We’ve gone through more than 1,000 companies to get down to the final 50 (okay, 52) that will present on stage at TechCrunch50 starting later this morning. We will be covering all of the companies as they present onstage or shortly after. But for now, here’s a list of all the companies that made it (except the last one, which will be picked from the DemoPit by the audience at the event).
Learn more about these companies on CrunchBase by clicking “CB”. You can also visit the official TechCrunch50 website to watch their presentations live, or stay tuned right here for coverage throughout the week.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Session 1: Youth and Culture. 9:00-10:15am
- Blah Girls (CB)- Backed by Ashton Kutcher, Blah Girls is a gossip site that features a group of animated teenage girls who provide opinions on what’s going on in the world of entertainment
- Tweegee (CB) — A hub for tweens, Tweegee offers the youth market a suite of online tools for social interaction and organization
- Shryk (CB) — Web-based financial software for children aimed at promoting financial literacy and good saving habits
- Hangout Industries (CB) — Blends social networking with virtual worlds by creating a 3D, online environment where 16-24 year olds can chat and share media
Session 2: Memes & News. 10:30 – 11:45am
- DotSpots (CB) — Tracks the memes spreading across the web, aggregates the content associated with them, and gives everyone Wikipedia-like control over that content
- Angstro (CB) — Lets you set up a feed of news about your friends, instead of news by your friends
- LiveHit (CB) — Tracks the music, videos, and entertainment sites people are clicking on right now
- Quant the News (CB) — Creator of StockMood.com, a service that tracks the sentiments of online news stories about stocks and then measures their potential impact on the direction of those stocks’ prices
Session 3: Enterprise. 2:30 – 3:45pm
- FairSoftware (CB) — Creates virtual shares around software projects that gives each contributor a portion of any resulting revenues
- Yammer (CB) — A web application designed for businesses and organizations that asks its users to answer the question, “What are you working on?”
- Connective Logic (CB) — Along with the company’s real-time middleware, Blueprint will make it easier for developers to design, generate code, and deploy complex multi-core software applications without requiring expertise in multi-threaded software development
- Devunity (CB) — A platform for writing code in a browser-based editor that doesn’t force developers to use a proprietary layer
- OpenTrace (CB)- Traces items through the supply chain and adds them together to show the impact of products on the environment
Session 4: Advertising & Commerce Monetization. 3:45 – 5:00pm
- Burt (CB) — Collects user data to tailor individual advertising campaigns and target users more effectively
- Adgregate Markets (CB) — Brings online stores to consumers through a display ad that is a fully transactional widget
- Adrocket (CB) — Contextual text-based advertising for email; assigns keywords to each address depending on known demographic and contextual data
- OtherInBox (CB) — Provides an easy way to quarantine the spam and the messages you receive from online services
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Session 5: Collaboration. 9:00 – 10:15am
- Tingz (CB) — Offers a unified platform for delivering internet content across multiple devices including mobile phones and PCs
- MIXTT (CB) — A group based social network/dating site that encourages real world interaction that’s more comfortable than the 1-on-1 format of most similar sites
- Imindi (CB) — Based on neuroscientific principles, Imindi’s Thought Engine tries to exceed human thought and help its users find new ideas, concepts, and questions on the Web
- Popego (CB) — Surfaces the most meaningful information from within your social graph based on your interests and other factors
Session 6: Finance & Statistics. 10:30 -11:45am
- PersonalRIA (CB) — Allows users to shadow a professional investment advisor’s portfolio, automatically executing trades (which most brokerage sites cannot do)
- Emerginvest (CB) — A global finance portal that helps you invest in international stock markets.
- ExchangeP (CB) — Dubbed a “fantasy stock market,” ExhangeP’s service allows users to sign up for free and start investing in private companies
- Me-trics (CB) — Lets you see how mood, weight, and goals correlate with other metrics, including web services like Facebook or RescueTime
- iCharts (CB) — YouTube for embeddable, interactive charts
Session 7: Mobile. 2:15 – 3:30pm
- Mytopia (CB) — A gaming platform that lets players compete across mobile devices and social networks
- Tonchidot (CB) — Makes the Sekai Camera, a camera system that aims to merge the virtual and real worlds by using a digital device as a viewfinder
- Mobclix (CB) — An analytics and monetization platform for iPhone developers
- FitBit (CB) — Developing a small wireless sensor called the Fitbit Tracker, which automatically records data about a person’s activities, calories burned, sleep quality, steps, and distance throughout the day
Session 8: Language & Communication Tools. 3:45 – 5:00pm
- Alfabetic (CB) — Translates any blog or Website into another language and places ads alongside it in the new tongue
- Postbox (CB) — Based on Mozilla technology, Postbox saves users time when looking for particular information within their email
- Swype (CB) — A new method of text input on touch screens; does away with traditional “hunt and peck” in favor of a more fluid motion
- DropBox (CB) — Provides an easy way to backup your files, share them with coworkers and friends, and synchronize them between computers
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Session 9: Rich Media. 9:00 – 10:15am
- VideoSurf (CB) — A visual video search engine that allow users to search across millions of videos for a given actor and to view summaries of videos through a series of detected keyframes
- GazoPa (CB) — An image search engine developed by Hitachi that uses visual similarities between photos to suggest matches (rather than simply relying on keywords).
- Fotonauts (CB) — A photo sharing application that turns every album instantly into a Web page.
