1. Advanced track & trace – marking & tracking – allows companies to verify whether their shhipments are where they are supposed to be in real time. Company’s vector seal technology stamps each product package with a unique, digitally created ID mark and track it via scanners during its entire journey to the end user. Codes are stamped in visible and hidden form on packages to prevent thieves from repacking fake goods in the original containers
2. Brightcover – Online video platform empowering video producers and programmers to build broadband businesses while giving viewers more choices and control over their use of video and television. It is a SaaS business model and I presume it is similar to IPTV franchisee model pioneered by Indian Govt telco operators
3. Etsy – online handmade market place where everyone from professional artists to occassional crafters can sell their wares
4. Gameforge – independent supplier of browser and client based MMOG (massively multiplayer online games). It offers more than 12 games in over 50 languages. OGame a strategic space simulation game with thousands of players across the world is one of the best known browswer-based MMOG
5. JiGrahak’s ngpay mass market mobile commerce service. It offers mobile banking services to bank’s customers
6. Mint.com – free web application that allows users to automatically track and analyze their financial transactions, set budgets and even send balance updates in text messages to cell phones. Once the user register using valid email address, it securely downloads transaction data from more than 7500 US financial institutions on a daily basis. Users never need to import or synch their financial information. Provides a unified view of all account activity, alert users to low balances, bank fees, upcoming bills, and even potentially suspicious account activity and give users personalized suggestions for significant savings opportunities (would this be similar to SSO client that can log into different bank accounts and summarize information?)
7. mPedigree – allows consumers to instantly verify the source of pharmaceuticals at no cast at the point of purchase using mobile phones. Service is free for users, drug manufacturers pay for the text messages.
8. Nivio – first online windows desktop. This allows a full virtual windows desktop that can be accessed through any internet connected to the computer/internet connected device. Developed an online service bundled with a device – small, affordable ($100) which can be substituted as a CPU. One need to buy a monitor, mouse, keyboard and device that substitutes a CPU. All data is tored on the Internet in the virtual environment.
9. Qifang – using P2P lending, helps poor students find funding for higher education. It has launched an online, P2P lending service that gives students means to find friends, employers, or philanthropists willing to help fund their educational goals. (Similar to “Varanna” in olden days. P2P lending can be extended for raising funds for NGOs)
10. Slide Inc – online personal media network. Enables users to create photos and videos in slides.com as well as view them on web or desktop. Also operates as an application provider on Facebook
11. SpinVox – new category of communications called Voice-to-Screen. Provides products to capture spoken messages, convert them to text, and deliver the message to a desitnation or group of destination.
12. Tideway systems – provides data center search software that continuously consumes and transforms IT data into intelligence, including identifying applicaiton software components and inter-relationships and mapping them to physical and virtual infrasturcture
13. Ubiquisys – provides zonegate femtocell system, a small plug-and-play device that plugs into home or office broadband connection and provides 3G coverage in the home and office.
