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2001 Venture & Technology Fair Presenters

We are pleased to present the following early-stage investment opportunities. Each is exciting in its own right, and each is brought to you by one of the Fox School of Business's innovative entrepreneurial programs: The Temple University Business Plan Competition, eBI IT Prototype Competition, and the Temple University-Ben Gurion University Global Entrepreneurship in Technology Consulting Practicum.


There were eight new ventures and technologies introduced at the fair on June 1:

4D Networks, Inc.
CmyPet
Concretec Ltd
Drug Free Caregiver
E-Travel Solutions
Get Well Clinical Labs
Location Based Wireless Yellow Pages
PDA Personal Restaurant Management System
Q-Scent
QUIGO Technologies, Inc.
ZING Interactive Media, Inc.

Q-Scent
Zeev Karpas, Scientific Director
ROTEM Industrial Park
Mishor Yamin 86800 Israel
972-7-655-8786

Q-Scent uses ion mobility spectrometry to dramatically improve diagnosis and testing in a variety of fields. Q-Scent's first product provides precise, accurate, and instantaneous diagnosis of several types of vaginal infections, notably bacterial vaginosis. Q-Scent has pre-seed funding from the Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist and is actively developing a series of products and partnerships.

Temple University IMBA & Ben Gurion University MBA Student Consultants: Richard Avila, Philippe Gabay, Sherry Lim, Dana Leorda, Thomas Reynolds, Shay Adar, Liat Elimelech, Ilana Marisin

Concretec, Ltd.
Yaacov Bing, CEO
Har-hozvim POB 45010
Jerusalem 91450 Israel
972-2-582-4904

Concretec, Ltd develops, applies and markets innovative testing methods. Its first products use Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) technology to create accurate predictions of the final strength of fresh cement in dramatically less time - five hours instead of 28 days - than conventional tests.
Chief Scientist and is actively developing a series of products and partnerships.

Temple University IMBA & Ben Gurion University MBA Student Consultants: Zoran Berkovic, Pratiksha Jain, Mike Mainvielle, Jane Mugo, Tobias Umbeck, Ronen Hamudot, Roee Ikin, Sharon Leibovich, Orly Oren

PDA Restaurant Management System
Bart Mroz
Ying Liang
bmroz@temple.edu

The proposed product/service would provide restaurants with a management tool for inventory of food and equipment, and help in planning major events.

Temple University MIS students

Drug Free Caregivers
Raza Bokhari, MD, CEO
rbokhari@aol.com

Drug Free Caregivers provides comprehensive drug-screening services to medical facilities as one way to combat the expensive, rising error rate in medical care. Temple University Executive MBA student

e-Travel Solutions
Liang Gong, CEO
Kai-Wei Hsu, CTO
Wen-Chi Wu, COO
Xue-Mei Deng, VP Marketing
215-225-3696
gliang28@yahoo.com

e-Travel Solutions provides E-Grouplution, a state-of-the-art customer relationship management system to help tour operators manage and market their tours more effectively. E-Travel Solutions won first place in the Temple University Business Plan Competition.Temple University eBusiness MBA students

 

CmyPet, Inc.
Andrea Chen, President & COO
Amy Chou, CEO
267-254-8042
andreacly1@hotmail.com
CmyPet uses its proprietary eZSTREAM software package, streaming video technology and associated services to enable pet owners to see their pets' live images online anytime anywhere. CmyPet won second place in the Temple University Business Plan Competition. Temple University eBusiness MBA students

4D Networks, Inc.
Clifton Balter, CEO
Brett Finkelstein, COO
Teather Schroth, Designer
267-254-2290
brett@planet4d.com

4D Networks, Inc. offers Planet 4D™, a patent-pending online business system that combines online fashion modeling with real-time chat to foster interaction between shoppers and their friends and so enhance online commerce by bringing the sensuality and sociability of shopping on line. Temple University MBA student

Quigo Technologies, Inc.
Yaron Galai, CEO
16 Totseret Haaretz ST
Tel-Aviv 67891 Israel
972-3-695-5474 x203
www.quigo.com

Quigo Technologies provides portals, search engines and companies access to the database-driven deep web that traditional search engines cannot reach. Active since April 2000, Quigo is a privately-held US company with R&D facilities in Israel and two rounds of seed funding under its belt.

Temple University IMBA & Ben Gurion University MBA Student Consultants: Jelena Christensen, Tarik Ghee, Frank Yohe, Jennifer Zglenski, Shiri Ben-Tal, Amir Finkelstin, Michal Lapidot, Oodi Menaker

Zing Interactive Media, Inc.
Dor Skuler, Executive Vice President
2 Penn Center #1722
Philadelphia, PA 19102 USA
215-496-0844
www.zingimedia.com

ZingRadio uses proprietary, patent-pending, voice-activated technology to make radio listening interactive by enabling any radio listener who has access to mobile or land-based phone service to easily, immediately, and impulsively respond to advertisements and/or to buy music featured on the radio. Since July 2000, ZingRadio has received its first round of funding, finished its testing, and will go live in Philadelphia on July 1, 2001.

Temple University IMBA & Ben Gurion University MBA Student Consultants: Elliot Abrams, Leonardo Caltagirone, Allesandro Ferino, Maya Plots, Moshe Bouskila, Itzhak Fang, Rakefet Jacoby, Tali Kalman

Get Well Clinical Labs (exhibit only)
M.Vairapandi, Ph.D., CEO
vairam@astro.temple.edu

Get Well Clinical Labs will capitalize on the growing Indian middle class demand for high-quality healthcare by buying up independent (and antiquated) clinical labs and their referral networks, bringing them up to the highest standards, and marketing the new labs accordingly. Temple University Researcher

Location Based Yellow Pages
(exhibit only)
Sridevi Krishnan
Kumuda Audishiah
Sridevi.Krishnan@Visalign.com

This technology will push shopping, hotel, restaurant and other tourist information specific to a particular geographical area to the WAP-enabled mobile phones of travelers. Temple University MIS students

 

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