Portfolio
January 2009 Cohort
The January cohort is graduating September 2009.
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AdHack
AdHack is an open marketplace for advertising creative. It connects ad buyers with ad creators with an inventory of pre-made advertising as well as custom, on-demand ads for print, web, audio, and video.
Management Team: James Sherrett @sherrett
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Let's Go For Dinner
Storm Media Inc. is developing the Entertainment Book for the digital age. Their first project is Let's Go For Dinner, focused on restaurants. Featuring a digital swipe card and deep point of sale integration, the system can directly drive customers into restaurant seats with web and mobile integration.
Management Team: Craig Baker, John Jensen, Francis Steiner
May 2009 Cohort
The May 2009 cohort is graduating January 2010.
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LayerBoom
Layerboom provides hosting companies with a comprehensive solution which enables them to build and sell virtual private server clouds. After installing Layerboom software, hosting companies can manage their physical and virtual server inventory, customer accounts, define virtual machine sizes, packages, and pricing, as well as customize a hosted dashboard.
Management Team: Trevor Orsztynowicz, Howie Wu
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OverInteractive Media Inc.
OverInteractive is developing DimeRocker, a web gaming destination and set of social gaming APIs to connect gaming with the web and vice versa. Unity3D is the first gaming engine they are targeting.
Management Team: J Joly, Dawn Wattie
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LexPublica
LexPublica is developing an online community to open source the law, starting with legal resources like simple, plain language contract templates. The resources are for anyone to use, for any purpose, free of charge.
LexPublica is a venture of 8.5x14 Media Corp, a company whose mission is to re-invent legal services. 8.5x14 will offer paid services built on the open platform provided by LexPublica.
Management Team: Martin Ertl, Zak Greant, Kim Werker
January 2010 Cohort
The January cohort is graduating September 2010.
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appsocial
AppSocial are the creators of Tingle. Tingle, launching its Vancouver BETA in February 2010, is the only dating community designed specifically for the iPhone. Tingle is a revolution in dating: it's mobile, location-aware, voice-enabled, and realtime.
Management Team: Ian Bell @ianb, Patrick Chin
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Blast Ramp
Blast Ramp is collaborative distribution platform for companies that sell and ship consumer products.
Blast Ramp is a “lite enterprise” suite of web-based features combined with real world infrastructure. The system is used by niche product companies that are in the long tail, e.g. skateboarding apparel and ecommerce logistics services. Apparel and Third Party Logistics (3PL) companies are the current primary targets of Blasty and the Blast Ramp crew.
Over $200M shipped in 2008 and growing!
Management Team: Monty McCallum @montymccallum, Mike Kirk @omegabloom , Kolby Brezden @kolbybrezden
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Compass Engine
Compass Engine helps developers create the next generation of location based games.
Compass Engine helps developers create the next generation of location based games. We provide a set of tools and services that drastically simplify the development of location aware games. We make it easy to store and retrieve locational data as well as providing a common interface to access Wikipedia, Flickr, Twitter and other sources of geo-spatial data.
Management Team: Mack Flavelle @MackFlavelle, Ben Hesketh @ben_hesketh
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Foodtree
foodtree brings the community and transparency of the farmers market online.
foodtree is the ultimate brochure for food producers and distributors. Combining digitally rich stories with a social web marketing platform means food producers can earn the margins of direct sales with the ease of wholesale sales. Grounded in open data and transparency, it will power a comprehensive food web connecting producers, restaurants, retailers and citizens, enabling consumers to make conscious food purchasing decisions.
Management Team: Anthony Nicalo @farmstead, Shelly Roche @shellyroche, Derek Shanahan @dshanahan
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ReadFu
ReadFu brings contextual summaries for every link.
ReadFu helps users rapidly surf through web pages that contain lots of links. With ReadFu, every time you click a link you get a contextual summary and stats of the target page. This helps you decide which links are relevant to you without opening dozens of tabs.
Management Team: Cristian George Strat @cristianstrat, Mircea Pașoi @mirceapasoi, Silviu Ionuț Gănceanu @ganceanu
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Status.ly
Statusly is a device-independent lifestream aggregator with focus on personalized customization and real-time filtering.
Statusly is a device-independent lifestream aggregator with focus on personalized customization and real-time filtering. Users organize information according to their tastes in a manner that doesn't sacrifice the discovery and social "noise" inherent to the experience of social networks.
Management Team: Steven Rogers @soldoutactivist, Jamie Martin @livejamie
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Zedmo
Zedmo lets you find events and social topics. You can discover these Zedmo “channels” according to their location, popularity, or topic.
Management Team: Noah Bloom @nbloom, Daniel Wolfe @dwolfe56