QuickComet: Investing Education Platform [One Spark]

QuickComet is a pretty interesting platform. In a nutshell, QuickComet is an investment education platform/app with tons and tons of walkthroughs and tutorials. As we said in our One Spark preview on QuickComet, there are currently a ton of different investment platforms, but not many that are solely focused on education. Enter QuickComet. The investor education [...]

Drawer: A New, Personalized Take on Recommendations [One Spark]

Drawer is a new take on recommendations. It solves many of the problems of Yelp and Tripadvisor. Further, Drawer allows for a more personal style of recommendations, allowing users to follow other users and curate their own favorites. The app is perfect for travel agents and hotel concierges, as it is a quick easy way to share the best restaurants and venues.

StarMobile: Enterprise Mobility Cheaper and Faster [ATDC]

One of the biggest problems facing the enterprise is that of mobility. Most large-scale companies use massive "packaged on-premise applications, cloud-based applications, or custom-built systems" to run their business. These applications, although incredibly useful on a PC or Mac, are difficult to use when mobile. However, StarMobile solves this problem.

The FORGE Retail 3D Printing Store [One Spark Preview]

We had a chance to check out the FORGE booth at last years One Spark, and we are certainly looking forward to checking in with the company this year. FORGE is at the forefront of an emerging retail 3d printing store industry. The company "provides high tech 3D printing customizations in a simplified, mom-friendly environment."

Lupo: Key-tracker With A Smart Bluetooth Remote Controller

The Lupo is a multi-function Bluetooth 4.0 key tracker device, with the major addition of a programmable button to allow control of other Bluetooth applications (e.g. smartphone cameras and presentations), supported by an SDK to allow software developers to build their own apps on the platform, including gesture-controlled apps.

Woovent: Fixing Facebook Events

There are tons of applications built on top of Facebook, most of which are games or some sort of contact organizer. However, we recently came across a new app that is built to provide a more seamless and intuitive event organizer. Woovent provides a much needed update to Facebook Events.

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Ponder: Giving Teachers a View of the “invisible” process of learning through reading.

With Ponder, students tag and markup the reading by selecting from a rich menu of options to question and talk back to the text: e.g. “That's overstated.” OR “I need this broken down.” OR “What a clever example of inductive reasoning.”

VERSI Docker Stand: Funded

We recently had a chance to speak with Dale Rorabaugh, the creator of the Versi Docker Stand. The Versi Docker Stand is really an interesting approach to a tablet stand/dock, and looks supremely useful. The Versi has successfully reached its funding goal on Kickstarter.   What does your company do, and how do you do it? Rorabaugh Designs [...]

Soundest: Email Marketing for eCommerce

"We create an easy to use and free email marketing solution for small and medium e-commerce sites. It works out of the box due to its deep integration within e-commerce platforms. There is no need to code, design or build anything in order to use the service."

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Brainly: Social Learning Networks

Brainly group was created in mid 2012 following the successful performance of the concept in Europe. The group consists of multiple social learning networks, each creating an online community where students help each other by solving subject specific problems and exchange knowledge.