: 617-694-0164
email: [email protected]
Howard
Cannon, Chairman and CTO
ModelSheet Software, LLC
146 Gray Street
Arlington, MA 02476
tel: 978-443-0152
cell: 978-314-4005
email: [email protected]
WiPacs
My name is Jamie Hoberg, and I am a Founder of WiPacs.
WiPacs is a patient controlled, secure, web-enabled, database of patient medical images. We have created a business that will not only make it easier for physicians to practice image-based medicine, but also save the healthcare industry billions of dollars per year.
Often times in the case of an emergency, hospitalization, or routine physician visit a patient receives inadequate health care because there is a lack of resources that allow physicians and patients on-demand access to the radiology image history. This situation is further exacerbated when the patient must undergo an unnecessary repeat imaging center that exposes them to needless and potentially harmful extra radiation. In fact, studies have demonstrated that 10-15% of the over 500 million diagnostic radiological images performed in the United States per year are unnecessary repeat images that end-up costing the healthcare system over $16 billion annually. In partners hip with imaging centers and hospitals, the patient pays a fee for lifetime storage at WiPacs.com.
The extraordinary large market for radiological images coupled with the low cost of renting server space allows for significant opportunity for revenue generation. For example, X-rays are the most prevalent image (294 million per year) and also the smallest image size at 5 MB. The cost of renting server space is only $500/ terabyte, which allows storing 200,000 X-rays at a cost of only $0.0025 cents per image. At a fee of $20 per image this calculates to a gross profit of $4 million dollars for every $500 dollars spent on storage.
We are seeking $50,000 to $100,000 of seed capital to bring our exciting business solution to practice.
Jamie
Hober
WiPacs, Inc
Jamaica Plain, MA
617-378-2200
eMinutes from June, 2007
Tanya
Martinez, First Nation Wood Pellets LLC
My name is Tanya Martinez, I am the vice president and energy engineer for
First Nation Wood Pellets LLC located in Central Massachusetts. We all
know that energy prices are not going anywhere anytime soon. We are beginning
to see the effects of global warming and there is currently an underutilized
energy resource here in Mass. That is, wood energy.
My company’s goal is to manufacture wood pellets; pellets are used in
residential space heating stoves. One major advantage of burning pellets is
that it is environmentally friendly. Soaring home heating prices and pressure
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have created a prime market.
Did you know that we are located in the largest market for wood pellets? One
advantage of our company is location. Local retailers are responsible for
paying transportation costs and this cost is transferred to the customer.
This high cost will be diminished substantially by my company. Another “one-up”
of a startup is the opportunity to optimize the entire process. Equipment
selected will minimize the demand for the most costly components for the plant:
energy for drying, cooling and electricity.
Another asset is our team. The President for the company has been in business
for 17 years and we have two consultants: an engineer for a wood pellet manufacturing
facility with 20 years of experience and the President for Webster First Federal
Credit Union.
The company is looking for capital: $4.7M that will cover startup costs, equipment,
building and land. This will enable the company to begin shipping in August
2008.
Tanya Martinez, Vice President, First Nation Wood Pellets LLC
Cell: 617-686-1138
[email protected]
Hugh Greville, CogniScent
Good evening, my name is Hugh Greville the CEO of CogniScent Inc. located in Grafton MA. CogniScent was founded by two professors of neuroscience at Tufts University. John Kauer and Joel White. Its core platform technology (ScenTraK™) provides real time detection of volatile airborne compounds with extensive practical applications at significantly lower cost than competitive technologies.
The ScenTraK™ technology is able to identify, quantify and discriminate target odors, gives rapid response, performs repeated trials and has point of source capability. These attributes lead to different assumptions, new and more efficient practices, improved decision making and better economics in every application in which it is used.
CogniScent is developing products for applications within the following vertical markets.
Indoor Air Quality - Specifically, the detection of Mold, Formaldehyde & other VOC’s
Environmental Monitoring - Detection of toxic chemicals and other environmental hazards.
Security & Law enforcement - Low cost detection of explosives and narcotics
Industrial Process -Process and quality control, leak detection etc.
It is currently testing production prototypes for the detection of mold and toxic industrial chemicals. In order to facilitate rapid expansion, maximize market penetration and service fragmented markets, CogniScent intends to partner with established market leaders with existing sales and marketing infrastructure. CogniScent has an experienced management team covering all technical and business skills necessary to build the business. This team includes the founders and inventors of the technology.
