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DFL tech

Software/B2B in Cyber Security, Grc And Data Breach

Located in Milan, Europe

OVERVIEW: We provide the first and most effective Data Breach Management platform available in the market. Customer's problem: Proactively and Automatically Tracking Data Breach & Incidents, Minimizing Exposure (legal and business), reducing reaction time. GRC Market is predicted to be at more than $20 Billion in the next five years; CyberSecurity Insurance Market for 2013 in the USA will be anywhere from $500 million to $1 billion a year in premiums paid.

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Condor Aerial

Security in Law Enforcement

Located in Charlotte, US East

OVERVIEW: Condor Aerial provides aerial surveillance drones for law enforcement. We received a directive from Homeland Security to provide our systems to US border patrol. Our aircraft are fully autopiloted and can be operated with an hour of flight training Teal Groups 2012 market study estimates that UAV spending will almost double over the next decade from current global expenditures of 6.6 billion annually to 11.4 billion totaling over 89 billion in the next 10 years.

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Biomicore

Electronics in Safety Ip

Located in Copenhagen, Europe

OVERVIEW: The need to eliminate or reduce risk associated faults in embedded systems (chips) is growing significantly. We developed the self-repairing computer (chip) and provide safety IP for chip developers enabling them to mitigate any kind of fault. Our target market segment, the high-end safety FPGA (field-programmable chip) market, is USD 1.5 B and growing at 12-30% p.a. Further more, the equivalent ASIC (standard chip) is estimated at USD +10 B.

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Legal FaceOff

Services in Legal

Located in New york, US East

OVERVIEW: the legal system is broken and it is up to the private market to come up with solutions and handle caseload that is clogging legal systems. Legal Faceoff operate a dedicated legal platform that can schedual, manage and conduct sessions online. The private legal services market is a $250BN. the Global legal service market is 1.5 Trillion market size

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SUN GRAINS

Wireless/Mobile in Ameristream

Located in Port Washington, US East

OVERVIEW: Ameristream is the collaboration of a group of successful radio professionals already known for creating tomorrow’s trends today. The media-savvy team envisions a mother ship of audio and video channels built around the phone and tablet with paid g We have always believed a digital brand business should be separate and apart from what radio stations do on the air. So we don't target a specific gender or age group. We give consumers choices to pursue their desires. Unlike radio ratings, the high

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Village Doorman

Services in E Commerce Logistics

Located in New York, US East

OVERVIEW: People living in NYC have a difficult time receiving packages if they don't live in a doorman building. We partner with neighborhood stores and transform them into mini package receiving centers. Clients get an email/text when the package arrives. 80% of NYC's 3.1m households don't reside in a doorman building (2.48m). Our most basic plan costs $10/month.

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Lore Systems, Inc.

Services in It Infrastructure, Network Engin...

Located in Washington, DC, US East

OVERVIEW: We are a leading IT infrastructure, enterprise network engineering, and clous computing services provider to commercial and Federal government clients. We are poised to capture business as a result of the Federal Datacenter Consolidation mandate. The Federal government spends $80 billion/yr on IT and $20 billion of this is in infrastructure/cloud/networks. With our HUBZone certification and 9+ years in commercial IaaS experience, we bring badly needed best practices to this market segment.

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Veloxum

Other in Infrastructure Management

Located in Scotts Valley, US West

OVERVIEW: We match the workload and users to the server's resources, adjusting the manufacturer's settings to improve performance and capacity. Our application is delivered as a recurring revenue cloud offering.We charge $30/month for monitoring and maintaining the server performance and $3/month to tune a PC, generating a potential market of $3.4B/year. We also have a 30 day trial.

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Shiroube

Internet/B2C in Tourism

Located in Paris, Europe

OVERVIEW: Shiroube is the micro guide marketplace that connects local residents and visitors, enabling to offer guides and service for travelers. The service grows since launch, covering more than 3,000 international cities, largest coverage in this market.

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Pfinch Development

Internet/B2C in Health Care

Located in Washington, DC, US East

OVERVIEW: Bluepfinch PHR is PDI’s first application of PFINCH, its big data format that facilitates movements of personal media to, from and within the Cloud. Our B2B2C target markets include three quarters of a million "electronic" US medical providers (projecting 55K premium accounts) and their patients (projecting 2.7M premium accounts).

