iServed.com, Inc. is the leading application service provider for the $500 billion military market. The company’s core competency is providing highly specialized content, tools and business-to-business services to the key players in the military universe that consists primarily of defense contractors, government agencies, military portals, veteran-owned technology businesses and veteran non-profit organizations.
Jack Colletti, Raji Sankar, Chris Hale, Adviser: Jack Thorne
London Business School - Viest.com
Viest.com is a global online marketplace for marine and agricultural commodities. They provide all related services to execute the trade and delivery of these goods.
Arup Asadullah, Robert Armstrong, Illugi Gunnarsson, Diana Tan, Leslie Wong
Oregon Graduate Institute - ArtCentral.com
ArtCentral.com sells art to interior designers from a vast selection found by a network of art scouts.
Jim Hollcraft, Mark Rehley, Troy Garrett, Steven Redman, Ann Parsons, Sharon Jacobson, Adviser: Alvin Tong
San Diego State University - Unwired Sales
Unwired Sales is responding to the lack of wireless data products and applications available to mobile sales and service professionals. They plan to become a leading M-commerce applications service provider by providing a comprehensive package that includes airtime resale, wireless devices, wireless access to corporate intranets, wireless sales force automation tools, turnkey integration and consulting services.
Andrew Calkins, Joe Matibag, Andy Gorzynski, James Hover, Adviser: Alex DeNoble
Thammasat University - Bloodlife.com
Bloodlife.com is an e-commerce venture dedicated to improving the lives of diabetics through the sale and provision of unique products and information. The anchor and unique proposition of the website will be the BloodPal, a revolutionary non-invasive, handheld glucose monitoring system for diabetics. BloodLife.com will provide business-to-business and business-to-consumer channels for the distribution of the BloodPal, affiliate products and valuable lifestyle information for the diabetic.
Wachara Iamsakun, Pilaipun Laijuntuk, Thinada Piamphongsant, Kirati Kraiprasit, Pasook Intaraprawat, Adviser: Bill Randall
The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Eberwhite Data Technologies
Eberwhite Data Technologies is a telemetry application service provider that will capitalize on the rapid growth of wireless technologies and the Internet to provide remote monitoring solutions for industry.
David Weinerth, Michael Stuckey, Adviser: Andrew Lawlor
Division II
Fundacao Getulio Vargas - Sao Paulo - Chaps
Chaps is an Internet service company that will offer to the academic and business communities copies of a vast variety of book chapters in a digital format.
Adam Akihiro Kubo, Alexandre de Vicente Bittar, Jose Wilson Rocha Pimentel, Marcos Hashimoto, Yoon Young Kim, Adviser: Paulo Carindo Goldschmidt
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Intondo
Intondo is an electronic commerce solution that streamlines and standardizes how consumer and business products are merchandised on the Internet. Intondo enables product manufacturers to regain merchandising and brand control for the products they sell on the Internet. Intondo also provides e-tailers easy access to complete and up-to-date product information for use in their online store.
Todd Barr, Linwood Davis, Chip Gaskins, Drew Miller, Adviser: Jeff Reid
The University of Wisconsin - iNTER3D.com
iNTER3D.com, a Madison, Wisconsin-based high technology firm, will create a new paradigm in the CAD software industry by utilizing its patented web-based CAD and 3D modeling technologies to create a supply chain link between industrial supply catalogs, industrial parts manufacturers and mechanical designers.
Jay Ebben, Phil Greenwood, Johanna Jonung, Anya Sarkisov, Advisers: Robert Pricer and Ted Baker
Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Untemehmensfuhrung - StarVision
StarVision will install and operate multimedia terminals in video rental stores in Germany and other European countries. The terminals will be connected to the store databases to extract user-viewing behavior. This data will be used to provide personalized movie information on the terminal and on the Internet.
Sonke Russing, Marl Kutshcera, Markus Hagel, Harald Meilicke, Adviser: Malte Brettel
Helsinki School of Economics and Kennesaw State University - Virtually Global, Inc.
Virtually Global, Inc. is a web-based enterprise that links small and medium size European forest products manufacturers with targeted U. S. buyers. The U. S. building products market is in excess of $200 billion; $80 billion of this market consists of forest products. Less than 1% of the forest products market in the U.S. is supplied by European sources.
Chris Ball, Wes Childers, Glen Dukes, Gunnar Forsman, Merja Kauppila, Outi Mikkonen, Ivar Pae, Odessa Wallace
Adviser: Gary B. Roberts
Division III
Babson College - Global Risk Exchange
Global Risk Exchange is an Internet-based service providing the world’s most efficient distribution and management system for financial risk transactions. GRX provides middle-to-large scale corporations with direct access to top-tier markets and total control over their insurance programs. Through an integrated suite of Internet-based services/applications, GRX slashes the cost of transactions, customer acquisitions and ongoing program management.
Andrew Berry, John Rubens, Adviser: Steve Spinelli
Chulalongkorn University - Thai E-Flowers.com
Through the blending of the ancient art of flower arrangement and modern information technology, Thai E-Flowers.com provides both a product and a service. The product being the flower and gift bouquet, and the service being a whole new flower and gift ordering and receiving experience through the use of the Internet and the traditional phone lines.
Thanarat Leetrakul, Goungkiet Vienravi, Suchart Srichanchaiyut, Varootsurang Jiamsripong, Suthada Suwanpatra
Adviser: Adith Cheosakul
Saint Mary’s University - DementiaGuide.com
DementiaGuide.com is a revolutionary Internet-based disease management program for physicians, patients and caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease. This interactive, on-line software platform is the future of health care delivery in North America.
