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Showcase

TheFunded.com Showcase lists new startup companies from around the world. Members are invited to vote on companies they like, and, once a quarter, companies with the most votes get invited to an exciting event in Silicon Valley. The Q3 2010 Showcase is now planned for August 3rd, 2010. You need to be a Member to create a Pitch. Register here.

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Next Play Sports

Games/Entertainment in Games

Located in San Diego, US West

OVERVIEW: Next Play Sports creates mobile apps that take fantasy sports to the next level by allowing players to predict their team’s next play while watching the game in real time. Fantasy Sports is a $3-4B market with 30MM+ users.

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CiviGuard, Inc.

Communications/Networking in Emergency Communications

Located in Mountain View, US West

OVERVIEW: What if a smartphone could save your life in a crisis? CiviGuard is a hyper-local service that delivers authoritative and actionable information to your smartphone in the event of an emergency. At the end of 2009, the mass notification and public alerting sector was growing at a CAGR of 17% and was valued at $565M in the public sector alone and $4.65B overall (Gartner / Forrester Research).

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Spreaker

Internet/B2C in Social Media / Audio

Located in Bologna, Europe

OVERVIEW: Spreaker allows anybody to host a Live Internet talk&music radio show and broadcast it on social media platforms. over 70MM Americans are listening to internet radio each month and mobile usage is rapidly driving this growth. The global radio marketplace is worth $41 billion.

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Zwoob.com

Internet/B2C in Social Networking

Located in Sacramento Area, US West

OVERVIEW: zwoob is an easy to use site that provides a single place to list all of your contact information. With so many social networks, we help you put links to your profiles all in one place so they're easy to share. Example: www.aaronlrutledge.com. We plan to primarily target users of Facebook, operating on the assumption that even if they're using another network, they're likely using Facebook too. Based on that, market size is 500 million users.

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SachManya

Wireless/Mobile in Mobile Apps

Located in Santa Clara, US West

OVERVIEW: SachManya provides two award-winning mobile applications platforms that enables publishers of all kinds to extend their each to mobile devices easily, quickly and affordably. SM estimates that publishers (50,250 newspapers, 14575 TV Stations, 47328 periodicals, 15790 book publishers, & 150M bloggers & 190M content web sites worldwide) will spend $7.3B on mobile related application development, hosting and IT services.

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ShowForce

Wireless/Mobile in Location/Events

Located in Redwood City, US West

OVERVIEW: ShowForce is like Foursquare for event-goers. It lets you digitally bookmark and physically discover what's going on around an event (trade show, conference, fair). Make plans, connect with people, and discover what's generating a lot of interest. The service helps exhibitors do targeted lead generation through CPA-based advertising. There is a $2B addressable market across 13,000 events held annually in the US and Canada.

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Vizitnow3D

Internet/B2C in Virtual Worlds / Sports Fans

Located in Medford, US West

OVERVIEW: We build interactive 3D replicas of real world environments, connecting target consumers & advertisers in real time, empowering advertisers with 24/7 control. We connect sports fans with pro athletes for social interaction in a custom 3D village. Market includes; $12B sports marketing industry ($1B online), 216mm sports fans in U.S., 140mm unique visitors to sports sites in April 2010, 27mm Fantasy Sports players, 41 (avg. age), 81 percent use credit cards online every month.

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Civi-Side

Internet/B2C in Recruitment Advertising

Located in Ottawa, Canada

OVERVIEW: Young veterans have a 25% higher unemployment rate than their civilian counterparts. We have developed a unique service model that exponentially increases their opportunities to successfully transition into the civilian workforce. There are 2.3 million soldiers in the US military. Over 70% separate without a pension. 400 000 separate annually. Worldwide market for our service is in the 10s of millions.

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SILVER PLANET

Internet/B2C in Boomer Services

Located in Seattle, US West

OVERVIEW: Silver Planet helps boomers guide their parents to age in place by providing personalized professional consultants & related products & services to address challenging life circumstances. According to eMarketer, there were 83.7 million baby boomer/senior Internet users in 2009, expected to grow to 89 million users by 2011. Internal projections predict less than .5% market penetration required to reach profitability.

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iTickleU

Internet/B2C in Social Networking, Mobile Applic...

