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EventVue wins CSIA “Rookie of the Year” award

June 6, 2008

EventVue is a Boulder based company that makes software for conferences to help engage and organize conference attendees. In effect, EventVue helps make conferences more participatory.

EventVue starts by interfacing with the conferences existing registration system (such as Eventbrite or RegOnline). Attendees are then invited to participate in a simple targeted social network that is automatically formed around that conference. Conference goers can then search out people that they’d like to connect with prior to the conference, message them, and learn more about them. This has the advantage that once the attendee arrives at the actual conference, they already know who they want to see out.

When I go to a conference, it’s mostly about the networking. EventVue is just the type of service that can help make that happen, and help me get the most out of my conference experience.

Of course, EventVue does much more than just that. It integrates services such as Twitter to help the conference organizer keep up with the pulse of their community. It auto-magically finds attendees blogs, twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other profiles, then provides powerful community tools around them. For example, EventVue auto-discovers the conversations among conference attendees in the blogosphere and twitter and aggregates and promotes that to the conference organizer and other attendees. Any good conference is a social event, and EventVue helps magnify this for the benefit of all.

Last night EventVue won “Rookie of the Year” at the CSIA APEX Awards. When they were presented with the award, the CSIA said that it was because EventVue represents a potential to drastically change the way conferences and conventions are held and is beginning to deliver on that promise. Congrats to Rob, Josh, and the team at EventVue on the award.

Disclosure: I’m an investor in EventVue via TechStars and Colorado Startups.

Written by David Cohen · Filed Under Blog, Startups |  

Overheard

January 11, 2008

Written by David Cohen · Filed Under Blog, Startups |  

TechStars companies progressing nicely

October 9, 2007

Two TechStars companies, EventVue and MadKast have recently closed seed investment rounds. The founders of EventVue are from South Carolina, and MadKast is originally from Los Angeles. Both companies are now based in Boulder permanently.

eventvuelogo.pngEventVue makes tools to drive more attendees to conferences. Their funding was covered by TechCrunch, and I provided more details on the TechStars blog. Their model works on a success fee basis, so conference organizers pay when EventVue drives new attendees to the conference. As part of the package, conferences get a low-maintenance social network that integrates with popular event registration systems, providing further value to their attendees. EventVue is still in private beta, but has seen strong results with the first five conferences they’ve worked with.

madkastlog.pngMadKast makes a blog sharing widget that you can see here on ColoradoStartups.com (click if you’re in a feed reader). It’s the small green share button next to each post title. Brad Feld has a great writeup of how MadKast works on his blog. MadKast plans to add some more really interesting additional capabilities for publishers over time. The MadKast funding was also covered by TechCrunch, and followed up with a post on the TechStars blog.

Finally, J-Squared Media (who makes Sticky Notes and GlitterBox which are both top 60 apps on Facebook) is currently featured in the BusinessWeek article “Who wants to be a Facebook millionaire?” While J-Squared was in Boulder for TechStars this summer, they’ve now moved back to Philadelphia.

Several more TechStars teams from this summer should be announcing interesting news soon. If you’re interested in all the details, the TechStars blog is calling your name. I’ll just continue to do occasional roll-up summaries here on Colorado Startups.

Applications for TechStars will open in January for the program which will run again in summer of 2008.

Written by David Cohen · Filed Under Blog, Startups |