CogniScent requires $4 million of equity financing over two years to finish product development and accelerate market development.
For further information please contact:
Hugh
Greville, President & CEO
CogniScent Inc.
200 Westboro Road, Building 21
North Grafton, MA 01536
(O) 508 839 8796 (C) 978 395 1695
[email protected]
www.cogniscentinc.com
Jason Rines, CEO, MediaHeights
“Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jason Rines. I am the CEO of MediaHeights located in Dover, New Hampshire. Our company was founded in 2001 as a data product supplier for the direct mail and email marketing industry. In 2004 our company began to specialize in offering Consumer Healthcare data for Pharmacueticals, OTC and Health clientele. Our space we operate in one-to-one, Direct To Consumer marketing, is a $5.5B dollar industry.
There are two market problems our target segments have and that our company can directly address. The first problem is supply and demand. Pharmacueticals and Health companies require quality data for direct marketing efforts, but little quality data inventory exists outside of MediaHeights. Our company has the largest database of consumers with common ailments that marketers can access in the USA.
The second problem we can address and create opportunity is consumer privacy in relationship to health data. We have built a process that fields PR and consumer concerns, engaging the public, something that is sorely lacking in the Direct To Consumer advertising space. Let me throw out some statistics about RX Pharmacuetical companies. According to the American Journal of Medicine, Pharmacueticals are projected to grow only 4%-6% annually over the next three years. The research behind the problem is two-fold. One, generic drug companies have entered the space. This actually works in our favor for many reasons. The second problem is consumer privacy in relation to health data. Without the correct process for the Direct To Consumer market to address this problem, RX Pharmacueticals have been shy about accelerating sales. The good news for us is that the same research says that marketing by RX Pharmacueticals will increase by 10% over the next three years, further accelerating demand for our health data products. As an early stage company, we are here seeking a first round of funding of $750,000 to accelerate growth. A second round of $1.5 M is required in 2008.
Jason
Rines
Chief Executive Officer
[email protected]
MediaHeights, LLC | 340 Central Avenue | Suite #302, Dover, NH 03820
Phone: 800-379-6147 x107
eMinutes from May, 2007
Alan Ezzati, Captive Lead
My
name is Alan Ezzati and I am President of Captive Lead. We provide online
sales solutions to the Automotive Retail industry. Our products and services
are centered around an integrated suite of web applications, including content
management, Search Engine Optimization, and inventory management, all of which
can be linked with clients’ legacy systems and advertising infrastructure.
Captive Lead’s solutions are built on the premise that, because online
traffic generates the majority share of auto retailers’ revenue, our
customers deserve the most innovative and effective products in the industry,
and, with minimal resources, we have successfully developed and marketed a
truly best-in-class software package that is more advanced than any other
competing product on the market. In fact, our clients report that between
50 and 90 percent of their total sales have been generated by our systems.
Considering that some of our clients have total annual revenue in excess of
$100M/yr, these businesses have become dependent upon our products and services.
During the course of the last two years we have established ourselves as the
qualitative leader in our industry and, in doing so, we have earned the business
of some of the most well-known names in the New England Auto Retail Industry
while increasing our top-line growth by over 100% year-on-year. Currently,
we are seeking funding to expand our sales efforts to other national markets
as well as to improve our innovative product mix in order to continue our
growth. We are also seeking partnerships with other individuals or entities
who would be able to contribute in a technical and/or sales capacity.
Alan Ezzati, President, Captive Lead
Cell: 508.904.2933
[email protected]
Gregory Raiz, Raizlabs
My
name is Gregory Raiz and my company, Raizlabs, is focused on building the
world’s best photo sharing platform. I started my company in 2001 after
leaving Microsoft where I was a program manager on Windows XP.
My company is building a photo application that allows people to easily share
1000’s of photos. Our approach to photo sharing is different from
competitors because we are building technology that can handle a lifetime
of photos.
Many of the existing tools focus on the web experience, this limits the quality
and quantity of photos that can be shared. Instead we focus on the economic
potential of sharing 100,000’s of high quality photos.
What makes us really different is our focus on user interface design. We’re
passionate about creating easy to use software. Our product is a rich-client
application that simplifies the process of sharing photos. The application
uses a unique patent pending 3D interface that allows users to see, manage
and share much larger collections of data then is possible with today’s
software. Our product has been designed to optimize bandwidth eliminating
the need for traditional uploading. Our approach also provides for extensibility
by third-party websites and tool developers.
