People on the other end receive a notification via email, Twitter, SMS, and so on about the broadcast and tune in. To activate, users press a button and start talking. It is also useful at an event (like Launch) where people can stream live audio from interesting speakers to people who are not there. Use cases include a parent wanting to read a bedtime story to their child from afar, a garage band sending new music out to their fans, and for emergency situations. It is a voice platform that is open-ended and can be used in many different ways, like Twitter.” “This is not an easily bracketed application. “Instaradio lets you broadcast from your own phone to any device in the world and anyone can listen in real time,” said CTO Andrew Opala. With the bronze medal is Instaradio, which turns smartphones into personal radio stations. Jawfish Games is backed by $2.6 million, led by Founders Fund. They are quick, simple, and apparently a hit with the audience at Launch. Players join the game and compete against each other in 3- to 4-minute tournaments that ultimately yield one winner. Jawfish partnered with “casual” gaming company BigFish to produce three games.
We are a complex software engineering company that is good at making games.” Many of the big gaming companies are not great at complex software engineering. “Live tournaments are really hard to do technically in terms of scaleability, latency, bandwidth, and all the back-and-forth. “There are currently 135,000 games in the app store, and none of them are as fun as these,” said CEO Phil Gordon. This startup claims to produce the world’s first real-time, multiplayer tournament games for mobile devices. Zillabyte is based in Palo Alto.Ĭurrently in second place with 546,000 Launch dollars is Jawfish Games. Huffstetler said that the really exciting feature, however, is the alert system that notifies businesses when a new customer is found that satisfies their criteria.
These results are further filterable by geography, size, and so on. ” It then prompts sales professionals to answer “yes or no” to potential clients to create a list options, based on the input. The site first prompts visitors with the question “Find me more companies like…. We are taking an anecdotal understanding of sales and making it analytical.” “I used to work in sales for Twilio, and I know cold-calling sucks when you are selling technology. “The technology connects buyers and sellers more efficiently in the business-to-business space,” said founder and COO Roger Huffstetler in an interview at their booth. Zillabyte bills itself as “Pandora for sales leads.” Built off a database of wto billion pages and 11 million unique companies, Zillabyte’s engine helps businesses search for prospective customers. Zillabyte easily has the most points, with a total of 651,000 toward the end of Tuesday afternoon.