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Four Elements Media, Inc.

Games/Entertainment in Online Television

Located in Orlando, US East

OVERVIEW: Four Elements Media is creating a marketplace for original content: A place where audiences can be heard and new content can be debuted, discovered and acquired. We are launching an online pilot television network with built in audience measurement. $12 billion in online video revenue, $3.2 billion in projected ad revenue online in 2012, and overall $300 billion in the global television market and $2 billion in the domestic measurement market for TV.

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MLN Advertising Inc

Advertising in Digital

Located in Baltimore, US East

OVERVIEW: MLN Advertising is developing an ad platform (MediaGlu) for trafficking, managing, buying and reporting on online advertising campaigns across all channels including Search, Display and Social. The digital advertising space is a rapidly growing sector, US spend alone increasing over 23% to $32B in 2011, according to emarketer, an internet marketing research and statistics company. Our market size could be $200 -400MM.

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SRD Vision

BioTech/Health in Ophthalmic Medical Device

Located in New York, US East

OVERVIEW: SRD Vision makes the Salzburg Reading Desk (SRD) that helps eye care professionals more accurately assess reading acuity. The SRD will become an important functional test for patients with presbyopia, macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. $250,000,000 worldwide unconverted market. The market consists of 17,000 Cataract and Refractive Surgeons worldwide; 30,000 Optometrists in the US, Canada & Australia; 5,000 Retinal specialist worldwide and numerous Low Vision clinics.

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GuideDB

Internet/B2C in Travel

Located in Helsinki, Europe

OVERVIEW: A website (and a set of apps for mobile devices and social networks) where travelers can search for local guides and book individual themed tours or other services that would require help and knowledge offered by local residents. Every month Google processes 30,000 search requests related to the search of personal guides. Additionally we should add traffic from other search engines (+35%), blog and social media traffic (+50%). At least 60,000 interested travelers/month.

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Moodpanda.com

Internet/B2C in Social Network

Located in Bristol, Europe

OVERVIEW: Moodpanda has been built specifically to allow people to track their own happiness and keep a graphical history of their wellbeing along with a record of the things that influence how they feel . We have a fast growing user base, everybody in the world can use moodpanda, the potential for brand tracking is huge in stage 2 of the project.

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BookieJar

Internet/B2C in Digital Publishing, Social Commerce

Located in Seattle, US West

OVERVIEW: BookieJar is a social reading platform offers ongoing eBook publishing model and innovative promotional capabilities, even eBook signing. We are featured by Geekwire, TechFlash, Tech Cocktail, and KillerStartups. Target Market: Independent writers and publishers and readers who loves to discover new content. eBook market in U.S. will exceed $3 Billion by 2015. 14% of Americans - 27 million people plan on purchasing a tablet device next year.

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Appsperse

Advertising in Mobile Apps

Located in San Francisco, US West

OVERVIEW: Appsperse developed a novel mobile app promotion platform that enables mobile application developers to leverage the unfilled (remnant) advertising space in their apps for improved app discoverability via cross promotion. At the macro level, the overall mobile in-app advertising market is growing fast with the increasing ubiquity of overall mobile telephony/web. The overall mobile in-app advertising market is ~$1B and expected to exceed $2.5B by 2014.

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Youneeq

Software/B2B in Saa S

Located in Victoria, Canada

OVERVIEW: Youneeq is for Websites that have a lage database of content (Big Data) and a large userbase with diverse interests. Who need to Increase advertising revenues, conversion rates, user engagement levels and decrease bounce rates. Enterprise e-commerce and publishing websites. 1,800 US sites that have over a million unique visitors per month. Single client life time value $3 million with acquisition cost less than 8%.

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Modria

Internet/B2C in Dispute Resolution

Located in San Jose, US West

OVERVIEW: Modria builds online dispute resolution systems. Companies use our software to resolve customer issues quickly and fairly, which saves support costs and improves customer loyalty and sales. We estimate the resolutions worldwide total addressable market to be $~7B by 2015. More broadly, in phase two we aim to target the global legal services market, sized by Datamonitor at $445b in 2010.

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Agent Aquarium

Services in Real Estate

Located in Austin, US Central

OVERVIEW: Agent Aquarium gives consumers a better way to find the right Realtor® by providing the ability to search for and compare Realtors® using verified MLS performance data. Commissions paid to Real Estate agents equate to $40-60 billion/ year.

