Fast Pitch Finalists Announced
The Locations & Beyond Summit is proud to announce its six finalist for the Fast Pitches:
 | DoubleDutch DoubleDutch is the category leader for geo-social productivity apps for the enterprise. DoubleDutch HYVE is a suite of social, location-aware mobile apps designed to help people stay connected, log their activity, and get work done - all via their mobile device. Customers like Cisco, TED, Adobe, and HP are using HYVE to power their events, sales teams, and field service teams. |
 | Grabio Grabio - The Real-Time Mobile Craigslist! Grabio is a location-based social marketplace that connects buyers and sellers within their local communities. Grabio changes how people currently search and exchange tickets, goods and services by adding elements of mobility, timeliness and social user experience to location-based classifieds. Through its personal assistant, Wish List, Grabio searches in real-time and sends notifications, simplifying the discovery of your most desired items. Grabio takes photos, shows a description of the product or service, lists the price, distance to the buyer/seller, directions, and posts listings for people nearby and friends on Facebook/Twitter to see. Transact with confidence and save time and money! |
 | Localmind Localmind is real-time, location-based Q&A platform that leverages social check-in services. Localmind allows you to ask questions of users checked-in anywhere around the world. Use Localmind to connect to someone that's currently at a place you're interested in, to find out how crowded the bar is, what specials at the restaurant are, or whether the coffee shop's Wi-Fi is up. Localmind is the power of omniscience — the ability to know what's happening anywhere in the world, right now. |
 | Mobilitz, Inc. Mobilitz, the creator of Quipster, is founded by a team of Silicon Valley veterans with 30 years of combined experience in product marketing, software engineering and mobile at three of the most iconic Valley companies Google, Yahoo! and Oracle. The team's previous app, Heaven's Diner, a location-based game, was named as one of the top ten most innovative apps of 2010 by 148Apps. The team's current app, Quipster, is a location-based social network. It was featured in 'What's Hot' and 'Staff's Favorite' in App Store and was ranked in top 15 best selling app in social-networking category in July 2011. |
 | Sonar Sonar is a location-based mobile app that reveals hidden connections you share with people nearby through common interests and friends. Sonar aggregates publicly available social data from Foursquare, Facebook LinkedIn and Twitter, to provide you with a customized list of the people in any location, sorted by algorithms to surface those who are most relevant to you. Sonar bridges the online and the offline worlds by allowing you to leverage--in real life--all the data about yourself and your preferences that you've spent years uploading to your online social networks. |
 | Tagwhat Tagwhat is a multimedia location guide that reveals great videos, photos, narratives, and audio about the world around you, based on your interests. Choose from interests like Art, Food, Music, Movies, Heritage, Sports, and Books and see the world through your custom lens, everywhere you go. Our self-publishing interface allows publishers to easily tether their digital content to any location in the world. Tagwhat has partnered with organizations like the Associated Press and the National Trust for Historic Preservation to deliver high-quality multimedia experiences in the context of a mobile user's location. Tagwhat is available for iPhone and Android. |
Pitching at the Summit
All Finalists will present use-case pitches to entire invitation-only audience of industry-insiders at the Locations & Beyond Summit. Each company will be given just five minute on stage to present how their connected location solution will truly impact the market.
Investor's Choice and the People Choice's Award Winners
At the Summit, a panel of investors will vote and select the top winner for the Investor's Choice Award. In addition, attendees of the Summit will vote for their favorite Fast-Pitch and the winner will be honored with a People's Choice Award. Both awards will be presented during the evening Cocktails and Awards Reception.