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On the second and final day of DEMO, yesterday, I stopped at the booth of CalendarFly, a company that had been on stage earlier showing its very impressive online calendar for schools, parents, and students. I chatted with Drew Aldrich, CEO, and Jason Cernansky, CTO.
• Download or listen to Graeme’s interview with CalendarFly (MP3)”
A second interview I did at DEMO yesterday was at the booth of Democrasoft, a company that had been on stage earlier. I chatted with Richard Lang, CEO, about the product his company launched, called "Collaborize."
• Download or listen to Graeme's interview with Richard Lang of Democrasoft (MP3)"
As is
my custom, I’m publishing the list of DEMO presenters as soon as it’s
released. What follows is an
excerpt from the press release that just hit the wire:
———
The
DEMO conference, the world-renowned launch platform for some of the most
notable emerging technologies introduced over the past two decades, today
announced the lineup of 65 companies that will share their never-before-seen
products and value propositions to the technology community at DEMO Spring 2010
on March 21-23 in Palm Desert, California (JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort).
The
DEMO conference opens a window into technology's future, and this year the
event will feature some of the most promising new products and prototypes from
a variety of different industries including Social and Media, Cloud,
Enterprise, Mobile, and Consumer Technologies.
DEMO
Spring 2010 is also excited to have VentureBeat Founder and CEO, Matt Marshall,
on board as DEMO’s new executive producer, who has evaluated and selected
leading-edge innovations to launch on the DEMO stage.
In its
second year, sitting alongside the demonstrating class of DEMO Spring 2010, the
Alpha Pitch program will feature 13 early-stage entrepreneurs and pre-launch
mode companies that will have 90 seconds in the spotlight to share their
prototypes to the critical DEMO audience. To have qualified for the program,
each company must be pre-revenue, and have received no more than a seed round
of funding.
You can
still register to attend by going to the DEMO web site. Live broadcast
over the web will be available through a partnership with DEMO 08
demonstrator and former DEMOgod award winner BitGravity,
for registered qualified members of the press. Qualified members of the
press may request live viewing access via www.etouches.com/demovideo. Videos from
live DEMO Spring 2010 presentations will also be available within 24-48 hours
after each presentation on DEMO.com.
———
As
always, I will be covering the event on-site, posting some audio interviews as
I can, and also live-blogging the entire proceedings, as I did for DEMOfall
’09.
And now, ta-dah! Here’s the just-released list….
DEMO
Spring 2010 Demonstrators:
ABJK
NewCo, Inc.; Austin, Texas; www.zosh.com
AirSet;
Berkeley, California; www.airset.com
AppVoyage;
San Jose, California; www.appvoyage.com
AppWhirl,
Inc.; Mountain View, California; www.appwhirl.com
bloson;
Cambridge, Massachusetts; www.bloson.com
BlueSkies
Hospitality Management Systems (HMS); Pendleton, Indiana; www.blueskieshms.com
BrandFolium
Corporation; Sunnyvale, California; www.brandfolium.com
CalendarFly;
Pelham, New York; www.calendarfly.com
Closely,
Inc.; Denver, Colorado; www.closely.com
Cloudscale,
Inc.; San Mateo, California; www.cloudscale.com
Democrasoft;
Santa Rosa, California; www.democrasoft.com
DigitalScirocco;
Seattle, Washington; www.digitalscirocco.com
Everloop;
Danville, California; www.everloop.com
eXaudios
Technologies; Ramat-Gan, Israel; www.exaudios.com
FathomDB;
San Francisco, California;
Fliptop;
San Francisco, California; www.fliptop.com
General
Inspection, LLC; Davisburg, Michigan; www.generalinspection.com
Genieo
Innovation; Herzlia Pituach, Israel; www.genieo.com
GlideTV,
Inc.; Pleasanton, California; www.glidetv.com
GreenNurture;
Tempe, Arizona; www.greennurture.com
gwabbit;
Carmel Valley, California; www.gwabbit.com
Hillcrest
Labs; Rockville, Maryland; www.hillcrestlabs.com
InfoDome;
Oakland, California; www.InfoDome.com
Infusionsoft;
Gilbert, Arizona; www.infusionsoft.com
Invested.in;
Thousand Oaks, California; www.invested.in
InVisage
Technologies, Inc.; Menlo Park, California; www.invisageinc.com
MightyMeeting,
Inc.; Setauket, New York; www.mightymeetings.com
MiniMash,
Inc.; Oakland, California; www.minimash.com
my6sense,
Inc.; Herzeliya Pituach, Israel; www.my6sense.com/
NetToons,
Inc.; El Cerrito, California; www.nettoons.com
Network
Hippo, Inc.; Ottawa, Ontario; www.networkhippo.com
nyoombl,
Inc.; Palo Alto, California; www.nyoombl.com
Phone
Halo; Santa Barbara, California; www.phonehalo.com
