SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by 24/7 Intouch 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 Entertainment and Content 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 12. Three of those eight companies will be asked to return on day two, Sunday, March 13, 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.
The Entertainment and Content Technologies category highlights applications and technologies for gaming, music, film, television, video, news and publishing, streaming and digital storytelling,...
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SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by 24/7 Intouch 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 Entertainment and Content 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 12. Three of those eight companies will be asked to return on day two, Sunday, March 13, 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.
The Entertainment and Content Technologies category highlights applications and technologies for gaming, music, film, television, video, news and publishing, streaming and digital storytelling, as well as new and hybrid forms of entertainment. These are reinventing the ways in which we learn, relax and enjoy our time. This category also contains technologies that focus on the entertainment components of various cultural sectors such as sports, travel, and dining.
Emcees
Tucker Max- Book in a Box
Nina Curley- Flat6Labs
Judges
Charles Hudson- SoftTech
Kay Koplovitz- USA Networks | Springboard Enterprises
David Bohrman-David Bohrman Group
Round #2 Entertainment and Content Technologies Finalists
PopUp Play
popupplaytoy.com
Austin, TX
PopUp Play creates experiences for kids that blend screen time with play time.
Prynt
pryntcases.com
San Francisco, CA
Prynt reimagines how we share digital content in the physical world with the first-ever smartphone printer/phone case, plus a secret video surprise.
Rescued Ideas
basslet.de
Berlin, Germany
Rescued Ideas changes the way you listen to music. We make the Basslet, a bracelet that – by transferring bass vibrations – makes you feel the music flowing through your body.
Seerslab
seerslab.com
Palo Alto, CA
Seerslab Inc. is a mobile media service and technology company, consisted of professionals with extensive experiences on innovative mobile services. Its product, lollicam is a fun and easy real-time video editing app, launched globally. Since its first debut in last May, lollicam gathered more than 2 million downloads within six months globally only through word-of-mouth.
Round #1 of Entertainment and Content Technologies Finalists will be pitching at 11:00am in Salon D
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