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BLDG BLOK

BLDG BLOK is your personal guide to the city, providing you with historic photos, news stories, and curated information about the places around you. The searchable database features both open source information and proprietary content from partners, including institutions, organizations, and libraries. This material is easy to navigate and is beautifully displayed, with graphics that look and feel like vintage maps. The app will be available for iOS and Android. The Founders met working for artist Maya Lin in New York City. Dana Karwas teaches digital media at NYU and Liz McEnaney teaches historic preservation at Columbia.
 
Dana Karwas & Liz McEnaney

info@bldgblok.com
 

 

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures


Brooklyn Bridge Ventures is a seed stage investor. Charlie O’Donnell has been an active member of the NYC venture capital and startup community for ten years in roles ranging from institutional fund investor to venture capitalist to entrepreneur—with a little product management in between. He has venture experience at two of the top venture capital firms in the country, Union Square Ventures and First Round Capital, and sourced First Round’s Investment in GroupMe, which sold to Skype in 2011. The investments he sourced at First Round Capital also include Refinery29, chloe + Isabel, Backupify, SinglePlatform, Salescrunch, and Docracy. back to top

  
Charlie O’Donnell
brooklynbridgeventures.com

 


seed stage investor venture capital entrepreneur technology startup team product market business development


Docracy


Docracy is a home for free legal documents, provided and curated by the communities that use them. Through free e-signing, usage statistics and collaborative editing a community can converge towards standards that will benefit everyone. We hope to remove the fear and expense from reasonable parties coming to an agreement. back to top

  
Matt Hall 
docracy.com


legal documents electronic signing usage statistics collaborative editing social repository esign act compliant open


ETC - Evolving Technologies Corp.

Evolving Technologies Corporation is creating the next generation visual data analysis platform tool. ETC will remove the barriers that separate collaboration from the design, development and build process. The platform will allow for fast collaboration that is heavily immersive and intuitive. 
 
Loren Abdulezer

la@evolvingtech.com

FileMobile


Filemobile is a software company specializing in user-generated content (UGC) with solutions for uploading, moderating and publishing rich media. Clients include major brands, media companies, enterprise, education and agencies. Filemobile provides cross-media products focused on leveraging UGC and commercial content in a way that is fast, flexible and scalable. UGC, social networking, contests, video and online community-management products power proven and interactive online experiences to grow audience, deepen customer/employee engagement and monetize content. back to top

  
Chris Becker, Co-Founder;
filemobile.com


Impact Simulations

Impact Simulations uses proven digital game techniques to motivate hourly workers to increase their skills and improve their performance. Our solutions are targeted at industries that employ large numbers of young, semi skilled hourly workers who have little or no motivation to excel at their jobs – Retail, Restaurants and Hospitality. While we cannot change the work that these people do, our solutions can make work feel like playing a game. While we provide consulting and gamification design services, our featured product is LevelsPro™,  a mobile, gamified employee engagement solution that uses proven game techniques to motivate and encourage hourly employees to improve their skills and achieve new levels of competence.

Stuart Silverman - CEO
stuart@impactsimulations.com

usergenerate content ugc upload moderate publish media crossmedia products social networking online community management interactive experience customer engagement employee monetize


LifeDots

Every memory is a dot

Rafael De Haro
rafael.deharo@lifedots.com

Maker'sRow

 

Maker's Row is a B2B directory of factories for entrepreneurs

 


+N


+N attacks the global mobile capacity crisis by expanding network capacity and providing customers with control over bandwidth. The Smart Carrier Aggregator software product is a patent pending signal processing technique developed by some of the leading engineers experimenting with time domain capabilities of radio signals. Customers will buy our product because it enables mobile operators to generate a significant increase in mobile network capacity without deploying additional network infrastructure or acquiring additional spectrum. It will help mobile operators solve the mobile data capacity and spectrum crisis. back to top

  
Per Von Zelowitz, CEO ;
plusn.com

 


network capacity control bandwidth smart carrier aggregator signal processing time domain capabilities radio signals increase mobile data spectrum