Pi
Mobility; Sausalito, California; www.pi.pngmobility.com
Rebtel;
Stockholm, Nacka Strand; www.rebtel.com
Sharetivity;
Palo Alto, California; www.sharetivity.com
SocialWish;
Brooklyn, New York;
Solvate;
New York, New York; http://solvate.com
Supercool
School; San Francisco, California; www.SupercoolSchool.com
Sutus,
Inc.; Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; www.sutus.com
Tastr,
Inc.; San Diego, California; http://xpenser.com/
Teneros;
Mountain View, California; www.teneros.com
Value-Centered
Solutions, Inc.; San Pablo, California; www.inoutcash.com
VenueGen;
Morrisville, North Carolina; www.venuegen.com
ViaCLIX;
Los Gatos, California; www.viaclix.com
VIC
Wave Communication, Inc.; Victoria, British Columbia; www.vicwave.net
VISIARC;
Stockholm, Sweden;
www.visiarc.com
and www.mobiledocuments.com
Vivox; Natick,
Massachusetts; www.vivox.com
Voxofon,
LLC; Houston, Texas; www.voxofon.com
Widgetbox;
San Francisco, California; www.clickturn.com
Zerista,
Inc.; Denver, Colorado; www.zerista.com
DEMO
Spring 2010 AlphaPitch Companies:
flinc;
Dieburg, Germany; www.flinc.mobi
Immitter;
Los Angeles, California; www.immitter.com
KarmaKorn;
Lindenhurst, Illinois;
MEDL
Technology Co., Ltd.; Mongkok, Hong Kong; www.medltech.com
neverend
media; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; www.neverendmedia.com
R3
d.o.o.; Maribor Slovenia, Europe; www.mmatcher.com
PERMISSIONtosend;
Denbigh, Wales, UK;
SocialOrbits,
LLC; Chicago, Illinois; www.SocialOrbits.com
Systems
Thinking Institute, LLC; Cedar Creek, Texas; www.systemkey.net
TicketPlayground.com;
Plantation, Florida;
ThickButtons;
Palo Alto, California;
Yumit;
Madrid, Spain; www.yumit.com
UppyMedia.com;
Alameda, California;
ZURB;
Campbell, California;
An
additional excerpt from the press release: In addition to the exciting
companies that will take the stage, DEMO will host some of the single most
influential entrepreneurs, organizations, and venture capitalists in the industry
to participate in panel sessions on the key themes for the show, including:
– Social
and Media
– Cloud
–
Enterprise
– Mobile
–
Consumer Technologies
Matt
Marshall, Executive Producer of DEMO, will lead these panel discussions
throughout the multi-day conference.
———
I'll be at DEMO for the entire event, which starts late afternoon Sunday and goes through Tuesday evening. If you'll be in attendance, I look forward to
meeting you!
My local followers here in Minnesota may have heard about the acquisition of local startup SMB:LIVE this past week. The company was known more in these parts by the name of its service, CloudProfile, which had gotten some local buzz due to a test program it had going with Best Buy. In fact, the day the acquisition was announced, the brand-new March issue of Twin Cities Business magazine landed on my desk, with a glowing piece on the company, under the headline Found in the Clouds. 
So much for the timeliness of monthlies: just the day before, the company had ceased being an independent Minnesota firm, becoming part of a high-flying Southern California firm, which has filed for an IPO.
And I now have the details of what the acquirer — ReachLocal — paid for the firm. I simply asked my friends at socalTECH.com, a great site that covers the tech community out there, where ReachLocal is based. And, thanks to my prodding late yesterday 🙂 they took another look — proceeding to discover just the data I was looking for, which was in a filing they hadn't checked till they saw my email.
So, here's the deal: the purchase price was $2.8M in cash, plus up to $5.7M dependent on milestones — for a total of $8.8M, including assumptions of some liabilities. That's according to Ben Kuo, editor at socalTECH.com, who told me ReachLocal had buried the information in an S-1 addendum, and had not announced it in their earlier news release.
Not a bad payday for a firm that had barely released their site into the wild. Congrats to founder and CEO Alex Hawkinson. (Read more about him and his small team here.) For more on the deal, see socalTECH's coverage that was updated last night. And here's another site in SoCal with a page that groups socalTECH's previous stories on ReachLocal, including their filing for an IPO in late December.
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Here's a post I just wrote about a mega-hot Minneapolis startup, over on another site I contribute to regulary: Minnov8.com. 
You might also want to listen to some of our podcasts posted there, which we do weekly. Just published earlier today is a post that includes the link to our podcast recorded yesterday, which we called "A Conversation on Cloud Computing."
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