When: Tues., April 26, 6 p.m – 7 p.m..
Where: Huntsman Hall, Rm G06 University of Pennsylvania
Price: $9 (Tickets close morning of the event)
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A friendly reminder that Switch Philly presented by InterDigital, the event that showcases five local companies for seven minutes each, is only a week away. Get your tickets at Ticketleap today to see cWyze, Laan Labs, Ohanarama, Coursekit and Catapulter show off what they’ve been working on.
Taking place during Philly Tech Week, Switch Philly prides itself on no powerpoints or Q and A – just straight demos. We’d like to thank InterDigital, Genacast Ventures, Morgan Lewis and VC Deal Lawyer for their support of Switch.
Read more about the companies below:
cWyze – whose investors include former Philadelphia mayoral candidate Sam Katz – aims to take video advertisements to the next level making video advertisements more fun for consumers and more useful for advertisers. [Read the complete preview]
Laan Labs will be showing off Tap DJ, the iPhone application that turns your phone into a fully functioning turntable set by pulling music directly from your iPod library, and other iPhone applications. Read more about the application in our post yesterday about the iPhone dev shop. [Read the complete preview]
A play off of the Hawaiian word for “family,” Ohanarama allows families to create private networks to play games over Facebook. Users can win prizes and coupons by competing with other families. [Read the complete preview]
Catapulter allows users to search the door-to-door route to find the fastest and/or cheapest combination of taxis, trains and busses. [Read the complete preview]
Coursekit aims to change the way online classes work. Created by Wharton students, Coursekit hopes to replace the clunky software that dominates online learning.
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