DiscoveringStartups -Tech Startup Reviews

CleanEdison serves federal, state and local governments, building design and construction firms, owners, operators, and real estate investors. They have educated hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals in green building practices both through customized training and the largest open enrollment green training program in the nation. CleanEdison has courses in the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), BPI (Building Performance Institute) Certification, Energy Auditing, Solar, Wind and Renewable Energy. CleanEdison has also developed numerous customized training programs specific to a business or organization’s needs.

Every project begins with a comprehensive analysis of the client’s goals and budget in order to implement a strategy with the most cost-effective solutions. CleanEdison’s proprietary in-house database brings together the latest technology and products, government incentive programs, grants, and financing solutions to bring your project from start to finish.

CleanEdison is a great way to enter the green job market, which is a rapidly growing market in a time where job’s are few and far between. Having BPI certification and LEED accreditation can set you apart in the building and renovating industry because of the popularity of green renovations.

More of the same. We have quickly made ourselves the nation’s largest green building training company, so now we are fine-tuning and expanding rapidly.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.cleanedison.com

Visage Mobile is a leading enterprise mobility management company that enables businesses to take control of their mobile budget and inventory and set policies that govern employee usage of smartphones and mobile broadband. Its flagship product, MobilityCentral, is a cloud-based SaaS application capable of quickly analyzing data from thousands of employees across multiple carriers. Its customizable reports and actionable metrics are displayed in user-friendly graphs, giving companies unprecedented insight into their mobile activity. which provides usage data on over 50,000 U.S. employees spread across all geographies and industry verticals.

We are unique in our delivery model and time to implementation. Most businesses can be up and running in days rather than weeks, which is traditionally the time it takes to manage a businesses mobility. Our competitors are mainly BPO services/consulting companies that focus on telecom. They are known by the acronym TEM – Telecom expense management. We do not find competitors taking the same technology and value proposition approach (i.e., cloud-based SaaS app) as we do at this point.

According to market research firms, there are currently 20 million corporate-liable smartphones in use in the United States, representing 13 percent penetration of the total U.S. workforce. By 2012 this penetration rate is expected to increase to 20 percent, led by IT’s adoption of mobility management tools to help manage cost and complexity.. Our product helps IT departments of corporate America deal with these trends/challenges. On the one hand there is a push to enable the employees of a corporation to be more productive by having access to corporate apps while they are on the go via mobile broadband and smartphones. We address this chaotic environment where these devices are growing like weeds by providing a cloud-based application that brings together 3 sets of data – employee/HR data, device data and carrier billing data – and with data providing metrics/analytics/budgeting/visibility/policy setting so that an IT department can get control and manage to a budget.

See above. The more smartphones that are adopted and the more the workforce becomes mobile – the more businesses are going to need a solution that manages their mobility quickly and easily to save cost and support policies.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.visagemobile.com

Shape Up The Nation is the first corporate wellness company focused on leveraging the power of trusted social networks to promote healthy living. Founded in 2006, Shape Up The Nation has pioneered an innovative approach to behavior change that uses social networking to reduce health care costs by improving the health of large populations through peer motivation, support, and accountability. Shape Up The Nation’s evidence-based online platform is used by more than 120 leading self-insured employers and health plans.

Shape Up The Nation incorporates trusted social networking into the wellness arena. Studies have shown that the biggest long-term influence on an individual’s health is his/her peers; we take this to the next level by placing peers/co-workers on a platform, allowing them to encourage one another with healthy activities.

Health care costs as a percentage of GDP are estimated to reach over 30% within the next 25 years. Large self-insured organizations and health plans are turning to prevention as a way to alleviate costs. Shape Up The Nation offers a proven, evidence-based preventative solution that capitalizes on social media technology.

Employers and health plans pay on a per participant per month basis.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.shapeupthenation.com

ODIN has built the only true operating system for RFID, making the devices “intelligent” and eliminating expensive middleware. The RFID OS called “EasyEdge” is the foundation for several packaged, ROI-driven RFID solutions. We have completed more than 300 successful projects for clients like Airbus, Johnson & Johnson, Wells Fargo, Dell and many others. We focus on IT Asset Tracking, Healthcare, Weapons Tracking, Aerospace, and Governemnt Solutions.

