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Showcase

TheFunded.com Showcase lists new startup companies from around the world. Members are invited to vote on companies they like, and, once a quarter, companies with the most votes get invited to an exciting event in Silicon Valley. The Q2 2010 Showcase is now planned for April 22nd. You need to be a Member to create a listing. Register here.

The Showcase offers advanced functionality as well. Members can introduce companies they like to investors they know, as well as provide feedback on the pitch. 351 investor introductions have been completed by Members. See some of the 'graduates' from the Showcase. Enjoy!

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MeetingWave.com

Internet/B2C in Business Networking

Located in NYC, NY, US East

OVERVIEW: MeetingWave helps members meet new people for business or social purposes, while providing control, privacy and flexibility. Members can propose meetings, yet control who can attend and whether the meeting occurs without disclosing their identity. Targeting individuals who need to network for client generation, new business leads, or to find new opportunities – lawyers in private practice, sales executives, consultants, people looking for jobs, etc.- including LinkedIn's 60 million users.

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1-800-Battery

Internet/B2C in Consumer Electronics

Located in Newport Beach, US West

OVERVIEW: 1-800-Battery provides a one-stop search portal and phone number to deliver hard to find rechargeable batteries for 100,000's of devices. The US market demand of primary and secondary batteries ( non-general use ) is $16 billion and growing at 6% a year. Emerging hybrid vehicles will expand this market opportunity over the next decade.

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MY JOB CHART

Internet/B2C in Kids

Located in Phoenix, US West

OVERVIEW: My Job Chart is an online job chart to help kids do their chores and learn how to be responsible. As chores are done they earn points. Points are spent in a reward store. Parents get email or text when jobs are done or rewards are earned. There are over 40 Million kids in the U.S. between ages 5-14.

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Big Screen Gaming

Games/Entertainment in Video Games

Located in Huntington Beach, US West

OVERVIEW: Big Screen Gaming is a large format digital gaming platform designed for movie theaters. The technology delivers console-style video gaming with 24 or more players at the same time on an undivided 40-foot screen. There are 7000 digital theaters. Big Screen Gaming products target the 32 million U.S. males, ages 18-34, who play video games and attend movies on a regular basis. 16.1 million males 18-34 used a console at least once during Q4.

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UMapper

Internet/B2C in Mapping

Located in Greenwood Village, US Central

OVERVIEW: UMapper makes it easy to create, distribute, track and monetize online maps. The online mapping market is estimated to be 2.8 Bln.

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Tynt

Software/B2B in Online Publishing

Located in Calgary / Salt Lake City, Canada

OVERVIEW: Tynt helps over 250,000 online publishers and website owners benefit from when people copy content from their websites by automatically adding attribution to all copied content and driving more traffic through Tynt generated link backs. Tynt is today monitoring over 7 billion page views every month - but the total addressable market is in the hundreds of billions of page views. Tynt has relationships and deployments with most Tier 1 media companies and thousands of long tail sites

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FlyRight Jet Lag Formula

BioTech/Health in Dietary Supplements

Located in Mountain View, US West

OVERVIEW: More than 30 mil. people fly internationally each year risking productivity & lost business deals due to Jet Lag. Used daily by flight crews from Emirates and Air Canada, Jet Lag Formula is the safe & effective way to arrive feeling your best! The U.S. Jet Lag market is ~ $300 mil. and captures the convergence of two markets: the $23 billion- US Travel Retail market and the $25 billion- US Supplements market.

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JetLimo

Services in Travel

Located in Thousand Oaks, US West

OVERVIEW: Innovative and proprietary technology drives per-seat, on demand travel on business aircraft. We connect passengers with charter operators, making margin on each transaction. $1.4 billion/ year. Close to 1 million passenger trips per year. Domestic airline business revenue is $146 billion and 800 million passenger trips.

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officialCOMMUNITY

Internet/B2C in B2 C

Located in Toronto, Canada

OVERVIEW: officialCOMMUNITY empowers established recording artists including James Taylor, Santana, Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits and Alice Cooper to acquire, serve and connect their fans as lifelong, direct customers and community members. There are approximately 650 globally famous, active established recording artists that are suitable for our business model. We sell the best seats (top 10%) to every concert of the artists that we work with.

