On November 9th, the TechStars class of 2010 presented at the Triple Door to over 250 people -- primarily investors. In my opinion, the event -- and the whole program was a huge success.
In this post, I want to provide you with an overview of the 10 companies that presented and also give you a list of some of the coverage of the event.
It’s important for me to thank you. The success of the program would not have been possible without the support of Seattle Tech Community. Community member's involvement as mentors, speakers, beta testers, and investors etc. played a significant hand in the progress these companies made over the last three months.
Thank you for enriching the startup community in Seattle!
Demo Day Press Coverage
- TechCrunch
- TechFlash
- David Cohen
- Christopher Griffin, of Microsoft BizSpark
- Xconomy
- And for some a funny view of creative pitching you can check out the interpretive dance video
The companies in TechStars in Seattle 2010
Below are the companies that participated in TechStars Seattle 2010.
Highlighter.com - Highlight, comment, and share on blogs, ebooks and PDFs on any device and manage your highlights. Highlighter allows publishers to enable deeper engagement with specific pieces of content, giving their audiences the ability to engage with them on specific words, sentences or images by simply highlighting. You can see Highlighter in action on David Cohen's post about the upcoming Open Angel Forum.
Deal Co-op - Deal Co-op is a self-service daily deal marketing service for local organizations, publishers, and more. The company aims to be the best white label solution for affiliate groups. The service is already generating revenue with partners such as Green Lake Moms (in Seattle) and Broke Ass Stewart (in San Francisco).
The Shared Web - The Shared Web is a "better way to discover and share the web." The service feels a little bit like a web based version of Flipboard - it's a highly personalized reading experience. But The Shared Web is aiming to not only display interesting content in a beautiful layout, but also to "democratize the curation of content just as blogging democratized the authoring of it." The founders of The Shared Web explained that they hope to be the best place to both discover and share what matters to you the most.
Cabin Fever Toys - Cabin Fever Toys is setting out to tackle the problem of childhood obesity in the United States. The company showed off their designs for portable toy animals designed to be played with outdoors by kids. These toys measure, encourage and reward outdoor exercise and are coupled with an online experience to help reinforce desired behaviors with game mechanics. We're seeing an invasion of "active" video games, but these are to be played indoors and are tied to a screen. Cabin Fever Toys is hoping that they can capitalize on this trend but with more of a mobile outdoor experience, using Webkinz-like toys to encourage kids to get out there and exercise.
Kinizi - Kinizi is aiming to be the place to go when you're looking for low cost apartment rentals. They're essentially applying the daily deal model to apartment search, and enabling landlords to quickly fill vacancies using short term special offers.
RewardsForce - RewardsForce
Thinkfuse - Thinkfuse is building smart tools for team collaboration, and has started out by creating an easier and more effective way for teams to manage and share weekly status reports called This Week Last Week.
World Blender - World Blender is creating social location-based first person shooter games such as GPS Assassin. World Blender envisions a world where your game experience and strategy changes depending on where you and your friends are in the real world.
GoMiles - GoMiles wants to help travelers unlock the value of their frequent flier miles. GoMiles is reporting that they're already tracking over 150 million miles for their users. GoMiles also wants to help customers not only track miles but get the most out of them, helping them understand the best ways to protect, earn more, or redeem reward miles.
Giant Thinkwell - Giant Thinkwell is an imaginative social gaming platform featuring celebrity-based games. Their first game is called Raising Uncle Jesse, where players hilariously give birth to a baby John Stamos, and then raise him over time.
What’s next?
All the companies are in the process of raising seed capital. A number of them have received commitments already! They're collectively looking to build on the momentum created at DemoDay. Help them get their rounds done. In so doing, you’ll be helping the startup scene in Seattle.
We will continue to host events for the tech/start up community in the Easy –
Next year’s class: (yes, we’re already planning!)
· Spread the word about TechStars! Applications open in March. Until then, there are networking events at the Easy, Open coffee at Louisa’s, videos and the TechStars blog.
Thanks again to everyone who helped make this program so successful in the first year!
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