Aha has created the first driver-to-driver network to connect drivers to relevant information about the road – both from other drivers and from the Internet. Initially available as an iPhone app, Aha is powered by a powerful backend platform that will in the future enable its service in imbedded automotive solutions. Aha uses the Web to accurately answer questions like “Hungry?,” "Need Coffee?," or “Need a bathroom?” based on the user’s current location and preset preferences. Letting drivers easily record comments for each other, Aha answers the question, “What’s the driver ahead experiencing?” and creates the first driver-to-driver network.

Located in Palo Alto, CA

Aloqa offers a search and discovery service for mobile phones that proactively notifies users of friends and favorites close by without draining battery, hogging bandwidth, or creating user privacy concerns. It eliminates the need to express intent or input anything. Instead, it utilizes user context (location, preferences, and social relationships) to continually update users about social, entertainment, and shopping opportunities locally. Our APIs allow publishers to easily create their own channels, as well.

Located in Palo Alto, CA

Bling Nation brings mobile payments to consumers and merchant points of sale, offering lower costs, increased efficiency and improved security compared to credit cards, debit cards, checks and cash. The Bling Nation service also enables financial institutions and merchants to offer consumers robust rewards programs and real-time redemptions, promoting loyalty and convenience and supporting “shop local” initiatives.

Located in Palo Alto, CA

CardStar enables consumers to easily store and retrieve digital loyalty, rewards and club cards on their mobile device while providing retailers and CPG companies a channel to stay connected to their most loyal customers.

Located in Collinsville, CT

FlightCaster predicts flight delays. We use an advanced algorithm that scours data on 10 years of domestic flights and matches it to real-time conditions. We alert you 6 hours before the airlines do, and help you evaluate alternative options and help connect you to the right person to make the change.

Located in San Francisco, CA

fonYou’s mission is to reinvent mobile telephony for the internet era and this has lead to the creation of the company’s “Online Mobile Telephony” concept, a proprietary technology platform to be deployed in mobile operators. fonYou’s services, among other things, allow end users to configure their mobile telephony services online and give them access to their call records, SMS and voicemails as if they were emails. Unlike its competitors, fonYou offers a complete telecom solution that consists of the necessary technical infrastructure integrated with a web interface for accessing and configuring mobile telephony services. fonYou has successfully launched this concept as a full MVNO in Spain.

Located in Barcelona, Spain

Layar is a global Open Augmented Reality Platform where developers and users enhance current and create new realities. This results in discovery, serendipity, informed decisions and fun experiences. The Layar Reality Browser shows what is around you by displaying information on top of reality through the phone camera. Over 1400 developers are working on connecting their content to the platform. Together they’re providing relevant information to users all over the world. Ranging from the best skate spots, houses for sale, event information and services like Yellow Pages and Google. The Layar Reality Browser is free for iPhone 3GS and Android phones.

Located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

m-Via's vision is to enable every person, whenever and wherever they are, to send and receive money, and conduct financial transactions with any other person in the world via mobile phone. m-Via's goal is to ultimately deploy financial services to the 70% of the world's population who do not have a bank account, credit or debit card. The ubiquity of mobile phones, the fastest selling consumer device in history, provides the ideal mechanism for wherever-whenever financial service delivery regardless of a person's financial status. m-Via is currently deploying the first cross border mobile remittance service in the United States working with wireless retailers in the US as well as newly created mobile money agents in Mexico.

Located in Sunnyvale, CA

MELODIS is a sound search technology and applications company. Its mission is to make sound and speech the preferred means to search and navigate information on mobile or IP connected devices. MELODIS is the creator of the Sound2SoundT Search Science, a proprietary methodology that searches sound against sound, bypassing traditional sound to text conversion techniques even when searching text databases. The result is improved accuracy, faster response time and increased scalability. Sound2SoundT Search Science powers applications including Midomi Music Identifier and Melodis Voice Dialer. MELODIS has numerous partnerships with global companies including leading device manufacturers and operators that are leveraging the Sound2SoundT Search Science for their respective platforms.

Located in San Jose, CA

MobileIron is solving the security, cost, and usability problems CIOs and end-users face as smartphones crash into the enterprise. Smartphones will become the primary computing platform for the mobile worker but will create much more complexity for IT than laptops ever did. The MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform is the first solution to provide a central view of smartphone data and activity. IT can now get smartphone operations under control quickly and cut wireless bills by up to 20% while delivering compelling MyPhone@Work end-user services like the enterprise app store. MobileIron makes smartphones enterprise-ready.

Located in Sunnyvale, CA

Motally is a mobile analytics tracking and reporting service. We offer one common interface to track both mobile websites and applications. Our patent-pending technology successfully handles the nuances of mobile tracking - including accurately tracking visitor sessions and identifying the underlying operator and country when users access sites through third-party proxies. It's a great tool for learning more about users, optimizing product offerings, and maximizing ROI on advertising campaigns. The service is easy to use and customers can be up and running in minutes.

