SIIA Previews Alumni
Class of 2012 |
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| Company | What do they do? | Where are they now? |
| BestVendor Voted Most Likely to Succeed |
A free online resource that helps professionals quickly find the best work apps based on the recommendations of people like them. | |
| Crowd Fusion aka Ceros | The “publish everywhere” platform, helps publishers rapidly deliver new products across multiple platforms and devices. | Acquired Ceros on September 15, 2012: This step accelerated plans to productize their publishing platforms in the content marketing and brand publishing space. |
| First Stop Health, | A health 2.0 patient-focused health concierge service for insured middle class consumers sold exclusively online and directly to consumers. | |
| Narrative Science | Transforms data into stories and insights. Our proprietary artificial intelligence authoring system, Narrwhal, produces reports, articles, and summaries that are automatically created from structured data sources. | 85% of the company's revenue now comes from working with corporate users. |
| Newslook | Newslook curates a database of premium video content from nearly all major global news and information suppliers | On March 23 Newslook launched its first iOS app for the Apple iPad. |
| The Praetorian Group | The leading online media company in the public safety market. Our properties are visited by more than 2 million first responders and public safety professionals every month. |
June 19 - launched a new suite of Android apps for three of its public safety websites, PoliceOne.com, FireRescue1.com and EMS1.com June7 - acquired 911JobForums.com May 9 - The Praetorian Group and TargetSolutions announced an agreement to join forces, with the goal of revolutionizing online training and records management for law enforcement agencies worldwide. April 23 - acquired FireRecruit.com and will be incorporating it into the FireRescue1.com Network of news and information websites. |
| Reportlinker | A professional search engine that finds all market research reports published by thousands of private and public organizations (governments, embassies, statistics agencies, trade unions, private firms, etc.). | Sept 13 – launched a new market research report that includes 10 semiconductor market studies from the top 10 countries around the world. |
Class of 2011 |
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| Company | What do they do? | Where are they now? |
| Confab Circuit | Confab Circuit is a social platform for locating business conferences, learning about their content, and linking to professionals with shared interests. | |
| Panjiva | Panjiva is an intelligence platform for global trade that provides information on suppliers/manufacturers from 190 countries constituting the U.S. supply base. | |
| RapidBuyr Voted Most Likely to Succeed |
Delivers the largest B2B Private Sale/Daily Deal site. Deals include hardware, software, subscriptions, SAAS apps, mobile, and general merchandise. | Since presenting RapidBuyr has partenered with Inc.com to launch "Inc. Deals," a new B2B onle daily deal service. |
| REonomy | A platform to derive actionable investment data, analytics, and insight for asset classes without available performance and market data. | |
| SYNQWARE | QRSYNQ allows advertisers/exhibitors and readers/attendees to immediately "start a conversation" when the reader scans a QR code in a publication, or when an attendee scans a QR code in an exhibitor's booth at an event. | |
| Transparensee Systems | Transparensee provides an integrated search platform with powerful features including: best-in-class fuzzy matching, structured data navigation and visualization, and free text search. | |
| Verisma Systems, Inc. | Verisma Systems helps health care providers better manage the process of responding to requests for the release of medical records. |
Verisma® continues to expand its reach. They now serve health care providers in 16 states (Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin) and the District of Columbia. |
| VisibleGains | VisibleGains provides software, coaching, and best practices that simplify the creation and use of video by business in support of attracting and retaining customers. | VisibleGains launched the "Postwire" product in April 2012, Postwire enables users to make a private webpage for each clients where they can collect videos, photos, web links, and documents and share them on each clients’ private page. |
Class of 2010 |
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| Company | What do they do? | What Happened Because of PREVIEWS? Where are they now? |