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Nexgen Studio Pte Ltd

Games/Entertainment in Games

Located in Singapore, Asia / Pacific

OVERVIEW: We are a game developer focusing on smart phone and tablet devices, example of these devices are iPhone and iPad respectively. Direct revenues from sales of apps, in-app purchases and app subscriptions will top $7.3bn (£4.4bn) in 2011, rising to $36.7bn (£22.3bn) by 2015. These estimates do not include advertising revenues.

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SlimAds

Services in Consumer And Businesses

Located in Macungie, PA, US East

OVERVIEW: SlimAds makes unified marketing simple. Lets anyone get an online presence for their products or services in under 2 min and helps them leverage social networks , mobile devices and the Internet . SlimAds estimated target market size is well over 100 billion considering it spans multiple markets : CPG packaging ($ 456 Billion ), Mobile Internet (1.2 Billion users), Online Classifieds ($14 Billion), Ecommerce ($407 billion).

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Apsora

Internet/B2C in Health At Home

Located in Santa Clara, US West

OVERVIEW: Nclaves is a cloud service to monitor and enhance Health @ Home using personal health technologies, nutritional information services in a safe, secure family relationship network. Improves health, reduces out-of-pocket healthcare cost. 40 million baby boomers retired in 2010 requiring Health@Home solutions; in total 72 million will do so by 2030. Estimated market size is $4.5 billion by 2014, $20 billion by 2030.

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Quid Nunc

Internet/B2C in Productivity Saa S

Located in San Diego, US West

OVERVIEW: MyTimeFinder is the first automated time management system. MTF reduces stress and increases efficiency using a unique agent that scans your tasks, projects, and appointments to create intelligent and dynamic work schedules for you. A SaaS with applications across the business spectrum, MTF was designed with professionals in mind such as attorneys, architects, freelance developers, etc. There are over one million attorneys, over 70% of which already subscribe to some SaaS.

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M-banco

Wireless/Mobile in Mobile Money Voice

Located in New York, US East

OVERVIEW: An innovative financial service/solution for the mobile telephone users that enables to transfer money national and internationally with a very low cost. It is aimed for the unbanked ,underbanked population. 1.US 90 mm unbanked / underbanken people (FDIC September 2012) 2. 56MM Latino emigrants living in US that sends $60 BB year to their home country.(IDB 2011)

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InTheDoor

Internet/B2C in Recruiting

Located in San Francisco, CA, US West

OVERVIEW: InTheDoor lets job seekers use their social graph to find open positions where they have an inside edge. You need only to log in with Facebook and InTheDoor will find and sort job listings at the companies where your Facebook friends work. Companies are looking to leverage the Facebook network of their employees to recruit more efficiently.

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SecretSocial

Internet/B2C in Social Networks

Located in New York, US East

OVERVIEW: SecretSocial offers a real-time platform for genuine discussion and opinion to be expressed amongst people you know or want to know on the social web. People need a seamless way to take a public engagement and continue it privately. We do that. SecretSocial is a service applicable to all demographics on the social web. Anybody with access to Twitter or SMS or Email can engage with the platform and use it as they wish.

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CoKnown

Internet/B2C in Internet Research Tools

Located in Boulder, US West

OVERVIEW: CoKnown makes creating, saving and sharing Internet research simple, collaborative and effective. CoKnown addresses the emerging multi-billion dollar market for individuals, journalists, academics and corporations who need to efficiently conduct and communicate internet research.

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JetStream Technologies

Software/B2B in Construction

Located in Auburn, US East

OVERVIEW: We provide a web-based project management platform that handles all aspects of a construction project such as lead tracking, cost estimating and report generation. This platform emphasizes a flat learning curve and low cost. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in 2008 there were 551,000 "construction managers" in the US. Of those, 61% are self-employed and would be in need of a light weight project management platform. Market size is around 336,000.

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Flow Pay Corporation

Other in Electronic Payment

Located in Denver, US West

OVERVIEW: FlowPay™ Corporation, Inc., a payment-processing technology company, has developed a compelling product suite that satisfies a critical need in a large market that is little understood and only marginally addressed by the electronic payment indust Charitable giving was estimated to be $290.89 billion in 2010, of which $211.77 billion was from individual donations. This market sizing assessment does not include an enormous number of social, sporting, and community organizations, nor does it inc

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Farmeron

Internet/B2C in Agriculture Software

Located in Osijek (willing to move to USA), Europe

OVERVIEW: We want to give world's farmers an ultimate tool for farm data management and farm performance analysis. Our target user market consists of 168 million internet connected farmers out there. Ag&Food online advertising is a $3.34 billion market today.