Located in San Francisco, CA

Payfone has built the only way to enable direct operator billing specifically for mobile app stores. We work with sophisticated app stores and leading operators to offer mobile payments with the best buying experience while leveraging powerful network features. Through our rapidly scalable In-Network Design we can deploy features like No Registration Checkout, 1-Touch direct operator billing and True Price Flexibility. For app stores, this allows a seamless buying experience that drives impulse purchases, translating to higher revenues and success for developers. For operators, this represents the first time they are able to rapidly connect key payment capabilities to any app store, including their own.  For all parties we also bring the power of Global Payment Processing Expertise to mobile payments for this first time.  This means our payments are built to offer robust capabilities such as Real-Time Processing, Guaranteed Payment, Fraud and Charge-back Protection and Global Treasury Services.

Located in New York, NY

PercentMobile provides mobile analytics and insight services that enable individuals, brands and media companies to manage and enhance mobile business initiatives. PercentMobile's software, which it hosts and delivers to its customers as an on-demand subscription service, enables customers to capture, store and analyze information generated by their websites to gain critical business insights into the performance and efficiency of mobile marketing and sales initiatives and other business processes.

Located in New York, NY

Producteev is a mobile and web task management platform for groups and teams, with mobile clients for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and Nokia, (soon Blackberry) and connected to every IM service, Twitter, and email. Get things done collaboratively no matter where you are.

Located in New York, NY

Display screens are getting smaller - from laptops to PDAs, to ever shrinking mobile devices. However, the amount of information viewed on these devices is increasing exponentially. The problem arises - how do you effectively access large amounts of information on a small screen? Roambi by MeLLmo Inc. is solving this challenge by creating revolutionary ways to access and interact with critical information on small screens. The company's mobile application suite pioneers the new frontier of smart phones through efficient back-end algorithms and patented, small screen design that is BIG on simplicity, security, and satisfaction. Roambi by MeLLmo is rethinking, redesigning, and redefining the future of information interaction on mobile devices.

Located in Del Mar, CA

SimpleGeo is ready-to-use location infrastructure. They currently have three products: a geo-spatial Context Engine, Storage Engine and a comprehensive SDK. The SimpleGeo Context Engine enables application developers to quickly and easily get relevant information about specific locales including (but not limited to) ZIP codes, real-time weather, and geo-tagged media. Additionally, the SimpleGeo Storage Engine makes it possible to store and query location data in a scalable fashion, as well as perform complicated geospatial operations effortlessly.

Located in Boulder, CO

SocialDeck is building a cross-platform gaming technology that enables social gaming on the smart phone. We are focused on bringing the distribution and monetization opportunities that exist on web social games to the phone. Our platform allows players to compete against one another on various devices (eg. iPhone vs. Blackberry vs. Web players). The games all have integrated social networking and community features such as friend discovery, invites, leaderboards, chat, new feeds, virtual goods, etc. 

Located in San Francisco, CA / Toronto, Canada

SocialScope is a digital life manager that brings social media to the phone. It enables users to keep track of online conversations, contacts and content from a single mobile inbox.  Users no longer have to juggle multiple apps or deal with the latency of the mobile browser.  All online data is immediately available and intelligently filtered based on location, date and preference.

Located in San Francisco, CA

Tapjoy is an advanced software platform that helps publishers maximize revenue from their mobile apps.  Features of the Tapjoy platform include an open advertising marketplace with over 10 ad network partners, a turn-key virtual goods store, and a pay-per-install system.

Located in Palo Alto, CA

BOKU is creating the standard for online payments using your mobile phone, making it easy to pay for digital goods and social experiences across the web. With a strong focus on reliability and security, BOKU's goal is to bring bank-grade payments technology and mobile users together on the web, creating a trusted, viable and accessible market for consumers, publishers and carriers alike. Based in San Francisco with offices in Europe, Asia and Latin America, BOKU reaches over 1.8 billion consumers worldwide, and is funded by leading Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures. For more information, please visit boku.com

Mplayit is the leading global provider for online discovery and social merchandising of mobile games and applications. The company’s proprietary software solutions enable mobile content providers, operators and App Store owners to better merchandise, market, and interact with a targeted user audience of mobile consumers. Mplayit is based in Ashburn, Va., and is backed by New Atlantic Ventures.

ShoZu (www.shozu.com) is an innovative media hub, designed to keep people connected through the sharing of videos, photos and comments between their mobile phones and social communities. ShoZu’s pioneering and patented technology allows: fast, simultaneous and one-click uploads to multiple sites; full-resolution uploading of media without compression; ability to maintain uploads even after connection is dropped; and other unique features designed to simplify user’s ability to stay connected.

Tungle is a web application that tackles a core problem faced by all busy professionals – finding a time to meet.  Tungle’s unique solution, a calendar accelerator, allows professionals to maintain their current e-calendars and be more connected and productive by syncing with Tungle.  Using Tungle, they can easily schedule meetings by proposing multiple times, publish their free/busy schedules and invite others to book meetings with them and share calendars across companies, platforms and time zones. Tungle syncs with Outlook (with or without Exchange), Google Calendar, Apple iCal and Entourage for Mac.