| Boardroom Insiders | Boardroom Insiders uses public source data to build deep and insightful profiles of senior executives at major companies nationwide. | Since presenting they continue to expand the number of profiles offered and now have over 500 fortune 500 exec profiles and do custom profiles for customers. |
| Brand Thunder | An easy-to-install browser add-on, end users transform their drab web-browser into an immersive experience. |
In 2012 - Brander Thunder teamed with SIDEARM Sports, Google Chrome, Firefox, Twitter, and Internet Explorer, and the MLB to create interactive browser themes. Brand Thunder also acquired BrowserNation. |
| DeepDyve | DeepDyve is the largest online rental service for scientific, technical and medical research with over 30 million articles from thousands of authoritative journals. |
In 2012 DeepDyve expanded its service to include PDF downloads. DeepDyve Closed 2010 with adding over 2 million articles to its rental services. Publishers included: American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, Association for Computing Machinery, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Nature Publishing Group, University of California Press, Walter de Gruyter, Wiley-Blackwell, and Springer. |
| HaraBara | HaraBara™ is the global information gateway for companies that are turning green challenges into business opportunities. | in 2012 HaraBara expanded the product line to include: Green Data Management, HaraBara Consulting, and eLearning for Cleantech. |
| HearPlanet | HearPlanet turns your cell phone into a multimedia guide to the world. Our platform enables aggregation and creation of media and delivers it to mobile phones. | HearPlanet is currently working on a tour guide for automobiles and has been listed as one of the top travel apps. |
| NetProspex | NetProspex has built a database of crowd-sourced business contacts, overlaid with a central authority technology system to determine and maintain quality. | In 2012 NetProspex was named an "Innovative Sales and Marketing Technology of the Year" finalist with Mass TLC; partnered with AG Salesworks to drive high qualiy leads for B2B organizations. They also won several SIIA CODiE award categories. |
| ORLive | ORLive is an online medical and surgical broadcaster. | ORLive.com portal is the third most recognized online destination among physicians and the world’s best-known brand for surgical broadcasting. |
| Parse.ly | Parse.ly is a service and a platform for personalized content recommendations. | Since 2010, P3 has driven millions of clickthroughs for the web's finest online properties. Parse.ly has launched Dash in March 2011, and it now tracks over 500 million pageviews a month and is growing rapidly. |
| Snac Inc. | A mobile software and services company that helps companies connect more frequently, quickly and effectively with their mobile consumers. | |
Class of 2009 |
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| Company | What do they do? | Where are they now? |
| Adgregate Markets | Adgregate Markets enables distributed commerce by helping advertisers turn banner ads into ShopAds(TM) that allow customers to purchase products within a secure, embeddable ad unit. | As of April 25, 2012, Adgregate Markets operates as a subsidiary of Axle Digital. |
| Arity Corporation | Incorporating Web 2.0 participation and Web 3.0 semantic technologies, Arity’s EXPRESSway™ exemplifies the next wave of workflow-integrated products that transform collected knowledge into Collective Intelligence. |
2012 - Arity launches Semantic Studio a semantic search engine that mines the meaning from resources by using lexicons, ontologies, natural language processing, and context cues. 2012 -Arity launched EXPRESSway™ is a Knowledge Cloud Web application that accelerates your information gathering, reasoning, and learning as you research topics. |
| Associated Content | Associated Content is an open content network that enables anyone to publish any type of content on any subject and makes that content available to consumers on the web. | 5/19/10 bought by Yahoo for $100 million and is now called yahoo! Voices. |
| Cell Journalist | Cell Journalist provides a turnkey solution that enables news organization to connect with their audience around citizen journalism. | In 2012 Cell Journalist partnered with WSI to provide new tool for TruVu Max and WeatherActive Suite. |
| InsideView | InsideView is a pioneer in on-demand Sales 2.0 applications, combining social Web technologies and intelligence living across the Web with strong CRM mash-ups to arm sales teams with the insights needed to discover profitable leads and close opportunities. |
In 2012 Inside View partnered with Equifax on single source data solution; and appointed Jim Lightsey to CFO. |
| Management CV, Inc. | Management CV, Inc. provides a pioneering system for analyzing and ranking CEOs and management teams in public companies. | |
