Top 35 Startups in Tech that TechCrunch missed out on – April 2012

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Written by Franco Varriano

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May 2, 2012

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As the only global startup accelerator, it’s only natural that we are both startup obsessed and see a lot of great startups on a daily basis. It’s really hard to only list the Top 35 Startups that TechCrunch missed out on, but that’s why we’ve made this a series! So good news everyone, here’s the second edition of the next big startups.


1. Meetings.io

meetings.io
Meetings.io lets you meet Face to Face Online. Hang out with co-workers and teams, run as many meetings as you want. Best of all, it’s free and there’s no software or signups needed.


2. Forgetful Chef

Forgetfulchef
Forgetful Chef is the best place for aspiring chefs to express their creativity. A place for them to get their mouth watering over the inspiring dishes already available. Chefs can help our community satisfy their cravings with their latest recipe.

To get more out of Forgetful Chef, we offer a Pro account that let’s chefs do more with their recipes like upload multiple images, save draft versions, have private dishes and order a personal cookbook of their recipes for friends and family.


3. Keep Her Happy

KeepHerHappy
KeepHerHappy is a flower delivery service to help keep men out of the dog house and the special woman in their life happy. We automatically hand deliver beautiful flower arrangements to your significant other on important dates like her birthday, your anniversary, and on Valentine’s Day. No more forgetting, no more panicking, no more dog house.

Just sign up, enter dates, some other details, click order and BOOM – you’re set for the entire year! We even send email reminders before delivery. KeepHerHappy…because sleeping on the couch sucks.


4. Meeteor

Meeteor
Meeteor is your personal networking assistant: You tell us what it is you’re looking for, and we’ll find the absolute best people for you to meet. Our algorithms take into account the social overlap you share with people like your friends/connections in common, shared alma maters, work place history and more. Meeteor takes the work out of networking.


5. Fluent.io

Fluent.io

Fluent aims to simplify your email inbox by bridging the gap between traditional emails and social communication tools. Easily follow conversations using Fluent’s stream and power through your inbox with its workflow-specific actions and to-do list. Fluent’s beautiful design and support for multiple account checking means that email has never felt so enjoyable.


6. Mon.ki

Mon.ki
mon.ki allows you to discover the people that relate to the information you are looking at. Instead of making you sift through your social networks to identify the people relevant to a given topic, mon.ki acts as your “social compass” by automatically extracting information about the page you are looking at and guiding you to the right people – all in the context of your browser.


7. GeniePad

GeniePad
GeniePad is a website and communication portal for condominiums, condo boards, homeowners associations, and property management companies. With GeniePad you can simply and easily deliver news, share documents, buy and sell goods within your community, provide your residents with a tool to communicate with the condo board, homeowners association, property management and other residents electronically, making it quick and efficient. It solves the biggest problem in a residential community. The lack of communication.


8. THRYLL

Thryll.com
THRYLL is the ultimate members-only e-commerce venue for connecting dedicated action sports enthusiasts with top-of-the-line gear and apparel from top brands. More than your average flash sale site, THRYLL seeks to fill the void between consumer and product.

THRYLL’s goal is to make it easier for premium action sport brands to market their products direct to their core consumer, our member community. New events launch weekly, starting every Monday at 11 AM (EST).


9. Up For

Up For
Upfor makes it effortless to meet with friends nearby. Have tickets to a concert, or just a craving for ice cream? Create an upfor, and all of your friends using the app will be notified. You don’t need to send invites, or coordinate over SMS and long email threads. We’ll send you notifications to keep you up to date as friends join and comment.


10. SportsVault

Sportsvault
SportsVault is a fantasy sports community where fantasy leagues can reach their full potential. We want to allow ANY sports fan to be able to participate and enjoy the world of fantasy sports. We can do this by eliminating the worry of losing their money or skepticism of dealing with unprofessional commissioners.

SportsVault provides fantasy leagues around the world with tools to create exciting, competitive and most importantly secure leagues. These benefits and peace of mind allow sports fans of any capacity to play and enjoy these exciting, growing games.


11. Clarify

Clarify
Clarify is a smart toolkit for Developers & Designers, which helps to streamline your Frontend Workflow. Whether it’s by annotating your design screens, measuring dimensions, describing fonts or defining color palettes by picking colors. Get a beautiful eye-catching Styleguide based on your definitions with just one click. All in your browser.


12. Compete Against Me

Competeagainstme
CompeteAgainst is a social competition app that acts as a virtual scoreboard for all of the games and competitions you play in your everyday life. The app allows you to challenge your friends to a game of anything and then track your stats and share the outcome of the game with your friends.

It’s a great way to see where you rank among your friends in various games and track relevant stats and trends in your game play. The app is free and is expected to launch in July and will be available on iPhone and Android.


13. I Wish For

iwishfor
iWishfor is an innovative and easy to use iPhone app that allows people to save and share gift ideas with their family and friends.


14. WooFound

WooFound
Woofound you’re in a new city or your own back yard, Woofound knows what’s going on and give’s you smart, personalized recommendations. Going on date or out with a group of friends? No problem. Simply tell Woofound who’ll be joining you and it’ll tell you the best places to find some great common ground.

With Woofound you can smartly discover new experiences, simply make plans and speedily start living a more personalized life.


15. Voxini

voxini
Voxini is the easiest way to share your various social profiles and content. In about five minutes you can create a custom mobile profile which you can share with anyone, anywhere you happen to be (and.. its free. score!).