We currently have a functional product that is in private testing built on
a scalable storage platform to allow for fast growth. We are looking for capital
of $750k-$1.2M to help launch our product and staff the development of our
second version.
Raizlabs is based in Brookline, MA.
Gregory Raiz
[email protected]
617-820-5206
www.raizlabs.com
Bob Chiozzi, Identity Cops Inc.
The
FTC reports that Identity theft is the most reported and fastest growing crime
in the US. Victims often don’t discover a theft until they’ve
suffered extensive financial damage. The only way to prevent Identity theft
is to prevent criminals from acquiring and trading personal information crucial
for stealing an identity.
In real time, ID Cops’ web-based technology, Privacy ProBot™,
searches hundreds-of-thousands of public and private electronic databases
and seamlessly scours the internet underground finding and preventing personal
information violations from being used for identity theft. ID Cops platform
technology allows subscribers to take back control of their personal financial,
medical, insurance, and family information.
As well, corporate mass data theft is rampant and often not discovered until
a businesses customers report Identity thefts. Identity Cops technology helps
protect companies from data breach losses (and regulatory violations) by finding
the specific hacked or stolen information in real time, identifying its source,
and taking recuperative actions to “lock down” the information
before it’s used by criminals.
Identity Cops technology is real-time, self-learning, fully scalable, patent
pending, and the only proactive personal information management, identity
theft prevention, and mass data theft protection technology available.
Our core technology has been tested and functions as intended. We seek funding
in two traunches: 1.) $500,000 to complete development and test a seamless
branding interface for financial institutions to distribute under their own
name (4 to 8 months). 2.) $6 million for a complete product rollout
(8 to 24 months). We welcome your interest in technology or marketing partnerships.
Robert S. Chiozzi
Vice President of Corporate Development and Finance
Identity Cops Inc.
www.identitycops.com
[email protected]
Direct number: (207) 415-6619
eMinutes from March, 2007
David Durand, CEO, Tizra
Good evening.
My name is David Durand. I am the CEO and one of four founders of Tizra, a
Rhode Island-based startup.
We are here because we are in private beta, and are looking to complete a
$750K seed funding round to finish our interface and go to market. We expect
to raise venture funding by the end of this year in order to move from survival
to growth. To that end, we are looking to fill out our team with an experienced
startup hand as CEO.
Our hosted service, AgilePublisher, lets publishers successfully sell and distribute long content like books online, taking PDF and turning it into usable, branded web sites to sell targeted information. We make readers lives easier by delivering single pages that work just like regular HTML rather than the long slow downloads of pure PDF.
Our customers can create an online sales channel to repackage existing content -- breaking the boundaries of PDF chunks. Self- service site administration and online sign-up empower smaller publishers to create effective online products themselves -- without expensive and time-consuming software development or data conversion. Our transaction based business model reduces risk for our clients, and brings us a recurring revenue stream, as we charge for resources consumed and a percentage of online transactions.
Our first target market is publishers of books for professionals. Their readers are satisfying information needs, not seeking a reading experience for a whole book. While we're starting in traditional publishing we are not going to stop there. As the web continues to grow, everyone is becoming a publisher, and our marketplace is any organization that delivers PDF or other printed content, and needs to sell it or improve access to it online.
David G.
Durand
CEO, Tizra
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +1 401 935-5317
Web: http://www.tizra.com/
Brian O'Grady, MyCubicleSpace.com.
Hello, my name is Brian O'Grady and I have designed a platform called MyCubicleSpace.com. It will revolutionize how entrepreneur’s markets their business online. Wasted advertising revenue and the challenges of pay-per-click are a thing of the past.
I've integrated two successful web concepts, the search engine and the user generated myspace.com style in a business community. With our backgrounds in sales and web development at the start-up level, we understand the need to promote small business.
Members create profiles with their chosen keywords and applicable regions for positioning in our community. Small businesses get keyword-based search engine exposure without any click fraud pitfalls of regular search engine pay-per-click advertising.
Local search is the strength of MyCubicleSpace.com, although it has a national reach, its business-specific search has the goal to be better than generalists like Google or Yahoo! Our full service classifieds offer press release distribution, tradeshows, blogs, employment opportunities and more. Mycubiclespace.com offers the next generation in business search.
Although our basic platform is free, our multi-prong approach is to generate revenue with targeted banner advertising and premium member features.MyCubicleSpace.com has been launched for a short time and with a zero marketing budget has been able to attract small businesses from around the world with targeted emails.
