{"id":84238,"date":"2017-06-27T09:39:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T13:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=84238"},"modified":"2017-06-27T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T13:39:45","slug":"seven-companies-ready-for-pitch-competition-at-startupfest","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/seven-companies-ready-for-pitch-competition-at-startupfest","title":{"rendered":"Seven Companies Ready for Pitch Competition at Startupfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Startup Festival <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startupfestival.com\/news\/meet-7-startups-will-vie-best-onstage-pitch\/\" target=\"_blank\">has unveiled the seven companies<\/a> who will compete onstage for the crown of &#8220;Best Onstage Pitch&#8221; at the annual event.<\/p>\n<p>The startups hail from a variety of cities, including Los Angeles, Montreal, and Rochester. In no particular order, they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vimix (Waterloo) &#8211; Automates user-generated video content management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ferst Digital (Montreal) &#8211; Mobile banking platform targeting small businesses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Comfable (Toronto) &#8211; Wearable tech that promotes health and wellness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Tunedly (PEI) &#8211; Enables anyone to create professional music online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Party on Demand (Los Angeles) &#8211; An Airbnb for party supplies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Quanovate (San Francisco) &#8211; Home health testing platform focused on fertility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Hive (Rochester) &#8211; Manages food storage on campuses and for retailers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speakers at Startupfest this year include Roni Bonjack, who runs accelerator programs for Google; David Brown, a cofounder of Techstars; and Andrew Reid, CEO of VC Labs.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s conference once again features the iconic Tent Village, one of the coolest components of Startupfest, according to its 4,000-plus annual attendees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startup Festival has unveiled the seven companies who will compete onstage for the crown of &#8220;Best Onstage Pitch&#8221; at the annual event. The startups hail from a variety of cities, including Los Angeles, Montreal, and Rochester. In no particular order, they are: Vimix (Waterloo) &#8211; Automates user-generated video content management. Ferst Digital (Montreal) &#8211; Mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":84264,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[592,482,82],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-84238","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News","tag-pitch-competition","tag-startupfest","tag-startups"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/84238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/84238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/84264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84238"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=84238"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=84238"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=84238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}