The 2010 ATDC Startup Showcase is a premier event celebrating 30 years of the ATDC’s dedication to growing technology companies in Georgia. Further, ATDC member companies who have attained rigorous growth milestones are selected each year to graduate from the startup incubator. The Class of 2010 is:
CommerceV3
Endgame Systems
Izenda
PureWire
Join us Monday, May 24th to celebrate the successes of our graduating companies and 30 years of ATDC service to the Georgia entrepreneurial community at the 2010 Startup Showcase. More than 1000 technology leaders, university leaders, investors, and aspiring entrepreneurs are expected to be present at the event to see ATDC emerging technology company members and graduate members exhibit their innovative technologies.
Please register today.
The 2010 ATDC Startup Showcase is a premier event celebrating 30 years of the ATDC’s dedication to growing technology companies in Georgia. More than 1000 technology leaders, university leaders, investors, and aspiring entrepreneurs are expected to be present at the event to see ATDC emerging technology company members and graduate members exhibit their innovative technologies and successes.
Each year ATDC member companies who have attained rigorous growth milestones are selected to graduate from the startup incubator. Stephen Fleming, Vice Provost and Director of the ATDC commented on the upcoming ceremony, “We are proud of this group of startup companies and the level of success they have achieved; they are representative of the types of companies that have been successful during the first 30 years of our existence. As we open our doors to a larger number of quality entrepreneurs and startup companies we believe that the number of companies that we can assist will grow exponentially.”
The 2010 graduating companies are:
- CommerceV3, a provider of an order-management system that allows users to create, launch, and grow customized web storefronts;
- Endgame Systems, an organization of highly skilled information security veterans providing advanced vulnerability research programs and next-generation security solutions;
- Izenda, a company that delivers a fully-integrable add-on to software developers that gives end users the ability to create and customize reports; and
- PureWire, a web security software-as-a-service vendor that secures business and social interactions on the Web.
Join us to celebrate the successes of our graduating companies and 30 years of ATDC service to the Georgia entrepreneurial community at the 2010 Startup Showcase. Please register at www.atdc.org/services/showcase.
A microsoft case study recommends Izenda Reports business intelligence solutions as a way to save over other reporting solutions by reducing development costs and the need for IT Support and in-house servers. Volvo, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Wellpoint, Verizon, and the United States Navy all use Izenda Reports to leverage data to make smarter business decisions.
Izenda is a 2010 ATDC graduating company recognized as a TAG Top 40 Most Innovative Technology Company in 2006 and 2007. While at the ATDC, Izenda developed and refined its flagship product and gained hundreds of customers and partners. Izenda is celebrating three years of impressive growth and hard-earned success by offering a 30 day free trial of Izenda Reports software and two complimentary reports to qualified companies. This deal is good for the month of June only. Call (404) 835-8640 or email moc.adnezinull@selas for more details.
Forbes showcased the Georgia Tech Advanced Technology Development Center in a recent listing of Ten Technology Incubators Changing the World, noting that in the last 30 years the ATDC has launched more than a hundred new ventures and raised over $1 billion in outside financing for member companies. The article touted the economic benefits to communities that host technology incubators, benefits clearly visible to the employees of ATDC companies.
Since the Bayh-Dole Act gave universities ownership of intellectual property developed with federal funds, technology transfer offices and associated startup incubators have popped up all over the country. But there is something special about the ATDC. Close proximity to the Georgia Tech engineering and computer science colleges and strong relationships with other Georgia universities provide a dedicated stream of new technologies. This rich source of ideas as well as a local community dedicated to building an innovation center in Atlanta has made the ATDC the de facto hub of entrepreneurial activity in the State of Georgia. Gaining recognition from Forbes is a well-deserved reward for so many great people at the ATDC and in the community who have worked long and hard to foster a thriving startup ecosystem in Georgia.
VoAPPs announces DirectDROP Voicemail, a hosted service that drops pre-recorded messages straight into someone’s voice mailbox – without ringing the phone. Whether it’s an appointment reminder, a flight update or a campaign call, now you can avoid the interruption of an ill-timed phone call. No ringing, no missed call indicator, no customer tension. DirectDROP Voicemail delivers a pre-recorded voice message to scores of recipients at the press of a button and works on any mobile or landline network.
See www.DirectDROP.me to learn how to put recorded phones calls in their place – in voicemail!
The latest version of AccelerEyes’s productivity enhancing software platform, Jacket 1.3, is faster, cheaper, and even more easy to use than the original version. By working with their customer’s, the AccelerEyes team upgraded the Jacket platform to enable faster prototyping and problem solving while including features useful across a range of applications from research and finance to manufacturing and defense. One example of a benefit of using Jacket is that the platform eliminates the need for a time-consuming reprogramming step for MATLAB® users, saving months to years for computationally intensive problems. The New York University Stern School of Business Center for Research Computing is already taking advantage of Jacket 1.3′s performance and functionality improvements to accelerate research in finance with a reported 8-10 times performance increase. Click here to read more about Jacket 1.3 and AccelerEyes.
Atlanta-based poet Alice Shapiro has partnered with Evoca to enable winners and nominees of the literary Pushcart Prize to share their spoken words online. Authors’ voices are recorded and podcast as MP3 files using Evoca’s phone-to-web services. Featured poets include Elena Karina Byrne, Bryan Borland, Alice Shapiro, Ray Sharp, Cassie Premo Steele, Lynne Thompson, Bobbie Troy, and Lorraine A. Vail. The interviews also are available online at Shapiro’s Evoca account for listening and downloading for non-commercial use. Anyone interested in automatically saving new recordings to iTunes or a computer file can subscribe to The Change Interviews RSS feed.
Evoca is a leading global Voice-to-Web services provider, enabling businesses, organizations, educators, and individuals to easily create and share interviews, testimonials, opinions, stories, and language lessons using phone, Skype™, or the online recorder option. Evoca subscribers can share recordings on Facebook, Twitter, websites, and blogs by posting player widgets streamed by Evoca or use recordings within a private group. Visit the Evoca blog for more details about the Pushcart Prize interviews or Evoca’s services.
We are excited to announce the launch of ATDC Forums – a new community resource for startups and entrepreneurs. The forum topics include:
- Job postings – search and post for a job or an employee
- Barter opportunities – exchange skills and services
- Announcements – post ATDC member company news and press releases
- SBIR/STTR – discuss the SBIR process and experience
All of the forums are up and running now, so be sure to stop by and engage! The more people participating in the forums, the better it will be.