To promote MyCubicleSpace.com to the business market and strengthen our infrastructure for the next level, we are seeking investors who can provide $3 million in funding, which will lead the way to profitability.
Brian O'Grady
www.mycubiclespace.com
617-512-9172
[email protected]
eMinute from February, 2007
David Hammond, Middle Pond Productions
Besides working and sleeping, what’s the one activity you spend more time doing than anything else?
Answer? Watching TV.
We’re addicted to the visual experience; we can’t get it out of our blood - we’re a video-centric culture. Nearly 70% of all Internet users are now actively watching video on the web. And this isn’t a simple trend or a quick fad. Web video is here to stay.
But while many VCs and investors are pumping money into the technology that makes it possible for us all to watch stuff on the Internet, what’s lagging behind? To paraphrase “41,” it’s the content, stupid.
My background is in technology marketing. My partner and I are putting our experience into developing web video content. When today’s video-addicted Internet users visit websites, they don’t want to read pages and pages of boring copy. They want to watch. Tiresome executive bios? Boring product overviews? Obnoxious, me-too mission statements? That was the 90’s. If your company still has a website that’s based on a 10-year old format, people are going to ignore it. And worse, if they can’t visit your site and watch something - anything - they’re going to write you off as “old school.”
I’m looking for $200,000 in start-up/seed money. I firmly believe, and have supporting evidence, that web video is going to explode in every business sector.
Target market: any business with a website that hasn’t developed video content yet - revenue is derived from consulting, creative development and production fees.
David Hammond,
Middle Pond Productions
5 Grace Drive, Medfield, MA
[email protected]
(508) 359-4991 (Call anytime.)
Lewis Cohen, Preisdent, VideogeniX
My name is Lewis Cohen, I’m president of VideogeniX, a video security technology company focusing on security camera manufacturers, systems integrators and representatives selling to commercial and government markets. We provide flexible and unique alternatives to traditional CCTV systems.
Our key product monitors the communication of electronic devices such as network cameras.
I’m sure you’ve all experienced your computer locking up, requiring you to reboot.
Well, network security cameras have the exact same problem. When they lock up, our device detects it and automatically resets the camera, with no need for human intervention!
iPulse installs in minutes on most security cameras. There are four versions: standard, POE, Photo reading tape (for LEDs) and timed auto reboot. iPulse also works on switches, modems, routers and DVRs. We have 90+ patents currently pending and are in discussion with the top camera manufacturers about licensing our technologies.
In addition to iPulse, we developed a mobile wireless digital video system. Through the fully integrated touch screen, you can view, zoom, pan and tilt four cameras up to a quarter mile or more away. This rugged and portable system records on motion, stores video for weeks and is currently used by police, security companies, large enterprises, the Department of Defense and Secret Service.
To speed up our success and get to all possible markets, we are currently looking for $750,000 to institute a marketing program, develop a sales team and increase our engineering staff. With the money, I believe VideogeniX has the opportunity for a home run.
For further information or questions, please contact me at [email protected] or check out our web site at www.videogenix.com. You can call me at 617-731-5550.
eMinute from January 2007
Brian Smith, CEO, WAAV, www.waav.com
WAAV brings broadband Internet connections to vehicles. We make a cellular router called the AirBox that turns any vehicle into its own Wi-Fi hotspot. With GPS options, fleets owners can have not only have broadband communication with their drivers, but they can track the vehicle locations remotely as well.
WAAV serves business fleets, government vehicles, and high-end consumers, a $13B market today. Our segments for consumer include salespeople, real-estate agents, and high-end family vehicles. Business fleets include repair vans, trucks, taxis, limousines, delivery vehicles, etc. Government vehicles, ambulances, and police cars can have secure broadband capabilities for fast access to their internal databases while headquarters track vehicle locations.
WAAV is seeking $700k in further angel funding for a sales & marketing push, as well as to buy inventory to fulfill initial customer orders. This will also enable us to continue our current R&D on our next-generation products. A full business plan is available upon request. WAAV's team has 64 years combined experience in wireless, telecom, software, and networking. We are also looking for motivated engineers and sales people desiring a startup opportunity, especially those with connections to fleets or the automotive industry.
Brian
J. Smith
WAAV, Inc.
