Here is the next round of TechCrunch40 companies. There are some really good ones in this batch of companies. There are 800 people in attendance, including all the big tech press.
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Productivity and Web Applications
Xobni - an organizer for Microsoft Outlook email, inbox spelled backwards. - Compiles a photo intro and background info for each email sender, extracts phone numbers, organizes attachments in several different ways. People connected to the email sender are listed, along with email threads from each of them. See all the attachments associated with these people. Search is an integral part of Xobni and can be done in several different ways. Xobni works with Microsoft Outlook. Highlights on Xobni; View threaded discussions, find attachments, use email social network, search for email and people.
Orgoo - All your email, IM, video, and SMS organized in one place. Add videos to email with one click. Pop-in or Pop-out of the email window while doing an Instant Message. You can have multiple email or IM accounts from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, AOL, etc, all consolidated in one place. Reply to an email via IM or email, and keep all the IMs associated with an email stored together in one place. Search emails, IMs, Chat, from all your accounts from one place. Launching in Q4.
App2You - User built application framework with process and workflow built in. Build custom hosted web applications for any business process. They say too many business processes are handled in email. App2You has a slick menu driven UI for building simple workflow applications with built in databases and forms. The menu includes all the normal workflow expressions and easily builds forms, tables, voting polls, etc. Automatically keeps track of the current status of any process.
Mint Software - Free web based personal finance tools - Keep track of all your investment accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, etc. Just check off the accounts you want to track, enter your username and password, and you are set to go. You can set up alerts to remind you of payment dates or low balances on accounts. Mint has all the usual tracking, graphs, pie charts. You can slice and dice the data any way you like. For example, you can see all your purchases from Amazon or any store, for any time period. Mint can save you money by suggesting discounts, rewards programs, and cheaper alternatives to some of the stores or suppliers you use.
Kerpoof - fun web apps for children. Sounds like Club Penguin. Change the way kids interact with the computer. Lets kids see great art, and make it. Lets kids read great books, and write them. Make a picture, story, or movie with Kerpoof. Kerpoof provides a pallet of objects and tools to build pictures or movies. You can create cards or photos from the pictures. You can add sound tracks to movies you make. You can control the characters by making them walk, run, jump, and do all sorts of predefined animations. Kerpoof is available now and it is free.
Revenue Models and Analytics
Spottt - a free banner ad exchange - A spin-off from AdBrite. It is like LinkExchange, which Microsoft acquired a few years ago. It is a "one for one" swap of advertisements. If you show an ad on your site, they will show your ad on their site. This is back to the future...banner ads.
Clickable - manage ad campaigns across all networks - My friend Fred Wilson is an investor in this company. Clickable gives you the analytics and dashboard to manage your ad campaigns across all networks including Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Alerts tell you when you need to take action on a campaign, and makes suggestions on what you should do. For example, increase your CPC bid on a specific keyword. Or, edit your ad copy to include popular keywords. They look at metrics like cost, revenues, clicks, conversions, etc. The management dashboard is color coded and includes meters and graphs to help you easily understand what is happening with your ad campaigns.
GotStatus - stats and analytics service for any system or service - How many accounts added, how much bandwidth used, how many emails have been received today, what are my SugarCRM stats? You can grab "snippets" from any application or service you use. GotStatus uses API's from all these apps to import XML data. You can track CPU utilization, disk space, etc. Of course each of these applications has their own management console to monitor these things. GotStatus consolidates all this data on one dashboard.
PubMatic - Helps web site publishers make money by managing their ad inventory. PubMatic sets up an ad auction for publishers among the ad networks. This is sort of turning the tables on the ad networks. Now they are competing for the web site page inventory. Pubmatic works with Google, Yahoo, ValueClick, Blue Lithium, and other ad networks.
ZocDoc- dentist and doctor appointment management - Find a doctor and make an appointment instantly online. It now works in New York City. Search by zip code, specialty, and free appointment times. There is user feedback and ratings on doctors and a quick bio on each doctor. Somehow they figure out when doctors have free/busy time, and allow them to book an appointment online. They of course give you a map to show where the doctors are located. ZocDoc allows you to enter insurance information to speed the process. More importantly, ZocDoc finds doctors who are approved by your insurance carrier.
