Techcrunch40 - Review all 40 startups in less than 5 minutes
Techcrunch40 conference: All TC40 presenting companies and “what they do” is summarized here in one single page. Effort is made to keep it brief and simple, representing facts in layman’s language minus the marketing fluff and all other heavy mambo jambo. Shouldn’t take you more than 5 minutes to finish the page.
After reading short company reviews here, if you want to know more about a company, you can click on the profile link, which will take you to startup’s profile page at Crunch Base. Also included are the links to the live coverage at Techcrunch in detail towards the end of this post. Enjoy!
List of startups presenting at Techcrunch 40 conference -at a glance:
App2You lets you create do-it-yourself database driven web-based applications using a simple browser based interface. (profile)
8020 Publishing lets online communities actively participate in creating print magazines, crowd sourcing the print magazine creation process, and providing the logistics and editorial oversight. (blog, profile)
Cake Financial (blog, profile)
CastTV is a video search engine which help users finding and cataloging videos from the web. (blog, profile)
Ceedo lets you take your Windows desktop environment with you on mobile devices. Just connect mobile device to a Windows-PC and start working. (blog, profile)
Cognitive Code provides SILVIA, a complete system for the development and deployment of intelligent application that allows humans to interact with computers in completely natural and intuitive ways - uses artificial intelligence. (blog, profile)
Crowd Spirit is all about Electronic Product Crowd sourcing - Define, design, invest, finalize, test, recommend electronic products and share product revenue. (blog, profile)
Cubic Telecom Cubic Telecom is a mobile startup focused on reducing roaming and call charges for overseas calls. (blog, profile)
DocStoc DocStoc is YouTube for documents. Upload, share and rate your documents with the world. (blog, profile)
eXtreme Reality (blog, profile)
Faroo is a Peer-to-Peer distributed search engine with a distributed index providing more democratic user centric ranking while sharing advertising revenue with users. (blog, profile)
Flock is a web browser which makes discovery and sharing of rich media (video, photos, blogs etc) easier while enhancing social networking experience. (blog, profile)
LoudTalks is a push to talk free downloadable application, which allows you to talk to your friends or colleagues instantly with a single touch of a button. (blog, profile)
MusicShake lets your create music without previous knowledge of music or expertise. You can create ringtones and personalized music. (blog, profile)
Ponoko helps you convert your designs into real products, helps sell these products online or deliver directly to the customers. (blog, profile)
Story Blender lets your create video mashups from video clips, images and audio and share with your friends. (blog, profile)
Teach the People Lets you create communities for fun, education & innovation and share knowledge. Allows uploading of audio, video, docs and provides broadcasts, chat discussion boards etc. (blog, profile)
Tripit Tripit is a do-it-yourself online trip planner which lets your share your trip itineraries etc with friends. (blog, profile)
TruTap lets you IM from mobile phone, share pics etc across different Instant Mesaging (IM) networks. Requires app download to your phone. (blog, profile)
Viewdle allows monetization of videos by indexing and making embedded meta data searchable. Its facial-recognition technology enables better cataloging and more relevant search results. (blog, profile)
Wixi is a media sharing desktop which lets you store and share all your video, music and photos in one place. (blog, profile)
Techcrunch 40 Day 1 presentations:
TechCrunch 40 Session 1: Search & Discovery
TechCrunch 40 Session 2: Mobile & Communications
Techcrunch40 Day 2 presentations:
TechCrunch40 Session 5: Productivity & Web Apps
TechCrunch40 Session 6: Revenue Models & Analytics
Note that some links will become functional on Sept 18 once the demos. Please leave a comment if you find any mistakes or inaccuracies.
