Austin known as entrepreneurial town is host to dozens and dozens of startups. With a strong technology community, slogans such as support local businesses, and sxsw interactive entrepreneurs love bringing their startups to Austin to a culture that values and understands innnovation. Hosted by Capital Factories ten startups in Austin were given a few minutes to talk about their company, product and how they are growing.
Top Ten Startups in Austin
Blake Garett and his team at aceable are looking to bring education to mobile. Having signed one a contract with the state of Texas to provide driving courses via a mobile the team excited about the possibitlites to create more mobile testing learning software.
Amir from Crate joy taps into the grwoing subscription based ecommerce business. Normal ecommerce businesses aren’t able to keep up with new companies such as jack’s threads, Dollar Shave Club, and other subscription based ecommerce solutions. Cratejoy has created a simple system to manage these types of online businesses.
Q Beck Transforms tablets and phones into safe learning tools for kids. Makes and delivers safe fun content for kids to learn on phones and tablets.
Andy transforms commercial landscape industry into an online market B2B Market place.
Provides companies that have a high rate of gift giving Unique corporate gifts based on a subscription option. Providing Artisan crafted gifts they are trying to move past cliche borning gifts.
Mahana
Brian Richard wants to make you a VIP at your favorite restaurant. Restaurants can subscribe to Mahana to get a simple CRM system that allows for restaurants to better track return customers and market better deals for these customers.
Gives access to real estate information for buyers and sellers to multiple listing service which is only accessible to real estate agents. It updates quicker then legacy software and is more efficient.
Rail yard provides competitive quotes in the telecom industry. Allowing you to easily compare quotes you can get the best deal which suites you.
Nate McGuire prescribes Spokefly as the Air BnB for bikes! Using a simple app users can allow members to rent their bikes and receive payment.
Kim Gorsuch wants to tell collective stories using a unique storybuilding platform that allows multiple perspectives to be entered.
I was able to interview Gordon Daugherty at the end of the presentations on his thoughts on the event: