bluField
Entrepreneur: John Mark Eberhardt
Email: jme@bluField.co
Website: bluField.co
City: Nashville, TN
bluField is an interconnected system of Bluetooth® beacon networks, which creates a high-resolution grid of a real-world geographic area. Powered by bluField, Stroll ™ is an experience where active content is delivered to bluetooth-enabled devices based on the user’s location and behavior. bluField partners with Convention & Visitor Bureaus (CVB) of tourism destinations. Our pilot begins with Nashville, TN, where over 12 million visit and spend over $4.6 billion annually.
In addition to partnering with the CVBs, bluField works with city government and Chambers of Commerce to help them achieve their goals through our patent-pending technology. This “top-down” approach simplifies and shortens our sales cycle with retailers, restaurants, museums, etc. bluField is not a beacon company. As beacon companies are vying for the dominant hardware space, bluField will engage and enhance their hardware, making it more intelligent and included in the bluField network. Our technology is agnostic to any and every brand of low-energy Bluetooth® beacons.
FoodTrace
Entrepreneur: Riana Lynn
Email: riana@thefoodtrace.com
Website: thefoodtrace.com
City: Chicago, IL
FoodTrace is a powerful software platform providing food businesses with tools for next-level sourcing management. We help farmers and artisans sell more and buyers buy better. A platform built on proven solutions for businesses to locate and attract new customers, utilize data as insights and food trends for better strategy, and increase revenue with sharing tools for the value-added marketability of quality sourcing. We are bringing daily operations and communications solutions to the multi-billion dollar U.S. food distribution and food service industries.
JOICASTER
Entrepreneur: Rudiger J. Ellis
Email: rudy@joicaster.co
Website: www.joicaster.co
City: Orange City, FL
JOICASTER is the “Hootsuite of live streaming.” We are a video syndication platform that enables content creators to schedule, manage, and distribute live content across multiple platforms to yield larger audiences in a simpler cost effective manner. JOICASTER simplifies the process of syndicating live video to multiple online streaming platforms. JOICASTER enables content creators & broadcasters to grow their audience by allowing them to manage their live streaming broadcasts through one unified, easy to use interface and then push that live content to multiple online video platforms and streaming services.
Lineapple
Entrepreneur: Danielle Jones
Email: Danielle@lineapple.com
Website: lineapple.com/business
City: Brooklyn, NY
Lineapple turns smart phones into a mobile buzzer which in turn helps businesses increase profits by converting lost shopping time into new opportunities to increase and close sales. Lineapple is unique because it works inside the micro sales and non-revenue producing windows that are generally controlled by wait-times not during the already profitable active shopping time.
Lineapple helps people avoid physically standing in lines and still be able to communicate with the business. Users can alert or be alerted of their need to be serviced, check-out, talk to staff, and more. Lineapple works with businesses to decrease non-revenue producing waiting. Lineapple creates an environment that decreases the opportunity for un-carting of impulse buys during waits in line. Lineapple gives detailed wait information to facilitate better revenue based decisions. Lineapple provides Line Abandonment Software to recover potentially lost business.
Ntensify
Entrepreneur: Daven Johnson
Email: founders@ntensify.com
Website: www.ntensify.com
City: San Francisco, CA
Ntensify provides a branded in-app merchandise store as an additional revenue stream for mobile app developers, integrated via a software development kit (“SDK”). Ntensify creates apparel, plush, and other unique merchandise based on app designs. Ntensify provides a full service production chain, handling all customer data, payment processing, design, manufacturing, and fulfillment. We have signed exclusive deals for 20M monthly users and have top brands currently licensed (such as Plague Inc., a #1 App Store game, and the top grossing Bloons TD5).
Ntensify provides a turnkey merchandising solution. Mobile app partners send traffic directly to Ntensify’s mobile store within the game. Ntensify’s merchandise is developed in small batches with quick inventory turns, resulting in a low working capital model. In comparison, traditional manufacturing can take up to 18 months.