Located in Trumbull, US East

OVERVIEW: iTickleU will become the 1st exclusive online college social experience connecting students and campuses through shared video, picture and/or editorial related to the fun individual and group experiences on college campuses around America. iTickleU will capitalize on the hugely untapped College social internet market, by targeting over 15.9 million registered College students in the U.S. alone, expanding eventually to students around the globe.

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Footfeed

Wireless/Mobile in Geo Location

Located in San Jose, US West

OVERVIEW: Footfeed makes it easy for consumers to check-in to multiple check-in networks simultaneously, including Brightkite, Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook, while earning rewards for checking-in. Location-based check-in services are growing rapidly. Foursquare claims over 1.1 Million users while Gowalla boasts 250,000 users . Revenue from LBS services is predicted to exceed $12 billion by 2014, primarily in local advertising and marketing.

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emota.net

BioTech/Health in Health 2.0

Located in Menlo Park, CA, US West

OVERVIEW: Emota helps families, caregivers and clinicians create an always-on supportive presence around an older adult, to reduce social isolation, improve medical adherence and wellness, while reducing burden on clinicians and caregivers. The age 65+ population in the US will grow from 30M to 72M by 2030. Currently, 20% of this senior population has loneliness related depression symptoms, which lead to non-adherence to clinical regimen, resulting in significantly higher health costs.

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Voyavo

Internet/B2C in Travel Services

Located in San Francisco, US West

OVERVIEW: Travel should be social. Voyavo.com helps consumers quickly build trips at the best available prices, easily share details with other travelers, invite others to join the trip, print itineraries, and discuss travel plans with everyone on the trip. Our addressable market in Outbound Travelers, Consumer Destination Planning, Group Leisure Travelers & Unmanaged Business Travelers spans 46MM households spending $112B on travel annually out of the $770B travel industry revenue.

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AKSEL PARIS

Internet/B2C in Apparel

Located in San Francisco, US West

OVERVIEW: AKSEL brings luxury products at half the retail price. The company aims at becoming the online Zara, and is working on an original business model for the apparel industry that leverages crowd sourcing. The company is 100% online and addresses the global apparel industry, a market of $100 billion in the US alone.

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Columbus Internet

Internet/B2C in Web Applications

Located in Berlin, Germany, Europe

OVERVIEW: Columbus Internet provides collaborative cash-generating travel-sector applications for Google Wave including a trip-planner Travel WithMe and an accommodation booking tool Hostel WithMe. The US online travel sector represents a market size of around $123bn, 89% of which is spent by people travelling together. Commissions paid to redirecting websites average 2%, giving a potential market size of $2.1bn in the US alone.

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BookGlutton

Internet/B2C in Books

Located in New York, US East

OVERVIEW: BookGlutton connects the digital book experience with the social web; it delivers networked activities like in-chapter chat and shared annotations inside books. Publishing is a $23 Billion market in the US; ebooks were 3% of the fiction market in 2009, but are expected to be 9% by the end of 2010. Ebooks represent a rapidly growing, young market.

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iBloom Technologies

Internet/B2C in Live Expert Advice

Located in Hyderabad, Asia / Pacific

OVERVIEW: HelloExpert is the disruptive approach to seeking expert solutions to customers' problems using the internet. We bring advanced technologies and experts for customers to seek serious help or advice- live or offline. Market Size: US $ 6 billion at the global scale. Targeting high broadband penetration countries, and elite and professional consumers and experts from across the world. Following are disruptive features:

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KarmaKorn

Internet/B2C in Social Apps

Located in Chicago, US Central

OVERVIEW: KarmaKorn is “disruptive philanthropy”- a complete economy for social change, with a central bank, currency, ledger accounts, market mechanisms, information transparency, & global liquidity- wrapped within leading social media & mobile networks. The market size: 6 billion people; Millions of brands.

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DNA Guide

BioTech/Health in Personalized Medicine

Located in Sebastopol, CA, US West

OVERVIEW: DNA Guide provides software for managing personal genetic data. Our market is anyone with a need to work with personal genetic data as part of personalized medicine (i.e. labs, clinical researchers, health service providers, pharma and consumers). DNA Guide is based on an issued patent US 7089498 http://bit.ly/3bEmpT. The values within the persons DNA sample are used for security, and GIS (mapping software) is used to display/distribute the data.

