VentureSpur Announces 2014 Accelerator Participants
DALLAS, TEXAS (August 5, 2014) – VentureSpur, the seed fund and venture accelerator in Dallas, announced the 2014 participants today. The participants include startups from across the globe including New Jersey, China, Georgia, Mexico, and Texas.
“With our refined focus on retail technology, we worked hard to find and recruit great teams with great ideas from around the country and beyond to join us in Dallas for VentureSpur 2014” said David Matthews, Managing Director of VentureSpur. “We are extremely pleased with the talented group of entrepreneurs participating in this year’s program.”
 5 Million Shoppers helps Chinese tourists arrange shopping tours when they travel in the US. This is the very first mobile online-to-offline service that brings Chinese shoppers directly to US retailers. |
 5 Screens Media is innovatively connecting businesses and consumers through Sponsored Data which leads to increased traffic, better engagement, and greater sales within a rewarding consumer experience. |
 Brandfitters is a mobile app that connects consumers with brands when, how, and where they want–giving the consumer a voice and control of the relationship and engagement level. |
 Hostspot provides insights that help brick and mortar businesses optimize the performance of their customer engagement to create a unique shopping experience by leveraging marketing, merchandising and analytics tools. Hostspot does for the offline business what Google analytics does for the online world. |
J oinMe@ is a mobile app that empowers merchants to cheaply and easily market themselves. Through JoinMe@, merchants can both preserve and virally grow their customer base using our proprietary digital word-of-mouth system. |
 JoopLoop is mobile software that monetizes the value of a consumer’s social network in sales transactions at retail brick and mortar and allocates a value to each consumer via their Social Networth(tm) Index (SNI). Retailers can then target consumers based on their SNI with subsequent mobile campaigns. |