SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Capitalists / Angel Investors. Eight companies within the Innovative World Technologies category will dazzle a live audience, panel of three judges and co-emcees with their ideas, innovations, product and/or service on Saturday, March 8. Three of those eight companies will be asked to return on day two, Sunday, March 9, to present to a new group of co-emcees and judges. A grand prize winner for each category will be selected at the end of day two as part of the evening SXSW Accelerator Awards Ceremony.

Any creative & innovative technology that does not fit in the another categories can be found here. Such as real-time search, augmented reality, the World Wide Web, sensor, security, space, robotics, artificial intelligence, the Semantic Web, recommendations technologies & personalization technologies.

FINALIST

OP3Nvoice - www.op3nvoice.com
Austin, TX
OP3Nvoice makes sense of the spoken word. It’s a set of APIs, SDKs and plugins that enables developers, entrepreneurs and corporate problem solvers to add audio and video search to any application with just a few lines of code.

Synbiota - www.synbiota.com
Montréal, Canada
Synbiota is a collaborative open web platform that allows anyone to safely and sustainably create new medicines, materials, food, and fuel by engineering life using real DNA as building blocks.

The Eye Tribe - www.theeyetribe.com
Copenhagen, Denmark
The Eye Tribe develops eye control software for consumer devices, allowing hands-free navigation, eye activated login, enhanced gaming experiences, and user engagement analytics. We utilize low-cost hardware components that can be integrated into the next generation of smartphones and tablets.

Viddyad - www.viddyad.com
Dublin, Ireland
Viddyad lets any business create professional video ads online, in minutes. Whether you're a corporate licensee or SMB, our video ad creation tool provides access to millions of licensed videos and images, making video ad creation, simple and cost effective.