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eMotion Group

Internet/B2C in Smart Fashion & Social Networking

Located in Chicago, US Central

OVERVIEW: BFF Gemz pendant is a “smart” fashion accessory linked to a social network. The pendants allow users to add friends online through real-world syncing (preventing unwanted interactions) and also to share secret coded messages among BFFs offline. BFF Gemz is created for the 16MM tweens (girls aged 7 - 12 yrs) in the US who influence $171 billion in spending. This offering also has potential to tap into the $1.6 billion virtual goods market with our product-related online property.

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Real Gravity

Software/B2B in Online Video

Located in San Francisco/LA, US West

OVERVIEW: RealGravity provides web publishers with a turnkey solution for adding contextual video to their sites, and a means to monetize the video ad inventory that results. RealGravity has aggregated a huge amount of made-for-web video content from professional producers in categories like travel, auto, food, and fashion. Our market includes all web publishers in those categories who have no video content of their own.

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YouPhonics

Games/Entertainment in Music

Located in Montreal, Canada

OVERVIEW: Musicians are *always* looking for people to jam with. YouPhonics makes it easy and fun to find 'em. Amateur musicians are a tough cookie to pin down, though our estimates show at least 156.25 million worldwide. There are somewhere between 8 and 13 million who take their music pretty seriously, (by promoting themselves through a Myspace Music page).

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DealerBahn

Software/B2B in Commercial Equipment Distributio...

Located in Plano, TX, US Central

OVERVIEW: We are a SaaS collaboration platform that streamlines workflow processes and enhances information flows for commercial equipment sales, finance and vendors businesses. The annual U.S. market for commercial equipment finance is $600B (Source: ELFA)

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aLegence

Internet/B2C in Loyalty Auction / Churn

Located in Naples, FL, US East

OVERVIEW: U.S. Patent 7464053 turns Priceline’s patent on its head, enabling consumers to offer their contractually-guaranteed loyalty for the term of X, and then ask: "What do You bid for ME?". This may be the most efficient customer acquisition tool - ever Fungible products and services are our target. $984 Billion in credit card debt revolves each month. $1 Bln in auto gas is sold daily. Do YOU really care who refined your gas or issues your Visa or MC credit card?

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CityRyde LLC

Software/B2B in Carbon Credits

Located in Philadelphia, US East

OVERVIEW: CityRyde seeks $375,000 to turn bike rides into cash from bike share programs by tapping into the $120,000,000,000 carbon offset credit market. Currently over 250 bike share programs worldwide (Paris has 24,000 bikes); experiencing over 200% growth/annum. Voluntary carbon credit industry exceeded $800million in value 2008 (over 200% growth since 2007); expected to reach $120billion by 2012.

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Mobisave

Wireless/Mobile in Coupons

Located in Port Chester NY, US East

OVERVIEW: Our proprietary technology enables CPG manufacturers to offer database-driven coupons on mobile phones that can be used in all retailers including Wal-Mart. All other CPG mobile coupon systems depend on retailer cooperation and have limited reach. Currently 90% of CPG coupons are distributed in newspaper FSIs with declining circulation and lack of reach into the critical millennial demographic. CPG manufacturers spend over $4 billion in this inefficient space that hasn't changed in 50 years.

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CloudCRUD

Software/B2B in Cloud Migration

Located in Atlanta, US East

OVERVIEW: CloudCRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) is developing a PaaS solution to enable the forthcoming flood of web apps to easily access cloud services. What the iPhone did for smartphones, CloudCRUD will do for data. The User Interface is EVERYTHING. The current market leader is Intuit's Quickbase. CloudCRUD will leverage Microsoft's .Net, Silverlight, Azure & ServiceBus to empower users, power-users and developers. Coghead failed in this space in 2009.

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PigSpigot

Internet/B2C in Greeting Cards

Located in Brooklyn, US East

OVERVIEW: Featuring print-on-demand personalization and user-generated/user-curated content, PigSpigot makes it easier for more people to send better cards. PigSpigot is poised to capture a significant portion of a market that is worth more than $9 billion dollars in annual revenue and is growing at a rate close to 10 percent.

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Smartscale Systems

Software/B2B in Data Center/Cloud Computing

Located in Campbell, CA, US West

OVERVIEW: Smartscale helps companies spend their IT budget more effectively by providing financial management tools for IT infrastructure. Virtualization and Cloud computing have revolutionized the capabilities IT has to offer. As companies move to this technology the market for integrated management will grow to $150 billion by 2013.