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Appoke

Wireless/Mobile in Applications Distribution

Located in Paris, Europe

OVERVIEW: Appoke offers users innovative tools to discover Android applications through social discovery; and developers a new way to spread their applications in targeted communities. Appoke targets the market of Android applications more precisely the paid app market ($1 billion in 2011) and mobile advertising market ($2 billion in 2011); both market shows an exponential growth.

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Collectic Media

Communications/Networking in Internet

Located in Hartford, US East

OVERVIEW: Collectic's product is a network of 1000 or so different scalable niche key named social, community and commerial web portals and services. Network customers of Collectic are connected through a central registration and a single directory service. Our market expands from local to state or province to the country specific concerns of our customers community, consumer and social interests.

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SignNow

Internet/B2C in Electronic Signatures

Located in Newport Beach, US West

OVERVIEW: Most people still print, sign, and scan/fax documents to sign them. SignNow is the easiest way to sign across platforms (online and on mobile devices). We make money by connecting people to online notaries or by users upgrading to Pro. Huge. Millions of things are signed daily, and there are over 4.5 million notaries in the US alone. We disrupt all of these acts.

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Jawaya

Internet/B2C in Task Based Social Networks

Located in Lancaster, US East

OVERVIEW: Jawaya enables people to save, share, search, and endorse searches & related useful content to 1) better retain and share useful content, 2) leverage their networks to make searches more productive, and 3) discover people with specific expertise $50 billion in the search-related advertising, lead-gen, and revenue share markets, but the addressable market over 7 years is closer to $5 billion.

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TopDish

Internet/B2C in Food

Located in San Francisco, US West

OVERVIEW: Finding the right place and dish to eat when dining out can be a difficult task as consumers are bombarded with numerous options and often lack key information. TopDish simplifies the discovery of great food and provides personalized recommendations. Currently, there are 130M daily food patrons in the US, and restaurant and bar sales are projected to be at a 4 year high of $420B this year. Additionally there are niche markets (Vegetarian 7+M) (Gluten Free 3+M) who often struggle to find dishes.

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TimeStarvd

Other in Disruptive Book Publishing

Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, US West

OVERVIEW: No one has enough time. TimeStarvd can help! By creating uniquely customized versions of popular non-fiction books, we give readers big chunks of their life back - as much as 6 to 8 hours - every time they read a TimeStarvd edition. The potential for TimeStarvd's customized business books is about $80 million - in the US alone. With other likely categories included, our market exceeds $500 million. Customized content may ultimately capture 10% of the $20+ billion US book market

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Salventrex DOT Trader

Software/B2B in Electronic Trading

Located in Orlando, US East

OVERVIEW: Trading visualization and analysis software that enables the user to understand market movement through real-time and historical data sources, such as Sales, Market Depth, News, URLs, RSS, and Videos, in customized user-defined charts and windows. Solution applies globally to all financial markets that electronically make trades, such as stocks, forex, and futures. Primary clients are institutional traders. We will support Bloomberg, Reuters, NYSE, DTN, and Interactive Data for beta release.

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Digital Cavalier

Software/B2B in Digital Media / E Commerce

Located in Victoria, Canada

OVERVIEW: Algorithm leverages machine learning and statistical analysis to predict what content will be of interest to a reader and deliver ads at the moment readers want to see them. Addressing market pain of low ad and conversion rates , high bounce rates. Enterprise Digital Media sites between 10 million - 400 million page views a month with $500,000 in annual sales. Behavioral market spend was $1.7 billion in 2010 and forecasted to grow to 2.7 billion 2012.

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BusinessReel

Internet/B2C in Marketplace

Located in New York, US East

OVERVIEW: BusinessReel is a search engine for business for sale listings. BusinessReel allows buyers to explore and discover the businesses for sale they never knew existed. The market for buying and selling businesses is a multi billion dollars market.

