The AlwaysOn 2009 conference at Stanford featured these 13 startup CEO presentations:
1. PreVisite – Jeffrey Nortman, COO:
A new, easier, better way to list private homes for sale online.
- Skymeter – Kamal Hassan, CEO
Provides a specialized GPS road tolling service.
- Magic Studio Network – Ben Hayman, CEO
An interactive learning network for educational applications.
- iPeak Networks – Martin Horne, CEO
Hardware play, improving wide-area network performance for video conferencing.
- AdParlor – Hussein Fazal, President & CEO
Ad Network targeting social media sites.
- Sysomos – Nick Koudas, CEO & Co-founder
Text-based Social Networking Analytics. Very slick.
7. Italian World Channel, Enrico Beltramini, CEO
A website with special content featuring Italian culture
8. Darkstrand, Michael Stein, CEO
Operates 3.2Tb capacity, 1,000 route mile network that terminates in 120 US research institutions. Uses Cisco DWDM equipment; layer 1/2 infrastructure. Seller of bandwidth; but not a telco. Has raised $20M, now raising another $40M. Substitute presenter.
9. Data Deposit Box, Jamie Brenzel, CEO
Provides a comprehensive online backup solution for users; founded early 2003. DDB is a SaaS application; they lease their server capacity. Received patent for their continuous online backup process; profitable for past 42 months; $7M run rate in 2009; target market is Small and Medium Businesses (SMB’s). Best Buy Geek Squad partnership in Canada.
- Liquid Scenarios, Lorenzo Carver, CEO
Provides a sophisticated financial analysis tool (business intelligence) for private equity investors.
- VMIX, Mike Glickenhsaus, CEO
A SaaS video platform for user-generated content (UGC). Uses the Akamai edge network as their primary CDN, and Amazon S3 for storage. $21.5M funding from four VC firms.
- Service Channel Corporation, , CEO
A SaaS application for managing relationships with disparate groups of small business contractors. Maintains a large scale database of contractors, and a facility for managing the business relationships with them. Targeting large enterprises. Profitable enterprise, raised Series B in 2008.
13. Groovy Corporation, Joe Ward CEO
Accelerator for SQL (database) based web applications.