Companies

BuzzStream

http://buzzstream.com

BuzzStream helps users build and manage social media relationships. Our tools help users realize more value from their online relationships by achieving greater visibility on search engines, in blogs, and in traditional media.

Founders:
Paul May, Jeremy Bencken

dailymile

http://dailymile.com

A social training log for runners, cyclists, and triathletes.

Founders:
Ben Weiner, Kelly Korevec

FiveRuns

http://fiveruns.com

FiveRuns delivers simple, elegant and affordable products for instrumenting, monitoring and managing Rails application performance. FiveRuns TuneUp is a free service for developers offering Rails application profiling with community support, and FiveRuns Manage offers affordable Ruby on Rails application monitoring and management. Built on Rails and delivered as hosted services, FiveRuns' products enable organizations to save money and reduce operational complexity by managing the entire Ruby on Rails application lifecycle – from installation to production

Founders:
Olivier Thierry

GameWager

http://gamewager.net

GameWager is the "Dave and Buster's" for online PC games. Their platform enables gamers to earn tokens while playing popular PC games like CS:S, TF2 and COD4, which can then be redeemed for free prizes. GameWager makes gaming more competitive and social by giving gamers web tools that empower them to track and improve performance while sharing stats and achievements with friends.

Founders:
George Giannukos, Thomas Marriott

Gendai Games

http://gendaigames.com

Gendai Games creates game development tools and web services for individual artists and small teams. Comprised of young, talented game and web professionals, their passion is to foster innovation within the games industry on a massive scale. Their first product, GameSalad, is an easy way to create games for the iPhone, Web, and more and share them with friends.

Founders:
Michael Agustin, Daniel Treiman

Minggl

http://minggl.com

Minggl provides a social interaction manager which makes it easy to manage information, communication, and navigation across multiple social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Twitter. It operates as a free browser extension to Firefox, Flock, and Internet Explorer. Minggl brings friends and information from social networks together in one place, feeding the user the status and latest activities of friends no matter where he is on the web. By installing the toolbar, users can stay active with their entire social circle anytime they have a web browser open.

Founders:
Dewey Gaedcke

MouseCloud

http://mousecloud.com

Mousecloud provides real-time client/team feedback to the stuff you create. Imagine having a virtual overhead projector where everyone can participate remotely. It’s the easiest way to share and collaborate online. Period. Mousecloud is a privately held company with offices in Berkeley, California and Austin, Texas.

Founders:
Irl Nathan

Moximity

http://moximity.com

Bring your online social life to the real world with Moximity. Moximity integrates your existing social networks like Facebook and Twitter with your iPhone and overlays restaurant and bar information so you can build a beter social life. Once you sign on, you'll see the places around you and where your friends last checked in. Choose where you want to go, and seamlessly publish it back to your social networks.

Founders:
Bryan Jones

Notice Technologies

http://www.noticetechnologies.com/

Notice Technologies builds internet advertising applications for local businesses.

Founders:
Chris Treadaway, Robert Starek

OrgSync

http://orgsync.com

OrgSync is a privately-held, self-funded, Austin, TX-based hosted service providing the tools and applications needed to organize and manage student organizations and their members. Their suite of tools has grown into a mature platform that enhances communication and participation.

Founders:
Eric Fortenberry

OtherInbox

http://otherinbox.com

OtherInbox is an Austin-based start-up founded by serial entrepreneur and email-marketing guru Joshua Baer. OtherInbox is the cure for email overload - it provides consumers with a free email account that automatically organizes newsletters, social networking updates, coupons and receipts from online purchases so that its easy to find the most interesting things and ignore the rest. OtherInbox launched publicly in September 2008 at TechCrunch50.

Founders:
Joshua Baer

Piryx

http://piryx.com

Simply put, our call to action is providing tools to empower political entrepreneurs. Imagine if we could offer every individual who desires to effectuate change in public policy the technological infrastructure of the Obama campaign, in an intuitive, user-oriented package. Ultimately, our goal is simple: Organize the world’s political information and activities by offering the ultimate online battleground for international politics. Piryx is an efficient and economical web platform powering the future of political engagement.

Founders:
Tom, Naveed, Brian, Greg

QikCom

http://qikcom.com

QikCom is the quicker, easier, more elegant way to connect and communicate within your company.

Founders:
Travis VanderZanden

RUWT? Sports

http://areyouwatchingthis.com

With RUWT? Sports, users get FREE alerts when televised games get good! Doing Laundry. Raking the leaves. Went to sleep early. Are any of these worthwhile reasons for missing the next instant classic? No, we didn't think so either. Sign up for our free alerts and RUWTbot will hit you up by email or text message with the score, time left, and channel you need to turn to to catch the game. Don't be the loser at the water cooler the next day that missed it.

Founders:
Mark Phillip

Ringlight

http://ringlight.us

Ringlight is a combination of peer-to-peer and Web 2.0 technologies designed to help you manage your files across multiple computers. Sharing large files, documents photos, music and videos with friends over the Internet or through a LAN has never been easier.

Founders:
Brandon Wiley

Saltlick Labs

http://saltlicklabs.com

Saltlick Labs is a bootstrapped software development company building consumer-facing mobile + web applications for the iPhone and Android platforms.

Founders:
Colin Anawaty

SnapPages

http://snappages.com

SnapPages takes online website creation to a whole new level. Now anyone can create and manage a professional quality website with drag-and-drop simplicity. Not only is it fun and easy, with SnapPages you'll end up with a great looking website that you can be proud of.

Founders:
Steve Testone

Turn2Live

http://turn2live.com

Ever been in a situation where you just want to see some live-music but don't want to spend hours researching who's playing where? At Turn2Live, you just tell us what kind of live-music experience you're in the mood for, and we'll tell you based on where you're located and what you're looking for, who to go see...right now.

Founders:
Nikhil Daftary, Ruchit Shah