Seven San Diego Startups Selected for 2014 Plug and Play StartupCamp

Seven local startups have been selected for the Plug and Play San Diego StartupCamp program, the tech accelerator that provides workshops and other services in San Diego and Silicon Valley—and includes $25,000 in equity financing.

The selection was made yesterday by a panel of 14 judges following presentations by 17 companies at the Co-Merge shared workspace in downtown San Diego. The finalists represent the second class of San Diego startups admitted to the program, which begins in January. The 17 finalists were culled from 55 applicants.

“The momentum we have established solidifies our process and program as a way to leverage Silicon Valley resources for San Diego startups,” said Alex Roudi, the founder of Plug and Play San Diego, in a statement released through a spokeswoman. “I am especially encouraged by the commitment of our local entrepreneurs to grow their companies here locally while accessing capital and resources from other regions.”

The seven companies are:

—Posiba Provides Web-based data and analytics services for foundations and nonprofit organizations. Posiba scrapes data from the Internet, combining it with information about public and private grants to provide insight about fund-raising outcomes and donors.

—Reel Qualified A Web-based platform that enables marketing executives to use existing their existing video capabilities and marketing campaigns to generate better leads for sales and business development representatives. Reel Qualified also syncs with customer relationship management software and marketing automation systems to

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Author: Bruce V. Bigelow

In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here. Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.