What will be the next big startup out of Brooklyn?
Thursday night, the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership is hosting the Make It In BK pitch competition at the Made in NY Media Center. Five startups will pitch to Brooklyn-famous judges, and the winner will receive $5,000 for their startup as well as mentoring and networking help.
Here’s the lineup:

Bubble

The Williamsburg-based Bubble’s goal is to make building applications a whole lot easier. To do this, they replace programming languages with more intuitive and user-friendly instructions and widgets. We profiled Bubble last summer.
“Anyone can create software,” cofounder Emmanuel Straschnov said in the interview. “We think it’s even better if people don’t code anymore, it’s just faster. You can build pretty sophisticated applications [with Bubble]. One of our users literally cloned Twitter. It still takes time, but it’s accessible to anyone that can use Microsoft Office.”

Humblee

For companies trying to get their name out there and optimize Google, content marketing is all the rage, and so is video. Humblee is a platform that outsources video content marketing to video folks, who, for $500 per week, will whip up your company a shareable video.

Acculis

Modular construction is where large parts of buildings are made in a factory and shipped out to the building site and then pieced together, rather than shipping out all the building materials to the site and building it all there. Modular construction has a lot to recommend it, but problems persist, says Acculis. The company makes an augmented reality program to better facilitate modular construction.
“Bottom line,” the company writes, “it saves time during the quality assurance process, headache at the construction site, and money due to budget overruns.”

Teddy Mozart

So this is a kind of wild invention.
According to its Kickstarter, it’s a programmable teddy bear out of which you can play recorded family stories, upload a music, or pick from a children’s music library. With the toy, a grandfather in Florida can record a story on his phone, and his grandchild in Brooklyn could listen to it at bedtime. D’awwww.

Vinitial

Vinitial is a way for patients and doctors to text each other without the interaction becoming too personal.
“Patients can send you text messages without having your cell phone number (so no awkward Saturday night phone calls),” the company states. “Build immediate rapport and relationships with fast and easy communication between visits or after discharge. If a patient’s running late, they can text you directly so you stay happy and plan accordingly.”