| MixedInk | MixedInk is a web-based tool that allows massive groups to brainstorm and combine their best ideas into a single text. | Launched MixedInk for Educators in 2010 |
| Prolifiq | Prolifiq provides content distribution applications for the enterprise. Sellers use the company’s flagship product to match the right content to their selling conversation, wrap it in branded messages and measure the effectiveness of their communications. | |
| RSuite CMS | RSuite is a content management system that facilitates the creation, management, re-use and distribution of XML, media files, and other document formats (Word, InDesign, or PDFs). | |
| SBTV.com | SBTV.com is the first and only video news and information destination site for America's small businesses | SBTV.com now operates under the title: It's Your Biz |
Class of 2008 |
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| Company | What do they do? | Where are they now? |
| ArchieMD | A physician-led education company that has developed the most extensive scientifically credible library of health and science imagery in the world | In March 2012 - Launched interactive Trauma Training Module at the Association for Surgical Education and the Association of Program Directors |
| Courtroom Connect | leveraging the "rich media" revolution by providing digital video coverage of major trials, depositions, orals, and administrative hearings, and establishing video databanks for on demand retrieval; | Now offers 24/7 network monitoring and support as well as Remote Counsel. |
| FeeDisclosure.com | Provides consumers with transparency into the fees surrounding real estate and mortgage transactions; | purchased by Bankrate |
| ExpoTV, | Has built the largest platform for authentic, user-generated video product reviews. The library holds 150,000 videos uploaded by unbiased consumers; |
In 2010 ExpoTV partnered with Liveclicker for video distribution. |
| Health Monitoring Systems | provides analytics of aggregated healthcare providers; | |
| Linkstorm | provides navigation on top of advertising; | |
| Lingospot | search and aggregation service that enables publishers to more easily cross-link relevant content; | |
| Keibi Technologies, | a user-generated content enabler, offering technology for the moderation and classification of UGC | purchased by Lithium Technologies |
| TutorVista | a content creation group producing top quality eLearning courseware, simulations, animations and paper-based curriculum. | Purchased by Pearson in June 2009 |
| Vator.tv, | a professional network for pitching business ideas; | |
Class of 2007 |
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| Company | What do they do? | Where are they now? |
| Attributor | A platform that provides transparency and accountability in online content use and licensing for the rapidly growing content economy. |
Sept 2010 – Launches 1st Online interactive Anatomy/Physiology and virtual Dissection Products for K-12 May 2009 – Launched Virtual Autopsy |
| Cranium Softworks, Inc. | Helps streamline the publishing and content delivery process and protects online intellectual property. | |
| iCopyright, Inc. | Specializes in developing technology for digital content marketing and licensing. | In 2012 iCopyright granted U.S. patent on peer-policing system. |
| Decision Tree Media | creates private-label web guides that drive qualified leads to sales channels. | |
| Dragonfly | Provides a world-class multi-media content delivery network that builds revenue through engagement, retention and advanced metrics. | |
| Eurekster | empowers communities to own and refine site-based web search. | January 2007, announced one of the 100 best companies by AlwaysOn Media 100. |
| Generate, Inc. | Provides real-time vertical search (from 41 million domains), directories, and social networking services for media and publishing companies interested in generating incremental page views, subscriptions, and user value. | Generate was purchased by Dow Jones |
| Inform Technologies LLC | metatags publisher's existing content and editorial assets to deliver an enriched, personalized online experience, dramatically increasing page views, visitor loyalty and revenues. | Since presenting Inform Technologies has expanded the product line to include: Interest Graph, AdContext, and VideoContext. |
| Near-Time | Integrates a group weblog with wiki pages, team events and shared files in a hosted and secure collaborative environment. | |
| Pando Networks | Offers a free, simple to use application with an unprecedented underlying network architecture for rich-media content delivery. |
May 2010, Pando Networks surpassed 30 million game downloads. |
| RealTimeMatrix | Has pioneered break-through technology that enables anyone to get relevant content from the Web the instant it is published. | |
