Saturday, January 14, 2006
Hot Seattle Area Startups
Here are the Seattle startups I really like (in no particular order), these are companies that have strong sales revenue and/or innovative technology:
Farecast - This is a startup that wants to become a travel portal by predicting future prices for airtickets to answer the question "Should I buy now or in 2 weeks?". Leisure travel is a huge market and they just might be able to carve out a niche with strong partnerships. Their service is still in development and testing, but will be launching shortly.
Zillow - Founded by Rich Barton, the former CEO of Expedia. Zillow is tapping into the huge real estatement market and bringing it online by helping consumers buy and sell properties-a la HouseValues but with a twist. They are launching in early 2006 as well.
Revenue Science - A startup with Bay Area money that has been around for quite sometime. Formerly DigiMine, Revenue Science provides targeted contextualized and behavioral online advertisements. What this means is that the know the profile of who's visiting your site and can send them very customized ads. They have a great pipeline of deals and I expect to be an IPO candidate or very large M&A.
Isilon Systems - Company headed by the former top sales exec at F5 Networks. Isilon provides smart clustering file storage for databases and filesystems. Companies who store lots of photos, videos, data and other media who required load balancing and redundancy should take a look at their solutions--MySpace uses them and hopefully PixPulse will one day too. The company has had strong sales revenue since their product completed beta.
Honorable mention to Lockdown Networks:
Lockdown is a network security startup offering Network Access Control (NAC) solutions in direct competition with Cisco and other NAC vendors. The company's vision is spot and all they have to do is deliver a GA product that delivers and vision and execute, execute, execute. Their products allows computers and other network devices on the network according to IT or government policy.
There's a few more I like, but they are in stealth :)
Farecast - This is a startup that wants to become a travel portal by predicting future prices for airtickets to answer the question "Should I buy now or in 2 weeks?". Leisure travel is a huge market and they just might be able to carve out a niche with strong partnerships. Their service is still in development and testing, but will be launching shortly.
Zillow - Founded by Rich Barton, the former CEO of Expedia. Zillow is tapping into the huge real estatement market and bringing it online by helping consumers buy and sell properties-a la HouseValues but with a twist. They are launching in early 2006 as well.
Revenue Science - A startup with Bay Area money that has been around for quite sometime. Formerly DigiMine, Revenue Science provides targeted contextualized and behavioral online advertisements. What this means is that the know the profile of who's visiting your site and can send them very customized ads. They have a great pipeline of deals and I expect to be an IPO candidate or very large M&A.
Isilon Systems - Company headed by the former top sales exec at F5 Networks. Isilon provides smart clustering file storage for databases and filesystems. Companies who store lots of photos, videos, data and other media who required load balancing and redundancy should take a look at their solutions--MySpace uses them and hopefully PixPulse will one day too. The company has had strong sales revenue since their product completed beta.Honorable mention to Lockdown Networks:
Lockdown is a network security startup offering Network Access Control (NAC) solutions in direct competition with Cisco and other NAC vendors. The company's vision is spot and all they have to do is deliver a GA product that delivers and vision and execute, execute, execute. Their products allows computers and other network devices on the network according to IT or government policy.There's a few more I like, but they are in stealth :)
