DEMO Fall 2013: 11 Innovative Startups That Caught eWEEK’s Eye

DEMO Fall 2013: 11 Innovative Startups That Caught eWEEK’s Eye

by Chris Preimesberger

Contatta Streamlines Contact Management

Businesses struggle with inaccessible silos of information, communication chaos and collaboration overload. Contatta aims to simplify and streamline business by bringing together social, workrooms, contacts, task management, newsfeeds and email into one modern digital platform that works across any device. It looked very easy and intuitive to use in a demonstration for eWEEK.

ArgoPay Creates Virtual ‘Credit Card’

ArgoPay has created a “credit card” that is completely virtual while creating a mobile payment network that eliminates all of the credit card processing fees. It is also easy, fast and completely secure. ArgoPay collapses the payment stack. It’s a CapitalOne, Visa, SquareWallet, FirstData, Authorize.net and VeriFone all in one.

CIBI by Cerebrate Serves Up Business Intelligence

CIBI is an integrated business intelligence package that provides storage, data integration, analytics and innovative visualizations with software as a service (SaaS) or on-premises options. Its goal is to convert raw data into actionable insights within minutes.

EmoVu by Eyeris Reads Facial Expressions in Real Time

EmoVu is developing Artificially Intelligent Emotion Recognition software that reads the slightest facial expressions that people make in real time as they interact with online video or other media using a regular Webcam. It may be a lot more difficult to put one over on business associate using this!

Hello Doctor Helps Users Manage Their Own Medical Records

Hello Doctor is a mobile application that helps users take greater control over their health by managing medical records from multiple sources. Organized in SmartLists, the navigation options are designed to provide easy real-time access to all the information that will help users understand their medical conditions.

Context by HereCandy Serves Up Localized Content

Discover and share content based on a user’s personalized interests. Context provides a new way to discover content based on your location and social feeds, to share it directly with people in your social graph and to browse the Web on your mobile device. It’s a new way to personalize the Web on mobile devices.

AptiQmobile by Ingersoll Rand Turns Smartphones Into ID Badges

AptiQmobile turns a smartphone into a mobile credential that can then be used to open doors and other applications in lieu of a badge ID card. It is available now on Android near-field communication (NFC) devices regardless of mobile service provider.

SupportPay by Ittavi Automates Child Support Payments

SupportPay by Ittavi is an automated child support payment platform for modern parents who are required to pay child support. It streamlines the complex, time-consuming and stressful process that impacts nearly 300 million parents worldwide. With SupportPay, parents spend less time managing child support and more time focused on raising their children.

MainFrame2 Moves Applications to the Cloud

Mainframe2 is a cloud platform that enables any software application to run in a Web browser with no plug-ins required. It’s designed as an easy way for thousands of software vendors and enterprises to transition to the cloud.

Sekur.me Delivers Secure Online Payments

Sekur.me is a new-gen online payment and two-factor-authentication service. It claims to reduce payment friction at checkout pages and increases online revenue by 20 percent. Every transaction is verified by a unique mobile fingerprint that the company claims cannot be falsified.

SnoopWall Blocks Malicious Apps

SnoopWall positions itself as the world’s first countersurveillance software. It helps consumers, families and enterprises protect personal privacy on all of their computing devices, including smartphones, tablets and laptops. SnoopWall’s patent-pending IT augments endpoint security solutions by detecting and blocking malicious apps.