DreamIt Ventures Philadelphia Graduates 15, Here’s A Song About it

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DreamIt Ventures, Startup Accelerator, Startup, Startups, Philadelphia startups,startup newsEarlier this month DreamIt Ventures graduated their fall Philadelphia class. DreamIt Ventures holds accelerator programs in their hometown of Philadelphia, New York, Israel and a new program that started this year in Austin Texas.  The fall Philadelphia class was their 7th class to graduate the program.

Here’s a list of all 15 startups that pitched at Investor Day:

  • Altair Prep: An SAT tutoring service that remotely connects students with leading tutors.
  • Applique: A drag-and-drop tool for creating mobile apps.
  • Betterific: Helps you share and find ideas to improve product development.
  • Brideside: An online boutique that helps brides build up their wedding experience together with their wedding party.
  • CallGrader: Lets companies collect marketing data and analytics from phone calls.
  • Charlie: Prepares you with information about a contact before you meet up with them.
  • Cloudamize: Offers tools to help companies manage and optimize their cloud services.
  • FlagTap: Helps websites increase user engagement, and tells them exactly what their visitors are doing.
  • Mor.sl: A combined recipe and grocery delivery service.
  • NinjaThat: An online marketplace that lets businesses outsource tasks to students.
  • PeerActive: Brings together game dynamics with e-commerce.
  • Spruceling: An online marketplace for parents to sell their kids’ used clothes.
  • TrendBent: A personal style engine for men.
  • Vizy: Lets you record and store virtual memories in physical places.
  • ZenKars: Offers a peaceful online marketplace for buying used cars.

Philadelphia’s class ended demo day with a song. Check out this awesome video below courtesy of TechnicallyPhilly’s YouTube Channel.


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DreamIt Ventures Expands South To Austin Texas

by Kyle in Accelerator, Austin, Everywhere Else, Pennsylvania, Philly, Startups, Texas
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DreamIt Ventures, the Philadelphia based accelerator, that was recently ranked one of the top the incubators in the country by Forbes magazine, has announced that they’re expanding into Austin Texas.

DreamIt is Philadelphia based, which is where they set up their initial accelerator program. They then expanded to New York City. Last year they also opened up shop in Israel with a program that currently feeds into New York but could feed into their Philadelphia program next year.

Kerry Rupp, a Philadelphia transplant from Austin Texas was overseeing the DreamIt program in Philadelphia. They recently announced the appointment of Karen Griffith Gryga as national director based in Philadelphian which frees Rupp up to return to Austin and launch their Austin program.

Austin is a great place to expand for DreamIt. There is a lot of innovation happening in Austin and the other DreamIt locations will be able to leverage their Austin based program to show off other DreamIt startup graduates at South By Southwest Interactive next year.

“We’ll be able to use it to showcase all of the other DreamIt companies that are out fundraising” when SXSW is held, Rupp said to the Austin Business Journal

As of April 2012 65 companies have successfully gone through the DreamIt program. DreamIt also has a program targeted towards minorities called DreamIt Access, that first class has 15 startup participants.

DreamIt Ventures New York program finishes with a Demo Day on August 8th. Philadelphia’s program kicks off the weekend of September 6th and 7th. The Philadelphia class will hold Demo Day December 5th. Austin’s program will start on December 14th which times the ending right up against SXSWi 2013.

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Source: Austin Business Journal

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