BizSpark One Week in Review - Sep 22
Over the past week, here’s a sampling of news highlights of members of the BizSpark One program, identifying a small number of the best companies in BizSpark, which is now comprised of over 40,000 startups.
Week of September 11-17, 2011
- § Digital Folio , creator of a multi-channel, real-time shopping platform, officially launched its free shopping app that lets users drag and drop a product from a website into the Digital Folio sidebar, showing the prices of that product at major retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, Sears, Target, and Walmart, and revealing the best price for the item. Digital Folio showcased their product in the Pavilion at last week’s DEMOFall 2011.
- § Exceedra, focused on commercial and supply chain planning, is shortlisted for the ‘Intellect Innovation Award’ at the 2011 Software Satisfaction Awards, recognizing innovative new products delivering significant benefit for business users or customers. The winners will be announced at the ceremony on October 18th in London.
- § Will Price, CEO of Flite, a leader in cloud-based advertising, participated in a panel discussion on-stage at DEMOFall focused on how large companies and startups can work effectively with each other. The panel was moderated by Scott Case, CEO of the Startup America Partnership and also included our very own Claire Lee, Sharon Delman, Director of Marketing for Intuit’s Partner Platform and Rene Lacerte, Founder and CEO of Bill.com.
- § BizSpark One alumOneRiot was acquired by Walmart, and will be joining @WalmartLabs, Walmart’s hub focused on creation of new technologies and business models integrating social, mobile and retail for the next-generation of e-commerce.