Mentoring

2012 is shaping up to be a mentoring year. Complementing the Cultivate Companies work, I'm being a mentor for Techstars Cloud, which is running in San Antonio until April. The first face to face meeting with the seed companies there is later this week.

At the beginning of February, IBM runs its global final for SmartCamp - nine companies from nine cities, each of which won a regional final. I'm one of the mentors for the global final event in San Francisco.

IBM finalists

Austin: SecureWaters – water monitoring solutions
Bangalore: ConnectM - energy efficient telecommunications solutions
Barcelona: BitCarrier – traffic management solutions
London: Profitero – analyzes on-line competitive information for retailers
Istanbul: Skin Scan – pocket scan technology for skin cancer prevention
New York: Localytics – real-time data analysis for mobile applications
Rio: IDXP – smart sensors in shopping carts to monitor consumer behavior in real time
Shanghai: Palmap – Indoor and POI Data open platform
Tel Aviv: C-B4 - Context based analytics for hidden data patterns in large scale data

TechStars Cloud http://www.techstars.com/cloud/
IBM SmartCamp https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp004.nsf/v16_agenda?openform&se...
Cultivate Companies http://www.cultivatecompanies.com