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So that happened: Six new startups debut at PIE Demo Day Fall 2012

Rick Turoczy on October 8, 2012

[Full disclosure: I work for PIE.] Last Friday, as promised, six new startups emerged from PIE—the startup accelerator cosponsored by Wieden+Kennedy—to take the stage at the Armory to share the stories of the companies they had built during the program.

The latest PIE class spanned a variety of business models and target markets, from consumer facing to nonprofit and from media companies to traditional tech.

Graduates included:

  • AppThwack @appthwack, a testing platform for Android applications that runs on real devices
  • Code Scouts @codescouts, a nonprofit designed to bring more women into the world of coding
  • KS12 @KS12, makers of the Video Sprint, a way to make events “a little more legendary”
  • Little Bird @getLittleBird, a service that helps people find experts on any topic
  • Lytics @lyticsio, an API for analytics that makes data actionable
  • Stublisher @stublisher, a new way to capture the images around events

Presentations

If you missed PIE Demo Day, you can see the presentations below.

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Coverage

There was a fair amount of coverage for the day. With Little Bird leading the pack. The coverage for the startup led by Marshall Kirkpatrick spanned tech, industry, and mainstream media with coverage from the tech blogs, Adweek, Wall Street Journal, The Oregonian, and more.

TechCrunch covered three of the startups: Little Bird, Lytics, and AppThwack.

Digital Trends has a great write up on the entire event. As does PIE cofounder Renny Gleeson.

Folks also did a fair amount of tweeting about #piedemo.

If you want to see the full event—including the founder profiles from Portland startup Vizify—you can watch the entire thing on Livestream, with PIE Demo Day part 1 and part 2.

Next class of PIE

Interested in participating? PIE announced that applications for the next class of the accelerator will open March 1, 2013, with plans to hold the class during the summer of 2013. Interested applicants can visit PIE, follow @piepdx on Twitter, like PIE on Facebook, or add PIE to their Google+ circles.

Published by Rick Turoczy

More than mildly obsessed with the Portland startup community. Founder and editor at Silicon Florist. Cofounder and general manager at PIE. Follow me on Twitter: @turoczy

  1. Serge January 24, 2013 at 12:34 pm

    @ Marshall. I’m definitely considering it. Not for 2013, but definitely in 2014.

  2. NumbLock October 10, 2012 at 12:07 pm

    Sincerely disappointed in the selection last year and will never contribute again – wasted my time. – PIE lost out on a potential $750mil opportunity.

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  4. Marshall October 8, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    As a participant in this year’s PIE, I’d recommend it highly to folks considering applying for next year! Mentorship, support & W+K were all great for us! Thanks Rick and team!

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