One Canal Park
Cambridge, MA 02141
888-GET-WAAV ext 84
December 2006
eMinutes from November 2006:
Bob Light, CEO, MouseToMouse.net
Helping to transform a website visitor into your customer is what we do. We do this by putting a human being (ie-you) behind your advertisement. We are MouseToMouse.net and we are entering the "Customer Relationship Management" (CRM) market... visible to the world as those little “chat-with-me" icons you see on websites. Yes, this is a market filled with all sorts of well funded players. It is also true that these players have built huge systems on top of 10 year old web technology and have thus created a market opportunity for a new entrant. MouseToMouse has built their system using the latest open-source messaging protocols and web tools such as the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Our patent-pending technologies have produced the slickest user-experience in the CRM market today. You can check us out at www.MouseToMouse.net where you can try a demo and easily sign up to enable your website for MouseToMouse's chat-with-me service. Our current market is eBay and Overstock.com store owners and brochure-ware websites. With the next version, we will be able to serve large customer-service organizations at e-tail websites (the major market). We are seeking seed funding of $500,000 as well as marketing and sales team members to transform MouseToMouse from a technological success to a business success. Contact Bob Light at 1-877-MOUSE-123 or email: [email protected]
Jesse Nahan, CEO, MyActiveMind
MyActiveMind teaches college students how to learn more effectively with a highly personalized, patent-pending online support system. More than half of students who enter college fail to graduate. One- third never even make it to sophomore year. We focus on 21st century learning and communication skills to give new power to the $27 billion higher education sector to boost retention rates and grades. We’re not a publisher. We don’t teach content. We’re not a simple, one-size-fits-all program. Students build a personalized library of skills in MyActiveMind that grows with them and is available throughout their college years. Our Connect Learning To Life mission provides the context to relate student’s studies to their long-term goals. We offer engaging tools for all students to become more effective, confident learners. Colleges face increasing costs and competition to attract students. MyActiveMind will help colleges retain more of the students they spent so much money to recruit. I have managed technology and operations for 23 years, specializing in publishing and interactive development. My partner, Marion Rogers, is an educator and has had her own business teaching study skills and test-prep for 14 years. We have done extensive research, built proof- of-concept demos and planned an organization to bring MyActiveMind to market. We are seeking $300,000, ideally from investors with experience in education, to fund further technical development, market testing and a high quality demo to attract strategic partnerships. We are also seeking advisory board members with expertise in Internet technology and the business of education. Jesse Nahan, CEO MyActiveMind 229 Harvard Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 617-395-8446 http://www.myactivemind.com
eMinutes from October 2006:
Ted Bowman, My No Commission Real Estate, www.myncre.com
Hello, my Name is Ted Bowman, Chief Knowledge Officer of My No Commission Real Estate based in Marshfield, Massachusetts. MyNCRE was created with one goal in mind: to make home sellers and buyers experts in the real estate market. This vision was created by Phil Ganz, the CEO of the MyNCRE who has a background in the mortgage business. He realized that most people do not have any idea what their homes are worth. Because of this MyNCRE was born. We provide users with an electronic evaluation price very close to the value a mortgage banker would give you to borrow against your home. My No Commission Real Estates listing service is available to both home sellers and buyers whether they are home owners looking to sell their own or real estate professionals looking to gain extra exposure for their properties. To enhance the realtors experience even further we created Landbrokr, a free online web site and blog creation tool. This tool was created to give realtors another reason to use MyNCRE. The vision behind Landbrokr is to create a realtor community where users can come and write about work or pleasure. No where else on the Internet does such a community exist. In an age of Google Pagerank and adwords, this tool is a necessity for any realtor looking to gain the edge in an ever evolving technological world. Our goal from presenting this e-minute is raise capital in order to do more regional and national advertising for our product.
Ted Bowman
Chief Knowledge Officer
[email protected]
203.415.1051
Zahir Adil- Areosynthesis - www.areosynthesis.com
Aerosynthesis LLC is an Energy Enhancement company. Utilizing a process to deliver an oxygen rich stream of air to a combustion chamber, we have devised a first product that increases fuel mileage in several gasoline vehicles, and increases available power. Patents, filed through Fish & Richardson, have been granted on several key elements of the process. On-road independent tests at Sensors Inc. of Saline, Michigan, have shown a dramatic decrease in the exhaust gases from the vehicle tested. Initial tests on a Diesel car have been very promising. The technology is inexpensive to adapt and does not require re-tooling. We are following a two pronged marketing approach, one which addresses after-market needs, but more importantly, we are working towards creating enough technical value to lead towards licensing deals, essentially an “Aerosynthesis Inside” type of approach! Our initial seed money of about 150,000 was used for legal and testing costs. We are seeking a second round of financing to jump-start the after-market, as well as to continue development which will allow us to re-create the on-road results on a dynamometer, and continue on to verification of the hypothesis. The founders are Mohammed Moktader and Zahir Adil, and have a marketing team working with us. Aerosynthesis technology is available now, and is timed for quick acceptance and greater than average returns. Aerosynthesis is based in West Springfield and the web site is www.aerosynthesis.com. We will be happy to answer any questions.