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Load Impact

Internet/B2C in Saa S Qa/Testing

Located in Stockholm, Europe

OVERVIEW: How many visitors can your web site handle? Load Impact offers web site load (stress) testing as an online service. Traditional load testing products have been expensive and difficult to use. We make it easy and affordable. Load testing software products compete for a $1bn/year market worldwide, with mainly large corporate customers. Our much lower price and ease-of-use let us compete for this market and also opens up a new SME market that did not exist before.

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AirTool

BioTech/Health in Sporting Goods/Physical Therapy

Located in San Francisco, US West

OVERVIEW: AirTool will be an internet based commerce company selling a new line of Snorkels and related equipment that will make the sports of Swimming, Triathlons, Skin Diving more accessible to all, increasing public awareness to the world's open waters. 1.3M Triathletes, 15M US Competitive Swimmers, 95M US Recreational Swimmers (#2 US Participated Sport), and 8.4 MSkin Divers. The AirTool will increase these numbers by making swimming more accessible to all, including the overweight and the elderly.

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Smartscale Systems

Software/B2B in Data Center/Cloud Computing

Located in Campbell, CA, US West

OVERVIEW: Smartscale automates systems management in virtual environments. Our One Click Data Center manages virtualized data centers and clouds with a unique, patent pending hierarchical management system that optimizes departmental resource usage. Data centers are under going a sea change in operations approach. Old style server farms are giving way to compact, efficient virtualized server clusters and clouds. As companies move to virtual data centers the market will grow to $7 billion by 2012

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Marketfish

Advertising in List Marketing

Located in Seattle, US West

OVERVIEW: Marketfish provides new revenue opportunities by enabling marketers and enterprises to rent premium mailing lists for marketing campaigns online. Build, deploy and measure lead generation campaigns in real-time via a Saas platform. Direct mail marketing is a $4.5 b industry in the U.S. 93% of enterprises rent 3rd party, opt-in mailing lists.

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LoanCheck

Software/B2B in Information Technology

Located in Denver, US West

OVERVIEW: LoanCheck (LCI) acts as an independent third party eliminating real estate agents #1 problem: Failures in Financing - Our analysis helps everyone: Sellers, Buyers, REALTORS and Lenders LCI will serve 1,300,000 REALTORS exclusively, who will refer: 400,000+- loan originators & 65,000 lenders into our database, while giving a new verified information on mortgage lenders to their estimated 20,000,000 Buyers and Sellers annually.

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StrataXL Software

Internet/B2C in Advertising

Located in Vancouver, Canada

OVERVIEW: We've built a growing network of neighborhood specific websites that showcase local news, businesses and real estate listings. We generate real estate and related business leads which we then sell to agents and related service companies. Referral commissions from Real Estate are a $67Billion industry, and the opportunity gets much larger when you start factoring in loan, mortgage and other business referrals.

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LikeMinds

Internet/B2C in Social Discovery

Located in Palo Alto, US West

OVERVIEW: LikeMinds.com is a product discovery and recommendation service that allows users to connect and identify products and services enjoyed by other like-minded individuals. At this stage it is too early to estimate our offering market size. Our offering will overlap entertainment industries (including books, movies and music), will include partnership for resale of data, and has a personalized advertising component.

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Busy Bee Advertising

Advertising in Media

Located in Jackson, US Central

OVERVIEW: Busy Bee Advertising provides businesses and media outlets across the world, the ability to advertise and generate revenue from online media usage. We have letters of intent from 5/8ths of the online radio stations saying they are willing to use our system if we developed it with the functionality, i envision it having.

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Green Sherpa

Internet/B2C in Personal Finance

Located in Santa Barbara, US West

OVERVIEW: GreenSherpa is a web-based personal finance solution that helps people make better financial decisions by providing unparalleled clarity through its cash flow projection tool. There are over 300M online banking users worldwide and the number one requested feature among these users is personal finance.

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Fly Open Sky

Internet/B2C in Travel

Located in Rotterdam, Europe

OVERVIEW: iBidlow plans to become the hub for Hotwire and Priceline users and build an analytical and accurate set of solutions to dilemmas consumers are facing when using opaque sites to book hotel rooms. Hotwire & Priceline account for 20M unique U.S. monthly visitors. We offer information that is valuable for these users, with an estimated target market of 1M visitors per month.

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Social Entertainment Shopping, Inc.

