Future Stars Gallery

At LEADING IN LOCAL: Interactive Local Media, seven strong startups were invited to participate in our Future Stars program and LOCAL Liftoff Awards competition. Showcasing their products both in the “Future Stars Alley” and during on-stage demos, the Future Stars shared their latest “local” innovations.

Special thanks go out to Punchcard, the winner of our Boston LOCAL Liftoff Awards competition, for allowing us to use its application to drive traffic to Future Stars Alley; the San Francisco winners and finalists (listed below); our special guest judge, Rick Blair; and the voters.

Winner
CIAmedia

Runners up
PlaceFull
SpinGo
Sharetown

Interested in participating in 2014? Email us now for details or see our full event schedule.

CIAmedia
CIAmedia is a mobile ad-tech company and in 2013 received the Patent for Call-Triggered mobile advertising. Problem: approx. 40% of calls to Merchants are not answered. Solution: Local Search companies simply load CIAmedia’s SDK into their Apps. When calls to Merchants fail, their app instantly displays alternate like-merchants (Advertisers) in the same neighborhood. Callers simply Click2Call. This Call-Triggered event works independent of whether the user found the number on Google, Bing or any other website/ app. It generates extremely large volumes of incremental Calls to Advertisers.
Founders: Claudia Dreier-Poepperl, Mathias Schroeder, John Lisek

MomentSocial
The MomentSocial SaaS allows brick-and-mortars to easily assemble and update mobile apps to engage with customers in real-time. These custom apps enable businesses to transact commerce, provide instant customer service, deliver marketing and to understand what’s important to their customers through data so they can deliver personalized WOW experiences that increase the lifetime value of a customer and brings in new customers through fan advocacy. The AppStore model is broken for brick-and-mortars. Cloe by MomentSocial solves thos app-discovery problem by enabling its consumer community to simply tap into apps using a location-based experience.
Founders: Patrick Vermont, Gopi Reddy

Perfect Audience
Perfect Audience is a self-service retargeting solution that helps companies maximise sales and repeat customer engagement by retargeting lost shoppers on Facebook, through Sidebar and Newsfeed, and premium web content. We also offer dynamic product targeting and email retargeting.
Founders: Brad Flora, Jordan Buller

PlaceFull
PlaceFull is an online booking platform for small business to help them create listings, publish to their website, facebook and the placefull.com marketplace and help them run their business.
Founders: Ryan Hamlin, George Webb

Sharetown
Sharetown is a platform and marketplace that allows a fun, simple, safe, and convenient way to sell, rent, or share goods and services with family, friends, and neighbors in local communities. Sharetown also provides the platform to trusted local brands to capitalize on the recent fast growing trends around hyper local commerce and collaborative consumption and creates an entirely new "non-advertising" revenue opportunity for these brands. Leveraging existing social media, groups, and users Sharetown is empowering consumers and revolutionizing the connection between local brands and their end users/consumers.
Founders: Cody Hunter, Philip Hall, Jorja Leavitt

SpinGo
SpinGo combines user-submitted content, media partnerships, and research from localized specialists into a comprehensive database of venues, performers, contributors, sponsors, categories, images, videos, geo-coordinates, and ticketing information. Each day SpinGo processes 80,000 content sources, 50,000 venues, and 4,000 event submissions. SpinGo works with major media partners to curate, human-verify, and display only the content that’s relevant to a specific area. As a result, SpinGo knows more about what's happening when than any other event source.
Founder: Kreg Peeler

Whodoyou
Whodoyou is, quite simply, the most trusted way to find a local service provider.

Whodoyou is the world's first truly social local search solution. Whodoyou scans social networks for recommendations between friends, and converts these free text conversations into structured, local business recommendations. With a large and growing database of hyper-local, trusted referrals, whodoyou delights users by serving the most authentic advice possible – recommendations from friends.
Founders: Yoav Schwartz, Jeff Schneiderman