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DailyDigital

Software/B2B in Digital E Commerce/Content Delivery

Located in Chicago, US Central

OVERVIEW: Turn-key digital eCommerce and content delivery platform for content creators to manage, sell and deliver video, audio, images, docs and other files directly to customers on their internet connected computers, tablets, mobile devices and TV's. Primary market is small to medium sized business owners that pay monthly for web-hosting which totaled $20B world-wide last year. Additionally, $11B in digital files sold is related to these same business owners as they buy and sell digital goods.

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iHear Network

Wireless/Mobile in Location Based

Located in Seattle, US West

OVERVIEW: Our mobile app for Android streams timely location-based information and social commentary in the form of audio. We are certainly at a new age of information consumption. Smartphone owners will surpass feature phone owners by the end of 2011, and combined direct and indirect revenues tied to mobile applications are predicted to surpass $25B by 2014.

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Einztein

Communications/Networking in Social Media, Education

Located in Santa Monica, US West

OVERVIEW: Einztein makes education smarter and more social by allowing open and closed learning groups to coexist and connect. Data generated via these groups is used to measure social learning interaction and help generate feedback for personalized learning. Social Learning Networks (SLN) are part of the eLearning market, an $18 billion market (Global $50 billion) in 2010 – projected to increase to $24.2 billion (Global $107 billion) by 2015.

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Chai

Internet/B2C in Digital Content

Located in Oslo, Europe

OVERVIEW: We're allowing creators and consumers to better manage their interactions and engage in meaningful conversations using social networking as the platform for distributing content in a new way! Any content creator can take advantage of Chai, although we'll be focusing on the independent market, with amateur or semi-pro podcasters, artists and other people without enough time to both create content, and deal with partners for hosting etc.

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zero2infinity

CleanTech/Energy in Spaceflight

Located in Barcelona, Europe

OVERVIEW: zero2infinity is developing bloon, a zero-emissions vehicle to climb to the edge of Space. You get the view that astronauts enjoy with no pollution and at a fraction of the cost and risk. Our market is the high-end experiential travel industry, it is estimated at around $40B globally. Anybody can fly, children, seniors, nationals from anywhere. Flying on bloon is as appealing to space cadets as it is to anybody else.

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Leetto

Other in Location Based Services

Located in New York, US East

OVERVIEW: Leetto connects you with the world around you. On current networks you are able to share with a friend or a follower. With Leetto you are able to share information with people and places because of where you are. The internet helps us connect but often fails to help us connect because of our location. Leetto provide access to an entirely new audience: people in a specific place.

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EquipmentRentalStore

Software/B2B in Equipment Rental

Located in Tulsa, US Central

OVERVIEW: More efficiently connect individuals and businesses who need to rent large equipment like tractors and aerial lifts with the rental stores who have the inventory. Enable smaller rental businesses to present their inventory online at reduced costs. In 2007, there were 15,865 equipment rental companies in the U.S. If we can capture 50% of that market and an average of $1,000 per store per year, potential revenues could approach $8M annually.

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CultureMatchup

Internet/B2C in Arts And Entertainment

Located in NYC, US East

OVERVIEW: CultureMatchup offers an alternative to people who don't like going to the theatre alone or who want to meet new people to attend arts and cultural events with. Our target demographic continues to grow and studies show that they are the fastest growing when it comes to using services such as ours. As such, we believe that the current size of our market is about 30 million potential customers in the U.S.

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EMBRIA Technologies

Software/B2B in Enterprise 2.0

Located in Rio de Janeiro, South America

OVERVIEW: Embria provides a SOA-based Web Platform for Enterprise Application Development, Process Automation and Governance, and Real-Time Information Control for the Enterprise Market, through a high quality and low cost Cloud Computing and SaaS model. Main IT research institutes in the world indicate a huge potential for cloud computing and SaaS software models for the SMB. Studies indicates that by the year of 2016, 80% of worldwide SMB will be in the cloud, with potential revenues of $60BI.

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InstaGrok

Internet/B2C in Education, Search, Students

Located in Boulder, US Central

OVERVIEW: Millions of students learn by searching the Web. InstaGrok, an intelligent search engine for learners, finds educational content (webpages, videos, forums, courses, experts) on any topic, and helps the learners select the most appropriate material(s) The market size for the product is over 25 million high-school and college students in the US, as well as teachers, knowledge professionals and independent learners (there is an estimated 1.6 billion education-related searches via Google each month).