Everyone has an accelerator and Microsoft today is no different. At its World Day start in San Francisco today, the company that built Windows has 11 companies on stage to present their company for VCs, journalists and analysts.
General Manager of Microsoft Ventures, Rahul Sood took the stage and talked about mentoring of companies from around the world to bring "creativity, engineering and business together." Among the startups that have brought these elements together at the event, these three are our favorites.
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Von Bismark
Apparel company purchases, Von Bismark deploys mirrors virtual 3D representations that put clothes on buyers this summer. Choose the outfit you want, and you'll be presented with the way the clothes look at you without having to wait in line for a dressing room. Now he wants to bring this technology into your home. Using the Kinect Xbox One, you will now be able to virtually try on and buy clothes in your home. The Kinect powered system will even be able to take your measurements for optimal connections. Founder, Eoghan O Sullivan introduced a feature that will allow you to buy the clothes worn on your favorite shows by switching the application off the TV show on the Xbox One.
virtual mirror Von Bismark will be launched on the High Street in London and in airports this summer and the Xbox One app is planned for 2015.
NowFloats
Get a website for your small business can be a pain. You need to find a designer and whenever you want to update the site you have to track down the designer or hire someone new to keep everything updated. NowFloats CEO and founder, Jasminder Singh Gulati, says his company is "simple enough complex problem solution."
With NowFloats small business owners can send an SMS to build and update a site. Send Text via phone (same phone features) and in minutes, the site is updated. the company takes care of the same location SEO when proximity to customers are looking for your type of business, it appears in the results Google. in addition, the service helps the integration of social networks. in addition to the SMS support, there are Android and iOS apps that support adding image and Gulati announced a partnership with Microsoft to integrate service on Windows Huawei phones in Africa to help get local businesses online.
Webyclip
According to the CEO Webyclip Ariel Semesh, having the right video with a product page at the right time and concentrated to a particular customer, companies will be more likely to sell this product. Webyclip puts targeted videos on e-commerce sites with a single javascript code line. The videos are "intended for a specific viewer at a specific time for a specific action," said Semesh.
The company find enough footage for the entire inventory of a site and makes so the videos are presented to the right person when they sail products Launched in July 2013, the company has 15 million video views on partner sites this year
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