Tuesday 17 May 2011

Vote Now For Your Favorite Startup : IBM SmartCamp Competition Austin | A Smarter Planet Blog

IBM wants to team with entrepreneurs to build a smarter planet. Are you an early stage startup? If so, IBM Global Entrepreneur can provide the support and resources to help you change the way the world works.

IBM SmartCamp Austin has just announced the Final 5 startups in this year’s competition. The finalists cover the Smarter Planet topics of smarter healthcare, water, analytics, and biometrics.

You can help select the winner of the Online People’s Vote Award by watching each startup’s 1-minute pitch and voting for your favorite. Voting ends May 18 at 6 pm ET.  You can also watch the live stream of the event starting at 12:30 pm ET on May 17 to help you make your decision.

Watch, then Vote for your favorite startup now:

Waldo HealthClick Here To Watch Their 1-Minute Pitch Video And Vote

Waldo Health has developed and launched a unique tablet-based patient monitoring service that delivers a smarter, more powerful solution for the important and growing field of home telehealth. Designed specifically for individuals with chronic disease, Waldo is the home health companion that connects patients to clinicians (doctors, nurses, caregivers). Watch and Vote

Tactical Information SystemsClick Here To Watch Their 1-Minute Pitch Video And Vote

Tactical Information Systems has developed a platform for smarter, low-cost, easy to use, biometric matching of fingerprints, palm prints, iris and face images in the cloud. Their first product, WanderID, is a service aimed at caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease or cognitive disorders, such as autism or Down syndrome that leave a person unable to reliably speak for themselves in case of an emergency. Watch and Vote

Stormpulse- Click Here To Watch Their 1-Minute Pitch Video And Vote

Stormpulse, which rose to prominence in 2008 during the landfall of Hurricane Ike in Houston, Texas, provides smarter, comprehensible, on-demand weather intelligence for better decision making regarding the impact of weather on personnel, assets, and supply chains for customers in a broad range of industries, including energy and utilities, transportation, defense, healthcare, and manufacturing. Watch and Vote

DxUpClose Click Here To Watch Their 1-Minute Pitch Video And Vote

DxUpClose, Inc. is an early-stage startup that is developing a smarter bacterial diagnostic using an electronic sensor which screens for a specific bacterial infection, counts bacteria and performs a rapid antimicrobial sensitivity test – sending results and recommendations to the healthcare worker’s smartphone within sixty minutes at the patient’s point-of-care. Watch and Vote

SecureWatersClick Here To Watch Their 1-Minute Pitch Video And Vote

SecureWaters commercializes patented technology that monitors, detects and identifies toxins in surface water. The Company sells a smarter, real-time early warning electronic monitor and alarm system, the AquaSentinel,which automatically and continuously tests for toxins in source surface waters. Watch and Vote

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