Software/B2B in Consumer Electronics

Located in Atlanta, US East

OVERVIEW: PennyGrabber.com will introduce an innovative way for consumers to shop online for the latest high-end consumer electronics at low-end prices. We call this new shopping method "Social Entertainment Shopping." The e-commerce retail industry currently generates $145.6 billion annually, and according to eMarketer, will grow to $183.9 billion in 2012. We are currently targeting the consumer electronic shoppers. Both the premium shopper, and bargain hunters.

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Baduku

Internet/B2C in Social Commerce

Located in Santa Ana, US West

OVERVIEW: Baduku.com is an opinion engine utilizing real-time socially ranked micro-opinions (50 characters max opinions) to help people make quick informed decisions, and gauge public opinion in real-time. Baduku.com has a top down (TAM) market potential of 69MM Internet Shoppers who use review regularly and make 1 purchase annually. Baduku.com has a bottom up (SAM) market potential of 17MM Average between the top two market leaders for online reviews.

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eWoFF.com, Incorporated

Internet/B2C in Wellness, Family

Located in Chicago, US Central

OVERVIEW: eWoFF Network is a private network of sites and services for family and friends including WeightChart.com for wellness, eWoFF.com for sharing, and nvytr.com for events. These sites participate in large markets with nearly unlimited opportunities for revenue.

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The Early Stage Collaboration Community

Software/B2B in Collaboration Community

Located in Mountain View, US West

OVERVIEW: The ESCC is a Global Solution for Early Stage Partnering and Investing. The ESCC brings mutual benefits to all the members of its Community: Sponsoring Organizations, Sponsored Companies, Validation Partners, Funders and Resources. The market size is $6+ billion

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DealMaker

Internet/B2C in Electronic Marketplace

Located in Atlanta, US East

OVERVIEW: Buyers can buy instantly from many competitive offers, or choose any option for any new or used car and post bids to invite offers from every seller in the market, who can accept bids, or post offers to invite bids from every buyer in the market. Global total new and used automobile sales 276,000,000 units; total sales value $4.4 trillion; verifiable online deal demand @ 40% $1.76 trillion; online sales commissions @2% $35.2 billion; net revenue for each 1% market share $352 million.

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PigSpigot

Internet/B2C in Greeting Cards

Located in Brooklyn, US East

OVERVIEW: Featuring print-on-demand personalization and user-generated/user-curated content, PigSpigot makes it easier for more people to send better cards. PigSpigot is poised to capture a significant portion of a market that is worth more than $9 billion dollars in annual revenue and is growing at a rate close to 10 percent.

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iGetBetter

BioTech/Health in Health It Services

Located in Framingham, MA, US East

OVERVIEW: iGetBetter is a patient care web application that allows physicians to deliver best practice rehabilitation plans electronically and receive important progress data in real-time, to ensure patient compliance and prevent costly complications. iGetBetter works with a variety of medical indications, tapping into $4-billion growth industry (e.g., currently more than 250,000 hip operations are performed annually, and expected to grow to 600,000 by 2015—most with out-patient recovery needs).

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Envision Security

Security in Business Process Improvement

Located in Seattle, US West

OVERVIEW: Envision Security delivers the first SaaS suite of applications to formalize and advance internal IT security teams and services. Our first application streamlines risk and portfolio prioritization, reducing manual effort and improving effectiveness. We place IT Security Process Improvement as a new sub-segment of the GRC market (>$9B US). Initial target is US financial services (6000 banks, 9000 credit unions). Every public and regulated company is in scope.

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Stiqr.com

Internet/B2C in Website Development

Located in Los Angeles, US West

OVERVIEW: Stiqr is a cloud-hosted, on-demand visual web editing service provider and it's a dream come true for designers and site owners as it GREATLY simplifies the way websites are created and modified. There are over 400 million website owners and 8 BILLION web pages that can take advantage of using Stiqr now to instantly and freely edit their web pages at will (it's anybody's game right now in web design development sector).

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Public Performance Systems

Software/B2B in Public Sector

Located in Austin, US Central

OVERVIEW: Public Performance Systems (PPS) designs performance management software tools for all levels of government. Our flagship product, Gov-Metrics™, provides public sector users with a number of features that make performance management programs more e Based on survey data, demand for vendor-furnished information systems and services by U.S. state and local governments will increase from $48 billion in 2008 to $65 billion in 20131 with $11 billion on software alone.

