Boomtown Demo Day: 9 companies set to explode onto the startup scene today

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Published on May. 15, 2015
Boomtown Demo Day: 9 companies set to explode onto the startup scene today

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Today is Boomtown’s Spring 2015 Demo Day, and unless you bought your ticket weeks ago, you're likely out of luck. Yup, the third class to graduate from the popular Boulder-based startup accelerator will be publically presenting their products and services to a sold out crowd at the Boulder Theater this afternoon.

“We continue to be blown away with the quality of applications and couldn’t be more pleased with the companies selected for this graduating class,” Erin Beierwaltes, Program Director at Boomtown said in a statement. “We are very proud of the success rates for the program and we look forward to working with Boomtown’s network of mentors to continue to build a strong ecosystem.”

The Boomtown accelerator is extremely selective, taking just 2.9 percent of applicants. After being accepted, companies complete an intensive three-month program aimed at helping them through product and customer development. Notably, Parkifi, which graduated with the program’s last cohort, recently received $2 million in funding.

Here are the 9 companies that will be presenting tonight:

Audienced: A Kickstarter for events. Event coordinators can ensure there is an audience for their event even before the details are finalized.

Benchmark Intelligence: An analytics platform for retail chains that utilizes various forms of data to help explain why one location is doing better than another.

FABRIQ: A personal safety platform that takes data from your existing apps and wearable trackers to help prevent, act and respond to emergencies more efficiently. 

Feedbac: A platform that combines social data, automated workflow and intelligent delivery to empower brands and agencies with the power of video.

MailDeck: An email app and software development kit that aims to improve the way you email.

SimplyCalled: A mobile app that helps make phone calls to customer service numbers less painful for both sides.

Stafr: A marketplace for temporary hiring.

Visibl: A video marketing platform that lets anyone make targeted video ad campaigns. 

Wudup: A mobile video streaming app that pairs users for 30-second video conversations.

 

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