Winners of the 2014
SXSWV2Venture Pitch Competition
From a pool of over 200 applications, 25 startups competed across five categories yesterday in Las Vegas at the second annual SXSWV2Venture pitch competition.
Two extra special categories were added at the end of the day with those winners chosen by emcee Christine Herron.
Congratulations to the following winners:
Education Technologies
myEDmatch
St. Louis, MO
myEDmatch promotes mission and culture alignment by connecting schools and teachers with shared educational beliefs and goals. We help schools find and recruit best-fit talent and help teachers find dream job opportunities to thrive in their careers.
Health and Wearable Technologies
eTect
Newberry, FL
eTect is addressing the problem of poor medication adherence through the ID-Cap system; a capsule with an ingestible wireless sensor that holds the medication and provides real time information on patient’s medication taking behavior.
Mobile and Tablet Technologies
Crowd Mics
Mesa, AZ
Crowd Mics is an app that turns smartphones into wireless microphones for live events. This means the audience can talk into their phones and be heard over the sound system. And with text commenting and polling, the crowd now has a voice.
Culture and Entertainment Technologies
MixGenius
Montreal, Canada
MixGenius is a revolutionary audio Content Creator Leveraging breakthrough artificial intelligence, intuitive design and crowdsourcing. We enable richer user experience and new possibilities for millions of impatient and intuitive DIY content creators.
Innovative World Technologies
Hydrobee
Seattle, WA
Hydrobee is your personal USB renewable energy system recharged by flowing water in streams or pipes or behind sailboats, wind, bikes, hand cranks, belt drives, sun and fire. It is mobile enabled so it can be micro-financed for a billion people.
Best Bootstrap – Chosen by Christine Herron
Two Bit Circus
Los Angeles, CA
Two Bit Circus lives at the intersection of technology and spectacle. We engineer entertainment that is imaginative and interactive, blurring the line between physical and digital playgrounds to create a new world of social amusement.
One Minute Pitch – Chosen by Christine Herron
Tixers
Covington,KY
With tixers, ticket holders can exchange tickets they are unable to use for tickets they can use in the future. Anyone can easily purchase tickets through the site as well in a new and innovative way, essentially creating the timeshare for tickets.