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ReferYes.com

Software/B2B in Online Recruiting

Located in Amman, ME/Africa

OVERVIEW: ReferYes is a social job referral network where people refer their social network connections to jobs, creating a culture of online referring where people help their friends to find a job opportunity and help their companies hire qualified employees. Online job advertising market is expected to grow to more than $9 billion by 2011. Recent studies predict that social media soon will replace the giant job sites as the best source for finding high quality candidates.

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Arctrieval

Software/B2B in Healthcare

Located in Phoenix, US West

OVERVIEW: Arctrieval is a marketing company that provides a rich, best of breed solution to manage the unglamorous task of protected healthcare information correspondence and privacy. The service is backed with a $2 million guarantee. Our market is the millions of healthcare providers in the U.S and the 82% of all adults and 91% of all children in the U.S. that make 2.4 billion medical visits annually.

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AccessDNA

Internet/B2C in Health

Located in Los Angeles, US West

OVERVIEW: AccessDNA is the WebMD of genetics, with a built-in "consumer reports" for genetic testing. We help users understand their own genetic risks and match them to the most relevant genetic test and service providers based on their family history. The genetic testing market is growing rapidly and is expected to reach $6.6 Billion by 2014. The rapid advances in the field of genetics, as well as the increased media coverage on the potential benefits will help the market continue to grow.

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Terbine Networks

Other in Digital Media

Located in San Francisco, US West

OVERVIEW: Terbine Networks is developing and deploying a content-handling network that beams television-style advertising and topically relevant programming into stadiums, arenas and movie theaters where a captive audience is present, and gets their attention. The global Out-Of-Home advertising market exceeded $70 Billion in 2009 (est.). Terbine Networks is approaching the untapped worldwide large-venue marketplace and adjacent markets. Company moves into revenues during 2010.

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Reid & Associates

BioTech/Health in Health Care

Located in Mundelein, US Central

OVERVIEW: Our company has developed a portable electronic medical record solution. The solution addresses the need for patients to stay connected to an updated version of their personal health record and identify new services that make use of this information. There are 150 MM Americans in the age group of 25-64. Of this group, 83% have had contact with a health care professional in the last year. Health Care Spending is at an all time high.

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Zonerider Networks

Wireless/Mobile in Wifi Internet

Located in London, Europe

OVERVIEW: Zoneriders ethos is to become the free social wifi network, where everyone contributes their broadband capacity to build a free global wifi community, and earn extra income. Through the use of our windows based hotspot software (Zonerider Gateway) According to Point Topic ™ there are 429 Million Broadband connections worldwide, compared to 6 billion people on the planet, we are not selective on who uses our system

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LockerBlogger

Games/Entertainment in Sports

Located in New York, US East

OVERVIEW: Our goal is to become the ultimate hub for the global sports community to celebrate pro and amateur achievement, access expert coaching education and skills development, and plug in to active conversations about the pastimes they love. GLOBALLY, industry is $1.5 trillion The US industry is $410.6 billion to increase by 37% by 2012* US Sports advertising - $30 billion in 2009 *PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Monstrous

Games/Entertainment in Mobile, Online, Console, Pc/Mac ...

Located in Austin, Texas, US Central

OVERVIEW: Monstrous is building an entertainment medium that gives players a new way to consume virtual goods. We develop unique social games for next generation media platforms, leveraging existing digital distribution channels and licenses of popular IP. We address the $8B digital download market, initially focusing on the combined audience of 18+ MM iPhone units and the nearly 50+ MM Nintendo Wii units.

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RevenueMantra Digital Media

Advertising in Digital Media

Located in Mumbai, Asia / Pacific

OVERVIEW: RevenueMantra is a Multi-Channel Advertising Network catering to Global Advertisers to reach Indian Market and Global Indian Advertisers to reach out to the NRI and general market. Currently enables Internet, Mobile and Rich Media Advertising The Indian Advertising market is growing rapidly and is even growing at a higher pace in the Digital Media sector. Currently the size is 100M growing at 70% p.a . Mobile space is huge and has about 500M subscribers and with 3G being rolled out soon

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Breakthrough.com

Internet/B2C in Telemedicine

Located in Palo Alto, US West

OVERVIEW: Breakthrough connects mental health providers with clients for treatment via video, phone, email, and chat. 57 million Americans have a mental illness but 60% don't get treatment due to costs, access, and stigma. Telepsychiatry offers a solution. In 2004, Americans spent $23 billion on psychotherapy, $25 billion on psychiatric drugs, and $120 billion spent on psychological care overall.