Clare Biddulph, Nicole Methven, Adviser: Ellen Farrell
The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - SanaSana.com
SanaSana.com is an interactive community for Hispanics and Latinos, ensuring quality and relevance of information and services for a growing market that is underserved in health care services.
Elizabeth Barton, Richardo Fernandez, Jamel Richardson, Brian Khoury, Adam Farkas, Adviser: Andrew Lawlor
The University of Texas at Austin - BackTrack Solutions
BackTrack Solutions manages returned merchandise for e-commerce and multi-channel retailers. BackTrack's unique approach is specifically designed to address the retailer's reverse logistics' needs in the evolving marketplace and improve their customers’ capabilities in every aspect of post-transaction operations problems.
Jason Sears, Esther Schuller, Shawn Sullivan, Brian Graybill, Frank Mastronuzzi, Adviser: Gary Cadenhead
Division IV
Bond University - Manufacturing Beverage Appliances
Challenging benchmarks in the beverage appliance sector, Manufacturing Beverage Appliances, Inc. manufactures and markets innovative beverage equipment products to corporate owners of major brands.
Anthony Underwood, Justine de Mestre, Justin Craig, Adrian Wood, Adviser: Noel Lindsay and Brian Pelerman
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey - Rustopia
Rustopia is the first manufacturer of ready-to-assemble Mexican Colonial Rustic Furnishings for the home and office. The business will capitalize on the built-in weaknesses of traditional producers and gain a profitable niche through export to the United States and Canada.
Silvia T. Perez C., Eduardo Fernandez Castro, Peter Christian Ossoinig, B. Jason Folsom B., Adviser: Ruben Alanis
University of Georgia - Acquatic Immune Systems
Acquatic Immune Systems will produce, distribute and market a new, patented drug, Acqua Vitae, that temporarily boosts the immune systems of fish, thereby both preventing and curing a variety of fish-related diseases. The use of Acqua Vitae will reduce the tremendous losses of ornamental fish due to traumatic shock encountered at some stage of the distribution/transportation process.
Eric Campbell, Jason Kimrey, Scott Mauzy, Adviser: Charles Hofer
The University of Oregon - Sponsorship Strategies, Inc.
Sponsorship Strategies, Inc. is a sports marketing consulting firm targeting high-tech corporations that need assistance in the activation and evaluation of sports sponsorship investments.
Sadie Dressekie, Camille Ellison, Tabitha Hayes, Robyn Herskowitz, Katrina Strafford, Adviser: Barry Weisband and Alan Meyer
The University of Oxford - Rainbow Wines
Rainbow Wines will import and market a uniquely branded South African wine aimed at the non-connoisseur in the United States.
Keith Bishop, Norman Celliers, Gerad Milne, Matt Schwark, Adviser: Clara Raposo
University of the Witwatersrand - Chemical Radiography, Inc.
Chemical Radiography, Inc. offers a tested technology that has the capability to scan fully loaded containers for specific chemical content such as narcotics and explosives.
Staffan Tapper, Jazek Guzek, Adviser: Dominik Heil
Division V
The Chinese University of Hong Kong - BuPro
BuPro (acronym for Business Processes) will outsource back office operations of financial services companies like mutual funds, insurance companies and banks in the United States. Located in India, BuPro will make use of quality yet inexpensive human resources in India to save billions of dollars for its clients.
Narayanan Kamakodi, Adviser: Kent Neupert
Escuela de Administracion de Negocios para Graduados (ESAN) - Fesh
The vision at Fesh is to promote and profitably develop an international market of innovative products based on Peruvian exotic products destined to maintain health while respecting the environmental balance and promoting lucrative alternative crops for agricultural producers.
Gerardo Freiberg, Eduardo Escobal, Juan Suito, Adviser: Cecilia Esteves
Swinburne University of Technology - Cardiac Mapping Systems
Cardiac Mapping Systems is commercializing new technologies that will forever alter medical science. The first is Prime 80L ECG, a system that will accurately predict the onset of a heart attack.
Mark Avery, Peter Taylor, Bruce McKaskill, Marcus Bird, Adviser: Peter Galvin
The University of Arizona - SafeLife
SafeLife, LLC will develop, produce and distribute personal safety and first aid products. The focus of these products is to delay, stop and/or prevent venom poisoning in the case of venomous animal bites or stings to humans and domestic animals.
John Boone, Trevor Hare, Adviser: Michael Arnold
University of Georgia - Dermamax Technologies
Dermamax Technologies will develop an entire family of simpler, safer, transdermally-applied medications using an innovative, highly effective, patent-pending packaging technology developed by Dr. H. Won Jun. Dermamax’s initial product is Dermaprofin, a topically applied form of Ibuprofin, that will be targeted at the $350 million U.S. arthritic market.
Joseph Wagner, John Abernathy, Pratush Gupta, Adviser: Charles Hofer
The University of Western Ontario - Lear NeuroLogic, Inc.
Lear NeuroLogic is a Canadian chain of private rehabilitation centers for adults who have sustained some type of brain damage (due to stroke, car accident, neurological disease). The emphasis is on therapy of the mind – recreating a meaningful lifestyle for clients once their physical needs have been met.
Justine Lear, Alison James, Adviser: John Eggers