- Bojam (CB) — Although there are a slew of online music services already on the Web, Bojam is trying to do something a bit different: it wants to connect musicians and allow them to collaborate over the Web.
Session 10: Games. 10:30 – 11:45am
- Grockit (CB) – A “Massively Multi-Player Online Learning Game”
- Akoha (CB) — A web-based social game played with trading cards aimed at spreading good deeds around the world
- Atmosphir (CB) — A platform for creating 3D interactive games by selecting blocks (such as a sand castle tower, fireball-breathing bird, or trap door) and snapping them onto a grid.
- PlaYce (CB) — Provides a 3D virtual world inside the browser for games and social interaction that is based on the real world
Session 11: Vertical Social Networking. 2:15 – 3:30pm
- Birdpost (CB) — A social network for birdwatchers
- Closet Couture (CB) — Fashionistas need a social network too and Closet Couture is looking to give them one by connecting them to other fashion lovers, stylists, and retailers
- Footnote (CB) — For those looking to create historical records of loved ones or themselves, Footnote offers a timeline-based archive where you can upload photos and documents linked to historical databases
- Causecast (CB) — Causecast leverages social networking to connect nonprofits, leaders, celebrities and brands with those who want to make a difference through good causes
- Shattered Reality Interactive (CB) — A new massively multiplayer online game (think World of Warcraft) that lets the crowd guide the direction of future expansions
Session 12: Research & Recommendations. 3:45 – 5:00pm
- GoodGuide (CB) – Provides information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of products and companies
- GoPlanit (CB) — A one-click travel planner that assembles a customized trip itinerary with the click of a button; also supports mobile microblogging
- TrueCar (CB) – A site that allows users to assess the current market value of their automobiles in a given geographic area
- Goodrec (CB) – A mobile and online recommendation service that provides brief, to-the-point recommendations from friends and trusted sources
“Sorry, Tweegee is out for summer,
We’ll be back in time for the new school year.”
What a let down.
ha ha ha day 1 session 4… here is a tool to make spam and then here is a produt to squash it… ha ha ha love it!!!!
# Adrocket (CB) — Contextual text-based advertising for email; assigns keywords to each address depending on known demographic and contextual data
# OtherInBox (CB) — Provides an easy way to quarantine the spam and the messages you receive from online services
So far this sucks. No internet access in the hall. Not enough chairs/tables even though they knew how many people were coming-people literally had to carry their own chairs into the hall. Running late. If Arrington didnt work for TechCrunch he would say this sucks
the chair and wifi situation more than sucks. it’s a clusterfuck and we’re trying to fix it.
On the upside, we are live streaming the entire conference via Ustream, and reports are that the stream is working very well. We’ll also have videos of all demos up soon.
why does Ashton get so much more time than anyone else. Does Arrington want to have his children?
Ashton needs the money.
This whole conference is a Charade. Serious startups don’t come here.
How many of last years ‘finalists’ are ‘finished’ ?
Did they add two more since their profits were getting eaten by Demo?! LOL
My vote is for Dropbox. Great application.
hey guys,
There is an interesting talk organized by VLAB at Stanford Business school that I am attending. The topic is Lifestreaming: The Real Time Web on Sep 16th. FriendFeed and Seesmic are going to be there on the panel. Check it out http://www.vlab...le.html?aid=221
Well, it is clear that everything has been presold to dropbox.
Boring. Boring. Boring.
It makes me happy to think that more than 90% of these will fail.
This is very interesting.
Congrats to everyone and my fav Causecast!
Ok by looking at this list my spidy sense is tingling… this smells like 1997 again…
WTF IS A web-based social game played with trading cards aimed at spreading good deeds around the world.
OMG… ALARM ALARM!!! PULL OUT PULL OUT NOW!
without reading most of the comments, the list is not impressive at all ….
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Very interesting!
Very cool !
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Well done to the 50 who made it.
CityInfinity didn’t make it to the final 50, but were ranked just outside the range, and is one of the only UK entries at the Demopit. The company were at the demopit on Monday, and have been asked again to come today (Wednesday). We do hope that you all have time to take a look at what CityInfinity has to offer, and we hope also that you have a chance to provide us with your feedback.
Good Luck to All !
Anj.
Lame Conference… BLAHGIRLS made it as one of the finalists!?!? Are you guys serious. This ‘conference’ is just an excuse for self love and self importance for AM and JC .
Sycophants on parade, is a very accurate description.
myfavz.com could be of interest to you. It is a new startup launched on sept 8th at the tc50 demopit. It is a social shopping portal with a unique patent pending feature called pKaboo!
pKaboo! enables gift givers to anonymously find out the recipient’s current interests, hobbies or perfect gift ideas. The giver’s identity is disclosed to the recipient by myfavz on the day of the event, thus maintaning the element of surprise which is so crucial to the ritual of gifting.
Let me know your views on myfavz
AJ
Founder / CEO
http://www.myfavz.com
Great post, thanks.
This is amazing blog
Wow, OtherInbox is really interesting project
TechCrunch50 2008 companies are excellent.
Some of them have BM… the others not, I think.
Nextyear, I want to participate in this Contest.
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Congratulations to the finalists!
why all the wrap crap? on ustream
I’m glad the conference is finally being broadcasted live! Thanks for that. I remember last year, lots of people were wondering where the live stream was, since “lifecasting” websites had already emerged..like ustream, justin.tv, but it was still a new thing I guess.
Great post, thanks.
Miley.