We are the only company that has a true hardware-agnostic operating system for RFID, that is embedded on the device eliminating middleware and costly servers. We combine deep RFID hardware expertise with elegant embedded software design. We enhance the performance of the RFID devices and add a business process layer making the data more useful to applications like SAP, Oracle, Maximm, etc.

All of the Fortune 1000 companies need to track and secure items and they can’t count on people to do it. Passive RFID is accurate and cheap enough to give every item its own voice. RFID will notify you if an item leaves a secure area or is taken by the wrong person. The B2B opportunity will make RFID big. The Consumer Applications (See Vail, Disney,etc) will make RFID HUGE, as the virtual world is connected to the physical world automatically. ODIN’s Operating System will be on the majority of devices connecting RFID tags and readers.

We charge a licensing fee for the operating system and a monthly recurring SAAS fee for the monitoring of each device.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://odintechnologies.com/rfid-software-iam

We sell data visualization components (charts, graphs, maps) for web applications. Using our components, people can make their reporting stunning and more power-packed.

The wow factor it brings to any business application it is used in, with its sleek animation, 3D and gradients.

We already have 16,000 customers with a majority of Fortune 500 companies as our customers. With a firm customer base already in place, we can make it bigger with vertical solutions, penetrating deeper into markets and also exploring new markets. We have also made our foray into the consumer market with a free and incredibly easy-to-use charting plugin for PowerPoint called Oomfo.

We sell licenses for our component for people wanting to use them in their websites/web apps and complete business solutions.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.fusioncharts.com

DIY Online Event Registration & Online Ticketing

Viral Marketing on twitter and Facebook and professional E-Mail Campaign Tool. International Languages and currency support

The event market is a growing market and still only a small percentage is sold online

percentage of each ticket sale

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.amiando.com

CloudShare enables IT as a Service (ITaS); on-demand delivery of privately branded IT environments, including both virtual infrastructure (servers, storage, networking, and software), and line of business functionality (analytics, management, security, reporting, web UI, and patented technology for rapid cloud migration), all via a cloud-based application. Customers include VMware, Cisco, SAP, McAfee, Websense and others, who use CloudShare for Sales Demos, Proofs of Concept, Training, IT Operations, and more.

CloudShare goes beyond infrastructure to provide full enterprise IT systems and line of business functionality: private branding, analytics, management, security, reporting and patented web-based technology for rapid cloud migration.

The cloud computing market is expected to be in the billions of dollars in the next few years, and CloudShare’s unique technology and business approach are well positioned to capitalize on that market.

By selling IT as a Service subscriptions to our platform to customers including VMware, Cisco, SAP, McAfee, Websense and others, who use CloudShare for Sales Demos, Proofs of Concept, Training, IT Operations, and more. Seems to be working well so far.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.cloudshare.com

DotNetNuke Corp. provides the leading Web Content Management Platform for Microsoft ASP.NET, which helps organizations build and maintain web sites and web platforms, such as public web sites, extranets, and intranets. We are the creators, leaders and stewards of DotNetNuke, the largest and most successful open source project in the Microsoft ecosystem and the most widely adopted Web content management system on Microsoft .NET.

The DotNetNuke platform has been downloaded more than 6 million times and powers more than 600,000 production web sites worldwide. Organizations use DotNetNuke to quickly develop and deploy interactive and dynamic web sites, intranets, extranets and web applications. The DotNetNuke platform is available in a free Community and subscription-based Professional, Elite and Elite Premier Editions. DotNetNuke Corp. also operates Snowcovered.com where users purchase third party software add-ons for the DotNetNuke platform.

