Our Summer/Fall 2008 Companies
BlenderHouse
BlenderHouse creates targeted applications based on its social recommendation technology, which enables friends to exchange trusted recommendations and feedback during key life decisions.
www.BlenderHouse.com
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Chogger
Chogger is a web comic platform where users can easily view, create, and share web comics. The explosive growth in user-generated content across different media types presents an opportunity for Chogger to establish web comics as a new user-generated medium, just as YouTube did for videos or Blogger did for blogs. Despite the lack of a popular tool for creating and viewing comics, web comics have been on the rise in recent years.
www.chogger.com
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Crono
The aim at Crono is to save people time.
Crono’s personal agent platform technology is developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, who have worked on projects with organizations such as DARPA, Boeing, Microsoft, and Sony. Crono’s technology is capable of learning user preferences, and is specifically focused on learning to act on behalf of users. Crono’s personal agent platform will enable multiple applications that automate complex interactions and tasks.
www.mycrono.com
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GameHuddle
GameHuddle is a social gaming community that gives players an innovative way to connect with the gaming universe.
Gamers are increasingly frustrated by their inability to meet other players who fit their gamestyle, the difficulty in managing online teamplay, and the lack of relevant game reviews and news. GameHuddle provides a solution to these problems with a series of tools that help create a more personalized gaming experience for its users.
www.gamehuddle.com
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Skill-Life
Skill-Life's game-based platform lets tweens earn rewards as they play cool games that teach life skills such as financial literacy, nutrition, and citizenship! The first application of the Skill-Life platform is CentsCity, an online world where youth learn financial skills ranging from balancing a checkbook to paying for college.
www.skill-life.com
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Sonya Labs
Sonya Labs is creating the “Google” of legal research by developing sophisticated search algorithms and research management tools, tailored specifically for the legal industry. The proliferation of online case information and a new generation of law students and professionals who expect easy-to-use natural language search present an opportunity to disrupt the existing legal research providers whose solutions are expensive and hard-to-use.
www.sonyalabs.com
www.enfacto.com
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