NYC Media Lab

NYC Media Lab connects companies seeking to advance new media technologies with academic institutions undertaking relevant research, in order to drive collaborative innovation. Launched by the City (NYCEDC), NYU-Poly and Columbia University, NYC Media Lab is a public-private partnership encompassing all the universities of NYC. The lab tackles the big questions facing the media industry today, with the goal of generating research, knowledge transfer, talent development, R&D and new business models. back to top

  
Roger Neal, Executive Director;
nycmedialab.org


media technology collaboration innovation research knowledge transfer talent development social network data ownership engagement business


Opoloo

Opoloo designs and creates websites & mobile applications with individual character and clear messages. From your ideas we breathe life into creative worlds, let bright suns arise, or colonize old celestial bodies anew. We have created successful android apps such as Gigbeat.fm, Timer, AndroidIcons, Enterproid Divide, and Snow Safe.

Michael Novak
michael.novakjr@gmail.com

Pipture

 

A mobile application that will allow you to communicate using multiple personas, or choose from pre-produced characters created by other users, and easily send great video messages. You can create your own personal messages using visual expression. You can share, re-publish, quote, but also re-mix all video content you find and take in. 

Martin Lenclos
martin@pipture.com

Pixel506

We are an international consulting, branding and design company that researches and designs optimal brands and online applications for our clients. Since our establishment in 2007, we have served and partnered with programming, business, and branding companies throughout the United States and Latin America. We are a green company and take pride in the environment-friendly methods we use in our work.

Antonio Ramirez and Vache Asatryan
aramirez@pixel506.com

Roomscaper

Roomscaper makes furnishing your home easier by allowing you to track and organize the stuff you like, while getting solid advice from people who share your tastes. Our goal is to reduce the complexity of furniture purchases though community recommendations and product discovery based on basic decorating and design factors that consumers take into consideration. Users can find and save products by room, color, style, product, and needs/problems, create collections (to share with the public, or keep private), comment on specific products, ask the community to help you solve your home decoration problems, and follow people with similar needs and tastes to get more product ideas for the home. back to top

  
Anna Pizarro, CEO and Founder ;
roomscaper.com


furnishing community product discovery social network recommendation design decoration


SpotlessCity


SpotlessCity lets people handle all of their dry cleaning and laundry needs online. The website lets users find every dry cleaner and laundromat in their neighborhood and schedule a free pickup & delivery from the cleaner of their choice. SpotlessCity aims to modernize the dry cleaning and laundry industry by enabling local dry cleaners and laundromats to connect with their customers in a brand new way and allowing people to finally be able to get their dry cleaning and laundry done with the same ease and convenience with which they order meals, buy groceries or rent movies — online. The company’s mission is to make City life more livable — one load of laundry at a time. SpotlessCity is currently available in New York City, but plans to expand to other cities and to offer other household services. back to top

  
Hissan Bajwa, CEO and Co-Founder
spotlesscity.com


dry cleaning laundry schedule pickup delivery modernize industry location


Stereogrid


Stereogrid makes it easy for artists to send music directly to influential music websites and press. Get started now by sending a new release to our network and your press list. If you’re a music website, blogger or member of the press, join the Stereogrid Network to begin receiving new music. back to top

  
Andrew Zarick, CEO
stereogrid.com


artist community music transfer social network website blogger press connect


TENDIGI


TENDIGI is a mobile development firm based out of DUMBO in Brooklyn, NY that was founded by former Apple Inc. engineer Jeff Soto. Our talented team works closely with businesses, agencies, and individuals on a variety of mobile development projects ranging from consumer facing apps to internal enterprise apps. TENDIGI is also the creator of the Brooklyn iOS Developer meetup which currently has around 600+ iOS developer and community members. back to top

  
Jeff Soto, Founder ;
tendigi.com

 


mobile development consumer application enterprise experience research prototyping testing deployment ios


Zenplaya

 

zenplaya is a mobile platform for large venues to market & sell to "on-site" customers. We make offline venues interactive & mobile-commerce-ready to drive discovery & spending during customers’ visits. Using geo-fencing technology, zenplaya is a smart mobile service that activates a mobile storefront for users when they arrive at a participating venue. Winner of Startup Weekend-Mobile NYC in Jan 2012. 
 
Keith Fiore
keith@zenplaya.com