Sign up for a free account at Voxini.com


16. Hashpix

Hashpix
Hashpix is the first site to sell limited edition prints from mobile photographers. We launched with a small number of prints from 12 of the most popular photographers on Instagram with a combined 800K followers. We are currently building an open system to allow all photographers to upload and sell their photos via mobile.


17. Letster

Letster
Letster is an intelligent tenancy application form. It minimises repetitive paper work, making it faster for you and your tenants! With Letster, your tenants can apply to your properties through a button on your property webpages or from their smart phones.


18. My Price

MyPrice
MyPrice lets you calculate how much you can charge for your independent professional services taking under account factors like the kind of project, client, location, as well as your education and working experience.


19. Pic-one

Pic-one
Pic-One is a rewarding and fun IOS based platform where you create awesome photos, curate your collection, and compete against other photos in a gamified setting that showcases your influence within one or more geo-specific locations. And as your influence grows, so do your rewards and so does the fun. So come join. Come Pic.


20. Undo.io

undo.io
undo.io lets you create, share and discover index cards on the web. Keep your notes, ideas, guides, and recipes at your fingertips. Effortlessly create tasks, events, and slideshows.


21. Specbid

specbid
SpecBid is the first and only technology driven platform created specifically for the Building Products Industry, already saving users time and money. By connecting buyers and multiple sellers in real time, based on project specific requirements, SpecBid encourages healthy competition and transparency in the market place, as well as lead generation and new business. Our web based application is compatible with all operating systems and mobile devices.


22. Vark.it

vark.it
Vark.it is a free, exclusively-produced audio resource – aiming to serve media professionals and hobbyists worldwide. Vark.it will offers a second-to-none audio quality and samples which are ready to be dropped straight into any project you’re working on.

So get ready, bookmark the page and shout the Vark.it name to your friends, workmates- a revolution in audio resource is on the horizon and we’ll make sure you are the first to know about it!


23. Vocalwall

Vocalwall
VocalWall is an open vocal platform for audio posting, listening and sharing voice posts from any device, anywhere, at any time.

VocalWall let you to create Audio Tweets and create your personal radio station on social networks and VocalWall site.


24. Quotiply

Quotiply
Quotiply is a business app that helps companies connect with their suppliers and customers in a smooth and intuitive way. Companies can now rely on Quotiply to automatically collect, rate and assess offers from their usual providers, and identify the strongest contender for them.

Moreover, Quotiply has full networking features – such as profiles, messaging and contacts – baked in, and connects members together through an advanced suggestions system. Through it, members can discover potential suppliers they would never have had the chance to consider and allows companies to bring in new business.


25. TrendStartr

TrendStartr
TrendStartr is a platform that lets anyone discover the world through your eyes. It’s a platform for amazing people to share your stories, passion, view of the world and build a fan base. It’s about sharing, discovering, and be discovered outside of your existing friends. It’s a platform that aggregates all your existing social networks to give your fans a glimpse of who you are behind all the content. It’s Twitter visualized, and Youtube socialized.


26. fanBuildr

fanbuildr
fanBuildr provides apps and services for building raving fans through an easy to use page builder. Within minutes you’ll have a great looking page with no code and no design work needed. You can also invite teammates to work with you and give them access to administer, edit, or just view specific pages.


27. Criticube

Criticube
Criticube is a place to discover, share, and discuss facts that you find interesting. Criticub provides a unique chain of knowledge by allowing users to link videos, academic reports, news articles, blog posts, or any other forms of knowledge available on the web.
Want to see it in action? Sign up to follow this chain and start contributing!


28. Stix

Stix
Stix allows you to easily turn your single player game into a turn-based multiplayer one.


29. IRL Galaxy

IRL Galaxy
IRL Galaxy enables you to create your own branded community. Profile your organization on a map. Send location based messages. Get people inside directly or via social media. Have them involved through live communication streams.


30. RoadTrippers

RoadTrippers
Roadtrippers centralizes discovery, planning & booking into one beautifully designed experience, making it easier than ever to create & share epic trips or ‘bucket lists’ of must-see places. Everything is hand curated to ensure that we highlight classic diners, backroad antique stores, indie hotels, farmers markets & everything else that makes up the ‘real’ America & a great road trip!


31. Plan.nr

Plan.nr
Plan.nr takes the pain out of making group decisions. On the move, or at your desk, plan.nr removes the need for long email threads when planning. Less Chat, More Choice!

Invite your friends, ask them questions and make decisions.


32. Ecquire

Ecquire
Ecquire‘s vision is to enable your data in the web to work for you. That means that data from one application should be available to use with another, without you having to do any extra work. Ecquire automates contact entry from Gmail, Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter and pushes it to Salesforce, Highrise, MailChimp, and Google Docs.

You can check out the demo and try it free.


33. The Stock Sonar

The Stock Sonar
The Stock Sonar is the ultimate decision support tool for traders and investors. By continuously scanning the traditional and social media for you, bringing timely insights to your attention so you can see the earliest ripples before the wave hits. The Stock Sonar – helping you make fast, informed investment decisions.


34. Planvine

Planvine
Planvine creates a free personalised what’s on guide, full of events we know you’ll enjoy. Simply take a quiz, choose something you like the look of from your guide and go out and enjoy!


35. TouchMetric

TouchMetric
Touchmetric has created Surveyor, a new way to make data collection simple. From market research, to inspections, to trade shows and more; collecting your valuable data has never been simpler. Just create and account, send to survey to any iPhone and collect the data instantly before export.

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