Zahir Adil
(978)670-2405
[email protected]
eMinutes from September 2006:
Dan Hermes, Dan Hermes Fine Art
Dan Hermes Fine Art provides moving digital paintings to meet the growing demand for art content on flat screen televisions. Combining video, computer graphics, and traditional fine arts techniques, and music, we develop abstract and representational artworks designed for use in the home. With the expansive growth of the in-home A/V market and DVD sales having outstripped theatre sales, consumers have exercised their decision that entertainment and culture should occur primarily in the home. The phasing-out of large CRT televisions as they are replaced by flat-screen alternatives, LCDs and plasmas, is creating a commonplace display device which more closely resembles a canvas, altering consumer perception for its potential use. These trends toward in-home culture, audiovisual technology growth, and the increasing ubiquity of canvas-like flat screen televisions, are creating an unprecedented niche for artwork which fully utilizes the medium of motion and sound. Our works have exhibited internationally, at art fairs and conferences, such as the Hospitality Design Expo 2006 in Las Vegas. This summer we signed a distribution contract with a company called Evolving Art, a hardware manufacturer with a product line called Digital Canvas, which is a museum-quality framed flat screen designed exclusively for display of artwork. We seek strategic partners and business advisors to augment our board.
Dan Hermes
President, Dan Hermes Fine Art
www.danhermes.com
[email protected]
Jon Monsarrat - Activity Central
Microsoft partnered with my first company, Turbine Entertainment Software, which is now the largest computer games company in New England, and employs 250 people. Now I am starting a new company from the following question. What if I could increase circulation of one of The Boston Globe's sections 20 times? What if I could increase sales leads 100 times? This is possible through Web scraping, where information spread broadly across thousands of websites is collected into one central database. Since computers can't read English, only humans can read Web sites, so Web scraping on this scale has been impossible -- until now, with our patent-pending technology. Activity Central has a first distribution deal and interest from potential customers including The Boston Globe and the Weekly Dig. Based in Cambridge, the company has filled half our first seed round of $100,000, and plans another seed round in October in preparation for a product launch in December. You'll be boasting about my company for the rest of your life. This is Web 2.0, the machine-readable Web, the next Internet boom.
My name is Jon Monsarrat, and the company is Activity Central at activitycentral.org.
eMinutes from June 2006:
Ray Deck, President, Element55, www.element55.com
Based in
Cambridge, Element55 was founded to provide software that automatically captures
the time professionals spend on the computer, emails, phone calls and meetings,
so that time does not slip through the cracks. This software is resident on
the professional's desktop, laptop, and handheld, silently capturing time
to a private timesheet that can be reviewed at his or her convenience.
We have enjoyed great success by closing business with an initial set of major
law firms across the United States. Our clients include Edwards, Angell, Palmer
with 550 lawyers and 10 offices and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati --
a 650 person firm based in Palo Alto.
In evaluative processes our clients have found that time capture system adds
an additional six billable hours per timekeeper per month which can translate
to 15,000 in gained revenue if only 10 attorneys are signed up at the average
billing rate of 250/hour. Clients also see a return on investment very quickly
upon implementation -- sometimes as early as one month into using it.
Ray Deck, the founder and CEO, has seven year's experience as an entrepreneur.
Element55 is his fourth business, and was born from his own challenges running
a consulting practice and getting his associates to bill completely and with
sufficient detail. Legal55 evolved as a result of Ray Deck's strong entrepreneurial
vision and consulting practice. He has proven that he is able to execute his
vision, having brought the product to market and realized profitability as
a result of the strategic recurring revenue model he developed and an acute
attention to cost control.
We are ramping up our marketing and sales in the legal arena, and we are investigating
adjacent markets in which Legal55 can make sense. We are on the hunt for strategic
partners who are involved in legal and professional service markets who offer
complementary propositions which can create "1+1=3" joint opportunities.
We are also investigating raising equity investment in the range of $500k-$1mm
so that this winning technology can be brought to additional markets more
rapidly.
Ray Deck, President, [email protected].
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