DotNetNuke is an open source WCM Platform built on the Microsoft web server stack. It features an open API, allowing users to easily change the appearance and functionality of their website, extranet or intranet by adding DotNetNuke apps. The open API allows user to create their own apps, purchase third-party apps on the Snowcovered.com marketplace or download free apps from the DotNetNuke Forge. These factors combined make DotNetNuke unique as evidenced by over 6 million downloads and 600,000+ production web sites. Key advantages:

1. The open platform can quickly, easily be extended by installing add-on modules.
2. More than 8,000 add-on modules exist for the DotNetNuke platform with an average price of about $100
3. The installed base is huge – more than 600,000 production web sites currently deployed on the platform
4. A vibrant ecosystem of more than 500 hundred web development firms, 800+ ISVs, and 40+ hosting companies have emerged
5. Large and growing open source community – nearly 800,000 registered members contribute software, help each other with technical questions, and generate enthusiasm and business opportunities for the commercial DotNetNuke ecosystem

DotNetNuke Corp. achieved a number of significant milestones in 2009 alone, its first year of selling products, notably:

- The DotNetNuke platform has been downloaded more than 6 million times and powers more than 600,000 production web sites.
- In its first year as a commercial corporation, DotNetNuke Corp. grew from zero to nearly 500 customers for the commercial editions of its products.
- The company signed nearly 70 official partners.
- Nearly 50,000 transactions were completed to 15,000 customers on Snowcovered.com.
- The marketplace, Snowcovered.com, offers more than 8,000 add-ons from nearly 800 third-party vendors.
- DotNetNuke Corp. accepted a preemptive $8M in Series B funding in February 2010.

The phenomenal market traction DotNetNuke Corp. achieved in its first year demonstrates the market opportunity and need for affordable, open source alternatives to proprietary web content management systems.

DotNetNuke Corp. makes money in two primary ways:

1. The sale of subscription products at an average deal size of about $4,000 per year. These subscription products include unique features not available in the free version, full documentation, an online Knowledge Base, email alerts for product updates and security alerts, unlimited technical support, and product copyright indemnification. 800 customers purchased subscriptions to date following the commercial product debut in February 2009.
2. Operation of an online marketplace, Snowcovered.com, for the sale of third-party software add-ons for the DotNetNuke platform. Nearly 800 vendors offer more than 8,000 add-ons at an average price of about $100. Nearly 24,000 transactions to more than 16,000 customers have been completed in the first half of 2010.

DotNetNuke Corp. generates revenue from a few additional minor sources including consulting services, training, advertising

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.dotnetnuke.com

Sonian’s cloud-powered archiving and eDiscovery service provides customers with a secure online repository for their email, instant messaging, and social media data. The Sonian Archive enables administrators and supervisory personnel to quickly and easily search, locate, and export data to support legal discovery and compliance requirements. The Sonian Archive can be deployed in minutes, includes unlimited storage, and requires no ongoing maintenance.

Sonian Archive is the first hosted email archive solution created with grid computing infrastructure technologies. Grid design means very high reliability with no single point of failure. Grid computing also means efficient use of computer hardware so that we can process more data with less hardware resources, allowing us to pass the costs savings to our customers. Only Sonian provides a 99.99% data retention SLA in a hosted environment.

Every company and organization governed by compliance regulations is legally obligated to maintain an archive of their email, IM, and now social media, communications. With a seemingly endless need for an archiving solution, Sonian is poised to take the market by storm by offering one of the most functional archiving services, with faster search capabilities, and unlimited storage, for LESS than competitors, on-premise and hosted alike.

Monthly subscription service based on a per user basis for both Email Archiving service and Social Media, IM, SMS Archiving service.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.sonian.com

BuyWithMe is a community buying website that targets shoppers in local cities. We work with local businesses to help them attract new customers. We provide our subscribers with the best deals for the hottest restaurants, spas, salons, activities and services.

Each deal we feature is live on the site for 7 days. We one of the largest community buying websites and we target the urban female shopper.

The group or community buying market is changing quickly and we are only in the early stages. There is a huge opportunity in this market.

We share revenue with merchants that are featured on our site.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.BuyWithMe.com