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1. SEATXCHANGE
Billed as the sport fan’s “must have live event app” SEATXCHANGE has started a crowdfunding raise on StartEngine.
Don’t let the name fool you – this is not a ticket sales company. SEATXCHANGE actually functions as a data company seeking to bridge the gap between the broad event industry (a $18 billion per-year business) and its customers.
To ensure the best possible experience for event-goers SEATXCHANGE has developed a consumer platform that will capture the data to make the next evolution of the live-event industry a reality.
Features of this company’s application (which has already been developed) include price comparisons, real-time seat exchanges, Mobile-friendly event entry, cost sharing, and even the option to “sit with your friends.”
2. EnergyCite
Founded in 2018, and with roo ts dating back to 1995, EnergyCite is helping America’s electricity grid enter the 21st century. By investing, designing, commercializing, and even marketing a lineup of smart-grid products designed to help consumers become smarter with their energy consumption EnergyCite hopes to do it’s part of saving the planet while simultaneously rewarding investors.
It’s also worth noting that EnergyCite is also diving head first into the emerging “Internet of Things” trend. Its programmable thermostat, smart meters, and home gateway all utilize internet connectivity to empower consumers to save money and reduce overall energy consumption.
Step aside big-name videogame publishers. Whitehorn Digital is here to create and publish video games for one reason and one reason only: to bring people together. For that reason you’re unlikely to find any first-person shooters coming out of Whitehorn’s Studios anytime soon.
By focusing on videogames that engender friendly competition, collaboration, or even discussion with small groups Whitehorn’s Studios is seeking to make video games a friendly, growth-minded experience for everyone.
The concept appears to have legs, and the company has a backlog of work through 2020 – it’s gaming engineers will clearly be busy for some time completing games like Tinselfly and Where the Bees Make Honey.
4. BrewRiver
Craft brewing has been the consumer-trend of the past decade. There are now more breweries in the U.S. than at any point in our history. And while the amount of choice beer enthusiasts enjoy today is unprecedented one thing is lacking in many of America’s craft taprooms: food.
It’s a sad truth that craft brewers want to brew exceptional beers – not run restaurants. Yet consumers would, naturally, prefer to “have their cake and drink their beer, too.”
It’s here that BrewRiver comes in. Craft brewery-operators partner with BrewRiver and in exchange the brewery can instantly offer it’s customers turnkey food service options most of which are tailored to the brewery itself.
Year-three sales are projected to come in at $3.4 million and gross margins are estimated to come in at 25%. Management remains confident that it will be able to deliver – the average plate cost to the visitors of its’ partner breweries is just $15.
5. iSports360
Youth sports is big business these days. An article published by TIME in 2017 put its size, including private coaching, league organization software, and even live streaming games at $15 billion annually.
The reason for this is simple: not only do sports teach life skills even if kids don’t go pro but it also brings families and communities together in ways few other activities can.
Enter iSports360 – a software that seeks not to organize youth sporting events but actually help today’s kids get better at their chosen sport. Essentially iSports360 is trying to engender greater communication and development between kids, coaches, and parents.
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The company has already launched an education app that makes it easy for coaches to empower kids and share post-game feedback. There is even an objective evaluation tool that allows parents to share “stickers” with any of their kids teammates.
The idea has already caught on and the app has enrolled 1,200 teams (and 650,000 kids) in the past year and a half.
Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall of a potential employer? The founders over at KISS Innovations sure have. Which is why they created the Walfly Career Matching Networking – a way for matchmaking technology (think Tinder, Bumble, and Match.com) to the job market.
Walfly is designed to help both employers and job candidates make better employment decisions through insights and network expansion. Already it has developed an algorithm that will help businesses reduce turnover rates and help employees find the right “home” to further their career.
The potential market for KISS Innovation’s is huge: Hoover’s estimates that the annual internet publishing market weighs in at $135 billion per year and the annual staffing services industry contributes a whopping $350 billion to the economy. That’s an almost half-billion dollar pie for KISS to take a bite out of.
7. Growgenics
The way we plant and grow food on America’s farms is rapidly changing. Small family-run farms have given way to massive corporate-sized farm conglomerates and, more recently, lighting innovations have made it possible to not grow our food outside at all.
This innovation has an added bonus: by growing plants indoors away from the elements we can grow our food without pesticides – the ultimate achievement of organic food.
To take this trend to the next level there’s Growgenics, inventor of lighting technologies that utilize low-cost and low-energy consumption advanced LED lighting. By installing Growgenics lights industrial-scale farmers can grow tomorrow’s food in a cost-friendly manner.
Today everyone is trying to “Uber-ize” services. But what if you could “Uber-ize” your very own car? Your Car, Our Driver is exactly what it sounds like – an on-demand chauffeur service connecting car owners on the go and in a hurry with personal drivers.
“Your Car, Our Driver” is currently operating in Orange County just south of Los Angeles, CA. The major benefit of this service being a stress-free commute to where you need to go from the comforts of your very own car. It also ensures you enjoy social occasions by eliminating the possibility of something like a DUI and also allows you to multi-task when commuting to a work function.
9. Gongago
This startup acts as a digital concierge for consumers looking to quickly discover viable options for things they need or want: this includes ‘boring’ services like dentists and plumbers.
This may sound like something that already exists. Google business and websites like Groupon already offer discounts, offers, and incentives to consumers.
By creating a site that is built for both businesses and consumers everyone will win. Many features from early entrants to this market have carried over – like the ability to write reviews of businesses.
Wall Street has Morningstar, S&P, and Bloomberg
The equity crowdfunding market has KingsCrowd.
