Monthly Archives: October 2012

DEMO Gods: Birds, brains and the best products of the season! – Venture Beat

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Birdeez on stage with the other DEMOgods

The Birdeez Team on stage with the other DEMOgods at DEMO Fall 2012.

VentureBeatlogoWe are amazed to announce that we are DEMOgods! After our great presentation on October 3rd, we were selected as one of the best! As Meghan Kelly of Venture Beat puts it:

Out of the 77 companies that demonstrated their products at this week’s DEMO conference, only five won the coveted DEMO God award. These startups don’t only have great businesses, but were awesome on stage.

We’re looking forward to taking this win and continuing to build a fantastic company. Thanks to Venture Beat and all the folks at DEMO Fall 2012 that voted for us!

Read about us and the rest on Venture Beat.

Today, birdwatching. Tomorrow, saving the entire planet! – Venture Beat

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VentureBeatlogoWe felt very honored to be chosen as one of the 77 companies to launch at DEMO Fall 2012 by Venture Beat. Their coverage was really great, and it was awesome to learn that Executive Editor Dylan Tweney is himself a beginning birdwatcher!

The U.S. has an estimated 48 million birdwatchers, but 74 percent can’t identify more than 20 birds.

I’d fall in that category: I could point out a red-tailed hawk, a turkey vulture, a crow, and … a bunch of little brown birds. But with 900+ species in the country, I know I’m missing a lot.

Fortunately, there’s an app for that.

Birdeez is an iPhone app that makes it “ridiculously easy,” in the words of cofounder Jeff Simeon, to identify birds and then share your sightings on Twitter. I can only imagine that if the geeky Jack Black character in “The Big Year” had this app, he’d have powered to the top of the rankings much faster than that annoying Owen Wilson character.

Read the rest on Venture Beat

Birdeez app flies toward birdwatchers’ iPhones – Macworld

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MacwolrdLogoWe’re in MacWorld! Here is a short quote from me.

“We’re really passionate about getting people outside, exploring nature again. Kind of unplugging from their computer screens,” he said. Simeon has worked as an environmental educator, while Toerner is a recent graduate in economics and Kuo is an electrical engineer. Their company, EcoLek, grew out of a business-school project at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Read the rest on Macworld!