A Look At The Three Startups That Wowed The Judges At Plug And Play's Summer EXPO

Like Y Combinator, Plug and Play Tech Center is a startup accelerator located in the heart of Silicon Valley, though you may not have heard quite as much about Plug and Play as you have its counterpart. Nothwithstanding, the five-year-old business accelerator has built a community of over 280 tech startups, across a number of verticals, including Web 2.0, cloud services, systems, semiconductor and telecomms. Since its inception, the tech center has helped its startups raise over $750 million in venture funding.

Not unlike Y Combinator and other accelerators of its ilk, Plug and Play hosts a 10-week summer program designed to immerse young startups and entrepreneurs into the Silicon Valley environment. “Plug and Play Startup Camp”, as its known, provides startups with a curriculum of workshops, speaker series, mentor sessions, as then as offering extensive coaching to help entrepreneurs cement business models, prototypes, in short on. This summer camp for startups runs through August 18th, at which point there will be an EXPO to showcase the accelerator’s latest batch.

Plug and Play as well organizes 4 EXPOs at the end of each quarter, as so then as 2 University EXPOs, in which a host of startups present their businesses to as many as 100 VCs and investors. Those esteemed judges vote on the top three companies, which at that time presumably go on to fame and fortune — or for the moment have a good shot at raising a bit of funding.

With billions of pre-planned digital shopping lists, aisle411 is set to allow digital publishers to integrate the startup’s in-store solutions with digital lists, recipes, and mobile coupons. aisle411's ad network has early brand buy-in from Coca Cola, General Mills, as so then as several other retail partnerships and is already live in 1500 locations.

List prior to shopping

Over 70 percent of shoppers use a list prior to shopping, and as smartphone saturation grows, the majority of shopping lists and products searches will be executed in-store on a mobile device. As Google Wallet, Paypal and Square look to deploy mobile payments, aisle411 offers highly targeted, high margin offers delivered seconds prior to the purchase. The startup is as well offering an API that includes a proprietary in-store ad engine that can target messaging to specific user based on their current and historical shopping lists, as specific as branded products within specific aisles. Pretty cool.

Creaza Inc is an online video production platform designed to enable users to collaboratively produce, share and store user-generated video. By combining the power of cloud-based computing and broadcast-quality HD, with a user-focused experience, Creaza's platform is attempting to make video in point of fact social.

The startup claims that its research can replace competitors’ sensors at a fraction of the cost with better performance. Advanced sensing arrays are three times less expensive than the competition and overcome limitations just as blind spots and outdoor operation, allowing for mass adaption for touchless and gesture control of displayes, tablets, and mobile devices.